General Race Thread 2026 **spoilers**

PCS has his top results by quantity as well as significance. He'll need to win a second MSR for that to appear in the list.

That is an absolutely fantastic Colnago Concept Joe Barr is riding 🤩

After a cracking stage in yesterday's Dauphine / TARA / whateverwhateveryouwanttocallit looks like chaos this morning- Crash in the neutralised section leading to one DNS, a neutralised descent because it was covered in gravel and Seixas has fallen off, got back on his bike but is now 3:330 down.

Seixas abandons today's stage early. Coming back yesterday must have wrecked him and probably reckoned no chance of putting a minute into Del Toro.

IDT is going to be some asset for Pogacar next month. All too easy for him in Seixas' absence.

No TDFF for Lara Gillespie. She’s doing Tour of Britain instead. Her team won’t have a sprinter there

Jeez, I just had a quick look at the results from Swiss tour stage 1 today and Podge has already wrapped it up.

Huge gaps already after 1 stage in both mens and women's editions.

Was mad looking and I don't think it was planned at all. He went for an intermediate sprint and seemed to realise that the rest of the pack had nothing whatsoever to offer so just rode away.

People can complain about his dominance being boring all they want, but that's on the other teams and riders. Obviously having the best team around him is a huge help that can't be ignored but there's absolutely nothing boring whatsoever about him as a cyclist.

He had a video on whatever social platform a month or two ago of him and Del Toro out for a ride. Hard to tell from the angle/camera but Del Toro pulls a wheelie uphill on what must be about 8 or 9% while going around a hairpin. These lads are insane.

It is what it is in a way. I mean, yes, its a bit boring. But what's the point of him coasting along until everyone agrees "yeah, you can beat them all now with 10km to go Pog". If he was just sitting in and covering moves I'd be just as inclined to switch off.

Not great as a spectacle, but you do have to appreciate his generational greatness tbh. I think the other teams really should and could be doing more to counter his dominance… there's very little evidence of it other than Jumbo/ Visma/ whatevertheyarenow with Jonas.

Yeah, not disagreeing with you. I'm in the same boat. A perfect storm of factors has led me to not watching any cycling for the past 18 months, and Pog crushing the field in most races is one of them if I'm honest. My point was more to the implication that it would be better if he didn't go so early - I don't think that would change things if after a few races of "oh, maybe Pog's not got great legs today" it became clear that he was just toying with them before crushing them closer to the line.

Its the uncertainty as to outcome that we all crave - will Bertie outfox Froomedog etc - and whatever way he choses to race, we're just not going to get that with Pog. The sooner a new kid on the block arrives the better. It's just not happened for the likes of Evenepoel. Although I suspect Pog will probably hang up his bike as soon as there's a new world-beater, if not before. The time for him to go toe-to-toe with another real contender was the last few years/ is now… can't see him still having the motivation in another three years.