Sam Welsford

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  leedorney17-06-2025
  Roglic is a prolific crasher'... #giro25
• AndrewK17-06-2025
  Liverpool came from 3 0 down to come back and beat AC Milan in a European Cup final. The idea Germany should have taken it easy against Brazil is ridiculous. This is supposed to be top level sport. And actually Germany did take it comparatively easy in the second half of that match. In that game, fantasy met reality and got woken up - and the fantasy was that Brazil didn’t see they were a seriously flawed side imagining they were virtually fated to triumph.
• Mistermaumau17-06-2025
  Just statistically not everyone will crash the same amount for any given distance no matter the identicality of the riding/riders. If they would all start their career at the same time you’d not be able to predict who would crash least/most. There are so many reasons for crashes that you’d have to crash 20x to start seeing a repeating reason for being crash prone, and running into a car door or hitting a hidden bump whilst drinking with one hand don’t really count in tallying, these are just unlucky additions that happen to riders randomly after many near-misses they and every other rider have experienced.
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  maria2024202417-06-2025
  Itzulia Basque COUNTRY is the top of ridicule. They are ultra-regionalists/nationalists, If you read, the streets are full of insults against Spain. In the past almost in civil war because they don't want to be part of Spain neither using the Spanish BUT using the English plus Itzulia (tour) would be ok... Craziness. The name should be La Vuelta del Pais Vasco (Spanish) or Euskal Herria (or Herriko) Itzulia.
• Mistermaumau17-06-2025
  Another one who can’t ride her own race. If you have to rely on rivals for your performance, you’re pretty dumb to pick ones you know are unreliable. And yes, you should be careful how you say things, dangerous gave a very false impression.
• Mistermaumau17-06-2025
  Nobody watches cycling for the cool names or beautiful clothing, look at the calendar to see how awkward names fit right into the scheme of the sport which should resist conforming to commercialisation too much. Football already ridiculed itself with selling stadium naming rights, these days we’re more and more overrun by people who think everything should be decided monetarily and live by the motto I’ll do whatever I want since I paid for it, total disregard for society or humanity in general.
• Mistermaumau17-06-2025
  Doubt it, it is “owned” by ASO since the loss-making newspaper group could no longer afford to stage it. Leaving the actual name presents a whole host of (future) problems, advertising, political leaning, copyright, reputational risk (could go bankrupt). Besides, it isn’t in the least a criterium but nobody seems to have noticed the obvious all these years.
• Mistermaumau17-06-2025
  Yeah,let’s make it even easier for lazy people and just call it Tara. Most regions have a tour named after the region, many races are by departure and end location, I really don’t see why this one which fits perfectly into the “system” should be shortened, ARA sounds as uncommercial (in most languages) as Alula, nobody complains about the Basque race being called Itzulia Basque Country (and it’s already kind of sad they adopted the English as official) translated into Tour du Pays Basque, Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco or Euskal Herriko Itzulia. PS don’t know your opinion on it but Gulf of Mexico sounds better than what is being dictated onto whoever succumbs to pressure to conform to whimsies.
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  Llywelynglyndwr17-06-2025
  If you look at how Del Toro answered questions in the following interviews, you can tell that he knows his mistakes, but doesn't want to acknowledge them. @WoutVanAert could give him a lesson or two in that [concerning Dwaars door Vlaanderen]. Del Toro never answered the questions properly - he focused on why he didn't ride in the valley. What we want to know is why he didn't work on the climb. He did actually say he was on the limit, but no-one believes that.
• slappers6617-06-2025
  Assume the regions are punting sponsor money in, shame that they can leave the actual name in place, bit like when Het Volk became Het Nieuwsblad!