Pro-cycling thread

I’m currently stuck in Belgium waiting for travel insurance to get me home with a broken leg. Tried to watch Strade today on discovery+ app and just got a ‘your subscription needs to be registered in the country you are using the app’ message.

Thanks mate. Perfect.

Ah they've fucked it again and ruined the result for me 👍

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Someone recently said on here that Eurosport have got their act together and stopped ruining the results in titles & thumbnails. Clearly not!

That was me! Eating my words.

So people checked the startlist and think they missed a drama and Pogacar might not have won this?

He's just so good. The combination of speed, distance and elevation with a large portion solo is just nuts.

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For some reason he leaves me very cold. I'm not one for caring about doping and all that... but he just seems to be taking the piss.

Apart from today what other performance of his suggests doping in your opinion?

If you accept performances might be doping related pro cycling becomes a lot more enjoyable

Having watched an era where doping was the norm, I think performances in this era are far more credible. Pogacar is a phenomenon for sure, arguably the best rider of this century by some margin, but there's none of the doping noise around him like there was, say, for Armstrong.

Along with Pogacar there's a few riders in a super league of talent - Vingegaard, Roglic, Evenepoel, van Aert, van de Poel, Pidcock at his very, very best. Only Pidcock was there today. Pogarcar's ride was undoubtably brilliant but once he got away he didn't keep speeding up, the others slowed down and didn't work together, inevitably. Would it have worked if any of the other super-talents had been there? It wasn't a weak field but Pogcar has so few genuine rivals that it looked even more stunning than it was.
Also, Nathan van Hooydonk was excellent on the commentary today. They really need people who have ridden at that level very recently.

Remco is the one who sparks no joy.

MVDP and WVA I could watch cycle to the shops however.

I've no real reason to distrust him, I just don't like watching him. It feels off.

Agree on the remco bit. But that's because he comes accross as an arrogant prick.

I know some people feel the same way about mvdp. But he seems to be way more human to me. With him you can see the effort. He puts his whole body into his attacks. I too could watch that all day.

The interview he did with Lanterne Rouge really turned me around on him

Agree that NvH was a good addition, wish the other lads would have talked over him less. Several times he was in the middle of saying something insightful about tactics or training and Hatch or Blythe jumped in to yap about some utterly inconsequential group 3 attack.

'He's taking a piss!'

That was a Steve Cummings commentary from the car in the Netflix after the Pidcock Galibier descent in the valley before he attacked on Alpe d Huez, if I remember correctly?

Remco is the one who sparks no joy.

I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you take a trip and ride up La Redoute and I'd be surprised your feelings for Remco won't change?

If someone as entertaining as Pog leaves you very cold, where does Vingo leaves you? In the Arctic circle?

How many times did Adam Blythe say "bonkers" during that race?

Other than the 2 up sprint where Pog didn’t finish in the top two he doesn’t seem to fail in the same way MVDP and WVA have when they roll the dice.

I was thinking in the tour when he blew big style lost shed loads of time but was gracious in his defeat .

No doubt great, just doesn’t spark joy in me.

I appreciate all he can and has done, just don’t get the kick out of it I get from others.

Yup me too!

Fucking LOL

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