Recent content by Davesta

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He was due to retire at the end of the year, but has now decided to stop at the end of the Giro instead

As others have noted, the third week is so different to the first two weeks, that it’s like the real race only starts tomorrow… Del Toro obviously has a decent headstart, and he’s looked imperious in week two. But as we’ve seen many times before, being imperious in week two is very different to...

Interesting to see people criticise Van Aert for sitting on the front group for many kms because he had one of the Yates brothers in the group behind, and in doing so, rudely beating Del Toro, who spent many kms sitting on the front group because he had one of the Yates brothers in the group...

For me, gravel/cobble stages are exciting because they introduce a degree of unpredictability into a largely predictable sport. And I think the organisers know that too. Im sure they also know that increasing numbers of riders are riding gravel, and so are adapting their product (ie the bike...

Not wanting to lose Fortunato perhaps

I’m quite enjoying it…in today’s TT it seemed like they’d changed it so the top left screen was the live ‘director’s cut’ version that the commentators were seeing. So we got replays & on screen graphics (km to go, rider name etc)…perhaps they’ve learned from yesterday’s pilot, and will make...

I struggle with the ‘pure climber’ label, as it so often doesn’t seem to mean ‘exceptionally good at climbing’ but rather ‘bad at other stuff’.

Can we really say that he won it on the Iseran, when the race was still in flux at the time the race was stopped and times taken? Ok he had a 1min gap at the top, but how much of that was altitude prowess compared to his competitors, and how much was it other competitors keeping their powder dry...

Biiiiiig day for Astana! I make it 500 points for them at LBL, vs 95 for Picnic / 70 for Cofidis / 45 for Intermarche.

Has he really had that hard a block of racing? He’s done, what, six races since the start of March…they’ve been hard races for sure, but that shouldn’t have fatigued him that much…

I watched the start of the Cipressa again, and Pidcock was on the wheel of the Cofidis rider that crashed, so at best was held up, or at worst crashed himself. A shame, as based on Strada, he would have given a good effort to stay with Pog…

Cedrine Kerbaol for the win then!

Tejada just toppled over for no reason 🤷‍♂️

Sobrero I think, not Vlasov