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- It's more his mindset. His outlook seems to have been that all the time spent away from home was worth it to be at the top level. But he seemed to lose hope at this Tour.
- Let see. Couple of weeks ago he was leading all three of those names in a GT. Now he suddenly is incapable of challenging them? LOL.
- I love the way that guy races. he just goes. damn the torpedos
- Everyone should love their country. I’m not sure where you are from, but yes I’m from the USA. And I love my country.
I didn’t say I love my leadership.
But one can love and be proud of their country w/o loving who is in charge.
BTW, not a big fan of someone that trashes someone else’s country. don’t knock it if you don’t live here. ask the millions of Europeans that came for the World Cup what they found.
- yeah give the guy a break
- 1. MVDP should be no worse than third, and arguably 2nd. And I say that as a diehard WVA fan.
2. Alaphilippe's time at the top was too brief, and Ganna is a TT guy with limited results outside his specialty. Mads has a WC, multiple classics, and honors at all the GTs. Should be 9th behind Wout,
- Enough is enough. We keep 'joking' that the UCI would only do something when someone dies. Well, now someone has actually died (again), yet the UCI have been silent. No doubt UCI's next move is to victim-blame Tarling for riding on the wrong side of the road and then they will introduce measures to force riders to ride only within the correct lane of roads.
This is simply not good enough. UCI needs to conduct a full safety audit across the whole racing calendar.
We are done with token safety measures that are half-hearted and don't fix the problems, and I'm not just talking about closing roads, but across the whole spectrum.
Dangerous safety barriers at sprint finishes (we all remember what happened to Jakobsen at the Tour of Poland losing all his teeth), harrowing high speed descents (Muriel Furrer crashed into a forest and obscured in undergrowth for over an hour, Sepp Kuss almost falling off a cliff, Pidcock left hanging off a tree branch...), invisible road furniture (Urska Zigart hitting a speed bump and getting knocked out in the resulting crash), high speed bottlenecks...
The UCI really needs to do a wholesale evaluation of rider safety - none of these silly measures like restricting gear ratios and minimum handlebar widths...
- What is a 'grim on our faces' ? Some Slovenian terminolgy?
- Second best racer in the world? That's a reach now a days! He is a broken racer at this point with zero incentive to want to race again.
- If he doesn't want to do a race he shouldn't, he is the second best racer in the world, he took a grand tour way back in the Giro. That said I think he wants another gt or two and he's certainly capable of taking another Vuelta, Giro or both, then he'll probably let it go and retire at the end of 2028, he will also keep trying to win a Tour as long as he's racing.
Of course, if he is capable of taking a Tour de France over the next two seasons, he should take the money, jump teams and race for two more years after 2027 or 2028.
Another piece of context, if Richard Plugge has his way, Seixas will be wearing Visma colors next year. That may also change Vingegaard's outlook as well.
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