Celebrating Too Early/Late

[Samu Cuenca]

Sure, the thought was nice.
But since it didn't work, it just ended up looking rather silly.

Of course it never looks good when you celebrate while you're actually losing, which also was the case for Paternoster on stage 1. That obviously made it sweater that it was Jayco that benefited from it here, but it's just I've been waiting for that Majerus win all year, and I want it come outside of the NC.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

That Stage 4 pic doesn't even show half of the ridiculousness of that Stage 4 finish. Kopecky sitting up with a gap while only he teammates were pulling, Majerus sitting up several meters from the line when she could have won. But, yes, nice to see SD Worx was bored with Wiebes winning easily all the time. They could have won with 3 different riders but each chose not to. Don't see that often.

 

[Didinho]

Youth Championship in Netherlands. They are not allowed to ride without hands. Apparently also not when celebrating just before the line.



(They put a circle around the rider so you don’t miss it).

 

[Sciatic]

Youth Championship in Netherlands. They are not allowed to ride without hands. Apparently also not when celebrating just before the line.



(They put a circle around the rider so you don’t miss it).

That’s a bizarre rule—riding no hands is an important skill for racers.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Did he get DQed for it?

 

[RedheadDane]

Well, Tobias Lund joined the club today...

(Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a picture.)

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

Well, Tobias Lund joined the club today...

(Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a picture.)

View: https://youtu.be/cU9Z35pJ7I8?t=6929

Maybe he was just very happy securing the points jersey?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The guy in second was even in sight on the final straight.

 

[Didinho]

Tobias Lund celebrated a day too early.

 

[Anderis]

View: https://youtu.be/cU9Z35pJ7I8?t=6929

Maybe he was just very happy securing the points jersey?

He just saw into the future and celebrated today's win yesterday.

 

[Anderis]

Tobias Lund celebrated a day too early.

How is this that he won more than 5 hours ago but we write a post with the same idea at the same time.

 

[RedheadDane]

And then Nizzolo pranked him by pointing to some riders who'd almost been lapped, and claiming they hadn't caught the break.

 

[proffate]

I don't understand the thread title. What does it mean to celebrate too late

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I don't understand the thread title. What does it mean to celebrate too late

Faulkner, Olympics RR, 2024

 

[tobydawq]

Faulkner, Olympics RR, 2024

I never understood what she was doing? Had her mind just completely frozen or what?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I don't understand the thread title. What does it mean to celebrate too late

Too late (as I understand it) is when someone else has already sealed the win, as in Lund the other day.
Too early is usually throwing your arms up a few metres from the line, only to have someone sneak past before the line.

Extreme form of too early is misinterpreting something else as the finish line (a KoM line, or the finish line with a lap to go)
Extreme form of too late is thinking that there was a break ahead of you, where there wasn't (Adam Yates, San Sebastian 2015).

I think Faulkner in the OGRR was just too tired/focussed to strike a pose.

 

[tobydawq]

Too late (as I understand it) is when someone else has already sealed the win, as in Lund the other day.
Too early is usually throwing your arms up a few metres from the line, only to have someone sneak past before the line.

Extreme form of too early is misinterpreting something else as the finish line (a KoM line, or the finish line with a lap to go)
Extreme form of too late is thinking that there was a break ahead of you, where there wasn't (Adam Yates, San Sebastian 2015).

I think Faulkner in the OGRR was just too tired/focussed to strike a pose.

The mystery with Faulkner wasn't about not striking a pose, she just kept pedalling. Like Per Strand Hagenes last year in Münsterland, but at least he thought there was still one lap to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

Extreme form of too early is misinterpreting something else as the finish line (a KoM line, or the finish line with a lap to go)

Extreme-extreme would be misinterpreting something else as the finish line when there are someone up ahead.

 

[firefly3323]

The mystery with Faulkner wasn't about not striking a pose, she just kept pedalling. Like Per Strand Hagenes last year in Münsterland, but at least he thought there was still one lap to go.

I think Faulkner was doing an old school cool down.

 

[Anderis]

Extreme form of too early is misinterpreting something else as the finish line (a KoM line, or the finish line with a lap to go)

The most extreme form of too early I posted in this thread was when Cosnefroy already celebrated in a pre race pic posted by his team on twitter. Unfortunately the pic is gone now, I think.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Which is worse, celebrating too early or too late?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Which is worse, celebrating too early or too late?

Too early is worse, because it costs you a result.

 

[RedheadDane]

Too early is worse, because it costs you a result.

Unless, of course, you do the "extreme" version, and then just also crosses the line first at the actual finish.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Unless, of course, you do the "extreme" version, and then just also crosses the line first at the actual finish.

Has anyone ever done that?

 

[rallybanana]

Has anyone ever done that?

1983 world athletics championship. Eamonn Coghlan celebrating 150m from the finish line.