By selecting wildcards based on the UCI ranking Prudhomme is intentionally discouraging teams from committing riders to breakaways

Maybe they shouldn’t make the skinsuit for just Ciccone

You sure you’re not hangover

They will all chase eachother down

No

But they miss Zeeman so much!

There will be too many GC riders going after each other

- Tour providing Pogacar with an opportunity to sprint for bonis at least five times during the first week to create the initial gap

- Prudhomme:

Depends on if he caused it or not

Seemed to me like it was more to help Lemmen, who otherwise would have had to close the gap alone which wasn’t happening

Did they really accelerate? Del Toro, Gee, Carapaz all able to make it back despite being caught up. Lemmen was already pulling super hard before that part, and the main reason the gaps were big was because some riders were held up long

Screenshot of Luc Grefte post saying: "It's embarrassing how many millions are poured into some teams, yet how little they actually do to try to win a race. It's not just the riders, the staff are even more responsible. In other sports, those responsible would have been fired long ago #LBL"

This🙃

The weather forecast for Roubaix currently show near agreement between the European (1) and American (2) model: showers until around 15:00, with dry conditions afterward #ParisRoubaix

Crashed in Saudi s1 and not fully recovered

Strategic. Since cycling is highly dynamic, it’s nearly impossible to anticipate every situation in advance. The focus should always be on realising what the situation is like, and a next step that maximizes the team’s chances of winning

Thirty-five hour weeks at training camps, yet not a minute spent on improving the analytical capabilities of riders and directors

Andorra/Pyreneeën meer sneeuw in 3 dagen dan het hele vorige seizoen (bijna 😉)

Good luck!

We call it ‘can of diabetes’

Imagine if BORA were unable to sign Remco next year because they illegally signed Van Gils 😂

If court rules that the contract termination is illegal, there could be significant consequences for the team that signed the rider (rumored to be BORA). These include restrictions such as being prohibited from signing riders in the next season.

Maybe he shouldn’t have signed that contract back in March. He chose stability at the time, and that decision backfired. Doesn't look like the team did anything wrong. Cian's case didn't end up going to court, it was a three party agreement in the end

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Typo 😠