Arctic Race of Norway

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• PogiSloFans17-08-2026
  Are you all finally convinced that Vingegaard is a false representative of cycling in it's history? I knew, and so did many others, he would end the season because he supposedly can't prepare the season finale in over 2 months????? What's left for him in the future? To avoid Pogi at the Tour and other races for 5 mil€ per year? Visma, get your act together, other teams are laughing at you. The happiest company in Europe right now is a Danish company that sells kitchens. They have information that they will soon be visited by a millionaire, sent by his wife, who will buy all the kitchens from the store in the next 4-5 months and assemble them all by himself because he wants to save €.
• Hills3317-08-2026
  What you've described is certainly possible. But if Pog didn't exist then various aspects may have been different, leading to other outcomes. Roglic would have won the Tour in 2020, and may have remained undisputed leader of Jumbo-Visma in 2021 and 2022. Visma would not have (still) been out for revenge in 2022, so may have instructed Jonas to keep supporting Roglic instead of going for the win himself. (and not have focused so much on developong Jonas). 2024 would not have been Jonas's hattrick year at the Tour, so after his Itzulia crash (if indeed he rode Itzulia) he might have skipped that Tour. But Jonas may have had to change teams to get out from Roglic's shadow. And so on, you see what I mean :) (Not to be taken too seriously)
• Ketterechts17-08-2026
  now it gets stupid. why on earth should everyone be proud of their country or even love it? i am german ...
• AndrewK17-08-2026
  Van der Poel has to be higher than Vingegaard there I’d say. Vingegaard counts as of now as obviously a superb grand tour rider but certainly not a stand out all time great - and doesn’t even meaningfully compete in for example Liege - while VdP does stand out as an all-time great Classics rider. You can’t just stack everything too much towards the Grand Tour riders.
• Mistermaumau17-08-2026
  I think you will find THAT is not the reason because you find the same happens in all sorts of sports and other walks of life where there are no dangers. Celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes, etc. Most people (for many different reasons) don’t search very far outside their environment (job, village, nationality, race, social class, etc.) And yes, I’m saying it’s dangerous, I’m NOT saying you can make it safe but you can eliminate unnecessary risk without disproportionate costs. You don’t go climbing with a used rope or diving without backup, you don’t work on motorways without deviating traffic, you don’t touch electrical cables without switching off a fuse. The problem with incidents is that they usually occur because we’ve placed our trust in others assuming they’ve checked safety for us only to discover they cut corners and didn’t warn anyone. Read up on the Irish teen who died by electrocution in a shower in Greece and you’ll know what that means. No rider can go check safety during a race, if they could though, do you really think they’d accept racing down a dangerous swerving road knowing there was no-one ahead to block a car from entering at any time? As amateurs you often have to race on open roads where you’re told specifically to take care that sections are open to traffic, you NEVER see anyone cutting all the way to the inside of a blind corner at full speed in those situations, why? Because when you csn choose your own level of risk, you inherently decide better than what having faith alone can offer.
• Mistermaumau17-08-2026
  Equal but not the same, try thinking past the first degree, you have thousands of years of knowledge, education and progress within access to reach enlightenment.
• Mistermaumau17-08-2026
  Sorry to break it to you but this is hardly surprising as it’s pretty common. Most men would stay lazy assed f’s, lisers or dead if someone wasn’t behind them pushing them to be useful. Have a good look around you. Don’t forget your mother in your thoughts, or maybe you regret how you turned out, probably mostly thanks to her?
• Mistermaumau17-08-2026
  Don’t ask people to change their povs ;-)
• Mistermaumau17-08-2026
  And those 19 were probably spent plotting;-)
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  Rafionain-Glas17-08-2026
  @mistermaumau if your point is that cycling is dangerous and no-one should want their loved ones to be in danger, well that is a completely irrelevant point because most of the peloton has long since accepted that. It's part of the reason why so many of the pros have spouses who are cyclists. Tadej Pogačar, Isaac del Toro, Giulio Pellizzari are three that popped into my head instantly