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[Retard finder (cycling edition) @JonasApologies]

1/10 The anomaly of Combloux 🧵 129 Grand Tour time trials going back to 2000. One refuses to fit: Jonas Vingegaard, stage 16 of the 2023 Tour. By almost every measure I can build, it's the most extreme ITT of the century. Here's why.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

This doesn't mean America is rich.

It means that you have to spend for things that other people get for free.

Many European countries have higher median wealth, meaning they don't have to live paycheck to paycheck like you guys have to do to survive.

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@NairoInGreen Come on

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@RenaudB31 Absolute ITT monster for minor races

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@McKirdyTrained Why do you think Visma came up with the “permanent altitude” mode of training ?

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@phillipm61 @lorenawiebes @teamsdworx @LeTourFemmes I would avoid taking pics with Jeannie Longo

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@Tratnikstan If cyclists were countries:

Pogi - 🇺🇸
Del Toro - 🇮🇱
Remco - 🇨🇳
Jonas - 🇬🇧
MvdP - 🇫🇷
WvA - 🇮🇹
Seixas - 🇸🇩
Roglic - 🇩🇪

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: The JP Morgan banker who led Infantino’s plan to sell a 20% stake in FIFA has ties to Jeffrey Epstein - The Telegraph

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Absolute Monster

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 wins GOLD in his season opener at the European Championships over 5000m!

First race in almost a year and after 6 good weeks of training.

[Retard finder (cycling edition) @JonasApologies]

Rasmussen is not an idiot. He’s right Jonas showed himself to be a burden at the Euros.

[CyclingUpToDate @CyclingUpToDat3]

“It would be a disadvantage having that anchor” – Michael Rasmussen warns Denmark against selecting Jonas Vingegaard for the Montreal World Championships

https://t.co/Y6hI3CVG45

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

@JoshChambers They doped....that's what they did. It wasn't the marginal gains. It was the testosterone...

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@QuietWealth_UK Now do the cost of a surgery or a cancer treatment…

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@CyclingWerewolf @BenjiNaesen To be fair, everybody was saying that about Remco

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What the hell is going on here??

[Lara Trump @LaraLeaTrump]

Last weekend of the summer ☀️

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@laflammerouge16 She’s right. Yesterday’s stage, for instance, had one Col d’Eze too many.

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@peterjukes They swapped German engineers with Nigerian grandmas

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@lucxsronald And, to be fair, he could probably start the Monaco prologue on a red bike if he wanted to.

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@lucxsronald Tadej in stage 20 on Monte Grappa?

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@VeloFute A thread on this topic

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1/ The 2025 TdF finished on the Champs-Elysees, as it had for decades. This time the organisers added the Cote de Montmartre, climbed three times. WvA dropped Pogacar, and won alone. The Tour used Montmartre again in 2026. A thread on what has happened to sprinters in the GTs.

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@VeloFute A thread on this

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1/ The 2025 TdF finished on the Champs-Elysees, as it had for decades. This time the organisers added the Cote de Montmartre, climbed three times. WvA dropped Pogacar, and won alone. The Tour used Montmartre again in 2026. A thread on what has happened to sprinters in the GTs.

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@VeloFute 13/ Sprinters still have flat roads to race on. They lose those stages to late climbs, third-week fatigue, and to classics riders. The dependable bunch sprint of the 2010s has faded, and the 2025 and 2026 finishes on the Montmartre are the clearest sign of it.

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1/ The 2025 TdF finished on the Champs-Elysees, as it had for decades. This time the organisers added the Cote de Montmartre, climbed three times. WvA dropped Pogacar, and won alone. The Tour used Montmartre again in 2026. A thread on what has happened to sprinters in the GTs.

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@VeloFute 12/ When a genuine flat stage breaks up, classics riders win most of them: 52 percent go to riders such as WvA, MvdP and Pedersen. Fatigue adds to the effect. A flat stage in the first week finishes in a bunch sprint 83 percent of the time, and by the third week only 64 percent.