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- i’ve got just a stunningly brilliant
idea for a tv show/youtube show/WHATEVER in a few years. ready? here it is… it’s called MVDPvsWVA, or just VERSUS, or WOUT v. MATHIEU, or FRENEMIES, or who-the-hell cares. every episode, matty and wout compete in some less-than-grueling “sport.” think, like, arm wrestling, or beer chugging, or quidditch, etc. You get the idea. they each get a coach who really knows this event. they train. then, it’s ON. the thing that is gonna make it WILDLY popular? they both REALLY, REALLY want to WIN, just like in their rival days on the bike (well, close).
i LOVE that they’re gonna square off at the cx World’s, one more time… Stunningly brilliant. i will miss these guys so much when they’ve hung it up, gotta savor all of what’s left.
- Always wondered why some banks and the like are so easy about sending cards and codes by the same method, this was bound to happen once the right postman figured out how to recognise the code envelope.
- Hmmm, so you didn’t notice his dumb (not technically but being prepared for your event) crash at the Tokyo Olympics that gifted Pidcock about 1/3 of the reputation he got, or maybe you just forgot? You didn’t notice how he vanished from sight inexplicably during the Paris event? You don’t recall how close he got to actually messing up the RR in Glasgow, ok, that’s a different way of looking at his amazing win but also helps us forget he had another silly crash at that MTB WC. That’s starting to be quite a bit at top events outside cyclocross, is there something to it? And considering all those, I’d say of all of them the Wollongong one was the least imputable to him, most elite athletes would have freaked out in such a situation at that moment. Obviously he feels far more at home in cyclocross where things rarely go wrong that badly. I actually think the Olympics stress him more than the MTB rainbow jersey he says he wants, it’s probably the event/medal he’s most anxious to add, he seriously misjudged things twice and probably only has one more try so I’m putting one hand in the fire and already predicting he’ll enter 2 events at LA, to avoid the stress of leaving all his eggs in his last basket.
- so i’m gonna agree that The Wollongong Affair was mathieu “messing up” a big occasion in just an epic way. but APART from said debacle, i’ve never thought of him as a “choker” on the major days. yeah, he gooned up his food intake at the world’s the year in Yorkshire, but that was his very first year of WT level road racing. what else… his endo on the sidewalk on debut at de ronde? still came back for fourth in pretty amazing fashion. i can think of any real “blow-it” moments from his CX career. so, come on, misterMM, give matty a break. (actually, i just really wanna know what you ARE referring to, because you always have an actual answer.)
- C’mon, you’re most likely Belgian and not so young, you must know there was more to it, no?
- Jeez, it’s about time governments started looking into how to stop car drivers treating cyclists as road furniture, this last year has been as bad in traffic as all the racing incidents.
Worst example I saw so far was an overzealous police team. Not fully knowing laws of competition cycling on public roads they thought they’d show who is boss after spotting a neat 2x2 peleton coming towards them by veering straight towards them on the wrong side of the road to force them into an emergency braking manoeuvre. Needless to say, not expecting anyone (let alone police) to behave so senselessly this caused a mass pile-up with multiple injuries, one person ending up in intensive care with months of recovery. The incident wax kept pretty quiet by authorities but one of the team did actually lose his position over it.
- Well observed!
- Business.
- Greed?
- It's crazy that the Pogacar of his first few Grand Tours and Monuments was merely freakishly gifted, and only recently did he start eating more carefully, and training more honestly. I still can't imagine that anyone can follow a season like 2024 with another domination, but honestly you just never know with this guy.
santiagobenites27-01-2025