Cycle, crash, cycle, crash, cycle thread

Is he good enough to do all three in one year, or is that even possible? :thinking:

Probably too much. You wouldn’t know with him though

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Never been done.

He’d have to skip the spring calendar completely.

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https://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/ben-healy-ends-race-of-his-life-on-tour-de-france-podium-in-paris-video/

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Exactly. Could he be the one.

Pogaczar is not doing the Vuelta. Taking a break.

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:thinking::thinking:

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He looked knackered and they were saying he was a bit pissed off last week. Probably bored.

There will be a stampede to the start line in the Vuelta now.

In fairness, he has to at least give the other lads on his team, Almeida, Ayuso, Del Toro, Yeats et al a chance to win something…. never mind the rest of the pro peloton.

Almeida and Ayuso sabotaging each other will be a great spectacle.

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I’d say Roglic is seething. He could have skipped the Tour to win another Vuelta.

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And with the young German backing up his Dauphine showing with a podium in the tour, Roglic might have become undone by another younger man on the team he was meant to be outright #1 on. Age is not on his side either.

The Vuelta is wide open now

Nice article.
Brailsford is a blight on everything.

Vinnegaard won’t know where to go without Pogacar’s arse in front of him.

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The doping controls are designed to stop the riders from killing themselves, or rather, their teams from killing them.

I don’t think anyone with a stake ever really wants to eliminate the drugs.

The 50% on the start line was entirely more honest.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2025/0801/1526591-mangan-wins-intermediate-sprint-at-tour-de-france/

Fiona Mangan wins the intermediate sprint on La Tour de Femmes yesterday… some achievement.

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The women’s Tour was a great race. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot the Olympic Gold medallist in Mountain Bike who returned to road racing after years away blew away the field.