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MarkFour
When a professional cyclist calls someone "very thin", it means he is close to transparent.21:45
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MarkFour
This new generation of superstars does seem to have so many genuinely likeable human beings. Top level cycling seems to be getting simultaneously more fierce and more humble. Or I'm just getting old.11-05-2026 14:37
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MarkFour
I am not sure why Zonneveld gets quoted so often. He does seem like a bitter and angry guy who stirs more controversy than contributes insight.10-05-2026 17:22
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MarkFour
Oof. Pro cycling is too brutal sometimes.09-05-2026 16:58
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MarkFour
That is not how stuff works. Pharmaceutical companies don't develop billion-dollar drugs just to give it to one guy in an obscure non-revenue sport. And nefarious team directors don't choose one guy on their team to give the good sauce while everyone else is told to lump it.05-05-2026 18:45
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MarkFour
If you are going that route, you have to start in 1989, when EPO hit the European peloton.29-04-2026 18:08
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MarkFour
A great insight into the fact that so many things have to come together to make a great champion: beyond physical talent and hard work, mental outlook and circumstance are critical. As is plain luck.29-04-2026 17:40
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MarkFour
It looked like a completely normal ceremony. Everyone looked very happy, and appeared to follow the direction of the handlers.26-04-2026 20:53
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MarkFour
So, so impressive--physically, but also mentally.26-04-2026 20:09
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MarkFour
He wasn't wrong. Even with the stratospheric expectations, Seixas still out-performed what any 19-year-old should hope to accomplish physically and mentally, man-to-man, against arguably the greatest cyclist of all time.26-04-2026 17:08