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• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  Hate to remind the author but he hasn’t won it yet. Not wishing any mishaps on anyone but…
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  KerisVroom01-06-2025
  I think they tried that in TdF. Visma was not happy that some strategic communications was leaked or something like that. It wasn't compulsory for every team to join. Did they stop it last year? I don't recall hearing radio communication last year.
• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  When you’re a paid employee or contractor or self-employed you arrange what is best and parties either agree or not. Stating in advance how far you’ll go in a race because you have a specific task and other obligations is NOT being a quitter.
• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  I tend to agree, it shows his immature side which is why he still can’t technically be a leader but then he doesn’t really need to be to achieve what he does. He’s won enough but he might have won even more with a little more foresight. It changes the spectator profile too, attracting more casual viewers (and by extension even crowds not really interested in cycling just to see what all the fuss is about just like people started taking a peak at football to find out what the Messi/Ronaldo fuss was about) to see the phenomenon whereas a Giro like this year attracts more loyal or passionate cycling enthusiasts, less of the beer throwing crowd.
• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  You only read the title? Crash down has more subtle meanings too though it’s not used particularly well here, probably a foreigner’s bad attempt at a play on words.
• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  Exactly, and most comments and commentators are always quick to point at the riders but riders are cooked and focused on riding, at many moments they aren’t capable of stringing together three sets of constantly changing variables into a logical strategical decision for change of tactics, that’s why they have earpieces and race directors who see the global picture, how it’s evolving and who have the luxury of being able to extrapolate what will happen if this or that and SHOULD be instructing riders how to continue. Maybe the day will come when like in F1 viewers (or just premium ones) will get to listen in on the chatter?
• Mistermaumau01-06-2025
  So nice that some people get to enjoy preparing for just one stage for do many months, and are then admired for achieving their goal :-)
• VgnRider01-06-2025
  Yates led by 1:40 over the top of the final climb which in theory should have been easy to recover except for Wout the hero. Wout won it for Yates by pulling himself inside out through the valley! The DS's of both UAE and EF should have been yelling at their riders to not let Yates get away knowing that Wout was waiting on the downhill.
• mhfrvz01-06-2025
  So happy for Simon Yates, chapeau! Full circle
• Renz01-06-2025
  What really happened is that Del Toro and Carapaz both goofed by refusing to work together. They had spent so many days trying to neutralise each other that when the time came to join forces to bring back Yates, their feelings of racing enmity trumped clear thinking. Classic game theory scenario where the strongest cancel each other out and leave the spoils to someone else.