Mathieu Verhaegen

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@BenjiNaesen Pogy saw a hotel/castle and decided that's the finish for the day :D

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@BenjiNaesen Hayter doesn't get red because Pedersen can't be bothered sprinting for the podium? 😬

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@BenjiNaesen Surely Remco wins if he and Hindley start riding sooner?

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@BenjiNaesen And that's why Pedersen told his teammates to chill so Stuyven could have taken the 50 points

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@Cycling_Mafia @HansenAdam 'Never caught' is a disgusting way to say 'no evidence for doping'. Let's all refer to you from now as 'never convicted for murder' indicating there is an assumption just not a conviction.

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@BenjiNaesen Okay heli switched to the sprint in time, as shown on a later replay :)

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@BenjiNaesen Merlier is going to save Pedersen's green. Also, can the heli watch the sprint instead of people on the ground please...

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@alain7 @BenjiNaesen Yeah that's weird! Remco also did half the Climb in the wind and gapped Jonas by 10 seconds in the end.

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@BenjiNaesen Everyone complains the sport gets boring with Pogy, so the director shows half an hour of Pogy alone instead of the group with six podium favourites... Second time they missed half the sprint between podium candidates because they show Pogy after the finish line.

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@Moesbi_ @BenjiNaesen This aged well ;)

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@BenjiNaesen The inability from the director to show the group where there is actually some racing is impressive...

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@daniellloyd1 Wait until they smash the Alpe D'Huez record in perfect conditions and suddenly people will argue some doper 30 years ago is the limit of human performance and therefore anyone faster today must be doping...

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@BenjiNaesen Where does he even come from? He's gapped out of the last corner and does a 300 meter sprint from position 10?!

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@BenjiNaesen Scratch that... Suddenly everyone wants to attack again when Remco is on a pee break.

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@BenjiNaesen Said it for years, UCI battling with FIFA for most corrupt and arbitrary governing organisation in sports...

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@BenjiNaesen They have made the rule to prevent riding without your hands on the brakes or hoods and use it to randomly attack riders doing nothing dangerous. UCI sees Fifa and realises they need to level up their corruption and arbitrariness of their judgement.

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@BenjiNaesen Oh oh, yellow jersey with turned in hoods due to a crash. Based on previous UCI rulings that's a DQ, right? 🤭

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@BenjiNaesen You can't believe it? This is women's cycling, this is exactly what everyone expects; weird tactics and pure hatred is what makes it so interesting 😅

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@Justbergen @BenjiNaesen 6.8kg 'for safety' is a ridiculous rule. It might have made sense in 2000 (literally 26 years ago) when it was made, but now it just serves to hinder innovation and lighter riders.

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@BenjiNaesen @AndyKing837 What are you talking about Benji? Being thrown out of the race is an unreasonable penalty for any rider who are obviously not expected to assemble their bikes themselves. What happened to relegation and 500 Swiss franks?