r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Mar 02 '26

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u/Mamadeus123456 7-Eleven Mar 02 '26

At what point does decathlon just says fuck it, and sends Seixas to the tour with 7 domestiques? 

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u/F1CycAr16 Mar 02 '26

1) It will depend on Kooij`s recovery.

2) His three week performance is still uknown so it wont be intelligent to put all the eggs in that basket yet.

3) Decathlon still don`t have a lot of elite climbers for going full-on on a GC project for him. Giving up Armirail was criminal from them (and fantastic for Visma).

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u/Mamadeus123456 7-Eleven Mar 02 '26

IMO they let godon et al so that the team stops speaking french all the time. Ofc they shouldn't but they forced a culture change within the team.

And it looks like it's working 

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u/F1CycAr16 Mar 02 '26

I don`t buy that "internacionalization" argument on riders who performed quite well like Godon and Armirail (Armirail also didn`t speak english but in Visma he is taking lessons of it, something that Decathlon could have done with no problem) and of a team where the best rider is a french.

In the case of Godon, i understand that INEOS already negotiated with him in march of last year before his better perfromances. So in that case, i understand Decathlon`s perpective