Recent content by Devil's Elbow

A week to forget for me, but that was to be expected given that I had barely anyone in action - can't complain about what Vlasov and Crabbe did and I had literally nobody else racing in Europe this week. Oman is also going about as well as I could have hoped for once Zingle and Foldager fell...

Otura is not that far from Monachil and Torrox is close enough that you could have kept the stage start there, followed the actual route up the big climb, gone directly towards Otura rather than detouring like they are in the actual stage, climbed Monachil, descended the main road, climbed...

If the race actually gets cancelled because of recent weather, then it would quite frankly be a case of bad karma. You could pick 800 kilometres of Andalusian roads at random and probably wind up with a better route than this.

There is basically no flat left, zero point in holding back to keep McNulty in the group if you're trying to catch Evenepoel.

It would have been harder for him, and thereby better for us viewers, if Del Toro had been here and Almeida in UAE rather than the other way round.

Almeida looked like he had improved his explosiveness last year, zero sign of that today.

I thought he was leaving it late, but it doesn't matter if you can push the gap out this quickly.

Vlasov not back to his best after all.

This you?

Turner won the sprint behind, it was entirely justified not to pull.

AJ Costa masterclass.

Girmay's only hope is shenanigans up front now.

Zingle out of the Muscat Classic, just how much bad luck is he going to have to deal with before he finally snaps out of it?

Only if the break makes it on Saturday.

Honestly, if I was a rider, I would either protest the decision to let the race go ahead by riding as slowly as possible, or protest the decision to neutralise GC by doing the exact same, depending on what my assessment of the weather-related risks was.