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Not exactly a thriller but it's always nice to see a really big race pan out like this every now and then imo.
One of the charms of cycling is that there are a lot of ways to win a bike race, and sometimes even the ridiculous ones materialise
not here in the alps!It's a terrible advertisement for women's cycling if you ask me.
It's a terrible advertisement for women's cycling if you ask me.
Mother of all rabofails. I mean, you just don't lose against amateurs.Potential Rabofail going on here?
Very embarassing. Horrible sense of race tactics and development. Looks like athletes who never rode a race before.
Crossing my fingers for those in front, but no matter the outcome, this is not acceptable.
Well... When you have 3-4 biggest favorites to Gold, you are the only team with full power left in the peloton... The answer from other teams with 1 or max 2 riders left will always be "yes". Too much egoists in the Dutch team imo.People will laugh at the dutch but you have to look at other nations too. Did they expect the Dutch to chocho them all the way?
Sadly the two other escapers won't make it, would've been more hilarious.