Diego Ulissi

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• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Anyone know the “gravel” climb in the photo?
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  That’s not their choice though is it, as so often, decided by a few ageing men who got elected by others like them. The whole system isn’t even more modern than religion. Imagine the laughter if women had been “advised”their full game of football would be 2x15 minutes. Now obviously, some smartass official will justify it as having nothing to do with fitness but a necessity from marketing and financial points of view, having now background data of the market and public for women’s cycling. I’ve rarely cycled with women who couldn’t last as long as men, in fact, in endurance cycling, there are women who outdo the men, some in particular you should maybe read up on : Beryl Burton, Lael Wilcox, Leah Goldstein, Isa Pulver and the list is far longer if, unlike most, you’d decide it was of interest to change your misconceptions and understand the difference is artificially maintained, mostly due to some hard to destroy form of discrimination.
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Coz it’s not an Olympic year ;-)
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Rock/hard place, still need the points.
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  These days you get paid a lot better to suck it up so I guess there are fewer complaints now ;-) Anyway, the faster bike argument these days is about as significant the whiter washing powders, only instruments can “feel” the difference unless a manufacturer makes a major cock-up. There is always one exception though, a rider that’s more “comfortable” on a slightly slower bike will probably be faster than on a faster uncomfortable one in all but the shortest time trials, the mental fatigue of discomfort is often ignored, in fact many mental tweaks have probably not been integrated yet, the most interesting topic of the future will be what will be considered mental doping and what will be considered acceptable, anyone?
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  James2631815-04-2025
  2011 won by wheel sucker Cadel Evans and 2015 Chris Frome with Team Sky.
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  UltimateOpportunist15-04-2025
  Hopefully the women won’t be requesting equal prize money as for the men’s race. Even an average week long men’s race is harder than this travesty.
• RidesHills15-04-2025
  So is Pogacar, whose rivals are van der Poel in the monuments and Vingegaard at the Tour, doing the same with his limited calendar of race days?
• RidesHills15-04-2025
  An interesting description, but I think it misses his motivations. He meets a goal and moves on. Van der Poel does race the Tour, though lately as lead out for Philipsen, after achieving the goal of wearing yellow one day. Same with the Giro, he met his goal and moved on. But yes, lately that sure looks like winning the monuments more than anything else.
• Mistermaumau15-04-2025
  Totally agree, if only for the reason that it sends the totally wrong message not to treat it that way, let’s get drunk then we can do stupid things without much punishment, and the drunker the safer. In fact, if alcohol is accepted as a reason for turning to bad behaviour, perhaps representatives of the industry should systematically also be punished financially when there are convictions.