"Stop discussing this like it's a bad thing" - Adam Blythe calls criticism of Tadej Pogacar's attacking riding 'ridiculous'

He's very much beatable & he knows that as well. Especially in GTs he knows it, people say 'he want to entertain us' but he want to collect time here & there in first week of the races so that he can leverage it on the last weeks. Why? coz he didn't trust himself in climbs. Entertainment* is a bluffing thing, those peoples are the one who says 'oh it's so boring' when he won solo.

That's also my take. if he's an entertainer, why burning of Majka, Bjerg... needed ?
Do what sagan did and be the real entertainer

Firstly, I don’t claim to be an expert. Secondly, I have several advantages :

I don’t have any allegiance to anyone so can speak completely independently

I don’t have any financial motivation for saying what I say

I don’t have any reputation to protect

I don’t need to keep up my popularity

After that, my racing results are not so bad considering I only started in my fifties, thank you very much but more to the point, throughout my life I have had the pleasure of riding/training with some of the best (TdF winner, WR holders, several World tour past pros and plenty of others) which has meant many insightful discussions about topics like these where these people were far more free to speak their minds than in the press.

Other than that, there is this thing called Strava that many of these guys use and many fans look at so you can see pretty well how they are riding both during races and in training and race preparation and during the off-season. I am not the stalking kind or particularly fan of any ride so don’t follow anyone just for the sake of it, but knowing one of the average current domestiques in the Giro, I do see exactly how they prepare.

There are good reasons why pros do very little riding at speed (they will often only ride at an average of 30km/h on flattish terrain) and a lot at zone 2 and nothing during a GT is zone 2 so no-one’s condition comes away unscathed after 3 weeks of averaging 40-42 every day.

Only Lance fanboys disliked Contador.

Sorry but you obviously have never noticed Schleck fanboys.

They hated the fact Contador took advantage over Andy when he had a chain issue uphill and the argument why is valid, it wasn’t very gentlemanly at a time when cycling and the peleton still respected the notion of honour.

However, that validity fell apart because they (conveniently) forgot that a few stages earlier Andy had also taken advantage of Contador having an untimely issue (puncture I think) by attacking and gaining 1-2 minutes.

True. I did gloss over the 3 or 4 hardcore Schleck fans at that time.

It was so wonderful when Cadel Evans scalped Schleck Jr at the 2011 TDF.

Easy if you were anywhere else in the world, I was unfortunately surrounded by hordes of them, mostly opportunistic nationalists that knew nothing about the brothers until then.

I did get to know them, F is a bit weird, A was actually much more pleasant, funny and down to earth than his reputation projected. I also met Stuart O’Grady there (without knowing it was him) he never took me up on my invitation to show him round the country on a ride ;-)

Also recognised the 3 of them blatantly going through red one day, that was the day I realised Strava could be used to prove such things in court in disputes.