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RidesHills
A quarter of his wins have been at the Giro, not bad! What a perfectly executed ride for the win, especially after the craziness at the start with the break forming only slowly and never being given much space.20-05-2026 17:57
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RidesHills
acem82, you're conflating two kinds of diversity. One fights back against the idea that all people who are X (black, woman, muslim, whatever broad category you want) are a certain thing (idiots, criminals, terrorists, protected, etc.) because they are X. Promoting diversity is promoting the idea that the group does not define the individual. Let the individual be their own self. The other kind of diversity is a diversity of thought, and here, the argument is different. It's possible to be simply wrong, because your thoughts contradict basic facts. Arguing for a flat earth, arguing that vaccines don't benefit society, arguing that tariffs lower costs, those things are wrong, they are proven wrong, some of them (flat earth) are just idiotically ignorantly wrong, and anyone has a right to say they are wrong. That's not about the individual being defined unfairly, that's about the individual having wrong ideas. To allow diverse perspectives when some of them are patently wrong or inappropriate is counterproductive or worse. So be careful in how you conflate the two meanings, and ask for respect a diversity of thought, when the diversity that people are asking you to respect is to not assign some negative trait to every member of a group of people. Here's why I'm saying all this: You said that women (as a category) are protected. Two things. First, ALL women are protected? Please define what you mean and how it's not stereotyping. Second, I request that you ask your women friends how many have been sexually harassed, assaulted, or violated, and then reconsider whether they have been protected. But ask each one individually, don’t make assumptions about them all, as a whole, would you?19-05-2026 23:16
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RidesHills
I don't get these commentaries about Vingegaard. Yes, he's measured at times, as are all GC riders. But, last year he threw in some really unexpected and weirdly timed attacks at the Tour, and it was super fun to watch that unfold as a result. Unexpected means you have to pay attention, after all. He's got 42 days of grand tour racing to make it through, of course he's being (mostly) measured right now. But he's still won 2 stages, and has a commanding lead in the GC race (assuming that Eulalio doesn't last through the last week in the mountains).19-05-2026 17:38
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RidesHills
That was a crazy ending, multiple times over. The collective decision to allow such a large lead in the GC to people who won’t hold it long is interesting. Curious how long that will last13-05-2026 17:58
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RidesHills
A chaotic sprint in the last km and a serious victory. Milan was probably out in the wind too long but the tire hop toward the end probably cost him the win, while Groenewegen’s bike throw came a few pedal strokes too soon. Congratulations Magnier!10-05-2026 19:42
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RidesHills
An incredible ride by Stiasny and a fabulous GC ein by Blasi. What a brutal brutal column that was, and everyone in the top 10 on the climb and the GC raced an incredible race.10-05-2026 14:40
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RidesHills
I thought stage 2 was 2. ???07-05-2026 04:24
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RidesHills
Because what the peloton really wanted was a push for Pogačar to get better, I am sure.06-05-2026 13:30
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RidesHills
I was just watching the Tour of Flanders from 2010 and it was so much worse than it is today. Almost comical.06-05-2026 13:26
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RidesHills
I hate to say that boring math means that someone will be at the tail end of the distribution. That is true even in a crazy biased sample like the peloton. That this argument was used in past years to excuse folks we knew were dopers is irrelevant - the math is the math. Also, just to be clear, everyone admits to doing highly specialized things these days - altitude training, diet, unbelievably controlled efforts to build muscle mass in a very particular way. Those are all legal. When looking at past training programs, they're borderline unprofessional in the modern peloton. Again, that some people respond better to this training than others is just expected statistics. The 5% argument you're using doesn't work to make the point you're trying to make.05-05-2026 18:48