Mathieu Verhaegen

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[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@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.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@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?

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@JoachimDeVos ER staat ook een licht staat speciaal voor die zijstraat. Overwegen volledig blokkeren zal tot meer mensen leiden die panikeren en stil blijven staan op de spoorweg wanneer de slagbomen toe gaan. Mijn oma weet/beseft op die moment heus niet dat die slagboom wel zal breken.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Such a career and then riding for a UAE win.. Everyone knew that Mas should ride 50% less the last 15k, and completely stop with max 2k to go. Narvaez is by far the favourite so he's the one who needs to worry about the chasers and pull.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Can we stop gifting victories to UAE? In this way they'll have records by mid season.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen I want to make a deal with these commentators! Because they kept saying that "I do nothing. Don't help you in any way. And still will get to win in the end." is a deal.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@cyclingontnt Commentators talking about a deal whilst the deal is "I do absolutely nothing, don't help for your GC gap, and still get to win". Not really a deal is it?

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@bdb675 @lucasaganronald Giving away a possible victory or pink jersey by sliding out once again...

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Was he DQ'ed? If you can get DQ'ed for too narrow handlebars, surely you should get DQ'ed for not wearing a safe helmet?

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Milan finally gets actual some competition and suddenly he's not that great anymore huh :D

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@StoogeDeSport @BenjiNaesen The barriers didn't cause anything though. You see the wheel shooting out around the markings, not due to the feet of the barriers.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Mark Uytterhoeven tells a different story almost every week in Wielerclub Wattage if we have to believe his French friends...

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen English commentators trying to fabricate suspense was painful to watch. "Pogacar on a gap" when he was literally 30cm behind Lipowitz and calling five pedalstrokes an attack Lipo could follow...

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Slid in the manhole cover. Jorgenson fell straight on his should, no rolling. That's going to be a clavicle fracture

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen Collective punishment is a human rights violation!

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen weekly show discussing request: does Pogy have (very, very relative) handling issue? Crashes on decents or cobbles under pressure before. Cobbles on the hoods. Multiple near misses. Gapped after multiple corners. Taking some cobbled corners with level pedal...

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen To be fair, Jasper is second leader and has a different bike. They discussed before that Jasper should never be the one switching bike. But he didn't felt great that day so in the heat of the moment he saw the opportunity the help anyway.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen UCI is one of the most corrupt international sports organisations. Maybe the oil nations should indeed start their own thing to counter this absurdity.

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen @weskevz Dat haalt ook heel het Gravaa-argument onderuit. Zelfs als die failliet zijn is een doorstart toch mogelijk binnen dit en 12 maanden? Dus eigenlijk kan er enkel een jaar later een boete worden gegeven?

[Mathieu Verhaegen @Mathieuverh]

@BenjiNaesen With the fingers in the nose, as we say in Flemish :D