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Excellent OP, OP, although I was also going to point out that you forgot about the Lombardia. The season's still real to me, dammit ![]() e: also, and I know this was a group project, but the title is absolutely excellent. AGAB
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peanut- posted:Excellent OP, OP. ![]() As far as I can tell, this is exactly the same as last year's course. No more Mr Ruban Jaune Guy
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I knew Worlds was a tough race but the post-race picture of Alaphillippe was drat, this photo rules
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lol
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wooger posted:The Worlds looked horrific, but I will definitely go watch in person next time there’s something in Yorkshire. Though maybe they should stick to early summer. There's the annual Tour de Yorkshire (yes, that's literally its name) in early May, in case you're not aware.
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serious gaylord posted:https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders-left-angry-and-amused-after-going-wrong-way-in-tre-valli-varesine/ I just watched the final 15 km and lmao at the whole thing. There's literally no indication as to which way to go on a roundabout and everyone follows the camera bike, which goes the path of least resistance and pulls out of the race about a minute after that, and everyone's like "WELP"
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gently caress, I forgot about il Lombardia until now. Rooting against Valverde now
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Congrats, Bauke ![]() Smirr fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:omloop when ![]() I feel this lead-up is gonna be hard to do with the Omloop
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https://twitter.com/inrng/status/1184537096482185216
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I was gonna say "Nairo being a PCT faillord and Nacer being a WT faillord, count me in" but it turns out that Bouhanni will transfer away from Cofidis to Arkea Samsic next year. So I guess I can still say that, it's just that they both are on the team where dreams go to die
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HappyCamperGL posted:How short does the stage have to be to a prologue cause that Budapest stage looks like a prologue to me. quote:2.6.006 A prologue may be included in stage races on condition that: Fun fact: it doesn't say explicitly anywhere in the rules that a prologue has to be the first stage. There's just two lines that go like "... the first stage (or prologue) ...", which just means that a prologue can be the first stage, not that it has to be. 21st stage prologue when??
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Feels Villeneuve posted:didn't one of the recent Vueltas inexplicably end with like a 8km ITT 2014, but it was 9.7 km, so not a prologue I'm currently reading the notes on the Giro stages and it's very ![]() quote:The stage follows almost the same route as the famous Nove Colli amateur sportive. Upon reaching the foot of the Apennines, after leaving Cesenatico, the route undulates continuously to clear the nine hillocks of the sportive, five of which will award KOM points. Over the last 30 km, the peloton will ride across the plains, before reaching the seafront in Cesenatico. Love to undulate continuously to clear nine hillocks quote:A colossal Alpine stage with 5,000 m vertical altitude gain, crossing over to France. The riders will pass Colle dell'Agnello, Col d'Izoard and Monginevro, before the final climb up to Sestriere. According to many, this is a modern reinterpretation of the legendary Cuneo-Pinerolo. Many people are saying this!
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goatface posted:That's a hell of a gap over 15km. Was it straight uphill? In a very literal sense yes, but also no, not really: ![]()
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serious gaylord posted:The UAE tour has been cancelled and its unlikely that Milan San Remo and Strade Bianchi will go ahead due to the Corona Virus. Good riddance to everyone except Strade Bianche. On the other hand, I have been thinking of popping over to Belgium/the Belgian part of France for the Ronde and Paris-Roubaix - if those get cancelled I'll be very cross.
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I really hope Theunissen radioed in that he wasn't feeling up to the task, because otherwise Jumbo-Visma are doing galaxy brain poo poo
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I hope the three at the front continue to faff about and Trentin smokes them in the sprint
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Hm, Lampaert got really boxed in there
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Gianni "Johnny Fiveaces" Moscon just got DQ'd for: https://twitter.com/BasTietema/status/1234118399233609734
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https://twitter.com/FFCyclisme/status/1238490949677965313?s=19 All French races in all categories are cancelled until further notice, hachi machi
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https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1250677968831201280?s=19 Chaos reigns
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I'm watching the Movistar netflix thing right now and just got to the part where Nairo commits suicide-by-non-communication on the Tourmalet, and I'm glad that it all was exactly as dumb as I thought at the time. Like, no extenuating circumstances whatsoever, just a team finding out that Nairo is complete garbage in real time, as a documentary team is filming them. I love it e: I also enjoy how completely ![]()
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https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1252185381371592710?s=19 https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1252192042098319362?s=19
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Just do all the races in Doha, bing bong problem solved
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Wait wait wait, hold up - Strade Bianche is TODAY?! What year is it
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German Eurosport just showed the finish of SB 2018. Now they're on SB 2019. Even though the schedule says the women's race should have been on 10 minutes ago. UNACCEPTABLE
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I didn't see any of the Vuelta a Burgos except that Remco™ won - how do they do finishing straights these days, spectator-wise? Assembling large crowds of shouting Spaniards/Italians sounds pretty unwise.
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All you're missing so far are highlights from 2019, ffs
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Oh my god, Sagan has a Joker-themed "Why so serious" face mask lmao
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I think Fuglsang just called a moto driver an rear end in a top hat lol
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peanut- posted:Riding through that dust must be grim It is pretty funny that this of all races is what they restart the WT season with. There's gonna be lots of dry coughs later today.
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Jinx man here - looks like Wout has got it
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Yeah, this finish in particular just had to be closed down.
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moctopus posted:https://twitter.com/wcsbike/status/1291048127823314945 loving hell
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moctopus posted:Yes slight downhill 80kph apparently. Yeah, it doesn't look quite as bad from the front, but the overhead shot really speaks for a ban. Man, that second video there...
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Heliosicle posted:loving hell and with a train track on the other side of the barrier loving hell. That sounds extremely bad. Fwiw, PCS has Jakobsen as the winner and Groenewegen as disqualified.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2025 06:30 |
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https://twitter.com/Tour_de_Pologne/status/1291699649724723203 Jakobsen made it out of the coma.
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