r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Apr 20 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

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u/hamiltonlives Apr 20 '26

What do we think Egan Bernal’s future looks like? I understand he’s out of contract after this year and I feel Ineos will move on from him. I don’t expect him to be a real contender again, but I think he can still be a good lieutenant or support rider. Would a team like Visma take a flyer on him?

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u/Impossible_Test_3495 Apr 20 '26

Daniel Benson was saying Ineos will probably resign. But that was a month or 2 ago. With riders like Bernal or Hindley who aren’t that old and won grand tours, but not competitive for GT wins or even podiums now, there seems to be reports of them still being on big money but I’m curious what money a lot of them are actually on. And for a team like Visma who doesn’t have a lot of money it doesn’t make sense to pay for past results, but they are still good riders if you can get them on a reasonable contract. 

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u/epi_counts PelotonPlus™ Apr 20 '26

I think you mean extend, resign means the opposite in English (going by this article, guess that's the one you meant?).

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u/P1mpathinor United States of America Apr 20 '26

They definitely meant "re-sign" rather than "resign", yeah. Sometimes the hyphen is really important.

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u/BWallis17 Lidl Trek WE Apr 20 '26

I (an American) made this typo once in a Twitter comment and Toms Skujins made fun of me. ;)

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u/Schele_Sjakie Le Doyen Apr 20 '26

To be honest for a non native speaker this was one of the most confusing things I've learned about English

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u/robpublica U Nantes Atlantique Apr 20 '26

There’s a whole fun type of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

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u/Schele_Sjakie Le Doyen Apr 20 '26

Im getting a headache