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Having rewatched the stream... Matthieu skidded slightly and dabbed a foot to keep upright. Wout did the same, but rolled his foot to the inside when making the dab, with the crash being due to the aborted foot dab. It looked like quite a bad ankle roll, with the end of his shin quite close to...

It was an Exact Cross race on 18th October, in Essen Belgium. Here in the UK, it was on Discovery Plus. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hjFUeCQC8A

It's not so much fist size gravel so much as 30 years worth of stones falling down the mountainside onto the track, and not getting removed beyond what bike tyres and boots knock aside. Also, it's only the top 8km that's relatively level, The rest is a steady 6.5%.

IIRC, it was iliac artery endofibrosis, which gives a lack of power in one or both legs, and hence erratic form. Going by others who have had it, the surgery works, but can take the best part of a season to come back from.

I think he didn't do the Vuelta last year because the main priority was the Worlds, and doing the Vuelta wouldn't have left enough training time to switch from GT mode to Classics mode between the two. Next year will depend on whether he views a 3rd Worlds as a higher priority than a 1st Vuelta...

Del Toro never caught Simmons, so you could say he dropped Del Toro at km 0. Del Toro was showing signs of being about to be dropped by Remco & Storer when coverage cut away to show Pogacar summiting the Ganda, When the cameras cut back there was a 30 m gap. Remco & Storer caught Simmons just...

As I see things... Pogi on his own and Remco on his own, on road bikes, go at a not dissimilar speed. If Remco has committed support, Pogi is catchable (as at the Amstel, where Skelmose, believing correctly that he had a good chance in a sprint,committed to the chase wholeheartedly). If Pogi...

That would be a bit unfair these days, with WT teams signing riders straight out of juniors.

Which means a 6.3 kg race bike weighs approx 25g less in Kigali than it does in Aigle. Is the weight limit specified in kg or Newtons? If it's in kg, that's a unit of mass, so the comissaires would have to use a balance rather than spring or electronic scales, or allow for the 25g difference...

I would comment that GPS itself is listen only, and some other radio device is required to send position and alerts to the race organisers. Simple is via the phone network, but we all know how frequent loss of signal is when out on the road. It will be interesting to find out how it ends up...

It's what I call kerb suck. If you drift gradually in towards the kerb and get within 5 mm or so without noticing, it's virtually impossible to steer away from the kerb, and it's a case of either crsshing or stopping.

It's even simpler if you say 8 furlongs to a mile, 1 mile is 1.6 km. This gives 1 furlong = 200 m, by mental arithmetic and no calculator required. OK, it's less precise. Exact is 1 mile = 1,609344 km, and 1 furlong = 201,168 m

Whilst MVDP's rides in 2018/19/21 seem to have resolved the skills question, his performances after the Tokyo Olympics have replaced that question by "Is he prepared to put the time in?", and since he's not finished a ranking race since, it looks like the answer is No. Fitting MTB training into...

The closest I've seen on an official photo finish photo was perhaps 1 mm. You couldn't tell trying to spot the difference in the direction of travel, but the winner's front wheel merged with the finish line cursor over a slightly greater vertical range. Unfortunately I don't remember which race.

Delaying the start would cause too many knock on problems. If they can't check all the bikes in time, they should skip the remaining bikes and check them after the finish.