Someone’s talking about David Rozman who probably shouldn’t be.
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We’ve got a real doozy of a triple header for you today: AI slop has finally come for cycling media, then the Rozman whispers adorning this newsletter’s headline, while Juan Ayuso has also revealed the alleged underhand tactics UAE Team Emirates used to get him to sign a contract. All very weird, all very cycling. Let’s get to it.
What’s next? Rem-copilot?
Choose your poison: either AI slop has now conquered even our hospitable little corner of sport/culture, or everyone is so out of ideas as to how to beat Tadej Pogačar, Sporza thought it a legitimately good idea to ask ChatGPT five strategies on how Evenepoel could have beaten Pogačar.
Here are the five strategies (to save you the hate click): 1) Surprise Pogačar, 2) Attacks before [the] descent, 3) Exhausting Pogačar, 4) Running on emotions, and 5) Exploiting Pogačar’s weaknesses.
Thanks, ChatGPT, now I’ll just sit patiently waiting for the AI bubble to burst and send my meagre pension pot back to the Stone Age. At least I’ll be able to ask ChatGPT for a million different recipes on how to make eating beans every day slightly more interesting.
Meanwhile, here’s something much more difficult than beating one Tadej Pogačar: beating two Tadej Pogačars, after ProCyclingStats’ live page glitched during Tre Valli Varesine.
Rozman whispers 🤫
This week we saw a retiring Geraint Thomas pop his head up to try to flog his autobiography with an interview in the Guardian that quickly got away from him as the Welshman was asked about the thorny (and unresolved) David Rozman case.
But Thomas wasn’t the only one bringing up the Ineos Grenadiers’ head soigneur currently being investigated by anti-doping authorities this week. He was also being mentioned at an industry event by a big name.
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