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We all wanted more power back then. We just didn't have a way to quantify what we had at the moment. And many experienced riders just raced very well with RPE which is just as effective in a race as using power if you knew your capabilities. Power meters help people in training much more than races. Take power meters away from racing and little would change in terms of results and tactics.20:20
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He hasn't even shown that he'd be good enough to be domestique at the end of big climbs for Remco29-12-2025 06:40
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Watch the video. I assure you, everything he did was on purpose26-12-2025 09:23
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Plenty of businesses fire employees for getting DUIs.26-12-2025 09:21
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I don't think he's making excuses. He really didn't have a strong enough team and outroad the team's potential at the time. Its not the first time a rider didn't win solely because he didn't have an outstanding team. They also had highly inferior bikes back then. Riders have also largely only won because their team was so dominant. Nothing wrong with that, its a team sport after all. Its just that one rider typically gets all the flowers.26-12-2025 04:38
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Tadej was no junior prodigy. Clearly he's one of the very best to ever do it. But as a junior, a massive number of riders were better. They play up his mid teen abilities to deflect from accusations. Guys like Wout, MVDP, Pidcock and Ayusu(as a very young, current blooming rider) were all on the map as world talents. Not saying that means ANY of those riders were/are clean. But Pogi's early results were very middling and more like Froome's.26-12-2025 04:30
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He's going to just keep getting kicked around and not winning. Teams have let him out of contracts early for a reason.22-12-2025 07:04
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Lots of things need to go right for him and bad for others for him to win. He's just not who he used to be and he's on his inevitable decline earlier than most.21-12-2025 01:09
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Nys didn't have a chance. MVDP had tons of energy left in the tank. This was his first race and only did a bit more than he needed to. He18-12-2025 07:32
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The funny thing is that the best these guys can do is make Tadej's win easier. Nobody can actually ride with him very long unless he wants them to.17-12-2025 23:44