“He throws away the victory” – Ex pro Michael Rasmussen criticises a rare Tadej Pogacar defeat

I don’t want to compare or name names but haven’t you noticed that lately (last 10 years or so) that there are more and more unlikeable annoying guys taking over (almost monopolising) the news and having enormous fanbases. Rasmussen has a TINY audience and is, like most of his kind actually pretty easy to ignore if you really wanted but here it seems this sort are kept alive mostly by those complaining about their presence, others wouldn’t give them the time of day if they weren’t constantly brought up in comments.

It is just hoovering up what appears elsewhere, just a reflection of what’s out there so I think you should aim your criticism at those who actually pay or support them directly. Western newspapers during WWII reported what Hitler was doing and saying, it was considered important to know what’s going on. So long as there are people paying and supporting these guys, I am not against being able to see what influence that has, I’d have nothing at all against them getting replaced but the real questions you be asking are, why they aren’t and why some people follow them.

Not always against Vingegaard, though! At the world’s, he missed a single hand off of a bottle and suddenly was losing a little of his lead. It made the last loop a nail biter, exactly because of past knowledge of how much he relies on fuel during his races.

Exactly, probably made him even more motivated. After that he won 5 stages!