Vlad van Mechelen

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• mij11-04-2026
  MVDP rocks
• PogiFan2Day11-04-2026
  This race is MvDP’s to lose. He’s been dominating this race for years. I expect it to be a great race and anyone could win. It’s gives other people not named Tadej Pogacar a great opportunity at winning. It’s one of the two monument races where people’s hopes are not deflated as soon as they know Pogacar is racing. May the best man win.
• PogiFan2Day11-04-2026
  What a ridiculous comment. Nothing has been gifted to Tadej Pogacar. He has fought hard for every title. It’s not anyone’s to give away in the first place.
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  Rafionain-Glas11-04-2026
  On the matter of Pogačar's family, not enough credit is given to his older brother Tilen, who introduced him to cycling. Perhaps, without Tilen Pogačar, Tadej Pogačar would not have been talent spotted and would still be somewhere in Komenda
• RidesHills10-04-2026
  Speaking as a parent of a kid who competed in a sport that has left people paralyzed, while also showing the incredible beauty of the melding of technology and human beings (I'm talking about pole vault, where people are meters in the air using a carbon fiber object that bends waaaaaayyy too much for parental comfort - and also: Mondo is f'ing beautiful!), I really understand where they are coming from. Can you imagine being his parents? The level of overwhelm they must experience on a regular basis? They knew him when he was 4 months old, 4 years old, was he that kid, then? Of course not! As parents, it's what we have that our kids don't, we know them when they were small. But to have this happen to your kid? What a ride they must be on.
• RidesHills10-04-2026
  If they can't make assumptions, you can't. You keep making assumptions about other people, then adding your judgments to your assumptions, then gloating about the judgments you made. Yet you keep slamming other people for making assumptions. How interesting. To the point: the only races they competed in together are the ones that both competed in. That Pogačar won 2 races that Van der Poel wasn't part of? Irrelevant, he wasn't there. Pogačar has 50% more Monuments than Van der Poel, he won 50% more races than Van der Poel last year, but in the races they both competed in, Van der Poel won 50% more than Pogačar. Small N stats let you do all SORTS of things to tell the story you want to tell. But don't go making assumptions about Van der Poel, then making judgments about who he is based on your own assumptions, and then gloating based on those judgments. That's just wrong.
• mobk10-04-2026
  The wanking is reaching a fever pitch
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  Rafionain-Glas10-04-2026
  Lipo should improve his tactics. He shouldn't have pulled there. He races very instinctively and tactics isn't something which comes naturally to him. He's not as bad as Marc Soler, but he needs to improve in that regard.
• Mou-Cro-HR10-04-2026
  Warning shots fired! Tadej Pogacar is smashing, like Baby Hulk. In 2024 analysts said that it was the greatest and most dominant year in cycling's history, of course by Pogacar. In 2025 analysts said Pogi was even better then in 2024, which means that the two greatest seasons in history were Pogi's. This year Pogi can once again surpass the two previous seasons and make it the three best seasons in history. And one more thing, Pogi is making his own history records, 4 consecutive Monument wins. If he wins Paris-Roubaix this coming Sunday (a tough one with MVDP), he'll probably win all five in one season. Never done before. He will also have 7 consecutive Monument wins... never done before. Don't even get me started on stage races this year (Tour de Romandie, Tour de Suisse and Tour de France)...and of course the WC in Montreal. This is still a big "IF"... but if Pogi will be healthy and have no big crashes, he can do it. And if he does it, then Mr. Eddy Merckx can come, kneel down in front of him and say: "I praise you. You are not only the GOAT, but the GOD of cycling. I will clean your shoes and wash your feet...my Lord." 😂😂😂... So yes, like Armstrong said, let's stop the BS and say what it is. Pogi is the Greatest Of All Time!!! Ad acta!!!
• Mistermaumau10-04-2026
  Icarus