Romain Bardet

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• paultryan200218-04-2026
  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.
• anonymouscyclist18-04-2026
  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.
• Mistermaumau18-04-2026
  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.
• Mistermaumau18-04-2026
  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?
• Mistermaumau18-04-2026
  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.
• Mistermaumau18-04-2026
  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.
• Cooldude18-04-2026
  All teams need to have contingency plans in place for big races, in the event of accidents or mechanicals - which includes switching to neutral service bikes - and also practice them often during training. This is even more important for Paris-Roubaix, where mechanicals are the rule, not the exception.
• antipodeanpedalfan18-04-2026
  It’s a fair point. UAE seem to fumble the big wins more than you’d expect when Pog isn’t in the race. Seems like everyone is happy to line up behind him, but when he’s not there, a power vacuum occurs and suddenly having half a dozen riders capable of being team leaders on any other squad doesn’t work so well. Pog is so good at fixing problems himself though pure power and skill that the rest of the team don’t seem to be very well drilled on other tactics and creative problem solving.
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  Rafionain-Glas18-04-2026
  Guessing from the filming of the race, I think the peloton got more because the camera motorbikes focused on them more, but if course that is not 100% correlated
• MehrBums17-04-2026
  i guess he has a point … pogi has every readon to be pissed, but not by the shimano bike!