João Almeida

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• PogiSloFans21-10-2026
  The truth is: "We’ll avoid rushing from race to race" - Remco Evenepoel reveals 2027 focus and what he'll change from this season to avoid the races where Pogi will be.
• RidesHills21-10-2026
  while goofing off with stats, looked at all riders with more than 100 wins. Of these, Delio Rodríguez (1935-1948) won an astonishing 43% of the races he entered, 117 wins in just 271 race days. Never really heard of the guy, beyond lists of Vuelta winners, but nobody else comes close. Maertens and Merckx are around 32%, Poblet and Pogačar at 29%, and that makes for only 5 riders who have won more than 1/4 of the races that they entered.
• mij21-10-2026
  lackluster transfer market - because they retained all of their best riders.
• RidesHills21-10-2026
  Saying that the "only thing" he got was the World TT and the Euro championship is amusing - plenty of riders would define their career by just one of those wins. At 26, after 8 seasons, Evenepoel has 81 wins, 13 of which are Olympics (TT/RR), Worlds (4 TT/RR), Euros (TT/RR), Monuments (2 LBL), and a Grand Tour (Vuelta). To pick a non-random comparison, at age 26, Sagan (10 years and a day older than Evenepoel) had 89 of his 121 wins, with 2 Worlds RR and Flanders. If you prefer to compare seasons on the World Tour, after 8 seasons, he had 3 Worlds and a Monument. Yet somehow Evenepoel only wins when the field is weak? Either that's not true, or he has impeccable timing that somehow others aren't able to copy. I am making a statistical point here, and can bring in other riders as well. Using Procyclingstats, Evenpoel has won about 19% of the races he enters. In comparison, Sagan won 11%, Kelly 12%, Van Aert 13%, van der Poel 18%, Hinault 22%, Pogačar 29%, and Merckx 32%. Everyone loses far more than they win, no surprise, and Evenepoel wins a lot.
• wrsty21-10-2026
  hah, neat!
• Lozza21-10-2026
  He also had more than two months away from racing between Liege and the Tour, tho he did start his season in January.
• Lozza21-10-2026
  Go Pogi! 🤣
• wrsty21-10-2026
  "Reports emerge of Visma riders mysteriously lying in the dark for up to 8 hours a night, refusing to answer my tweets - bizarre team tactics or sinister conspiracy?"
• paule21-10-2026
  Vingegaard is entering the Roglic period of his career. Few major wins remaining and even a podium at Tour unlikely.
• paule21-10-2026
  Vingegaard is entering the Roglic period of his career. Few major wins remaining and even a podium at Tour unlikely.