Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

cycling biggest choker ffs.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

Purito 😂😂😂😂😂

[Bence Czigelmajer @cycloben2]

If we suddenly, retrospectively, made every Grand Tour a 16-stage race, then, since 2010, the following riders would have won Grand Tours instead of the real winners:

• David Arroyo 🇪🇸 (2010 Giro)
• Joaquim Rodríguez 🇪🇸 (2012 Giro, 2010, 2012, 2015 Vuelta)
• Steven Kruijswijk 🇳🇱 (2016 Giro)
• Simon Yates 🇬🇧 (2018 Giro)
• João Almeida 🇵🇹 (2020 Giro)
• Richard Carapaz 🇪🇨 (2022 Giro)
• Geraint Thomas 🇬🇧 (2023 Giro)
• Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽 (2025 Giro)
• Thomas Voeckler 🇫🇷 (2011 Tour)
• Julian Alaphilippe 🇫🇷 (2019 Tour)
• Primož Roglič 🇸🇮 (2020 Tour)
• Vincenzo Nibali 🇮🇹 (2013 Vuelta)
• Odd Christian Eiking 🇳🇴 (2021 Vuelta)
• Ben O'Connor 🇦🇺 (2024 Vuelta)

So now, you may ask who would have lost Grand Tours and how many, here's the list:

Primož Roglič - 3 (1 Giro, 2 Vuelta)
Vincenzo Nibali - 2 (1 Giro, 1 Vuelta)
Ivan Basso, Ryder Hesjedal, Chris Froome, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Jai Hindley, Simon Yates, Cadel Evans, Egan Bernal, Tadej Pogačar, Alberto Contador, Chris Horner, Fabio Aru - 1

Does this mean that Primož Roglič is the most clutch third week rider of the last 17 years even when he lost the most important piece in the third week, too? Some could argue for that...

However, what's more important is that in 1/3 of the Grand Tours of the last 17 years (statistically, in one GT every year) there was a change of general classification leadership after stage 16 of a Grand Tour. That's a lot. And while I kinda liked the 18-stage Grand Tour of 2020 Vuelta, 21 is the one we must go with in the near and distant future. The exhaustion (not just for the riders, but for us too) of the third week, where everyone is in a completely different state, both physically and mentally… it’s one of those painful yet fantastic things that’s unique to cycling, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and to get rid of it, even in just a single Grand Tour, would be a huge and irreversable offence and a huge damage to reputation.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Her name is HIND RAJAB💐🌷
🤞🏾🪶♾❤️

And She was more brave than every single one of you at ESPN

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@RyanDuff99 Sadly don't work anymore after Roubaix. Nothing else matter anymore.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

Russ Russ Russ
Made me fell in love with the nba. A part of my childhood retiring.

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.

You had to be there. And now it’s over.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@NairoInGreen Yeah but i put 19 as arguably because Pinot was the best for nearly three weeks before he dnf'ed.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

Since 2012 arguable ones

Men's
tour 2012
vuelta 2012
tour 2015
giro 2016
vuelta 2016
giro 2018
giro 2019
tour 2019
vuelta 2020
vuelta 2023
giro 2025

Women's
giro 2014
giro 2017
giro 2020
vuelta 2023
tour 2024

[Puncheur @PuncheurCycling]

Remind when the strongest rider didn’t win a grand tour?

[/+/ @Sxne19iv2]

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[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@NairoInGreen Fairs man I’m taking this L.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

Remco lost 4kg in 2.5 months and you have been singing his praises all the time.

PFP last year lost 4kg in 2.5 months and you just called her victory illegitimate and unfair.

[Bence Czigelmajer @cycloben2]

Okay, fine, then I guess I will never ever post about PFP after today, fine. Having feelings about healthy bodies is in fact forbidden here, fine. Having feelings about past events is also forbidden fine. What can we do then? Fuck around and wait for controversies to slap those with feelings? Cause that's what some of you does here, ladies and gents.

Out of office for a while, if needed, I'll be available in DMs.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

3 months no race prep for this level

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@NairoInGreen not worried about sub 5 mins climbs.

[ً @Na1chaca]

My heartfelt regards to the Lipo-army and super-fans @raffilpt, @rickyfilips95, @homberger_a 😂👌

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@Na1chaca Carapaz is clearly in good shape and he put 2 mins on him on a 24 mins climb. Nobody doubts that carapaz can push over 600 aSLP.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@NairoInGreen @OriginalEasyV1 18 Bernal was around 650 iirc. 0.25 w/kg more is perfectly possible if there was a bit more wind and he also went from near the bottom. 40 seconds faster is also a lot on 24 min climb.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@NairoInGreen Yesterday was bad, but massive improvement today after injuries. Just tell skjelly to give a leadout tomorrow because he can’t chat to us on long climbs.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@Sageof6turtles @pateksneered 29% according to next gen. Pretty mid for Seattle. Anyway they were obviously awesome last year, but still more confidence in the Texans. I’m gonna need to see some good offenses actually play decent against them to change that.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@Sageof6turtles @pateksneered No the reason why they got dominated was because they got barely any amount of pressure against a good but not great O line and Stafford barely had to work under pressure and dominated under PA. That O line gives me zero confidence against H’s D line to replicate that.

[Emmanuel Ekwam 🇧🇪 🇬🇭 @EkwamEmmanuel]

@Sageof6turtles @pateksneered Not even kidding but Stafford played prob his best game against Houston last year. The problem is despite that, he had basically zero time the entire game and every window was closed directly to be consistent drive to drive