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- Pay him the money and sign him up for a long time. He’s French and good looking. You’ll make up the $8 million in marketing itself. He’ll be all over fashion magazines and advertisements. But a generational talent doesn’t come along that often. He’s dispatching his rivals with ease. He can keep up with Pogacar for quite a while. He’s the real deal. Make him an offer he can’t refuse ☺️
- He does seem to be trying to deflect attention from his team's strange behaviour.
- interesting article on here today about Michael Matthews - and a TRAINING RIDE CRASH
- training ride crash . . . @mistermaumau - you discounted these in the Roubaix discussion.
- Of course there is pressure it is the biggest race in the world. He has no experience of racing 3 week tours .the TDF is about 2mph faster and team riders going there are not going for experience but to win for their sponsor who pays the team wages and wants the air time o tv.
- 100%. This is exactly what Froomey did on Stage 12 of the 2016 TdF. He did a frantic 200m run uphill, during which he was waiting for a bike replacement.
- Another uncorrelated but discussionworthy situation is mixed (both categories and sexes) amateur races on circuits.
Often lapped male riders, if not forced to stop, are prohibited from riding behind passing riders but female participants are neither forced to stop nor prohibited from latching on.
- Thanks!
So technically, it would be allowed to drop the bike on a 25% gradient, run (walk) and pick up another from the waiting team car above?
- Emotionally, everyone agrees, strategically it's highly fragile, too many unknowns and conflicting interests. As was said, no-one is expecting him to win so that pressure is manageable and imaginary (and we still can't measure any French fever) but everyone wants to see a race featuring both and there aren't many options.
If his future isn't decided in advance, it will be very difficult to find an arrangement, if it is, that will be the defining criteria.
- Seems Ardennes is now accepted in some circles as a marketing tool. First Flemish which was already borderline, now Dutch? No wonder some try stuff like Gulf of America, there's an audiance for everything.
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