+2
16-06-2025 22:50
+4
15-06-2025 13:42
+1
14-06-2025 14:50
11-06-2025 04:10
+7
01-06-2025 16:27
+27
01-06-2025 16:20
31-05-2025 00:55
23-05-2025 02:23
17-05-2025 23:41
04-05-2025 04:57
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Barney
Carapaz did what he always does: race against the guys he is with, even when it's against his own interest. He seems like an absolutely lovely guy off the bike, but he hasn't mastered the basic rule of cooperating at the front until everyone's chances have been improved, before attacking repeatedly. Carapaz has done this too many times for this to be on Del Toro.16-06-2025 22:50
+4
Barney
Of course Tadej has help. Same as not only Vingegaard and every other World Tour rider, but every professional athlete. Is it possible some pharmaceutical company invested billions of dollars in some miraculous genetic therapy or enhancer to secretly give it to just one guy in some obscure sport? Uh, no. What you are watching isn't just more of an even playing field than any local master's race--it is as fair as professional sport has managed to make things. If that is heartbreaking to you, or you only like to see winners exposed and punished, then competition is not for you--not as a spectator, and certainly not as a participant.15-06-2025 13:42
+1
Barney
Remco is still a generational talent. In many other eras, he would be the dominant champion, like Froome, or Indurain. His chose the wrong time to be born.14-06-2025 14:50
+2
Barney
Horner is insightful about many things. But he has this weird insistence that anybody in a race with Pogacar is racing only against Pogacar. There is no podium for people who finish ahead of Pogacar or any other rider. Modern racers understand that they need to race for their (and their team's) own fortunes, and the racing is much more positive and interesting because of it.11-06-2025 04:10
+7
Barney
Carapaz wasn't pulling on Finestre. He was repeatedly attacking Del Toro, and then sitting up. He was focused entirely on dropping Del Toro, rather than keeping the two of them ahead. This is why Yates caught them so easily. And when Yates went ahead, Carapaz made no effort to go after him to preserve his 2nd place. He continued to focus on slowing down Del Toro. He succeeded.01-06-2025 16:27
+27
Barney
I would agree that del Toro dropped the ball; however, Carapaz consistently works against the people he is riding with. There have been too many times where he is ahead in a small break, and rather than pulling, he attacks, sits on, and attacks again, disrupting the rhythm.01-06-2025 16:20
+2
Barney
He was dominant in the 2020 Tour, shepherded by a dominant team. Pogacar stayed close. No one could have predicted how a superstar could emerge in that final time trial.31-05-2025 00:55
+2
Barney
Froome was, in my book, the greatest Grand Tour rider ever. Better than Armstrong, better than Induarain. It all ends in a second for these guys. I remember that whenever people complain about Pogacar, and I am grateful.23-05-2025 02:23
+1
Barney
I can't believe he even made it back to the professional level. It's so good to hear his name called again in a Grand Tour. His Tour de France podium speech was one of the most gracious I can recall in many years.17-05-2025 23:41
+2
Barney
Not remotely in the realm of possibility. Pharmaceutical companies spend billions (with a B) developing proprietary new drugs. There is absolutely no chance that a shadow company is exclusively developing a product for a few guys on one team in a minor sport that almost no one cares about. It sounds like you watch too many James Bond movies. Which might be better for you (and us) than speculating on something like this. UAE is doing what everyone else is doing, just a bit better. You have no idea what this is; nor do I; nor does anyone in this or any other comment section. If you don't like what you are watching, don't watch.04-05-2025 04:57