@[email protected] thanks Mark! I’m shocked she isn’t. In that case I’d like to substitute Demi with Lorena Wiebes please. Thanks
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Playing it safe for #7nationsgirowomen with only favorites. Hardest choice was 🇳🇱 between Wiebes and Demi
Longo Borgini 🇮🇹
Kopecky 🇧🇪
Ludwig 🇩🇰
Labous 🇫🇷
Lippert 🇩🇪
Vollering 🇳🇱
Reusser 🇨🇭
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It wasn’t easy this time! Here’s my #8nationstdf for 2025 (actually it’s #6nationstdf because the first 2 are fixed):
Vingegaard 🇩🇰
Pogacar 🇸🇮
Van der Poel 🇳🇱
Merlier 🇧🇪
Lipowitz 🇩🇪
Vauquelin 🇫🇷
Girmay 🇪🇷
Mas 🇪🇸
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] 🎉🎉🎉 Can’t believe I was the only one who played Simon Yates!
Reasons: 1. I thought Adam would be second to Ayuso 2. TJV makes decent cyclists better (see: Brennan, Laporte)
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🇸🇮 Primoz
🇪🇸 Ayuso
🇳🇱 Arensman
🇩🇰 Pedersen
🇧🇪 Wout
🇦🇺 Groves
🇬🇧 Simon Yates
🇫🇷 Gaudu
#8nationsgiro
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] what a crazy stage! Surprised to see 7 people have Ben O Connor in their team. I didn’t see that one coming….
@stupidcasey I like have conversations, but don’t appreciate your tone of voice. That’s why I’ll block you. This is not Twitter.
@stupidcasey @stupidcasey so you really seriously think based on that above chart that US and then China are the ‘best performing’ countries and the fact that they have a huge population has nothing to do with it????
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if a country has 12x a pool of people to pick their best athletes from, wouldn’t you agree that would hugely increase their winning chances?
If two schools compete in a chess match, 1 school has 100 students, the other 1200 students, and they both send their best chess player, with all other factors being equal, who would you put your money on?
@stupidcasey Ok, let me explain: if you look at the chart it looks like the US is doing much much better than Australia. Twice the # of medals and about same score on human development index. Truth is US has over 12x the population of Australia.
If you adjust per my suggestion you’d see that Australia is doing ~6x better than US instead of US doing ~2x better than Australia as it is in the chart now. Much more realistic, isn’t it?
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@[email protected] yes, skipping big faces to focus on other races is a new phenomenon in women’s cycling. Maybe a sign of growing maturity.