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antipodeanpedalfan
This race wasn't available to watch in Australia but I'm glad I didn't waste five days on it to be honest. After that first day it was just going to be a long boring ride to the inevitable. I mean, cool - Pog won, "again" - but jeez - not much suspense for the overall.08:06
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Okay, so he just whited out in the arms of his team staff? Jeez, DNS tomorrow. He looked like he was losing a lot of blood on that abdomen wound, not to mention his inner arms.13-06-2026 16:25
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antipodeanpedalfan
Inexperience coming to the fore here. letting 3 minutes go up the road yesterday, and yeah - crashing under pressure.13-06-2026 14:49
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antipodeanpedalfan
I'd be surprised if he waits til 2028 to tick off the Vuelta10-06-2026 05:31
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antipodeanpedalfan
What's the deal with no bonus seconds in this entire tour? Heard the international feed commentator explaining this the other night - strange decision for the UCI09-06-2026 02:37
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antipodeanpedalfan
I really hope the funding and support for the Women's tour remains stable so achievements like this can gain the same gravity within the women's pro peloton as they have in the men's. Instead of the sort of patchwork quilt effect of events stopping and starting and making it hard to say "x number of riders have done this". Epic win anyway, I really didn't see this overhaul happening after the truncated end of the prior stage.08-06-2026 06:48
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antipodeanpedalfan
I actually hope he doesn't win, for his sake. Otherwise the fever pitch/pressure on him going into the Tour will be ridiculous.05-06-2026 05:51
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antipodeanpedalfan
Jonas' Giro win won't be any more or less "meaningful" based on what he does in a different race. He won the Giro, end of story. If he also wins the tour, then he won both. If he comes second, then he won the Giro and came second at the Tour. Again, Pogi came second at PRB, does that make his prior win at MSR "less meaningful"?04-06-2026 05:12
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antipodeanpedalfan
The thing about this train of logic is that people accuse riders like Jonas of "avoiding" Pog, which means that their victories "don't count" because Pog wasn't there. BUT, by that logic, that means that Pog's victories also shouldn't count as much if his biggest rivals are also absent. Either everyone's races "mean less" or a win's a win, and you can only beat who is in front of you. Unless some perfect start-list emerges that pleases all the critics, and all riders start completely injury-free, and remain that way the entire tour - then people will ALWAYS find some way to justify some argument that x or y win isn't a "proper win" - it's absurd. Eddy Merckx raced a significantly narrower peloton of mostly northern European riders, with everyone doping their asses off - but if you say these wins don't stack up to the modern riders, people throw a fit. "he can only race who is in front of him!" - EXACTLY.04-06-2026 03:45
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antipodeanpedalfan
All it takes is a glance at the cycling pro stats to see that the startlist quality of the 2024 Giro was significantly lower than the 2026 one. So Pog beat a far weaker field than Jonas just did.04-06-2026 03:34