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Giro d'Italia 2018 Stage 21: Roma - Roma, 115 KM

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    #122
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,459 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    to beat some of the best riders in the world who have come through the age ranks as world beaters (who needs youth development programmes)

    There's a litany of examples across sport (and other fields) of people who excel at younger ranks and then are middling to average later on, or just not quite elite.


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    #123
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Weepsie wrote: »
    There's a litany of examples across sport (and other fields) of people who excel at younger ranks and then are middling to average later on, or just not quite elite.

    Sure but (getting back to greek geometry) the converse is rarely if ever true...ie one is suddenly good in their mid twenties after being no where in their youth

    And if we look at riders like Rojlic or Woods they exceled early at other sports before entering cycling

    Even Armstrong showed youth promise


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    #124
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Now here is someone I belived in

    See how he rode himself (as did faignon) into the ground trying to comptete with Cappucci , etc


    https://cyclingtips.com/2018/06/what-ive-learned-greg-lemond/


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