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- His last year will be 2030, his current contract will have matured and assuming he invests wisely he'll have more than enough money for the rest of his life and his kids when he has them, not to mention any post career sponsorships.
- Yep, part time pro's, not like today where even the worst rider spends all year training with the best equipment.
- tom can be so brash and sometimes sound cocky or, at worst, self absorbed. but he’s known mathieu (and wout) for so long that there’s nothing but graciousness and admiration when he speaks of them.
- i think the question is what could/would eddy have done done against the modern peloton if he had all of the training, dietary, scientific and technological advantages of a modern pro from the age that they start getting all of that. that’s obviously unknowable, but it is a fun question to try to puzzle through.
- i’m not saying that eddy needs to be hated and despised with the raging ferocity that some other dopers are hated and despised. i’m just saying that blatant hypocrisy isn’t usually a good look for anyone.
- this is really just for those out there who FREAK OUT every time anything said by certain proven dopers gets printed here: one thing that separates eddy from all of the above mentioned racers is how he got caught cheating over and over and over again.
- sprints yes, in reduced fields on either mountainous or very punchy coursescourses against other riders who also to a beating over that terrain. those aren’t bunch sprints against SPRINTERS. that said, there were no sprint SPECIALISTS in eddy’s time, per se. it wasn’t a time of specialists at all.
- merckx rode against a bunch of guys who spent half the year making sausage out fitting pipes. it’s a different world now. no knock on eddy, just a change in the reality of the peloton.
- correct, Sir
- exactly If he so much of an expert, why not predict instead of criticizing after
