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Yeah it was, but what JT saw and described at moto 1 there is pretty much what happened this weekend. Prado was literally just riding around.
Put baseball in context, yes it is American teams, with a pretty high percentage of international athletes. So the worlds best players WANT to play in the best league.
Same as golf, the PGA is amercian, with a lot of international players. For Soccer, look at the demographics of America, for better or worse, the most diverse population in the entire world. To think America does not have the potential to excel in soccer is funny. Some of the issue may be many of folks in the US have not embraced the country and still support their native leagues and teams?
To end.. facts is, every country can or has produced a world champion of some sport.
I think Thomas Covington was also a big one, was never the same after going to the US. SX completely broke him, tried one more MXGP season after that and then retired, went from a top three guy in MX2 to battling way outside the top 20th.
But it's hard to compare a top three MX2 guy to a literal four time world champ who was winning since he entered the pro scene pretty much. The whole situation is just weird man.
You're correct!! Getting beat by a privateer on the same bike shows he's putting out zero effort. He's stealing money at this point.
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America has the potential to dominate Baseball worldwide.....but don't. Cos they are too busy playing in their massively overpayed clown show. Thats why it draws international players, who doesn't want the payday.
And the best soccer (male) players in America...errr aren't American.
Anyone have the video with Mathes? Sexton was saying that interview was worse. Would like to see it.
It's very unfair maybe, but Prado is a bit like some F1 drivers and it hurt to say this as a Nordic region citizen... Valtteri Bottas, Mika Häkkinen and some others, they were really fast, unbeatable when the car was PERFECT to their style of driving, but they dropped quickly when the car was not perfect. The total opposite we see in Verstappen and Charles LeClerc, they seem to be able to extract everything and drive on the limit even if they find the car not exactly to their liking.
Maybe Prado has been lucky for a long time, had the perfect team and perfect bike for him.... Doesn't make him bad, he is a Champ, but still far from the best in the world.
He’s barely going to be top 20 smx at this pace. Luckily for him some riders in front aren’t racing currently.
Overpaid clown show? This gentleman would like a word with you...
JT absolutely naied it. After experiencing absolute domination.anything less is considered failure.
He might hv it in his head it’s a sx chassis, who knows. Everyone is using there imagination to come with ideas, including me. He’s a nice guy & rose above the comp at many levels , that takes energy. In 125 emx it’s serious most of the riders looked stressed out , I think he dominated that . Not sure if he did 250emx but he’s 250 world champ. It’s just another level here to learn . I,m going threw a ton of injections & respiratory system is bad I had to see a fill in dr . Woozy head 1/2 way to the track I felt like sleeping. But I did the drive changed shock springs b4 I left 5.0 to oem 4.7 finished sag at the track . Burn 4-5 laps on sand sx track then adjust suspension. I got the back to stop kicking up & side to side . Still a bit off but had to adjust riding positions etc. but I got it to 4th gear clipped the tops of the whoops with 2 slight turns in them. I can clip a angle hard square in a whoop & it dances the rear side to side real quick . That takes energy but more times fast& smooth in them. I adjusted more sag in I need a little more . But I figured it’s close & get the heaters in, adapt to the bike. In a hurry in aprox 2.5 hrs I got the bike to handle .
Amazing that Ricky was a dickhead back then also. /s
That's one of the most obnoxius and arrogant comments I've probably ever seen here. Love it, that's the good old 'merican spirit right there.
You have only one current "soccer" player that is worth even mentioning about, Pulisic. MLS is a second tier league and it wouldn't be even that without the foreign players.
Is Prado on a 2 year deal?
I believe it’s a 3 yr deal with an option for another yr.
1000 Vitards speculating one of them will come on it randomly.
My money's on Pro.
too lazy to dig it up, but there's a YT short taken right after the race. Prado is sitting on the ground taking off his gear and the team is all around him. He's clearly defensive and holding his hands up in a WTF type fashion and then you can clearly him say "I tried my best!! I tried my best!!" - I'll look for it in a bit...
FOUND IT: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7laNMRy5Ij0
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The guy oozes talent and enough to run way nearer the front, maybe not with Jett and Chase but certainly in the group immediately behind and within touching distance in the event of a crash by the front runners but personally I just don't think he looks the same rider as on the Gas Gas, sure he can rip a start and run fir a few laps but it's uncanny that ha drops off the planet
Guillod, Paturel, Cairoli on a stock bike prove it's not too much a difference in level of talent it's more of a mystery, just look back what a genuine champ could do when Herlings made the switch just for a weekend, the difference being he was on something mire akin to what he was riding in MXGP whereas Prado has changed pretty much everything you could change... the mystery continues but hopefully something will click soon
how did this start?? by forcing Jorge into the 450 SX class.. can u even imaging your very first ever SX race being in the 450 class? SUPER STOOPID rule by the Nephilim running this chit... so you give him a super bad taste of racing in america, by having him nearly crash himself to death through the entire SX series.... then it's time for a full national/Superstupidcross season to start!!!
i mentioned before about how in my Jr and Sr years in HS i could nottt wait to go to the college i had selected.. full ride and all!!!!... however, once there, it Fn suckedddd.... i hate everything about it.... that's where Jorge is right now... he's riding like he put in his 2 week notice, over a month ago... LOLLLL
Key take away- Don't force guys that have only raced MX their entire life, into the 450 SX class...!
Bloody hell. Looking at that video, and with him nearly crying in the interview with Lewis Philips, you have to imagine he's absolutely done mentally.
I haven't seen many other people mention this. In that Gypsy interview he was talking the bike up BIG TIME. He was talking about wishing he had it in GPs. What even happened?
Not to mention the best basketball players and many of the best mlb players are foreign
Surely not the reason for Prados lack of performance, but i think his handlebars look a couple inches (!) wider than Jetts and for sure Elis look supernarrow.
Im sure he knows how he like them…?
Am i right or is it a illusion?
Sometimes i think he looks like a little boy riding his dads 500. 🙃
See if you can find some pics…… That’s a point no one has brought up. I’m interested in looking at what your talking about.💯👍🏻
Dunno… Maybe ML can sneak out the tapemeasure
Elis sometimes look like a 1990’s XC mtb…
He is doing what he can. He is in the best shape of his life. Have you seen his VO2 max? If he had a bike that was competitive, he would be at the top, but with this bike – and it's not just power issue – that's the maximum.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned an illness?
Banged up?
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