Is it cos their strategy through policy and messaging has been to explicitly mug-off voters who are predisposed to like them in a bid to win over voters who will always denounce them as pink-haired commies, no matter how racist and authoritarian their posturing?

When Lance or Froome made cycling boring at least they limited it to the stage races. Also, winning every race in ludicrous long distance solos must surely be raising questions considering these are some of the deepest fields in history he’s embarrassing? Not normal in any way. Extraterrestrial

Mmm…delicious Italian Kalamata olives and pita, famously served on every Tuscan street corner

He’s such a liar…interview after interview of this fake-humble “ah, I’m really not very ambitious” schtick, when inside beats the ruthless heart of Michael Corleone 🙄. He’ll win it by 10 mins next year

I think we gotta realise that this isn’t labour ‘doing bad politics’ and misjudging the public mood etc…it is the ideological prospectus people like McSweeney, Kendall, Cooper etc believe in and have advocated for years. It’s not a chance mis-step: it’s their programme

Given the constant (and in retrospect, fair) scepticism in the coverage throughout the sky years, it baffles me that there’s seemingly no such scepticism now when performances are objectively much more ‘remarkable’

Who knew Merkxx invented the ‘Chris Froome’ position?! 🤯

Has he? I thought it was classic Jalibert tbh - for every bit of brilliance, touches of shoddyness…Bordeaux’s dominance worth more than an 8-point win imo, and that’s at least partly at Jalibert’s door?