2021 Tour de Pologne, 9th to 15th August

[Red Rick]

DQS wins

It is once again time to discuss weak fields.

 

[Anderis]

Almeida is really disappointing me at this race.

It feels as if winning meant more to him than being a forum meme.

 

[RedheadDane]

Almeida is really disappointing me at this race.

It feels as if winning meant more to him than being a forum meme.

Some people will just never get their priorities straight! Next thing you know, we'll have Zakarin or Reichenbach attack on the descends...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Some people will just never get their priorities straight! Next thing you know, we'll have Zakarin or Reichenbach attack on the descends...

We've already seen Pozzovivo win a sprint, so up is definitely down now!

 

[trevim]

Nicely done Almeida! Probably the first time a Portuguese rider wins more than one stage in a WT race… maybe Rui Costa in Suisse can’t really bother to check. Anyway this is really what he needed, ride to win a bit without GT dynamics going around. I hope he rides the Italian fall classics, I always things like Emillia or Torino look great in the palmares

In any case tomorrow’s stage looks good for an ambush, keep an eye out for Bahrain and Emirates at least. If he can get through that I think GC looks like a strong possibility

 

[carolina]

Rui won 2 stages on 2013 Tour de France.

 

[EliseeReclus]

Acacio Da Silva won 2 stages of the Giro in both 1985 and 1986

 

[trevim]

For some reason in my mind I only searched for 1 week races. I probably thought in GT it would never happened but at least Rui Costa I should know since I even saw the stages xD

 

[RedheadDane]

Slight spoiler for some other races today:

Spoiler

Now we just need the break to hold on to the line with the bunch hot on their heels in this race as well.

 

[roundabout]

Nice caption of Kwiatkowski's palmares

WC

NC

NC

Milano-Sanremo? What's that?

 

[glassmoon]

Movi not happy with the 1st crash a now there is another one 800m before finish...

 

[Samamba]

Is there 3km rule on this stage?

 

[Escarabajo]

Can I say that these pros in this race are riding bikes like idiots!
It seems to be collective agreement to be riding like this. Moving their bikes left and right pulling out of the line like idiots and doing all kinds of stuff!!
Really bad

 

[Escarabajo]

Einer Rubio moving left, right, braking, accelerating just trying to keep up in the front group. LOL.

 

[tobydawq]

Amateur hour.

 

[sir fly]

Can't say Mohorič lacks consistency...
Really messy finale, but congrats to Arndt of course.

 

[SafeBet]

How many riders who are completely incapable of riding their own bikes can you put together in a WT peloton?
This was the goofiest finale I've seen in a long time. Unbelievable.

 

[BlueRoads]

I couldn't watch, can someone tell me a bit what happened?

 

[noob]

The finale (in French)

 

[groogster]

Very nervous finish that could went worse than it did. Almeida almost lost the yellow shirt. He got closed at the barriers side so he had to go outside and that made lost precious energy and time to the final push. Nevertheless unless something weird happen he will close this contest tomorrow in the iTT

 

[southwards]

I couldn't watch, can someone tell me a bit what happened?

There was a crash in the runup to the line, some riders fell on the ground, don't know exactly who, the TV said mohoric won, but the official results are yet to be seen. There were lots of deviations and closed doors in this sprint, really messy.

 

[groogster]

Amateur hour.

Exactly what I thought looking at that last km

 

[titan31]

The finale (in French)

Watched that and half of those guys need to go back on Zwift as they clearly can't ride in a group.

 

[tobydawq]

I know, Mohoric has never actually produced a good TT result but I have a similar feeling with him as with Lutsenko, that it doesn't really make any sense that he shouldn't be able to TT well. I don't think he can beat Almeida, though, but he could surprise by not being that far off.

 

[noob]

Watched that and half of those guys need to go back on Zwift as they clearly can't ride in a group.

Look at 6:16. What is that JV rider doing with that Movistar rider?? Is the aftermath of that what causes the last crash?