Juan Larra

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• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  I don’t really think Tadej would have felt comfortable relying on his team at PR more than his instinct.
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Still think Mads was a little overweight this year.
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  As everyone discovered to their amazement at Amstel 2019 when they’d more or less written him off ;-)
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Thanks :-)
• acem8215-04-2025
  You've got to take your pulls, but do them easier and shorter than he does. Just enough to keep him happy. And if Pog attacks, sit up and let MVDP close it down.
• awp15-04-2025
  The above photo was not from the Tour.
• awp15-04-2025
  I do, Col de Finestre in 2015. Mikel Landa was the first to summit that day.
• OCexile15-04-2025
  ummm, YEAH! this is ROUBAIX… just try to imagine what this race would look like if everyone waited for everyone who crashed. well, for starters, there wouldn’t have been like 117 editions of it. there wouldn’t been like two.
• OCexile15-04-2025
  i certainly get the argument that’s being made. it’s basically an axiom you’re taught first in juniors: don’t help the strongest rider. not complicated. but instead of mathieu being kinda the ultimate example of that rule, he’s actually the exception to it, particularly at roubaix. mvdp is so much stronger than even someone as great as pedersen, and in that terrain he has an even greater advantage, that if you leave him in the front he WILL just ride you off his wheel. everyone saw horse the “let van der poel pull on his own” strategy worked last year. stretch… stretch… stretch… SNAP! GONE. then you’re CHASING him, which is really not a solid plan. result: second place is like three minutes behind. look, i’m not saying there are great options here. i’m just saying that mads isn’t stupid and he actually IS trying to find SOME way to win. it’s not his fault that there probably just ISN’T ONE.
• abstractengineer15-04-2025
  Van Aert was repeatedly dropped by riders other than the top 2, he was not just braking