Originally Posted by Giacomo 1

It looks like his best days are behind him.


Let's see: he won the world championship by surfing off other teams' riders



You mean you don't like him? All sprinters moan about being obstructed; all sprinters gesticulate when they think they should have won. However, he's always praised his own team and acknowledged when he's not performed as he thinks he should have done. In those frantic few seconds of the final 2-300 metres very few are entirely rational and very few haven't strayed off line, tho' some of the occasions he's been accused of that, the overhead shots showed a decent sized gap between him and the rider he's assumed to have obstructed.

Relaxed and easy-going sprinters are few and far between.

(As I' a Brit you can assume a certain amount of bias )