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- Totally agree!
- So he is either a secret international spy moving stealthily through his neighborhood, perhaps petting a cat or a dog, eating frites, or he wanted some privacy. Why is this news?
- It's normal that riders or even athletes can have their "downfall" as it their time in the sports are nearly comes. Even the GOAT Merckx retired in the sports at an early 30's of age. But for now, we are fans are enjoying your countryman POGI's DOMINANTION in cycling.
- All I'm saying is I don't know what the DQ was for, and it would be 1-2 sentences to tell me. I read the article, it didn't say, I don't know, and I don't care enough to find out. But, I do care enough about the site to let you all know that this critical piece was missing, and if I notice (and want) this, how many will think the same but not care enough to let you know?
- Bottom line. A big shame for the spectacle of the world championships when the one rider with a ghost of a chance for challenging MvdP starts back several rows and has to spend the first chunk of the race just getting thru the crowd to the front of the chasers.
I like the idea that has been suggested of allocating starting positions to countries rather than individual riders, or allowing riders to swap within their countries team.
- Is it not possible to stop promoting X by generally only providing their clips as videos? They are not made on the platform so must be available some other way. Or has no-one learnt from the demise of search engines?
- Please stop these fake polemic titles, no-one was punishing WVA, everyone gets treated according to those rules. Why make it sound like they were after him?
- "When I feel fresh, I get over 1,000 watts in 1 minute" - wow, not bad... but being a sprinter sometimes means doing huge watts AFTER 150-250km - hardly ever you are fresh then...
- Sorry but that is an amazingly naïve argument. By that standard Luxembourg should never have won any major cycling events, Jamaica would never have had a period of sprinting domination, Ukraine wouldn’t have so many world class boxers Why do we have Nurmis or Zatopeks? Because sports anomalies on the whole aren’t defined by nationality or randomly distributed, they depend on a huge range of socioculturoeconomic factors but very often it takes just one in one country to stimulate a whole swathe of people to try to become the next. Country domination comes and goes, who will take over after Pog&Rog??? The Dutch only asked this question for their own case because they don’t understand the nature of sport, you cannot find or produce MVDPs on demand, when they appear it’s an exceptional mix of coincidence, fortune, management and work. Spain, France and Italy are just waiting, and waiting for their own chance to shine again.
- Infrastructure has become too expensive, an obstacle to competitiveness, especially if you can no longer employ immigrants to do the dirty work no-one else really wants. One of the reasons China rose so quickly is that instead of having to invest heavily in upgrading badly designed old infrastructure they could build state of the art from scratch. The US also had this advantage over Europe at one point but didn’t plan far enough ahead and are now stuck with infrastructure that is probably worse than European because, especially right now, they’re insisting on pulling the max out of a system bound to fail. Western politicians can/will not fix this as they are too dependent on keeping voters short term, China will dominate in the end as they don’t need to keep voters happy short term and can guarantee long term improvements for the patient.