嗷呜🥺🥺🥺

tadej pogačar what the fuck do you mean

would LOVE to know what they're saying to each other here

信女愿意荤素搭配在法兰西见到小情侣两对😇

见到猹+鱼的可能性比另外一对的可能性大怎么办🙂（意思是鱼不大可能来但特更不可能来…

好猫！猫好！

mathieu just looking like a happy kid when he's not destroying everyone on a bike 🥰

之前到底都是谁在安排这种情侣出游照啊！！！

草uci我付钱行不行😭😅😭

Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel at Jingle Cross 2017

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that talk about self belief is really important and something I think other drivers could benefit from hearing in f1, which keeps pushing the "having that dog in you," "he has a championship mentality but he doesn't," and really just ideologies that further stigmatize mental health struggles. it's refreshing to hear a world champion say something like that actually.

you have to be able to contextualize nico is saying this NOW, almost 8 years after he retired. he has no skin in the game now.

in 2016 and before, he was absolutely saying to the media "of course I believe I can be world champion" regardless of he did or not.

because the f1 media landscape is brutal, as much as we talk about #authenticity why on earth would you hand them this insecurity on a silver platter? can you imagine how fucked his mental health would be if every time lewis won a race, the articles say "rosberg, who believes he can't win, proves it again by losing to his teammate." ???

it is ultimately a sport, and an insanely competitive one at that. you can't be saying self-defeating rhetoric in public, not when you're the face of 500 ppl who work for you and on your car every weekend. how demotivated would the engineers and pit crew feel, if the driver they're working blood sweat and tears for doesn't even believe in himself?

ultimately, in sports some people DO believe they've got it, and some fake it til they make it. but this rhetoric to the public is also a way of protecting themselves, because how can you root for a guy who can't even believe in himself?

nico saying "but it's reassuring, you can still achieve great success even without believing in yourself if you are damn committed." goes to show he DID that have dog in him. he Was that damn committed, he clawed his way to victory. he's the "do it, even if it's scary. do it scared."

wvdp in sync at worlds 2021

经营🚴‍♀️动物园。

不懂mvdp是缅因猫&wva是德牧的永别了！

缅因猫四足落地本体实锤了😚

这个片段真的乐死了🤣

范二：拎着车就跑，belike：哦哦哦！快跑啊！

Mathieu van der Poel & Wout van Aert (Men's Elite Cyclo-cross World Cup, Zonhoven 2023)

🐱你…你你你

Listening to G's podcast for crumbs and when Mathieu goes 'no, it would also feel strange (going to dinner with Wout)' and then later on, he adds: 'maybe that's something for after our careers'.

Oh, man.