38th Vuelta a San Juan Internacional (2.1) // 26th of January - 2nd of February 2020

[Logic-is-your-friend]

The lightning storm isn’t helping with coverage

What lightning storm? That was Evenepoel.

 

[Bonimenier]

I feel bad for every rider who thought they could win a TT the next 10 years.

 

[Big Doopie]

I feel bad for every rider who thought they could win a TT the next 10 years.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Eddyvenepoel....

My god is that kid impressive!

 

[red_flanders]

Sagan looks to be out for a Sunday cruise...

 

[hayneplane]

I feel bad for every rider who thought they could win a TT the next 10 years.

Rohan Dennis will probably be bitching about his bike after getting smoked in the Giro TTs

 

[sir fly]

Don't let the storm distract you, folks!
Sagan better than Remco!

We can make it even more sensational!

 

[Wvv]

Without that increased wind, McNulty would've been close to Sevilla's time. Good performance.

 

[RedheadDane]

Don't let the storm distract you, folks!
Sagan better than Remco!

We can make it even more sensational!

You were saying?

 

[sir fly]

Anybody else convinced matching Sagan's time?

 

[WKA311]

Nice ITT by Fabbro. Very interested to see how he will develop at Bora. Had a few flashes of real talent at Katusha but with Bora being a far superior team and him being their leader here maybe he can start the season with a nice result on Colorado.

 

[Bonimenier]

Riders finishing after the time limit in a 15km TT

 

[sir fly]

Would you believe me if I tell you that the storm down there in San Juan and the break in the broadcast coincided with a violent gust of the northern wind and a minor storm here, after WEEKS of dry, (relatively) warm foggy, smoggy January?

It's all Remco's fault!

 

[Akuryo]

Would you believe me if I tell you that the storm down there in San Juan and the break in the broadcast coincided with a violent gust of the northern wind and a minor storm here, after WEEKS of dry, (relatively) warm foggy, smoggy January?

It's all Remco's fault!

He is electric after all.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Would the race jury regret having wiped out the time differences after the crash in the first stage?
Remco "f*ck marginal gains" Evenepoel.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Wth...absolute insane difference in a 15km tt. And Ganna is the best pursuit rider in the world, he doesn’t even come close. Scary good..

 

[red_flanders]

Would the race jury regret having wiped out the time differences after the crash in the first stage?

Don't see why, they made the right call at the time and Remco's result today has no bearing on it. It's history.

Remco "f*ck marginal gains" Evenepoel.

Love it.

 

[Big Doopie]

Wth...absolute insane difference in a 15km tt. And Ganna is the best pursuit rider in the world, he doesn’t even come close. Scary good..

indeed.

and he never looked like he had gone into the red. steady power throughout his effort.

he literally just turned 20. and he is out-powering everyone on an ITT.

what will he be doing at 23?

at 28?

nuts.

this is the most exciting time in cycling in 3 decades: bernal, podgacar, remco, vdp...

class at a young age showing itself.

makes an old cycling fan feel better about the sport in so many ways.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

he literally just turned 20. and he is out-powering everyone on an ITT.

what will he be doing at 23?

at 28?

I think he will not be progressing at the same pace throughout the next 8 years. Else everybody else could just retire now.

 

[red_flanders]

indeed.

and he never looked like he had gone into the red. steady power throughout his effort.

he literally just turned 20. and he is out-powering everyone on an ITT.

what will he be doing at 23?

at 28?

nuts.

this is the most exciting time in cycling in 3 decades: bernal, podgacar, remco, vdp...

class at a young age showing itself.

makes an old cycling fan feel better about the sport in so many ways.

He'll be entering his prime at 23 and maybe starting to exit it at 28, like the great champions we used to see.

For sure this is the most exciting crop of youngsters since maybe the early 80's. Really exciting and great for the sport.

 

[Wvv]

For sure this is the most exciting crop of youngsters since maybe the early 80's. Really exciting and great for the sport.

It's an extremely exciting time for cycling with an awesome bunch of prospects. I second that.

But, let's not forget the period when young guns with names like Boonen, Valverde, Cancellara, Gilbert, Contador appeared in the pro peloton and continued to earn their place among the legends of this sport.

Or even narrow it down to some birth years.
1985: Froome, Cavendish, Van Avermaet, A. Schleck, T. Martin, Fuglsang, Porte, Stybar, Boom ...
1990: P. Sagan, Dumoulin, Kwiatkowski, N. Quintana, Matthews, Dennis, Pinot, Bardet, Aru, Chaves, Colbrelli, S. Bennett, O. Naesen, ...

That last one is quite impressive in fact. Can't be a coincidence that I was born in the same year.

 

[Bonimenier]

That last one is quite impressive in fact. Can't be a coincidence that I was born in the same year.

I guess you had to make up for all the talent produced that year

 

[Nirvana]

There is nothing to be done when a spectator steps onto the road, no matter how "attentive" you are. Or do you expect the entire peloton to swerve left to right and back again every time there is a possible issue approaching? Knowing about 80% of riders in the peloton are riding "blind".

In this case, it was the correct decision and yes, they should go even further as far as i'm concerned. First of all, i don't understand the amount of sprinting stages in a stage race, why so many stages have to be catered toward one niche of riders. Especially in a stagerace with so many conti teams, this is asking for trouble, because all these 3rd rate teams stack their line up with sprinters & leadouts and they will all go for glory. Secondly, i've seen one too many GC guy waste another season, because of a crash caused by the sprint chaos. Maybe you think that's part of the fun, but personally i don't. They could go towards allowing riders to detach from the sprinting peloton in the final 5k, or provide an alternate route towards the finish. Something along those lines.

I don't think that crashes are part of the fun but have always been and will always be part of the racing and neutralizing everything is only another travesty to reduce the more possible the gaps and that kills the show because no one needs to attack from far anymore, they probably think that a packed GC increases the show but it's the opposite.

Personally i'm fully behind the old saying "la corsa l'è corsa, pietà l'è morta" and i think neutralizations (but also "waiting for fair play") shouldn't exist in a race, if riders lost time and have to bring it back will only help to produce good racing.

 

[Joelsim]

I guess you had to make up for all the talent produced that year

Newton's third law.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nice ITT by Fabbro. Very interested to see how he will develop at Bora. Had a few flashes of real talent at Katusha but with Bora being a far superior team and him being their leader here maybe he can start the season with a nice result on Colorado.

A 52kg climber like him finishing inside the top 10 is a big surprise for me.