Andrew August

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  Llywelynglyndwr23-06-2025
  You can compare Omrzel to his own rivals, but not to Pogačar
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  Llywelynglyndwr23-06-2025
  I think of these comparisons between riders as being one of the most cruel things in cycling. It's what has meant that no French cyclist has won the Grand Boucle since Bernard Hinault (correct me if I'm wrong). It's what made it so cruel for Wout van Aert, when he was struggling and Van der Poel was doing so well. To compare such a young rider like Omrzel to Pogačar is what could be the end of his career, I'm serious. That being said, I can't say I don't want to see a repeat of the 2020 Tour de France, with Pogačar finally feeling what Roglič felt.
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  ScottG23-06-2025
  It would be a perfect match - psycho rider on psycho team.
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  ScottG23-06-2025
  Show us on this doll where Pog touched you.
• abstractengineer23-06-2025
  i think he has got his head on straight. But still the tour is no place for riders who want stages in the mountains. UAE and Visma are going to go hammer and tongs
• Mistermaumau23-06-2025
  I don’t think he’d beat a crashless Rogliç and he’d probably have a tough time with some youngsters too
• RidesHills23-06-2025
  My assumption is that right now, the ability to train your body to take in huge amounts of perfectly legal fructose/glucose mixes, while doing the high altitude training that creates naturally what they used to do illegally, mixed with the unbelievably data driven analysis of output and recovery, means that we are seeing legal ways to drive performance in the human body beyond what doping once provided. After all, people now react to Merckx’s doping as “yeah, but those methods weren’t really effective,” but it was still doping. I honestly think that what is legal now outperforms the typical illegal cases of the past. I also see how some riders don’t want to be that kind of automaton, so tightly controlled in comparison to the past.
• Mistermaumau23-06-2025
  Funny how all it takes for two mediatised people in the same domain to be compared is a shared passport when they may have nothing else in common. Just shows how “deeply” people reflect.
• Mistermaumau23-06-2025
  Timewise the difference in the Tour is almost always less than 0.1%
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  UltimateOpportunist23-06-2025
  The wheels keep turning and the fans keep cheering Pogacar doped to the gills…