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Won Strade Bianchi after a pretty dumb crash in a corner, won Milan-San Remo after a pretty hard crash, won his first Strade Bianchi after that insane crash shown when the broadcast started, the one with Alaphilippe leaping (yes I meant to say that) away from the tumbling riders — Pogačar crashes as often as anyone else. It’s just that it (so far) doesn’t seem to stop him01:01
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Seemed like both, to my eyes, but I haven’t rewatched the finish12-06-2026 13:19
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Who was the Visma rider leading out Van Aert who drifted to the left just so, at just the right time in that right hand curve, creating an enormous barrier for anyone else's sprint, forcing people to go the long way around to catch Van Aert? Because that was (depending on who you're a fan of) some brilliant work that wasn't a foul, or some dirty work that should have been a foul. Biking, a team sport.11-06-2026 18:56
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One thing they have in common is that they win almost entirely at the world tour level, not the .1 or .PRO level. Not all racers with many wins can say that, but their wins are almost completely at the highest level.10-06-2026 17:19
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Why, if he didn’t have bad luck, he’d have no luck at all! I forget who said it, it’s a quote and not my line, but it sure does seem to apply to van Aert.07-06-2026 17:28
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It is interesting to watch old races where Thomas is still mixing it up late into Flanders and hadn’t yet established himself as a GC rider. Fabulous rider, never quite winning what he might have. But yes, he is old school. Wasn’t it Pogačar who complained that riding in the bunch at the UAE tour wasn’t hard enough and that training was better as preparation? With modern training techniques and interval training applying to both the individual workout and the longer term bank of workouts at altitude, racing isn’t what it used to be. Yes that’s crazy to an old guy like me, but the results speak for themselves these past few years.06-06-2026 19:15
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Kudos to the editors for the headline and the lead photo. Excellent combo.04-06-2026 19:32
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Oh, this is going to be a fun tour to watch. All this ambition from so many people. The racing will be excellent, let’s hope.04-06-2026 19:15
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My bad French always wondered whether it was connected to the heir to the French throne, the Dauphin, in some fashion that made no sense. That it's the old province, well, that makes a lot more sense. (And then I read on wikipedia why the heir to the French throne was called the Dauphin, and it's based on this province, so it IS connected and now it makes sense.) Thank you!03-06-2026 20:48
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acem82, you have so misread what I wrote, top to bottom, that I doubt what I write will matter, but I'll try with just one of your numbered replies (#3). I'm not ridiculing you when I write this (nor was I doing so in my last post), I'm pointing out issues with your rhetoric. You originally said, "if you're a woman, you have a certain level of protection," and I replied that no, women don't, given harassment and assault statistics. Your reply about you being harassed didn't address my point at all. I'm sorry you were harassed, it sucks. If you were sexually assaulted like me, that sucks, too. (I'm at peace about it, thank you for asking, and yes, women can assault men.) Your reply is to say that because it happens to both sides, it's not a point in favor of women. But men don't matter to the point I made, at all! You said women are protected. I said no, they're not. You can't refute that by bringing in men. It's irrelevant. It's not an argument, it's a changing of the subject. That you experienced something similar to what so many women experience should give you empathy and sympathy for what happens, not deny that it happens or sweep it aside. To close: My whole point in my previous post was that you have worth as a human being, even when I think you've got things wrong. I was a teacher for decades, you think students giving wrong answers in my class didn't have worth as human beings? They were the ones I cherished the most, worked with the most, and tried the most to help. For you to amusingly drop in the Animal Farm reference shows that you are making gross assumptions about who I am (some leftist? some marxist? some commie?) and that's just wrong of you. I'm arguing based on what you say, you're throwing character comments my way. Let's call it a day, and end this conversation.03-06-2026 20:25