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Smirr posted:When was the last TTT at a GT, full stop? I remember the farcical and neutralized stage 1 one at the Vuelta in ~2015, but they've been pretty sparse lately, haven't they? 2019 tdf i think lotto-jumbo-visma won
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2023 tour is 100% going to have a long TTT to counter pogacar. I think a short one would make for a nice prologue. Not too many big gaps and it looks cool for the fans plus not too long and it can be in a city center
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May 30, 2022 18:56
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Grand Depart in the UK, every stage is a TT on a notable 25 miler
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May 30, 2022 19:08
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Pogacar is one of the only ways to stop Ineos from loving up the Tour so I support him
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May 30, 2022 19:23
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Latest TTT in the Tour in the past 15 years was 2015 where they had one on day 9, sadly all that notably happened on GC was Froome put 30s into Contador to take the deficit just over 1 minute. Cue 2 weeks of the Sky train.
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May 30, 2022 19:26
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I think 2015 was also the Tour where Froome accused Hinault of doping and got piss thrown on him. Ah, memories
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May 30, 2022 19:34
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As long as Pogacar wins the Tour by going on insane attacks and murdering everyone instead of training it up and being a smug British bastard to the media, he can win all the Tours and take all the dope he wants imo.
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HappyCamperGL posted:uci rules are you can only have a ttt in the first third of the race iirc. so latest is end of the first week. Counterpoint: uci can eat my entire rear end
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Feels Villeneuve posted:As long as Pogacar wins the Tour by going on insane attacks and murdering everyone instead of training it up and being a smug British bastard to the media, he can win all the Tours and take all the dope he wants imo. Hard same
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May 30, 2022 20:04
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Feels Villeneuve posted:As long as Pogacar wins the Tour by going on insane attacks and murdering everyone instead of training it up and being a smug British bastard to the media, he can win all the Tours and take all the dope he wants imo. not an emptyquote
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May 30, 2022 20:53
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HappyCamperGL posted:2019 tdf i think lotto-jumbo-visma won The 2019 Vuelta had one that threatened to make things interesting when Jumbo crashed but it was also something ridiculous like 5km
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May 30, 2022 21:07
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just remembered that ttt at tirreno-adriatico where team sky's wheels exploded. lol.
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Was that the same one Sagan had to dodge a spectator or bunnyhop a dog or something? There was one recently too where one rider wiped out into a crowd at the side of the road.
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May 30, 2022 21:33
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a team time trial in the rain is actually the ultimate test, imho
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Feels Villeneuve posted:As long as Pogacar wins the Tour by going on insane attacks and murdering everyone instead of training it up and being a smug British bastard to the media, he can win all the Tours and take all the dope he wants imo. Source your UCI memo leaks.
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May 30, 2022 22:29
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I legitimately haven't heard of Jai Hindley before, maybe I need to watch this sport again, is it good again?
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https://twitter.com/WestemeyerSusan/status/1531275517986496513?t=K-fihyhrnwmaKfAQWqX8yg&s=19 This would loving rule
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May 31, 2022 08:43
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extremely curious how that would work
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That's so loving dumb that they have to do it. Also this had better be a random-rear end game against Getafe or something of that nature
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May 31, 2022 09:03
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Stage has a tail wind and they roll through the stadium 30 minutes ahead of fastest predicted time.
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It will be right at the start of the stage because yeah if not, good luck timing that right.
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Cyclo-cross section on the pitch, close ups of the groundsman crying as MvDP carves a giant rut on the halfway line.
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May 31, 2022 10:39
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Vando posted:It will be right at the start of the stage because yeah if not, good luck timing that right. They could have it on an insanely short circuit doing laps for a few hours so they could all divert to the stadium when needed. It would be terrible.
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kimbo305 posted:They could have it on an insanely short circuit doing laps for a few hours so they could all divert to the stadium when needed. It would be terrible. Better hope the breakaway won't get more than a 15 minute gap!
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African AIDS cum posted:I legitimately haven't heard of Jai Hindley before, maybe I need to watch this sport again, is it good again? It's OK but the giro was pretty bad. Like half the favorites DNFed and Hindley/Carapaz more or less stared at each other instead of attacking for most of the final week.
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Yeah for all the criticism of pogs domination at last year's tour at least he drop kicks the other GC contenders from the top rope regardless of how far ahead he is. Giro was mostly staring at each other. I just desperately want a pog/Rog/bernal 3 week contest where they are all in their prime.
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It would have been better if Bardet hadn't gotten Not Covid and Yates hadn't frauded it up in week 1 imo. Also I hope Demare goes to another team so FDJ sends a GC team to the Giro again
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Catching up on the Tour of Norway and   Maybe we can get a tarp big enough to cover the USA and paint a mural of a functioning society on it?
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:What might be cool but also cruel would be a long TT or TTT, like 65km long. Actually what I'd really like is if they'd bring back that race, the Trofeo Baracchi which is a two rider TTT over about 100km. That might be really interesting. Both please. Finally a grand tour where someone over 70kg can have a chance. For too long the sport has been dominated by mountain twinks with pathetic W/cda. Also some stages that start up a mountain and have near zero ascending. Pog will still win.
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wooger posted:Both please. 10 of the last 16 grand tours have been won by Froome (two Olympic TT bronzes, a Worlds TT bronze), Thomas (Olympic TT 9th, Worlds TT 4th), Roglic (Olympic 10th and Gold, World Champs 6th), Big Tom (an absolute shitload of TT stuff) and Pogacar (Worlds 10th, but also beat Roglic to the national TT jersey). The twinks are fast on a TT bike too.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:10 of the last 16 grand tours have been won by Froome (two Olympic TT bronzes, a Worlds TT bronze), Thomas (Olympic TT 9th, Worlds TT 4th), Roglic (Olympic 10th and Gold, World Champs 6th), Big Tom (an absolute shitload of TT stuff) and Pogacar (Worlds 10th, but also beat Roglic to the national TT jersey). The twinks are fast on a TT bike too. All drug cheats
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Welcome back Tom
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slovene sauce legal
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that reminds me that no random Italian conti rider got tossed from the Giro for taking something that's been testable since like 2004 like CERA or some poo poo, is it even a Giro without that we didn't even have a random Italian guy doing a Sella/Rasmussen impersonation (Covi doesn't count)
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African AIDS cum posted:All drug cheats Do you want to see guys doing 6.7w/kg up a hill or not.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:that reminds me that no random Italian conti rider got tossed from the Giro for taking something that's been testable since like 2004 like CERA or some poo poo, is it even a Giro without that We did however get the ludicrous Portuguese team arrest for balance.
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Russian Bear posted:Do you want to see guys doing 6.7w/kg up a hill or not. I actually love the slovenes
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Toon Aerts b sample came back hot as well but he’s been quiet about it
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Toon Aerts b sample came back hot as well but he’s been quiet about it The Belgies are getting caught now.
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Vando posted:It's probably too late to rent bikes anywhere within a 50 mile radius at this point, it's only 6 weeks out. Yeah, that's looking like the best option. We might call some places over there and see what's up. I wouldn't mind a 5am start, but my partner isn't as into cycling as I am, so probably not gonna happen.
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