the Sheik speaks
> Adam Yates: “The level of the current peloton is insane. I am breaking power records left, right, and centre and still not winning.”
> “Last year I'd say it was one of my worst years, but I was the best I've ever been in terms of power. OK, I really struggled in the Giro, and obviously helped Tadej in the Tour, but other than that, I was breaking power records and still not winning, so take that as you will."
> "The big difference I'm seeing is that everyone is just full gas from the start of the year. I remember going back a couple of years, and my level wasn't super high at the UAE Tour, but I was still up there on the podium.”
> “Every year it's getting harder and harder to win races, and even these races now at the start of the year, the level is super, super high, even in Oman I was doing power records, left, right, and centre and there's still guys in the wheel and a lot of guys still fighting, so it's just getting harder and harder."
> "A lot of the young guys, well, they know more than me, to be honest. There was a big jump at the beginning of the 2020s, with everyone getting more professional, more focused, even now people are doing altitude in the off-season and not really having off-seasons, and rethinking what is normal in bike riding.”
< a big jump at the beginning of the 2020s, with everyone getting more professional, more focused
is the peloton hitting levels of dopage previously thought impossible?