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- He has a better shot at winning a stage than Roglic, sadly...
- Horner ain't lyin'...
- Don't forget just how important newspapers have been - pretty much every race has been started by a newspaper. Which means that cyclinguptodate could launch it's own races. I propose a mountain classic in Wales [Cymru] - a 257km long route in Abergavenny [Y Fenni], with a repeated loop of Blorenge [Blorens], thus climbing the Foxhunter [5.2km at 8.7% average, max gradient 19%] 18 times, totalling to 8380m of climbing [that's twice a grand tour queen stage].
- If you're riding against Pog, sending your team to the front to "make it hard" doesn't help, it plays into UAE's hands. Do something, literally anything, else!
- If Jonas wins the 'tour... 🤦♂️ - but I don't think he will in the slightest
- look at how useful Van Aert can be as a leadout man or sprinter in his own right
- Mostly that's because he knows he doesn't have much of a chance, e.g in the olympics. I think that if he had a proper chance to get something out of the mountain stages [i.e if he had a GC leader]
- Not if you like at the climbing times. Then it's like 2-3%
- I mean, he always stood out for consistency/resilience, not just in 2025. ANd not crashes... I don't recall he crashing.
- Almeida's resilience is phenomenal. I remember a stage of La Vuelta 2023 (l'Angrilu?): he was sick, with a severe cold. The team left him completely alone (discarded). He rode 100km alone, finishing... top 6!.
It's usual to see him being dropped/ disappeared, but suddenly, somehow, at the end, arriving in privileged positions. His effort/energy control is brilliant.
He's not a super-winner, but he's a fabulous rider
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