Kunty McPhuck
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Healy's going to hate it as he'll lose freedom but he's turned himself into a GC contender for future GT.
Official Tour de France Thread [Crash Fuccery]
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Kunty McPhuck
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Jean toomer
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France finally get a stage win
He's leaving EFE ?Trinity Racingwith Pidcock.
Kunty McPhuck
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No. Trinity Racing were a UK multi discipline team. Started out as a cycloX then moved onto road as a Continental. Gave Pidcock and Healy their starts as pros. It was a nice developmental team. But like most things in the UK got phucked up due to lack of investment and care and went out s a business as a road team. Now they are just strictly a MTB team. Healy is like Dan Martin born learn his trade in the UK chose to ride for Ireland
Now you've set me off on a tangent
UK cycling is phucked and it probably at its peak in terms of talent and riders. But lack of investment losing sponsors having the wrong type of sponsors like the Tour of Britain and the UK Champs are sponsored by Shell
. A few other of the UK developmental teams like Bradley Wiggins team have also gone bust. The TDF will no longer be on free to air TV in the UK from next year thanks to Discovery + having the exclusive rights for the next decade.(Discovery have overplayed their hand here.) The UK government could make it untouchable like The Olympics World Cup Wimbledon Grand National etc. but their incompetence won't do it. The Tour of Britain has also come under threat from disappearing off the race calendar.While on the surface UK looks great and it will be OK for the next decade due to young talent like Brennan Onley Poole etc but after that it doesn't look great and losing the TDF coverage from Free to air TV will mean less people will care about cycling over the next decade.
Corporations are killing sports but that's a completely different tangent.
Jean toomer
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I guess Milan has the green wrapped up now.
Visma can’t break Pogacar.
And even when they let their boys to chase stage victories, they can’t win those either.
It’s gonna be a long offseason.
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stage 18 tomorrow.
Pogi cracked there a few years ago. He’s coming to settle the score.
Can anything be done?
stage 18 tomorrow.
Pogi cracked there a few years ago. He’s coming to settle the score.
Can anything be done?
Kunty McPhuck
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@Kunty McPhuck @Jean toomer
stage 18 tomorrow.
Pogi cracked there a few years ago. He’s coming to settle the score.
Can anything be done?
Its LeTour anything happen. But Visma would need to find some leftovers of the 22-23 stash. Even if Pogi cracks he has such a lead that even if he was to be dropped he doesn't need to hit the redzone to chase like if it was lead was only 1-2mins. Can ride to tempo to the finish line.
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Based on current form, nothing changes. Jonas is like an abused wife out there, he’s not strong enough to leave Pog…@Kunty McPhuck @Jean toomer
stage 18 tomorrow.
Pogi cracked there a few years ago. He’s coming to settle the score.
Can anything be done?
It’s a massive climbing day so who knows.
Saw this comment on Cycling News forum and I think it sums it up:
The reality is, outside of Pog crashing or waking up with the flu to the point where he has diarrhea, this just isn't happening. Jonas' Tour was sealed with his atrocious TT and his drubbing on Hautacam unfortunately. Even if he took 1:30 both tomorrow and Friday (which I consider HIGHLY unlikely) he would still be 1:15 behind. It would take a collapse of history-making proportions for Pog to lose this one; even if he is as he says, not 'superman' right now, I just cannot see him losing that kind of time. Jonas will try of course; with almost 5 minutes to 3rd he can afford to take some risks, but he just put himself way too far in the hole. Too bad.
Also these two:
The reality is, outside of Pog crashing or waking up with the flu to the point where he has diarrhea, this just isn't happening. Jonas' Tour was sealed with his atrocious TT and his drubbing on Hautacam unfortunately. Even if he took 1:30 both tomorrow and Friday (which I consider HIGHLY unlikely) he would still be 1:15 behind. It would take a collapse of history-making proportions for Pog to lose this one; even if he is as he says, not 'superman' right now, I just cannot see him losing that kind of time. Jonas will try of course; with almost 5 minutes to 3rd he can afford to take some risks, but he just put himself way too far in the hole. Too bad.
Also these two:
It's gonna be a great 2 minutes of "is it happening, is he dropping?" And then it turns out he's following comfortably and you're just wondering why Vingegaard is pacing.
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Basically this. Somebody said Tadej hasn’t had 1 off day in 2 years. Just can’t see anything happening to change the inevitable.