Eemeli

Fixed.

U17 should be the absolute limit. Let kids do sport in peace & away from the pressure and all that jazz.

He's won more bike races than most can even dream of. I wouldn't call that any kind of failure.

Important to note that Kittel retired at pretty much the same age and I think similar reasons might be at play here.

*The guy claiming to be UCI Europe Tour announced their squad. How can it be "with the support of the UCI" when UCI don't even know this dude exists? That guy is nothing but a fraud.

Spot on. I don’t understand the massive campaign behind this, every other cycling outlet reporting it day in and day out. He’s certainly maximized the visibility, if anything.

Easy to play the smartass card in hindsight, like I just did, but fair to say the signs were there!

Nothing but problems in recent years with all kinds of "adopt-a-rider" weirdness. How this is a surprise to anyone, I don’t know.

Yeah

Morocco at least got some history with cycling.

think so yeah. we'll see

Yep, definitely not unusual. Maybe he’s just building a network of corrupt pals to back his IOC presidency bid.

Not quite Sammy D and Conor vibes but yeah, Behrens is an absolute unit 😁

looks like he's trying to learn how to ski in some parking lot 😅

and Karl Herzog is the younger brother of Emil & Benjamin Noval is the son of Movistar DS...Benjamin Noval!

Yep.