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Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

I'm sure this will always be relevant

And a nice up to date OP, OP

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Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
What if this would've been a wet Roubaix year

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

serious gaylord posted:

Feel sorry for Pedersen really. Imagine winning a shock world championships and not getting to ride in the jersey at all.

At the same time he (apparently) didn't like the media attention so maybe he dodged a bullet there

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
That was really horrific, can see them banning Groenewegen for the rest of the season. They were going incredibly fast at that point, was the finish on a downhill?

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
loving hell and with a train track on the other side of the barrier
https://twitter.com/sport_tvppl/status/1291058716129861635


quote:

Unofficial information from #tvpsport reporter Sebastian Szczęsny: Jakobsen received muscle relaxants, was put into a pharmacological coma and intubated. The cyclist was taken to hospital, his condition was serious. # TDP20


Sounds really bad

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
After van Aert's crash last year its obvious those typical crowd control barriers aren't suitable for bike racing, especially when things are heated or narrow

Can't access the apparent source, but read that they were able to intubate Jakobsen and his blood oxygen saturation levels were good, but he lost a lot of blood and has serious craniocerebral trauma.

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Since all the previous stuff sounded really bad thought it would be worth updating with more recent news which is a bit better

https://sport.tvp.pl/49285887/stan-stabilny-ale-ciezki-najwazniejsze-godziny-fabio-jakobsena

"The doctor also gave the first good news. -It is optimistic that apart from craniofacial injuries, no changes were found radiologically in the remaining organs. The general condition is stable, but we have to wait for the next hours to assess the neurological status. The measures he is given do not allow a complete assessment of the degree of damage. I think we will be able to provide full information in the morning ."

Terrible still but hopefully not immediately life-threatening anymore

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

TobinHatesYou posted:

Rumor is BMC is also moving from NTT to AG2R. I'm sure GVA will be happy about that.

Other silly season equipment sponsor rumors:
Cervelo to Jumbo-Visma (more or less confirmed)
Movistar loses Canyon (almost certain with Canyon backing both Alpecin-Fenix and Arkea-Samsic)
Argon 18 in talks with Mitchelton-Scott
Bianchi in talks with Israel Start-Up Nation

Man I'm gonna miss the yellow/celeste combo that Jumbo have, all yellow, white and black will be so much less interesting. Wonder who Movistar will move to.

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Hoo boy roglic is strong

Lol at ineos burning themselves out for jumbo

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Lots of injuries yesterday :ohdear: Evenepoel, Kruiswijk, Schachmann, Buchmann, Roglic

It seems to me like there's more injuries in general in the racing so far. Is it just that the races are crammed together so the frequency is higher making it seem like there's more? Could also be riders being a bit out of practice riding so aggressively or different/hotter weather etc. Quite a few of the recent crashes have been down to course organisation too though.

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

serious gaylord posted:

Its okay we're gonna get another Festina with Jumbo to keep things interesting.

Yeah given the team is descended from Rabobank that could happen, I hope it doesn't though.

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

King of trash mountain

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
I've never seen a seatpost rip out of the tube like that

e: or rather, separate from the stays and top tube

vvv yeah could've been a lot worse, was afraid of what the joints in the barrier could do

Heliosicle fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Sep 1, 2020

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Mollema got SRAM'd

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Jumbo all blowing up, could just be due to working so hard yesterday? Or bad sign of the next 2 weeks

Also gently caress the guys with no masks running alongside

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Looks like roglic et al wil get caught

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Uhh I think some riders are gonna be positive in a few days

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

Xabi posted:

All those idiots are making my blood boil.

It's like this every year, but now it's not just riders being endangered

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Roglic must attack after Jumbo have been working so hard all day right? Would just be a waste of energy otherwise

serious gaylord posted:

That Mitchelton Scott helmet is quite possibly the ugliest non aero helmet ive seen.

Matches the terrible glasses

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Everyone on their own now

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

Skarsnik posted:

Rest day test results for the 'roni are out at 9am BST this morning

Seems like that was the deadline for the submission of test results by doctors - so announcements of teams being kicked out could still occur after

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
https://twitter.com/SpazioCiclismo/status/1303259503287296000

"Expected announcement in about 30 minutes by the # TDF2020

The outcome of the tests and any consequences will presumably be communicated"

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Apparently 1 DQS person is having to be retested, this is more tense than a giant mountain stage.

https://twitter.com/jeremycwhittle/status/1303261302681489408

Negative on the 2nd test

Maybe everyone will get through un-COVID'd?

Heliosicle fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Sep 8, 2020

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
I really hope he can make it stick this time, but am expecting the exact same thing to happen

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

Heliosicle posted:

I really hope he can make it stick this time, but am expecting the exact same thing to happen

Look at this idiot's bad predictions


He made it look easy that time, strong ride

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Yeah the performances are a bit :tinfoil: this year, similar to the EPO years with all these attacks

My :tinfoil: theory: Skineos are still on the level they've always been, but now everyone else is on some new synthetic EPO-like compound and overtaking them

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Herrada looked very smurfy climbing in his pointy TT helmet

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
What's up with the tissue paper up the nose?

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
It's gonna be a close call

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
~30 seconds

Cavanga's reaction lol

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Dumoulin is gonna be in the aero position all the way to the top

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Someone pulled out the video cable

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

serious gaylord posted:

If Wiggins says 'Pogacar has gone out to win the TdF' one more time im going to drive to his house and kick his fat belly.

If you're watching on Eurosport player you can put on the Dutch commentary and not understand anything

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Jfc the people on the climb, they need gendarmes with batons ahead of them

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Wonder if roglic will switch, think it worked well for Wout

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Prediction: Pogacar will take the stage and tour from TJV

serious gaylord posted:

Worked better for Dumoulin. He's gonna win by a bike change.

He lost 40 on the climb too though, but guess a bike change wouldn't gain you that much

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
He's losing so much time, is this for real?

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Pogacar apparently 40 secs up on dumo

Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.
Massive ride from porte

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Heliosicle
May 16, 2013

Arigato, Racists.

TobinHatesYou posted:

This isn't even Roglic blowing up. It's Pogacar going super saiyan, wtfff.

Ya this is insane

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