Karl Patrick Lauk

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• acem8219-04-2025
  1. Yes, for very small children, one shouldn't tax their bodies too much. 2. For older children, well, carrying heavy loads is actually a good thing and helps them get strong, see all of history prior to 150 years ago. 3. Just because an idea has good intentions doesn't mean it does good or is smart. My point wasn't that the intentions of the rule were evil, but that it was a foolish rule.
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  KerisVroom19-04-2025
  Did he really put out more power? I thought Wout said he lost some power on the injured leg. Which one is true?
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  maria2024202419-04-2025
  It's not all about winning. Some Wout's stages are etched in my memory, they were (for me) far more emotional than Van der Poel's Classics victories. Both riders are awesome, Mathieu is very more successful (in terms of victories), but personally, I'm more excited about Wout than about Mathieu.
• mij19-04-2025
  everyone has their own preference, but what i don’t want to see is the women’s o loop 2025. a break away of nobodies and a peloton riding casual because no one wants to race. i want to see bare knuckled fights in which the riders go as deep as they can. on the best machines possible. which means races will get faster
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  maria2024202419-04-2025
  I'm sure in the Giro you will be brilliant... (maybe fight for GC? this Giro is soft). I can't wait! I will go to watch and cheer for you!
• Mistermaumau19-04-2025
  C’mon, she « married » an infidel, the hijab is just the missing cherry on their fatwa cake ;-)
• abstractengineer19-04-2025
  Its not the innovations. The top speed is decided by the top riders. MVDP, Pogi, Pedersen all started the hostilities on the Arenberg but it also ended there. In the past the Arenberg was just the start for the first selection and with attrition it kept reducing till the finale
• abstractengineer19-04-2025
  She does not wear the Hijab. So doubt they will be very welcomed by the orthodox community
• Mistermaumau19-04-2025
  I would say that most people would rather see an exciting or strategic race than a boring one with record average speed. Proof of this is that people have rarely complained about a past race being slow but often that it was boring. Fast speeds are often the result of wind direction though it may be true that headwinds or tailwinds influence the way a race is run and on average one may result in more interesting outcomes than the other. Obviously a high speed can become a talking point but that’s about it. I doubt any spectator could tell the difference between riders averaging 43 or 45km/h as they go past so if it weren’t for the data being presented (often wrong anyway like the gaps between different riders) on screen, no-one would know or even try to guess.
• Mistermaumau19-04-2025
  Agree with the first part totally, not the second. It may not be a perfect solution or needed for everyone but what’s wrong with protecting non fully developed kids? It starts when they’re born when you instinctively know you shouldn’t try to make them stand or put them in push-up positions as they’re not ready strength, bone shape or -resistance wise (amongst many things). You don’t send small kids with huge backpacks full of books to school and you don’t expect teens to lumber around building sites chucking cement sacks. There were good reasons for this and the gearing issue was a result of this, especially considering the frail stature of cyclists in general. HOWEVER, the rule has been abandoned as being unnecessary. The original idea wasn’t bad for kids in general but what it overlooked was that by the time kids actually reach the level to enter junior race level and compete seriously, they’ve done enough training to strengthen their mechanisms and over enough time for bone composition to adapt to new loads so they are unlikely to get injured from excessive loads as no-one can push more than a certain human power and they’ve worked their way close to that already. If you think it was overkill, fine but reflect on this, I trained for and had done several marathons and one day decided to enter the first edition of our local one. Despite being used to and perfectly prepared, I was in pain for weeks after and a year later the local media was full of reports of an explosion or injury related visits to doctors post-race by participants. What nobody realised in advance was that the course was very demanding on joints as much of it was in the city centre with short straights and sharp corners with pavements to mount so you were constantly also stepping up and down and leaning hard, just to show how sensitive you can be to new solicitation on the body.