“Yes, it is a great time of transition at Movistar this year. Perhaps not all the eyes of the cycling world will be on them any longer, but this I think shall prove a pivotal year in their trajectory for the whole next decade perhaps.”
Category Archives: Previews
Team Preview 2021: Ineos Grenadiers
“So here are what the headlines are appearing to say: Ineos want to race “like Brazil.” To the international audience, let me tell you, a statement like this would puzzle many Americans—in fact it might even attract some Americans to read the piece and not just draw their conclusions from the headlines as usual. But fear not! I was able to piece together the analogy like a first-grader putting two and two together to make four.”
Team Preview 2021: UAE Team Emirates
Thus we come to the new emerging power on the world cycling stage. Finally, finally, this UAE team lineup looks not just like a ramshackle of riches, but instead finally a powerful and formidable hierarchy of established talent ready to do battle across the entire cycling calendar.
Team Preview 2021: Team Bike Exchange WRITTEN
“Let us turn to a team that all have a sweet spot for. Should you not have a sweet spot for such a team, then you either were not around during the heyday of the Backstage Passes or you have a heart of stone.”
Team Preview 2021: Jumbo-Visma WRITTEN
“Wout said it himself: this is the best team in the world. From top to bottom and across the entire calendar, I do believe I agree.”
2021 Cyclocross Men’s World Championships Preview PRINT
“Once more into the breach, dear friends, Once More!”
2021 Cyclocross World Championships Women’s Preview PRINT
“Thus I say once more, surely this is uncharted territory for me, but into that wilderness I go with one full season’s experience under my belt.”
2021 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe PRINT
“perhaps they really are a Band of Brothers: the Bora Brothers who all have stereotypical German names, and most have indistinguishable characteristics.”
Team Preview 2021: Bahrain Victorious
“A third head scratcher in a row.”
Team Preview 2021: Lotto Soudal
“This team is more home-grown, this team is more authentically Belgian than the Quickstep All-Star team with its revolving door of imported and exported top talent.”
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