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10-02-2023 , 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Booker Wolfbox
The term embarassment of riches comes to mind. Edit: Actually, Remco might become a free agent in that event. Maybe he jumps to Ineos or Bora?
Provided Bora make a decent offer can see him going there instead of Ineos.
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10-04-2023 , 08:14 AM
Germany's Sport1 reports that Roglic has agreed to join BORA-hansgrohe with Red Bull paying for the majority of the 3mil€ fee to get him out of his contract. He's also supposed to make 5.5mil€/year there.

FWIW, I never had any idea what hansgrohe even is until I showered at my brother's house a couple weeks ago.
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10-25-2023 , 05:24 PM
https://www.letour.fr/en/overall-route

2024 Tour route released. 7 mountain stages and 2 individual tts, including Monaco to Nice on Day 21 which (from my memory of 30 years ago) involves a long winding hilly ascent and descent
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10-25-2023 , 05:28 PM
Everyone already expected they wouldn't finish in Paris this year but it's still weird to see it on paper now.
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10-26-2023 , 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
https://www.letour.fr/en/overall-route

2024 Tour route released. 7 mountain stages and 2 individual tts, including Monaco to Nice on Day 21 which (from my memory of 30 years ago) involves a long winding hilly ascent and descent
Yeah that could be interesting
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03-11-2024 , 08:17 PM
What happened to the 2024 cycling thread?
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03-11-2024 , 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Booker Wolfbox
What happened to the 2024 cycling thread?
Never mind, was thinking of a different site.

Pretty cool to see Matteo Jorgenson take Paris-Nice.
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03-11-2024 , 11:17 PM
If not for GC Kuss, this would be the biggest thing in American cycling in ages.

Besting Remco, roglic and a bunch of second tier GC guys. Amazing.
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03-12-2024 , 06:36 AM
I was impressed to see how easily he could stick to Remco's wheel attacks on day 6 & 7

lol movistar again and forever
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04-04-2024 , 03:53 PM
What are the odds for Vingegaard, Roglic and Remco all breaking their collarbone in the same crash?

Good for Pogacar to skip the Tour de Basque..
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04-05-2024 , 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by madlex
What are the odds for Vingegaard, Roglic and Remco all breaking their collarbone in the same crash?

Good for Pogacar to skip the Tour de Basque..
They never tend to all ride the same lead up races anyway to the grand tours - so this was the one that Pogacar did not do. Roglic looks like he escaped but I don't think it will have that much of an effect on Vingegaard's performance in the Tour.
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04-05-2024 , 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by bundy5
They never tend to all ride the same lead up races anyway to the grand tours - so this was the one that Pogacar did not do. Roglic looks like he escaped but I don't think it will have that much of an effect on Vingegaard's performance in the Tour.
If he can start in the Tour. Apparently the collapsed lung and whatever else he suffered in that area puts that in danger?
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05-06-2024 , 08:57 AM
Impressive day for Pog yesterday, particularly after that fall at the base of the last climb had him down on the Peloton by 30 secs ish

I only read today that Jonas spent 12 days in hospital. Hopefully his team managed to set him up with an EPO drip so he can still win the tour
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05-06-2024 , 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
I only read today that Jonas spent 12 days in hospital. Hopefully his team managed to set him up with an EPO drip so he can still win the tour
A collapsed lung might be the point where even cyclists start to take it easy.

Always impressed how they get back on the bike the day after a hard crash. Getting back on the bike right after isn't an issue unless you fractured something relevant to riding a bike but I could never get back on the bike the next day.

Potentially NSFW road rash from a couple weeks ago, was back on the bike less than a minute later and finished the ride. No way I could have cycled 100+ miles the next day though.
Spoiler:
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05-10-2024 , 11:16 PM
Pog looks a class apart in this Giro.
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05-20-2024 , 05:27 AM
Remarkable from Pog last night. Extraordinary stuff
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05-26-2024 , 05:03 PM
Pogacar did the 18.1km 8.2% up Monte Grappa in 51:42min for an estimated 6.2w/kg.

Averaged close to 7w/kg @450W for over 15 minutes.
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05-26-2024 , 06:31 PM
Pog has been utterly dominant the past 3 weeks
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05-26-2024 , 08:16 PM
I absolutely adore Pog - my favourite bike rider ever. But even for me, this article is a little OTT. That was a remarkable victory by him, but he needs to beat Jonas at the Tour at least once and probably twice if he is regain 'best'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-...tilt/103894546
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05-27-2024 , 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
I absolutely adore Pog - my favourite bike rider ever. But even for me, this article is a little OTT. That was a remarkable victory by him, but he needs to beat Jonas at the Tour at least once and probably twice if he is regain 'best'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-...tilt/103894546
I agree he's the best. If he gets beaten by Jonas at the tour, I don't think anyone will argue Jonas had a better season.

Winning classics matters, winning stages of grand tour matters
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05-27-2024 , 11:55 AM
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I agree he's the best. If he gets beaten by Jonas at the tour, I don't think anyone will argue Jonas had a better season.

Winning classics matters, winning stages of grand tour matters
Jonas had a collapsed lung. If he wins the tour against Pogacar in that form a lot of people will ask even more questions than they already do.

The power numbers are insane. The younger in-shape version of me held 5.8w/kg for 20mins, they're doing it forever during 6 hour stages day after day.
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06-25-2024 , 08:16 PM
the Tour starts on the weekend. Interesting route this year

https://www.letour.fr/en/overall-route

Final day time trial (not in Paris....guessing for Olympic reasons) and 3 mountain stages in 4 stages prior to final day means that the result really should be up in the air til the end, assuming Jonas has recovered enough to be competitive. And it might also allow Jonas to ride himself back into full fitness by the end of the tour.

Pog currently $1.55, Jonas $3, Roglic $9, Remco $15
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06-25-2024 , 08:20 PM
also...and IDK this seems crazy impressive to me....Tom Pidcock has been winning World Cup mountain biking events for fun but is now off to race the TDF with Ineos before heading to the Olympics to compete in both road cycling and mountain biking, where he is defending his gold from 3 years ago
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06-25-2024 , 08:49 PM
No Kuss. The Visma curse continues. All the other teams are stacked though!
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06-26-2024 , 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by mw828
No Kuss. The Visma curse continues. All the other teams are stacked though!
I don't think they have a realistic GC contender unless Rodriguez really comes on, but Ineos having Carlos Rodriguez, Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas, Tom Pidcock and Michael Kwiatowski is pretty powerful

idk, maybe some of them are stronger in name than in legs these days and it'll be particularly interesting whether Thomas can back up after the Giro, but we'll see

Last edited by feel wrath; 06-26-2024 at 12:14 AM.
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