First Chinese F1 driver, he’s young with a lot to prove. They also got a Mercedes driver. Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas are their names if you’re curious.

I agree but other sports fans acting holier than thou to cycling fans does annoy me because they have the wool pulled over their eyes big time

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Me too

Ah, a fellow NPR listener

What record are they breaking exactly? And I think they used every buzzword in the book on this one lmao

I get where you're coming from but cycling isn't and won't be clean. As a cycling fan I'd argue cycling has never been "clean"

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Sagan ain't so!

Not super surprising, but definitely the end of an area.

If you're not following cycling closely, Sagan was The Guy from 2012-2018 and also managed to singlehandedly form a team around him (Bora Hansgrohe, which was a second-tier team he joined, brought in a bunch of new riders and sponsors, and got promoted to the top tier of pro cycling). By 2020 he was no longer the best rider on his own team, let alone the world, and he has been quietly fading out by signing with a different second-tier team. It's important to be on a top tier team because they get automatic invites to all the big races, whereas the second tier teams only sometimes get invited (and yes, that's a rabbithole of controversy with accusations that race organizers are biased towards second-tier teams, or that second-tier teams will sign declining superstars just to try to get invites)

Hopefully it will be an exciting Olympics and a way for him to go out on top.

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At a glance, I read this as "Peter Sagal" and was very confused. I think I need my second cup of coffee this morning.

I’m pretty sure he’s said he’s targeting MTB at the Olympics. So no more road after this year then MTB till 2024.

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Hopefully. If you are a professional athlete at the highest level with no college and minimal high school and you are not taking performance enhancing drugs, than you probably don’t take your job or your health very seriously.

Also…what a random thing for you to comment with what seems like a lot of vitriol.

Same!

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Chance to crank up the steroids and then get clean enough to pass a drug test for the olympics

As a massive fan of Mark Cavendish, I cannot tell you how much I irrationally hated this man when I was younger, which is a testament to how fantastic of a racer he is. Dominant, exciting, consistent, it’ll be a big loss to the cycling world when he retires

I wonder if he'll still compete in mountain bike events. His antics in road events have been very entertaining, and I for one will miss him.

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Genuinely baffled at the responses here