Tour de Vendée

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• AndrewK05-03-2026
  I try to avoid the cesspit of politics and the sick joke of the mainstream media but regarding Trumpian data, is he the head of those creeps brainwashing the servile that men can be pregnant? You’d want to be one pitiful clown with absolutely zero intellectual integrity to bow down to those disingenuous freaks all right.
• FredMan05-03-2026
  Use training data for targeted testing? What a crazy idea. How do you even gather baseline data from random training sessions? If a coach tells a rider to go 80% on a training ride, will this require prior approval from the doping bodies? If a rider's garmin falls off or is broken in a fall, and you miss an upload, is that a missed control? No wonder the peloton is 100% against the idea. And wouldn't this exempt the non-performers from dope testing, when they're the ones most likely to attempt it?
• Jezla05-03-2026
  For people to insult your intelligence, you’d have to display some first. Have a word with yourself before Karma gives you a slap that you won’t see coming.
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  Rafionain-Glas05-03-2026
  There are 10 CX riders here: Wout van Aert (TVL) Tibor Del Grosso (APT) Tom Pidcock (Q36) Emiel Verstrynge (APT) Quinten Hermans (Q36) Aaron Dockx (APT) Clèment Venturini (URR) Lander Loockx (URR) Gianni Vermeersch (RBH) Albert Withen Philipsen (LTK) We are missing Mathieu, Thibau and Toon
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  Rafionain-Glas05-03-2026
  What we get to see now is a few flashes of peak Wout, as you say, but we don't get to see him do that year round - with stage 9 and 20 of the Giro, and stage 21 of the Tour, I think we did see peak Wout, but we did not see that anywhere else in the season.
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  Rafionain-Glas05-03-2026
  In that race he podiumed but did not really challenge Pogačar (he won the sprint for 3rd, 2:02 behind). In the 2025 edition, if he had raced, he'd have come 4th (i.e winning the sprint in the 2nd chase group, ahead of Simone Velasco and Thibau Nys). Good results but no challenge to Pogačar, so what is the point?
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  Rafionain-Glas05-03-2026
  Things aren't looking good for Sanremo then. Without Mathieu on his wheel and likely pacing from vehicles and teammates, I'd expect Pogačar to be way faster than just 6 seconds
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  maria2024202405-03-2026
  I don't think so; in 2024 MvdP was on the podium in L-B-L (similar or more amount of climbing, about 4000 m), and certainly Mathieu has no problem with gravel sectors.
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  maria2024202405-03-2026
  Wout deservedly won; he was simply the best. But winning or losing, Tadej is always the show. Awesome the Tadej's generosity. He had already won the Tour and could have comfortably settled back in the peloton, finishing the race "bureaucratically." Instead, because he loves cycling so much, he enjoys racing and competing, he gave his best and raced to win, honoring the race and the public.
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  Rafionain-Glas05-03-2026
  Absolutely brilliant! Kelvingrove Park can provide a superb race, and it'll be one for the climbers for sure. The scenery is also far more picturesque than what you get in most CX courses, as crossings of the River Kelvin are actually feasible. It is in the same slot that Mathieu van der Poel started his 2025-2026 CX campaign (he started it in Namur on the 14th - this is on the 13th, making it the final WC race before the Kirstperiode) so if he follows a similar schedule we could see him on the startlist