god i miss tour season/howzit *****es nonsensically about everything season
cycling is a unique sport in that it can exist as a team sport as well as an individual sport. it just depends what level you ride at. furthermore, i believe that a TEAM is simpler than tactics and riding for someone else. if you wanna get technical about it, a team as defined by merriam-webster as "a number of persons associated together in work or activity." so it doesn't matter what the tactics are. you are associated together, you are a team. when i ran cross country, on race day we all ran as individuals. but between those races, we trained together, ate together, supported each other. we were a team. you can call that a "squad" if you want, but you are just arguing pointless semantics to stir the pot since, i presume, everyone in your real life quit letting you talk about cycling long ago.