74. Tour de Pologne (2.UWT), July 29 - August 4

[The Barb]

Danny van Poppel is a great bet today at $5. He was clearly the fastest in stages 1 and 2.

 

[liamito]

Re:

Theuns is the next Gilbert. The crown prince of the hills.

Hope he will ride the Vuelta. Lots of good stages for him.

He won't. Or he should replace Hermans now.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

I'm pretty sure that Theuns will focus on autumn classics like Fourmies, Paris-Brussels and Paris-Tours.

 

[liamito]

Re:

I'm pretty sure that Theuns will focus on autumn classics like Fourmies, Paris-Brussels and Paris-Tours.

Yes Theuns will. Teuns is supposed to start in the Arctic Race, Plouay, Quebec, Montreal, Walllonie and so on.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Re: Re:

Theuns is the next Gilbert. The crown prince of the hills.

Hope he will ride the Vuelta. Lots of good stages for him.

He won't. Or he should replace Hermans now.

Well I think Hermans won't ride the vuelta giving he is said to need atleast 5 weeks of rest.

 

[liamito]

Re: Re:

Theuns is the next Gilbert. The crown prince of the hills.

Hope he will ride the Vuelta. Lots of good stages for him.

He won't. Or he should replace Hermans now.

Well I think Hermans won't ride the vuelta giving he is said to need atleast 5 weeks of rest.

I know, but I seriously doubt Teuns will replace him.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Re: Re:

Theuns is the next Gilbert. The crown prince of the hills.

Hope he will ride the Vuelta. Lots of good stages for him.

He won't. Or he should replace Hermans now.

Well I think Hermans won't ride the vuelta giving he is said to need atleast 5 weeks of rest.

I know, but I seriously doubt Teuns will replace him.

I think it's unlikely aswell, but you'll never know. BMC never manages to surprsie.

 

[klintE]

Remi Cavagna (21yo) trying TT-ing last 15km. Break caught.

 

[bosfor]

Gruppo compatto, scatto diretto.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great bunch sprint where Ewan came out tops. Congrats.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Great sprint by Ewan & great leadout by Mezgec

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Van Poppel master of the 2nd places. Needs a better train perhaps

 

[bosfor]

Ewan. Quite a lot of pushing, a moderate homer boner of mine for 19 yo Banaszek in orange.

 

[Scarponi]

He looked like 5 of them were going to go last but he just kept on grinding wow

 

[Sestriere]

Really impressive how Ewan held van Poppel off. Was able to find some extra speed when he was coming around!

 

[Climbing]

But he actually won with a huge margin, re-watching it from different angles.
Plus I swear I had a glimpse of Nibali sprinting...

 

[Anderis]

I'm very interested to see how will Alan Banaszek develop. Long time since Poland had at least a half-decent sprinter. And it's funny how we have much better climbers than sprinters considering how flat is Poland.

 

[liamito]

Spilak seems to be really suffering again

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

Spilak seems to be really suffering again

It's at least 20*C too hot for him

 

[Jagartrott]

What a stupid stage.

 

[liamito]

Re: Re:

Spilak seems to be really suffering again

It's at least 20*C too hot for him

TDS had comparable days with today.

 

[klintE]

Re: Re:

Spilak seems to be really suffering again

It's at least 20*C too hot for him

TDS had comparable days with today.

I don't think so.
30-32 degrees is huge difference than 36-37
Simply because of body temperature (36,6): air rush - when you are riding in those conditions - is not cooling you but drying

 

[Tank Engine]

Re: Re:

Spilak seems to be really suffering again

It's at least 20*C too hot for him

TDS had comparable days with today.

Comparable only in the sense that it was clearly cooler in TdS.

On the day Spilak won it was cool. On the day before, he had got dropped lower, but recovered at the top of the climb and caught the front group on the plateau during a shower. On no day was it close to the heat in Poland now.

 

[liamito]

Yeah, you are both right. Maybe I was just hoping for some miracle. :redface: :razz:

 

[RENS99]

Chance of a break to win tomorrow. Paterski should be fancying his chances from the break to get the Polish stage win.