End of Year Awards

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  PogiFan2Day24-07-2026
  Tomorrow, I suspect more babysitting Del Toro duty for Pogacar to make sure he stays third and neutralize any attacks from Seixas.
• mobk24-07-2026
  Of course CO is a poison. Just saying it won't kill you in small doses, therefore it's not a poison makes no sense. That is true of every poison.
• awp24-07-2026
  Tomorrow Tadej follows wheels until they get close and then he'll make a decision. He has to be thinking about his Vuelta participation.
• anonymouscyclist24-07-2026
  In awe with that performance. I was in the middle of a workout and it made me pause just to watch the final few KM. Chapeau Tadej, amongst the rumours surrounding the blacks shorts, ill teammates, early doping tests, you proved your dominance still. You can’t not respect that.
• anonymouscyclist24-07-2026
  No, Jakob is entirely correct to classify CO as a poisonous gas, as it is intrinsically highly toxic. Its dosage doesn’t make it ‘less’ poisonous. In fact, this danger is precisely why teams are not allowed to use the Detalo Performance rebreathing machine without direct, in-person supervision. Because CO binds tightly to haemoglobin and leaves the body extremely slowly, without the correct, monitored and supervised dosage, it can build up overtime and suffocate you. It does not become ‘non-poisonous’ at low levels, it simply has a cumulative effect. CO is poisonous because, upon inhalation, it binds to the haemoglobin 200-300 times more strongly than oxygen. Haemoglobin carries oxygen to your body, and consequently, a sudden high dosage, or repeating low dosages, cause suffocation. You can’t compare it to CO2 either, it does not bind to haemoglobin anywhere close to the rate at which CO does. CO2 is only dangerous in massive, enclosed concentrations by physically displacing the oxygen in the air and suffocating you by physically preventing you from breathing oxygen. And let’s not get started on carbon monoxide inhalation.
• mus-musculuspeedypogigonzales24-07-2026
  Tomorrow solo for Pogačar from Galibier. He has to keep trampling everyone because that's the only way we love him. Pogi Hulk-Smash!!!
• RidesHills24-07-2026
  Good lord what a performance, meaning Martinez and Carapaz, after all their idiotic start-stop attacking. Speechless about and in awe of the dominant ride by Pogačar, so I have nothing more to say about him right now.
• Mistermaumau24-07-2026
  Really? What if this was actually a warning that they know something is going on and will be taking a closer look in future. Controls had been pretty lax the last decade and never found much, we may be entering a new round of catch up. This kind of stuff would only be available to the best off teams, it’s not something you can just order on the internet with a big black wallet..
• Mistermaumau24-07-2026
  Please stop referring to CO as a poison, it it the dosage that makes it poisonous. Most of us breathe some in every day, some of us quite a lot more than others, It is basically the same as CO2 just 100x more effective (at killing you) because it does chemically (or more precisely, biologically) what CO2 does physically which is to deprive you of enough Oxygen. Oxygen is also deadly (as is a water overdose), we can only breathe air (around 80% nitrogen) if the O2 concentration stays within a quite narrow range. CO use is basically no different from enriched O2 use, fine if controlled and temporary. The problem is doping always drives people to experiment with limits for max gains so at some point you get the Gianetti effect, a dosage that reveals an undetectable product through unwanted symptoms (putting it mildly).
• abstractengineer24-07-2026
  This is just stupid for a team that has won the TDF >5 times