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Mistermaumau
Your winner can only win by creating narrative that fits his need to feel like being a winner in everything all the time, you’re obviously blind to his mental problems but that’s hardly surprising for someone only willing to take his word as gospel.30-06-2026 11:28
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Mistermaumau
THAT’S your definition of being a winner?30-06-2026 11:23
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Mistermaumau
His arguments aren’t worth shit. Value has nothing to do with what someone might be prepared to pay (stocks, art and Froome are daily reminders). He also fails to address ANY points that make it possible. Contracts and budgets keep rising, value is increasingly determined by marketability which isn’t always correlated to just results. When Pog’s tdf record wasn’t up to Froomes’ there was no discussion of his high salary. After Froomes’ demise, teams will take more care of offering Pog even more at his age, especially in light of occasional retirement hints. Jonas and some others have pretty high salaries with less results. The cost of missing out on the next Pog will be high and everyone knows someone will have to take over from him. Pog never managed to heat up the market because he was snapped up early and easily and became unaffordable to others, Seixas is the hottest newcomer ever market-wise, everyone wants him, everyone knows they’ll have to fork out a premium to snatch him from all other suitors. Can’t trust an agents word any more than a lawyers’. That said, yeah there’s probably some mitigating detail to that 13m so maybe it’s not his fixed salary but dependant on results or includes paying off Decathlon or it a total for a first 2 year contract, etc. some info always goes missing in the rush to ensure being first to report a scoop and with the amount of sloppy copy-pasting, AI reliance and translation errors involved in the online spread of news, you need to consume everything with a lot of salt.30-06-2026 11:12
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Mistermaumau
Or Saudi Arabia29-06-2026 23:40
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Mistermaumau
Making mountains out of molehills. People never seem to be able to put EVERYTHING into context. This Tour will be no hotter than quite a few other recent ones. Night temperatures will be pretty normal so even if the stars don’t have any gadgets for better sleeping conditions, they’ll sleep as well as other years. Yes, there is a place in France somewhere (not slong the route) forecasted to maybe reach close to 45, we’ll see. For the record, the record is from 2019 at 46.0 and was also in June. So much crap written the last days about “records”, yes city records, specific day records, number of day records, day+night average records, wet bulb records, etc. And when a couple of years ago Seville experienced 40+ almost half of all days between April and October like a heat dome had decided to hibernate there, nobody paid attention or saw that a dramatic change was taking place.29-06-2026 23:39
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Mistermaumau
Congratulations on this wonderful project but get ready for a little Van Der Poo. Now it’s a little clearer why he was hinting at skipping the cyclocross season, this was already in the works.29-06-2026 21:51
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Mistermaumau
Not really, they told you the news that’s known, maybe the specifics haven’t come out or Benson is holding them back to prolong or raise his revenues. Anyway, scouring the internet for other people’s stories isn’t really reporting26-06-2026 20:24
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Mistermaumau
Why are you assuming there will be a heat wave?26-06-2026 17:51
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Mistermaumau
Only, yes, but their numbers are significant so you cannot and should not ignore the consequences. Many made the same mistake with Trump26-06-2026 17:49
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Mistermaumau
Ironically, just at the moment when in a few neighbouring countries the races (and all outdoor sport gatherings are being postponed due to excessive heat. Rode yesterday, it was actually more pleasant than standing still despite temp being well above body.25-06-2026 20:52