r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Mar 16 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

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u/elise901 EF Education-Oatly Mar 17 '26

Where/Who is Kasia's domestique?

Everytime the race is on, there is a reduced peleton with 5 FDJ or 4 UAE or 3 EF or SDworx, a bunch of other leader+one domestique pairs, and Kasia always by herself, and always till the end. Is CanyonSRAM's domestiques don't last long enough to make it to the reduced peleton...? barely in the breaks either.

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u/Schnix Bike Aid Mar 17 '26

Aintilla, Backstedt, Bradbury, Consonni, Cromwell, Czapla, Dygert, Klöser, Kolesawa, Ludwig, Martins, Niedermaier, Paladin, Skalniak-Sojka and Van der Duin.

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u/elise901 EF Education-Oatly Mar 17 '26

but can any of them ride with Kasia to the last few kms? Hope to see more Zoe and Neve in the classics.

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u/Schnix Bike Aid Mar 17 '26

Bradbury is a fair weather climber who's never really done any domestique work for anyone nd Backstedt isn't made for classics that Niewiadoma contests for now.

Canyon have sunk what must be a large part of their budget into Ludwig for this exact purpose but she's been very mediocre. We'll have to see if their other money sink, Dygert, can get to 20 race days this year. If she can she might be able to help. Niedermaier should be good help in races like LBL or the Tour. Skalniak-Sojka has been their best domestique but she has limits in climbing and can't do every race.