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• paultryan200225-05-2026
  I see both sides of the argument. He is a tour rider purely unlike Pog. I think that is what people see as the issue. He is a quiet family man who probably still has flashbacks from his horrendous crash in Basque country. His PR team could do more bit the results speak for themselves .
• paultryan200225-05-2026
  Sour grapes from sprinters teams. If they were that worried they should have kept the break in check from the start.
• antipodeanpedalfan25-05-2026
  I just find it a little hard to believe that an entire peloton (which will also have several bikes in front of it) can't collectively use less energy than a breakaway group - unless the chasing teams are not sharing the workload fairly, and just letting one team sit in the wind burning through it's members, while the breakaway works turns effectively.
• Ketterechts25-05-2026
  totally disagree. first, your framing (i and others said in real time ...) lends your opinion about as much credibility as any other contrasting opinion by whoever. fact is, with 40 km to go they had less than 2 min to the leaders. normally a piece of cake, a done thing, an easy catch for the peloton. second, i saw several teams pacing at this point in the peloton, lidl-trek, quickstep, rose rockets, just to name a few. they burned most of their sprint trains until 10 km to go, which obviously does not happen if they are not working. it actually usually never happens because then there are no sprint trains left for the finish. i cannot think of any other reason how this can happen if not something odd (e.g. 'motopacing') going on in the front. but maybe your hypothesis of a lame excuse and no work in the peloton is more reasonable ...
• MidnightRider25-05-2026
  I and others said in real time that the sprint teams were not getting it right. They had a bit of second-group syndrome going on ("no, YOU chase"), and Decathlon in particular was nearly invisible. They might have gotten away with it, but the 4 guys in the break kept working until the very end, even got a lead out from the team that had two riders up front. That is why they won, not the moto.
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  santiagobenites25-05-2026
  I think that it's far too easy to label these riders as whiners or complainers making up excuses. These are professionals who know a thing or two about what it takes to chase down the break, and I think that they have a valid point. I've seen numerous races where the leading rider(s) have a motorcycle directly in front of them, trying to get that perfect shot, but it does create a draft as well as a slightly unfair advantage.
• MidnightRider25-05-2026
  It is the lamest of excuses. This was lost by a group of sprint teams that chose not to work when the time came, and won by a breakaway that continued working right to the end. Yes, there were motos ahead of the lead riders; there were also motos ahead of the chasers and everywhere else. That is true of every race, and nothing that happened today was meaningfully different from any other race. The top teams just got it wrong, and paid for it when the break didn't come apart.
• Ride197424-05-2026
  Between Milan and Groenewegen, whoever is not on the top podium step for the day's stage in Rome, will have some explaining to do to their sponsors.
• mobk24-05-2026
  Remco wears his emotions on his sleeve. Like him or not he’s a genuine article
• Ride197424-05-2026
  Between Milan and Groenewegen, whoever is not on the top podium step in Rome, will have some explaining to do to their sponsors.