Mathieu Verhaegen

@BenjiNaesen And everyone chills on the Cipressa so UAE can still do their plan... Brain dead riding

Pogacar is down. #MilanoSanremo

@BenjiNaesen Can Alaphillipe retire? What a joke he has become. Again attacking at the start of a hard section to complete fall through within 30 seconds.

OH MY GOD! THAT WAS SO MUCH CLOSER THAN I EXPECTED! 😱 Mathieu van der Poel wins Stage 2 of #TirrenoAdriatico. ✅

@BenjiNaesen Did Girmay box himself in? If he goes left he wins I think.

Luke Lamperti wins Stage 1 of #ParisNice. 💪 Had a strong opening weekend, now confirms with a W.

@BenjiNaesen @Simon672491 In fact, half their team already does this today. Yates etc. only ride GC in minor races because what else are they going to do?

@BenjiNaesen @Simon672491 UAE will still pay someone who might top ten TDF at a smaller team a stupid amount to not get any points in two years time. As if Gall or Jegat wouldn't throw away all ambitions for literally millions a year.

What's your take on giving teams a UCI Point allowance for races, as a potential alternative to a salary cap? 📊 For example, you can only send a roster with 12500 UCI Points to the TDF. To be clear, I haven't properly thought this through, at all. 😅

@BenjiNaesen And so ends the "But Van Aert didn't pull for 50km in the Giro" :D

@BenjiNaesen That corner looked like F1! Three racers trying to make the corner together, a fourth shooting past :D

i fucking love this sport

@BenjiNaesen What is this madness

@BenjiNaesen And Remco never gets boni seconds for his TT wins... 🤷

It's completely unfair that every rider is allowed to choose their starting slot today, except for Isaac del Toro. 🤷‍♂️ He's forced to ride in the worst wind conditions while Remco was allowed to choose the first optimal time slot. The default rule exists for a reason: in time trials that are not the first race day, it's normally in the opposite order of GC. That's a fair system.

@BenjiNaesen "15 seconds worst case scenario" - LRCP yesterday 😅

@BenjiNaesen Or "Why isn't every team in the break away and not doing a single pull untill the last 5k?"

They should rename the Women’s UAE Tour to the Lorena Wiebes criterium. She’s 10 leagues better than any other sprinter. #UAETour

@BenjiNaesen For some reason it seems to be UAE's goal to start every season as the most hated and annoying team. And in March/April they play the nice guy Pogy card.

What triggers me most about Jan Christen's race yesterday was his entitled behaviour to other riders. Carelessly ripping his bike off a rider, nearly hitting another rider with it, indirectly throwing someone else's bike into the floor... When returning to the peloton, slapping a TotalEnergies rider's side to tell him to get out of the way for you... I can understand being frustrated after a crash, but it's another thing to work those frustations out on your colleagues. 🤷 #AlulaTour

@BenjiNaesen I hope Remco has a good psychologist. If Pogy has an injury or something, Remco wins two four jerseys and a monument in three weeks time.

Tonight's podcast can just be a repost of what I said on the #iLombardia Preview Podcast: "There will be 13-15 riders in the breakaway. UAE can control that easily. Pogacar attacks on Passo di Ganda and race is over."

@UKhotfoodchat @BenjiNaesen Yes, that what we are saying. Why is she riding? She has 0% chance in a sprint. No brand teammates in the group, and a national teammate up front.

@Mathieuverh @BenjiNaesen She isn’t beating Wiebes or Vos

@BenjiNaesen not sure what's scarier: Pogy alone at 80k to go, or Pogy with five teammates at 60k to go 😅

@UKhotfoodchat @BenjiNaesen Blowing yourself up for a sprint you have 0% of winning isn't really riding for yourself either...

@BenjiNaesen The Dutch were not riding that race as a team. Free for all.

@BenjiNaesen If only the other 75% of the chase would try...

The valleys are in favour of the chasing group so Tadej Pogačar could be caught here. This race is not over yet. #EuroRoad25

@BenjiNaesen @cyclingontnt I'll say it again: if paid services don't provide an adequate product, pirating is totally justified.

Bye, @cyclingontnt! 👋 I'm not paying 31 GBP per month for a subscription service with ads.

@danidewitt @BenjiNaesen Well last year had 1min 2sec in the closing Nice time trail so...

Wout van Aert wins on the Champs-Elysees! 💥 #TDF2025

@BenjiNaesen Remember: when paid services don't provide an adequate product, pirating is totally justified!

TNT Sports (UK) has truly been the single-worst way I've followed the Tour de France in the last 10 years. Terrible service. #TDF2025