Trofeo Mateotti

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• NREsq06-02-2026
  MvdP will retire before age is a factor. The Cipressa simply isn't difficult enough for Pogi's climbing dominance to distance a healthy MvdP. Just how this palmares is. If Pogi ultimately wins without MvdP being in the race he may not take as much pleasure in it.
• NREsq06-02-2026
  But for Pogi brain-farting and crashing in last year's P-R, he wins. My $$ is on Pogi this year. Milan-San Remo is another matter. For Pogi to beat MvdP the latter has to make a mistake. Possible, but MvdP rarely makes mistakes.
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  KerisVroom06-02-2026
  Of course, there's no denying their tactics of thinning the peloton works. But a race is not just a hill climb. I'm thinking of his 100km solo ride which is actually feasible IF the whole peloton organize a chase on flat terrains after UAE blows thing up on a climb. That's a big IF.
• mij06-02-2026
  yeah, wondering what he could do in a Liege if he committed to climbing. he has finished as high as 3rd, so he is close.
• mij06-02-2026
  I love the spring races and was hoping to see MVDP, Tadej, Wout, Mads and more at the top of their game, slugging it out for the win.
• mij06-02-2026
  looking at the last 20 years of Quick-Step, they just keep winning. so to suggest PL doesn’t know tactics is insane. and sprints need tactics. they need to watch echelons, be on the protected side of the road for the run in. positioning. but ultimately, the legs speak. the fastest riders win more than they lose regardless of tactics. so for Horner to suggest Remco is losing due to tactics is insane. All the tactics in the world won’t do you any good if you don’t have the legs. Remco has not had the legs to compete with Tadej. No one has, except MVDP.
• mij06-02-2026
  he doesn’t have to hold off a peloton. UAE whittles down the peloton to a few riders. Tadej blows up the rest. And there are not enough people left to organize a resistance. I don’t know what “tactics” horner thinks he can employ against that.
• frieders306-02-2026
  Says the guy who was whining earlier cuz they took the TT bikes out of the race!
• antipodeanpedalfan06-02-2026
  "as I said, I think it shouldn't be up to us [riders]. There should be, I don't know, rules or just someone outside of the riders who will decide what we do or what we don't do." - Interesting take, given how many times riders have (rightly) put their foot down about not riding in horrendous weather, or for neutralisation after mass-crash events - when if it were still up to someone "outside the riders", the race would go on - their safety be damned.
• Mistermaumau05-02-2026
  It’s not jus MVDP though is it, he’s tried 5x and hasn’t even come 2nd, Mathieu only won twice, though admittedly he sacrificed a 3rd to help Jasper win it.