Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Never mind, it was just the other guys being chucklefucks

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Jinx man here to say: Gaudu has got this

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Boom. I think he's pretty happy that he won

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Whoever decided that this stage should start with a 25 km downhill stretch should get a medal

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Jens Voigt: "Andrey Amador, an extremely important domestique for Ineos, who just died uhhh crashed"

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

peanut- posted:

Why does this road even exist

They literally paved over a goat path so they could use it in the Vuelta

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

owned

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Give the red jersey to Sepp Kuss imo

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

goatface posted:

Cyclo cross is not allowed and should have got Froome banned.

It's allowed, you just have to carry your bike

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Carapaz's determination face is kinda scary

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Everyone is absolutely shell shocked lol

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

I'm glad to learn that a stage that already looked like a motherfucker (but not a GC motherfucker) on paper also had really lovely weather. Gotta somehow cancel out the fact that this Vuelta is three stages short

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

I'm glad that Terpstra found a way to get his name on the screen without crashing horrifically

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Nice cursèd forest

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

What's this road even for, normally

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

colonel tom posted:

I don't recall if they race the final stage of this one or if it's a tour-style precession. Someone remind me

The latter

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Nice derelict "SE VENDE" ruin

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

HappyCamperGL posted:

Is this the izaguirre who won an earlier stage of this race.

Yes

Also lol Soler

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

This road appears to be rather steep

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

That sea of clouds in the background looks amazing

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

lol at Carapaz motopacing

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Roglic hiding in Grupo Movistar. Sad!

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Ah well. Nevertheless,

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

MrL_JaKiri posted:

I think Movistar wanted Carapaz to lose as much as Roglic wanted to win

Fair point, yeah

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Here's the advanced stats on the relevance of the bonus seconds for the GC standings:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKaWVZllkVI

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

I don't know if I navigated PCS correctly, but this is the only Dutch rider I could find who retired in 2011 exactly (depending on what "over 9 years" means, 2010 would also be up for grabs). And he was 34 at the time, so idk

e: 2010 gets us these extra three guys:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/servais-knaven on noted clean Team Milram
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/gerben-lowik Rabobank :thunk:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/koos-moerenhout Rabobank :thunk:

Smirr fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 20, 2020

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

My money is also on Knaven, given that he retired in the middle of the season, and also that he then almost immediately became a directeur sportif for Team Sky

e: beaten :sweatdrop:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

That was the most fun part of this data dive: seeing all the old team names and all the old riders from that era and going ":hmmyes: it could have been all of them"

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

https://twitter.com/FabioJakobsen/status/1331254705259950080?s=19

:unsmith:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1337020203998339075?s=19

There's a video in that thread of the stuff this guy has been doing up til now, but it honestly makes me nauseous so I'm not gonna post it. Anyway: interesting!

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1350491014394478594?s=19

Ruh-roh

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

If this was another British driver, we're gonna have to saw you guys off the continental shelf and set you adrift, sorry (not sorry)

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

https://twitter.com/Movistar_Team/status/1352187229570031617?s=19

https://twitter.com/OutOfCycling/status/1352193528991002624?s=19

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

I wonder how Hirschi feels about all of this

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Pretty funny that we're now getting to the races with two back to back editions with COVID impacts, and by funny I mean :thunkgun:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012



I loving love science. Also, being reminded of the 2015 Omloop

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Chris Froome leading André Greipel's sprint train is :ok:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Looks like Caleb wants to press the issue whether he's still legal or not

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

lmao Quickstep

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply