Alan Hatherly

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• Mistermaumau01-04-2025
  True, but then we've always known that real safety isn’t an objective, just enough for the facade not to crumble.
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  KerisVroom01-04-2025
  Oh, this sounds more spicy than I thought. I didn't watch the event.
• Jumpyjohn01-04-2025
  Biais for one, that seems to be many analysts and experts driving force.
• Jumpyjohn01-04-2025
  Imagining reactions if he and Wout would announce at the same time. When you read some people it seems that’s what they’re hoping.
• Jumpyjohn01-04-2025
  Except maybe if you’re Belgian and want to deflect from another crash caused by a fellow countryman ;-)
• slappers6601-04-2025
  Everyone seems on a downer about Tadej taking on the cobbles.... are they all going to come back and apologise or venerate him as the goat if he wins??
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  KerisVroom01-04-2025
  My sympathy goes to Olav. There is no need to be so hard on someone who suffers and he is not a bad person.
• Mistermaumau01-04-2025
  Nice though you have to ask why they call it a wildcard as it’s always pretty obvious who will receive them.
• Mistermaumau01-04-2025
  Absolutely, we are inundated by articles (not only in cycling or sport but everywhere from stocks to weather to elections) from self-called or popularly regarded experts making calls without reasoning. They basically know little more than any other informed or interested party and base everything on odds. The fact that they never have to justify their wrong calls post event but continue to get to make calls should get some attention. It would be cool if someone tallied up and recorded their predictions for future reference.
• Mistermaumau01-04-2025
  Yes, I agree but you’re taking risks writing such long posts here ;-) In that sense, the Tourless Primoz discussion is also pretty pointless as he virtually won a Tour (nobody would have counted on Tadej doing what he did at the last moment at that time and I guess it was bad karma for Primoz for so ofren cutting things so fine). I think you over interpreted my original thesis, it was not for trying to explain his current state, it was to suggest there was already mental material pre-crashes that has helped worsen his state, when it rains it pours. I really do remember having the feeling in that past he was more focused on not letting MVDP get better than him than doing his own thing. The seed of doubt was already planted and it doesn’t take much for doubt to grow in all sorts of directions.