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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I know this isnt from a shoot, but youre invoking ladder match vibes here sam. Just think about it. Thats all im saying. 😆
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pedersen ended up a star in the end, though, I would say.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think both can be rad in different ways and for different reasons. 🤷‍♂️
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not one of those guys is so cooked that they need to freewheel cause they cant even ride in their zone 2. McNulty lost about 30 seconds in a 1.5k climb. They absolutely could have caught him. He deserves to win because he won, but part of that is the chase group being useless.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dude, they were freewheeling CONSTANTLY. I get that they are cooked but they spent so much time not even pedaling and just looking at eachother. And if its Jorgensen who attacks there instead of McNulty he wins by a minute, and McNulty also doesnt win without him.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shame hes happy to earn his living sportswashing for another equally vile administration too. Im sure hes a friendly guy if you chat with him but couldn't be a worse winner for me other than Simmons.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess the only thing better than a race he isn't at is one where he gets dropped so maybethis won't ruin it. 🙃🫠
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
McNulty wasnt even the best American, he won because he made the right move and group 2 sydrome was incredible.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always risky to take wout to a sprint but definitely still better ofds there than going at 75k.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Embarassing deference to a guy who wasnt even there.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Appreciate this. Sick of the "lake McNulty" jokes already. Can't stand our existence being treated as a joke.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a Canadian, you can fucking eat shit. Sovereignty threats aren't some fucking joke. Ever.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup. Simmons is the worst option and any UAE rider is next.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Terrible result for the sport. Fuck team UAE.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup. Fuck team UAE.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yup, not chasing his UAE teammate when he probably has the legs drives me insane.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Agreed. Makes me fucking ill. Disgusting. And he had team UAE working for him AND Jorgensen today. Just stupid.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A sticky bottle while in the solo lead at worlds. What an absolute joke McNulty. Absolute joke.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please anyone but another UAE rider. Good lord what a stain on the sport that that team dominates. They are going to group 2 syndrome this one away arent they?
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thats fair. I cheer against him when pog isnt there. If Pog is there i cheer for anyone who can beat him. But I agree. Hes quite boring.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think Seixas is playing him perfectly. Hes closed a lot of attacks with Seixas in his wheel.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah i dont love MVDP but im a card carrying Pog hater, and ive appreciated that MvDP is one of the only guys who has stopped the world tour from just being the pogacar parade for the last two years.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Guts me to see WVA not riding for the win here anymore, he deserves the rainbows on the road in his career, but this is also why we love him. Even in the worlds hes willing to be a teammate at his own expense.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think its 50% less boring because its only in races that suit him instead of every race all year long.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She cops so much hate and I cant understand it.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pog getting back outside so we can make everything about him one last time is classic LOL. Can't wait to have a season without the UAE logo on that jersey.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This 1000 times. "If pog were here..." He was. He crashed. If you dont finish, you dont win.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Maybe pacing optimistically to try and take back extra time if he could because if he couldn't it didnt much matter and mas would win the race anyway.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank God the rainbow stripes will most likely have a different team name written on them for a year. I hope he never wears them again.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pog refusing to even test the market when any team would pay him a zillion dollars and gleefully signing on to spend the rest of his career as the ultimate sportswashing mascot for the UAE tells us more about his character than any free pair of sponsered sunglasses given to a young fan ever could.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There's a big difference between strategic risks to chase a guy down, or even racing hard on stage 21 when you don't have to, vs coming back from an injury. To be honest I think of Pog as incredibly ego driven, but i still am not sure hes ego driven enough to race back to try and win worlds.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Back to business next year is wildly unnecessary and somewhat arrogant in a "nothing bad could happen to me/us" way. And id enjoy cycling more if pog was 5% worse but I want him to get bored and train less, not push himself back before hes ready and crash again. Silly to take ANY unnecessary risks.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Clavicle also an issue for sure, but were talking about a guy who is on track to be the goat and virtually the only thing that can prevent that at this point would be himself/his team making big mistakes. Taking any risks to come back early instead of just taking a slow sure recovery so he can be
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of his injuries is spinal. It would be ludicrous for him to race.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rog breaking the Vuelta wins record or Mas finally winning a race hes podiumed so many times would be my two favourite outcomes. I wasnt watching because with Pog in it was a foregone conclusion, and sucks that this is the reason he had to leave but the rest of the race is one ill have to follow.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hes actually crashed a lot, crashed earlier in the vuelta, at Roubaix, at strade last year and still won. Hes just been very lucky to have no injuries for any of his high speed crashes since his 2023 Flanders crash.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yup. Feels like its on websites purely so they don't get sued down the line.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Froglic. A true icon.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
PFP had iliac artery surgery in the off-season (which was the reason for her TT position being as limited as it was) and so I suspect that was the biggest contributor to her not being at her 2025 level (she seemed equally off on all stages too) but could be the case for others for sure.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I got road rash on shaved legs a few years ago and its very true. Worlds of difference.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If not this year it'll come eventually. Shes too good across too large a variance in parcours to never win it.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And so I wonder if thats true that it crossed a threshold in terms of momentum. I understand viewing numbers on french TV very nearly matched the men. And then the racing itself couldn't possibly have rewarded that growing interest any better. Anyone watching their first TdFF will surely be back.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Id also be interested to see any shifts over time. Ive watched the TdFF each year since its modern inception (some years much more intently than the TdFH, the Femmes has certainly been the better race on average!) but this year felt like something of a tipping point in terms of the energy.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
That resulted from that would have forced her wider. Sometimes you gamble on an outside line in a corner and you gamble wrong. Happens to 10 sprinters every flat stage.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Its not her line. She wasnt any more in it than gery was. What's Gery supposed to do, grab both brakes because newiadoma wants the apex? Im clearly never going to convince you but this isn't even a racing incident, its just racing. To my eyes Kasia bumped Gery earlier in the corner and the bobble
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I guess. But the notion that FDJ was trying to have a domestique barrier her deliberately to win the tour is absolutely unhinged. Kasia takes a pretty risky line to pass outside on the corner and hits Gery doing it. I like her a lot but shit happens and it wasnt a great choice on her part.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Shes not trying to put her into the barriers though. Shes just trying to be on vollerings wheel out of the corner so Kasia has to work harder to close the gap. Its not to pinch her off even. Just to make it an extra bike length and a half to close into the wind. If Kasia doesnt like it then fine
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In the corner by turning into her. She made a risky pass in a bad place and it bit her. Happens 1000 times a year.
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is what I hate the most about what happened because it was an absolute nothingburger but because Canyon claimed it was an attempt on Kasias life, stupid takes like this will follow Demi around for years if she wins. Watch the replay, then watch it 40 times more. Kasia even bumps Gery earlier
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Echoplex @echoplex3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Also if it was for anything other than GC it would be a nothingburger too.
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