Brian Smith

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• mij03-06-2026
  sad for Fabio, seems like a great guy.
• mij03-06-2026
  he is definitely a different rider. a far cry from pizza, beer and video games in the team bus.
• RidesHills03-06-2026
  My bad French always wondered whether it was connected to the heir to the French throne, the Dauphin, in some fashion that made no sense. That it's the old province, well, that makes a lot more sense. (And then I read on wikipedia why the heir to the French throne was called the Dauphin, and it's based on this province, so it IS connected and now it makes sense.) Thank you!
• Ante-Ustashe03-06-2026
  All of us have to take in consideration the fact, that Pogi from 2024 onwards is a "different" Pogi then 2019-2023. Yes, it's a fact. When he "fired" SanMillan and started working with Javier Sola, he became a much better cyclist. Sola exactly knew Pogi's weaknesses and fixed them. His training combines massive, high-power Zone 2 aerobic volume with short, high-intensity intervals (VO2 max and sprint bursts). His methods also emphasize exceptional lactate clearance, scooter-paced race simulations, and strict recovery protocols.
• RidesHills03-06-2026
  acem82, you have so misread what I wrote, top to bottom, that I doubt what I write will matter, but I'll try with just one of your numbered replies (#3). I'm not ridiculing you when I write this (nor was I doing so in my last post), I'm pointing out issues with your rhetoric. You originally said, "if you're a woman, you have a certain level of protection," and I replied that no, women don't, given harassment and assault statistics. Your reply about you being harassed didn't address my point at all. I'm sorry you were harassed, it sucks. If you were sexually assaulted like me, that sucks, too. (I'm at peace about it, thank you for asking, and yes, women can assault men.) Your reply is to say that because it happens to both sides, it's not a point in favor of women. But men don't matter to the point I made, at all! You said women are protected. I said no, they're not. You can't refute that by bringing in men. It's irrelevant. It's not an argument, it's a changing of the subject. That you experienced something similar to what so many women experience should give you empathy and sympathy for what happens, not deny that it happens or sweep it aside. To close: My whole point in my previous post was that you have worth as a human being, even when I think you've got things wrong. I was a teacher for decades, you think students giving wrong answers in my class didn't have worth as human beings? They were the ones I cherished the most, worked with the most, and tried the most to help. For you to amusingly drop in the Animal Farm reference shows that you are making gross assumptions about who I am (some leftist? some marxist? some commie?) and that's just wrong of you. I'm arguing based on what you say, you're throwing character comments my way. Let's call it a day, and end this conversation.
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  PogiFan2Day03-06-2026
  The Critérium du Dauphiné was rebranded to the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to reflect the financial support of the regional government and to better represent the race's expanded geographic footprint across central France and the Alps. The historic name referenced the "Dauphiné," an archaic province that hasn’t officially existed since the French Revolution.
• anonymouscyclist03-06-2026
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• bike-anarkist03-06-2026
  The race will always be the "Dauphine Libere" to me. Criterium Dauphine wasn't bad, either. (too lazy to find the French accents)
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  Rafionain-Glas03-06-2026
  You never know if you don't try. If you don't change your methods, you'll never know if you can be better. You have to risk losing in order to win. Like Simon Yates, who, in 2025, switched from being conservative throughout the entire Giro to being aggressive on Colle delle Finestre, and it worked. If he'd been caught by del Toro and Carapaz he'd have been dropped. Then that effort might have meant that Gee, riding a steady pace, could've passed him on GC.
• Acem82isacloeburner03-06-2026
  They are wrong.