Niki Terpstra

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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  His hand is faced the wrong way round...
• Mistermaumau03-09-2025
  I would say management probably did as follows. Tell each upcoming rider something slightly different in private (often what they wanted to hear) telling them not to pay too much attention to team meetings.
• Mistermaumau03-09-2025
  You forget a lot of people were already biased before this, without a thought for what goes on behind the scenes. It will take a lot to convince most people to swap sides.
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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  Maybe it will be Brennan's turn today, as it was Kooij's yesterday. The dynamic between Brennan and Kooij is quite like the dynamic between Van Poppel and Meeus. Brennan is a much better climber than Kooij.
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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  That won't be a punishment - he'd happily accept, as it would fix his reputation, and show that UAE have simply handled him in the wrong way. The biggest punishment (due to the long term damage to Ayuso's reputation) would be to force him to chase stage wins - and that is impossible.
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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  Ciccone won Donostia Klasikoa, which was very similar to this, but he is suffering from the fatigue
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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  Maybe it's because of the issues in the management. UAE make him feel like a leader who has to be a domestíque, whereas Visma would make it clear that he's a domestíque who can sometimes get his own chances. A good manager can teach even the most selfish rider that, by helping one's teammates, one helps oneself. Ayuso knows this, but the problem is that this is simply not the philosophy at UAE. At Visma and at LiDL-TREK, they do believe in this.
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  Llywelynglyndwr03-09-2025
  In my opinion, both Ayuso and UAE have done the wrong things. Whether or not UAE were trying to ruin Ayuso's reputation, releasing the statement in the middle of La Vuelta was the wrong thing to do. At the same time, Ayuso went too far with his rant. He should have kept it to "We agreed to announce this after La Vuelta, but for now I'd like to focus on the race and helping the team". If he'd done that, enough people on social media would have said "UAE are trying to ruin his reputation" and UAE would have ended up on the back foot. As it stands, everyone is divided as to whether to support Ayuso or UAE. However, I'd say that Ayuso has the advantage now, because if he works for Almeida over the coming stages, everyone will be on his side. As for UAE, there's nothing they can do - the damage is done. All they can do is apologise to Ayuso. The fact of the matter is that, being on his own, Ayuso attracts more sympathy - people can say "He's a young man, only 22, and fighting a superteam all by himself." No-one can say "UAE are a huge team but they have to fight Juan Ayuso all by themselves."
• Mistermaumau03-09-2025
  I’m not sure it’s a question of redemption, he may be helping out Almeida personally, am sure when they spoke to each other to clarify the situation UAE didn’t, they agreed on some form of modus operandi regardless of team instructions.
• Mistermaumau03-09-2025
  And how do you imagine they’ll do that? Got any tips for them?