David

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ Dude that wasn’t your journalism - just link to the Guardian article

[David @GlassCranking]

@BenjiNaesen Would be a huge problem if they were GC riders - rest day every other day in a three week tour!

[David @GlassCranking]

@tomdanielson Watching it I was struck that there’s probably nobody stronger in the world to sit on the front of the peloton and set a hard tempo in the mountains. Almost unfair on Lipo given the expectation it sets.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ It means it will almost certainly be an extremely boring race.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ “Twenty to thirty years ago in the sport, there were many cigarette companies sponsoring, or alcohol brands. 10 years ago, there were many bad companies, and five years ago and now.”

I agree with Carera that crypto is as harmful as all of those industries.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ No! I needed to not read this so I can then spend 4 hours watching the build up to the cipressa genuinely hoping he might win. Now I’ll just skip to the start of the climb to watch Pog vs MVDP 🙁

[David @GlassCranking]

@BenjiNaesen I admire the creativity. But it is like NASA spending millions developing a pen that writes in zero G while the Russians just used a pencil. An absolute cap or a multiple system (top paid rider can’t earn more than X times lowest paid rider) is the only way to go.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ “Our product will cost you up to €1,000 per year” might not be a marketing slam dunk.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ A salary cap

[David @GlassCranking]

@BenjiNaesen Surely not a UAE rider escaping proper punishment at the AlUla tour!?!

[David @GlassCranking]

Great job having the #TourDownUnder prologue start at a time when we can easily watch it in Europe.

Awful job not having on-screen timings making it unwatchable as a cycling event…

[David @GlassCranking]

@bapmarbims40372 @Domestique___ It seemed like when he didn’t win it in ‘22 they responded by buying the best possible teammates they could so he’d never be alone in the mountains again.

[David @GlassCranking]

@rouleur #Ad maybe?

[David @GlassCranking]

@ammattipyoraily I think you’ll find it’s actually:

‘In alpine fields: Innsbruck to Bolzano’

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ If only there were some sport-washing petro-states, oligarchies, dictatorships or chemical companies for whom money is no object and who could be incentivised to put more money into the sport.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ @rockets_cycling @BasTietema I like that model BUT it locks in the teams. So a team like rockets for example would never graduate to the world tour.

Maybe a hybrid model could work far simpler would be to just slap a big ole salary cap on teams.

[David @GlassCranking]

@Domestique___ Pog, VDP or Remco going on a solo 100% makes me turn off the TV. It’s really bad for suspense so why would people watch it?

If it’s someone like Alberto Bettiol going on a solo in Milano-Torino 2024 then I’ll 100% watch that because it’s very exciting to see if he’s caught.

[David @GlassCranking]

@ketterechts420 @Domestique___ So you agree there can be times when it’s not all about ruthless competition. 👍

[David @GlassCranking]

@ketterechts420 @Domestique___ I don’t think the sort of results we’re talking about are illegitimate. A perfect example is Pogacar letting Brandon McNulty win the GP de Montreal.