Jens Hagström

@kapelmuur29 @MatMitchell30 I'd love to see the actual viewer numbers for TTs vs. road stages in the GTs . I'd be willing to bet all my underwear that a huge part of the answer to why organizers make the choices they do lies there.

@jenscer @MatMitchell30 Actually I don't know anyone in "real life" who doesn't like time trials, all the complains I read come exclusively from online sources 😜

An additional racing day but no time trial? 🤦‍♂️#TDFF2025

@JakobsenSanne En karriär idag betyder att du är borta från hem och familj absurt mycket med längre säsong och nödvändiga höghöjdsläger mm. Ytterst få veckors off-season med faktisk egentid. Om ASO envisas med att hålla sitt PR event precis i det korta tidsfönstret får de skylla sig själv.

Er tiden løbet fra den slags? Skal det gøres anderledes? Måske er det bare en dum tid på året? Jeg ved det ikke. I hvert fald en skam, at vi ikke hører fra dem, som skal skabe løbene næste år. Måske føler de ikke længere, det er deres? Det ville være skidt. Anyways. 2025! 👏🏽

Apropos… egentlig ingenting. Men måske alligevel. Det er en sal fyldt. Men som også er tom på mange måder. Ikke en eneste af de største mandlige eller kvindelige klassementsryttere var til rutepræsentationen 1/2

@kapelmuur29 @MatMitchell30 You live in a world where most people think TTs are shit entertainment, you're going to be disappointed with TdFF routes more often than not. When they barely fit a TT in a 3 week TdF some years, 9 stages of TdFF will often be TT-free

@MatMitchell30 I really like the parcours if I put aside the absence of time trial.

@masaccio60 @fmk_RoI That problem has almost been worked out. The brief push for cleanliness has come to an end and the work to reduce the public's calls for more transparency and less cheating has been successful. Riders and teams are free to do as they wish without silly scrutiny again.

@fmk_RoI The strange thing is that only cycling cares about doping. None of my rugby-watching or football-watching mates gives a toss about doping in their sports.

@irishpeloton Judging by Paris, having the women's edition of your race disinvite Urska might be your best strategy.

Is there anything that any of the Grand Tours could put on their routes that would make Pog stop and think “Hmm, maybe that one’s not for me this year” ?

@DaveWhite99 @lukascph @MatMitchell30 @ammattipyoraily Filthy bunch of anti-Emma-ites. Should have been banned from the peloton.

@lukascph @MatMitchell30 @ammattipyoraily Yes, but we liked the Rabo team 😂😂😂

When (if ever) was the last mass sprint 1-2-3 in a WorldTour race, men or women? @ammattipyoraily x.com/ceratizit_wnt/…

@gietvangent @faustocoppi60 It's just a loan!!!

@faustocoppi60 Vino later tries to purchase the knighthood for EUR 100,000.

The Prince of Wales, Chris Horner gives Mark Cavendish the blessing to continue with Astana for one more year.

@OwenRogers @gbalenberg Kasia does better with team interplay but she and Demi share that eagerness that make them poor decision makers on when and where to deploy their energy. Kasia almost never gets it right, Demi more but that may be down to better DSs perhaps and not her own instincts?

@OwenRogers @gbalenberg It requires a certain zen and confidence to put yourself in situations where you play off a team mate, you might end up winning or the team mate does. If you don't have the patience to accept that in some scenarios it might not be you then it's hard.

@gbalenberg @OwenRogers Feels too harsh. You just get the sense her instincts are pretty similar to Niewiadoma's and it shows when she doesn't have a calculating SD Worx DS in her ear. She's stronger but she's not Tadej-stronger compared to the others. If she was she could probably get away with it.

@jenscer @OwenRogers the dutch cycling podcasts ,reporters and twitter are absolute brutal towards Vollering , i heard words like ,she has the race IQ of a bicycle bell , egomaniac and more x.com/NPORadio1/stat… open.spotify.com/episode/2TG8mD… wielerrevue.nl/artikel/620826…

@Sportnerd De andra svensk(språkig)a bidragen på listan var väl kanske det som tydligast hintade om en viss generations/stil bias i juryn. Det var tungt med Håkan och Broder Daniel.

Lyssnade precis om Dancing on my Own. Har noll problem med att den rankas som världens bästa låt. Underbar låt.

@fmk_RoI @civetta When I learned that encouraging this was an actual strategy from team leaders and managers(agents) I despaired. (since it is of course implied that the partner should be a substitute mother and handle all the home work so the athlete never has to grow up)

As with male footballers etc., mainly by having partners who totally dedicate themselves to supporting their career & looking after their children, which for some reason is only mentioned cursorily here.

@DrHeadgear @phil3660 I think it's way too early to dismiss the junior strategy at this point, they've barely transitioned from the old model and this is just one rider. I think Hushovd was a huge mistake but it's way too early to judge that either. Pretty sure his intent is to abandon NO&DK though.

Uno-X closed its development team because they would rather focus on junior riders and get close connections at an early stage. Norway's biggest U17 talent has, just as in previous years, signed with Visma's U19 team. This suggests that Uno-X's new strategy may not work.

@SadhbhOS Oh, you're going to be in trouble with @lukascph ......

Velkomst Asbjørn

@cyclingnico Samma som damloppet att anmälningarna blev lite wacko och blandade av att Sweetspot konkade och lagen inte riktigt visste vilken kaliber race det skulle bli när British Cycling tog över och körde själv? Det kändes rätt skakigt och tveksamt när det kommunicerades.

Otroligt märklig startlista. Soudal Quick-Step med Remco och Alaphilippe samtidigt som Lidl-Trek, Decathlon och FDJs utvecklingslag är där.

@lukascph Listening to the Hushovd on the Forhjulslir podcast it was pretty clear he is itching to kill the "Danes&Norwegians only"-policy, I think it is happening. Now you can have differing opinions on how sustainable that policy is but, once again, it would be losing an USP.

The Tour's overwhelming influence on cycling as a whole is part of the problem - but so is teams trying to 'hook' sponsors with a possible Tour participation. Particularly so if those teams already have their own unique selling point (again, see Uno-X, MTN/DiData, Israel).

Kurt-Asle Arvesen will not be at Uno-X anymore after this season.

@mazzok I just assume it's there to give comms a chance to rush out for a quick piss break before the finale

@danielrytz @KristerIsaksson @RobinFomin @cyclingnico Säger att hon "såg nåt gult på vägen" och körde vidare vilket lett till att folk inte riktigt gett henne toppoäng i teamspirit. Hjälpte inte att hon sade att det var synd hon kraschade för det var meningen att Vollering skulle hjälpt till att dra upp spurten åt henne. Sprinters..

@jenscer @KristerIsaksson @RobinFomin @cyclingnico Det verkar också som att Wiebes var VÄLDIGT nära Vollering när hon kraschade 🫣🙄🥶