SPOILER of the YEAR

[weisan]

[NHAero]

My regret - Wout wasn’t there. Great race otherwise!

[Hilltopwalters]

PoGi is a gangster. 100km out - just let it rip.

[LJohnny]

Who was the broadcaster for this in the US?

[Nomadmax]

Beating them like a DRUM.

[wc1934]

Merckx, Roche and now this era's GOAT - TP.

[prototoast]

Originally Posted by wc1934

Merckx, Roche and now this era's GOAT - TP.

It's pretty wild that Roche is even on this list, given that he never won any of those three any year except the year he won all of those three.

[gravelreformist]

Originally Posted by LJohnny

Who was the broadcaster for this in the US?

FloBikes.

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by NHAero

My regret - Wout wasn’t there. Great race otherwise!

How would it matter if Wout was there? I guess you are just a Wout fan.

Jeff

[saab2000]

Originally Posted by prototoast

It's pretty wild that Roche is even on this list, given that he never won any of those three any year except the year he won all of those three.

All the stars aligned for him that year and he was always very talented.

Anyway, I was able to attend the race in person today and what a ride from TP! Crowds were gigantic. What I loved about this, and this is the third or fourth road worlds I’ve been to in addition to several cyclocross worlds, is that everyone is cheering for the sport and their riders but I have yet to see any ugly incidents. Everyone is well behaved that I saw and the police try really hard to keep the lunatic idiots from interfering on the climbs. I wasn’t able to get to one of the big climbs so I can’t comment about those. We spent the whole day within a mile or so of the finish.

Great day and a very tough course. The last hour was actually not really exciting because TP seemed to have everything under control. The women’s race was actually a far better and more exciting event, but with much less pleasant weather.

[peanutgallery]

Put me down as a Tadej doubter

I'm sure it will all come out eventually and he's probably not the only one on that particular "nutrition" plan. This season has been a bit too good

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Put me down as a Tadej doubter

I'm sure it will all come out eventually and he's probably not the only one on that particular "nutrition" plan. This season has been a bit too good

Don’t think we needed to hear this from you again.

Jeff

[54ny77]

well if anything he comes across as humble and a team player.

so there's that.

would indeed be disappointing if we came to learn he was jacked up on anything beside his grandma's dried fruit.

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Put me down as a Tadej doubter

I'm sure it will all come out eventually and he's probably not the only one on that particular "nutrition" plan. This season has been a bit too good

[fourflys]

I'm an optimistic believer until I have a solid reason not to be.. nothing but speculation so far.. Great job Tadej!! And how cool is it that Saab got to be at the races?!?!

[wc1934]

Originally Posted by jlwdm

don’t think we needed to hear this from you again.

Jeff

ditto!!