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And it's not like he hasn't had really solid results before. His 17th on the stage and in GC on UAE Tour has him surrounded by some really good names. Even if it was a year with a "bad" field, a 3th in Avenir still puts you ahead of a lot of riders of your generation.

I honestly think with the Remcos, Seixases and Finns, who are already worldclass at 19, people forget what the regular development of a rider looks like. 23 is still really young for a professional athlete.

Plus he looked very good in Luxembourg and Pologne, and while I didn't watch that much of it, I think he did solid work in Deutchland Tour as well.

Btw, I think Graat has been doing really well the last couple months. 24th today doesn't seem like much at first glance, but everyone ahead of him are really good, like teamleader on a WT team good, riders. And he's kept some really solid names behind him as well.

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Ngl, if I got dusted by Remco like Ciccone was in Quebec, you wouldn't see me take a single pull

Alright, it's very close, but I can't shout conspiracy here

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Big race Skuijns once again hitting btw, with a 4th place in a top 10 of more climby guys.

Well,, that photo is useless. Put a line on it, dammit.

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Imo the helicopter view looked like Ciccone, but speaker says Evenepoel. Can't wait to see the photo finish.

Lol, Evenepoel got outfoxxed there. Maybe he still took it on the line, but what a way from Ciconne to maximise his sprint.

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I think they managed it, Ciccone refusing to pull now.

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Someone find a way to tell Ciccone his teammate is on the way

I really don't get France here. You've got 3 guys, just pick the guy you think is strongest on the climb and burn the other two to chase.

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Ciccone, surely you shouldn't work this much with Remco?

This was so unneeded, but he just sees red sometimes and all sense goes out the window

(That is of course until he runs into the rare heavyweight with halfway decent striking, and his jaw gets launched into the nosebleeds)

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Half the division are glass canons anyway, and he's so ridiculously athletic compared to your average heavyweight that this might work surprisingly well. Alistair Overeem made a 23 year long career out of it.

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I mean, in most those races they send Lemmen and/or Kelderman as their leader. And I like them, but they don't make the 10 of the team as far as race winning or UCI points scoring options go.

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Sure, but the sprint program pretty much is their C-program. Looking at their program this season, he'll probably do TDU, Oman, UAE Tour, NXT Classic, Copenhagen Sprint, Pologne and/or Renewi, ZLM, and Eneco or Guangxi .

I doubt they'll do many races against this quality of field with him tbh. He'll probably do their C-program with riders like Doull, Mattio, Zingle and the dev-team. Maybe with Fiorelli also to some of them as lead out.

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Imagine Laporte, after leading out Van Aert, Kooij, and Brennan in his Visma career, now getting stuck with 2026 Jakobsen 😭

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Think it was just a bit of tunnel vision. So focused on working for Jakobsen, that he forgot that he should sprint himself if Jakobsen isn't there.

Jakobsen losing his leadout's wheel? Vintage Jakobsen is back!

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Crazy sprint by Biesterbos btw, sprinting back to third after getting shoulder barged a lot.

Olav Kooij loves him a sprint where all trains break down #MünsterlandGiro

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It really is unfair Vollering has Pieterse to lead her out #EC2026

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Morg for Minister of Defence!

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McNulty dropping. Rainbow blues already hitting?

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Morg using the draft of a roadside runner to attack 😂

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It's probably easier to hit him with the beer after the DNF tbh. Not moving as fast.

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Morg looking really strong again, but I hope he's not spending too many bullets already #GiroDell'Emilia

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Jonas Abrahamsen Stefan Bisseger Timo Kielich Laurenz Rex Tord Gudmestad Danny van Poppel Tim Merlier With the caveat that it feels unfair to use Mads as non-leader, otherwise he'd get one of the 3-5 spots.

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I get it, Ineos really needs the room to sign more climbers

I'm surprised Q36.5 is not ful yet 😂 They've been busy this transfer season.

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I don't think anyone that is confirmed qualifies for that. Barry qualifies right now as "track specialist" if I'm not mistaken, but he would need to race Worlds next month to keep that qualification, since he's not ranked in the top 150 for Endurance or Maddison.

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Sidenote, did you by any chance read anything about Smith? I doubt he's staying in the Visma infrastructure, but I would like to see him at another professional team.