Critérium du Dauphiné 2024, June 2 - 9

[Tricycle Rider]

The Bora kitchen makes me think of the first time I had people at my house and they said with a certain voice" oh you keep the bicycles inside the house " ..the kitchen gives me that feeling of needing to remove all your dirty bike stuff outside and definitely no dogs in the house.
I am sort of bummed, made side bets that EF Education will win GC and it's a chance, but not great!!

Perish the thought! Who doesn't keep their dirty bike stuff (or at least bike tools) and their dogs inside?

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Brian Holm called it after the stage yesterday, something along the lines of "now Magnus will win tomorrow. When Mads takes a win he wants a win too, that's how it works"

Quite many called Cort yesterday, Holm not being the sole one. This after Cort suddenly showing up in stage 1 bunch sprint.

Also a fun fact about Cort:

Out his 27 pro wins, 26 have been in stage races.
To me that's a crazy stat, for a guy who seems tailormade for 1 day races.

When a young Cort broke through by winning 2 stages convincingly in 2013 ToD - a flat sprint and puncheur hill finish, I was convinced he was a born one-day rider. But he has found his opportunities.

 

[zlev11]

the cat was the real winner today

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Losing a finish like that against Cork is not the worst thing in the world but still a bit embarassing to flog the team like that and end up in meh position going into the sprint - that was over a bikelength at the end.
I mean, Denz almost OTL and the two 60kg guys that had given the team the best GT GC finishes before this year (Giro win and Tour 5th) are burned on a 2% false flat as if they were work donkeys like Hincapie. Not sure I were willing to do that all the time going forward if I were Hindley and Vlasov.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

the cat was the real winner today

Photo finish mano-a-mano with the fog.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Brian Holm called it after the stage yesterday, something along the lines of "now Magnus will win tomorrow. When Mads takes a win he wants a win too, that's how it works"

Also a fun fact about Cort:

Out his 27 pro wins, 26 have been in stage races.
To me that's a crazy stat, for a guy who seems tailormade for 1 day races.

A lot of 1 day races he has participated in usually contains one guy better than him in either a sprint or hill setting, which has been his demise.

 

[Lequack]

Remco Evenepoel (SOQ): "I'm focused on the effort so I don't feel a lot of pain. In the morning, I wake up and my shoulder is still stiff, but that's how it is."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1797691553177334048

View: https://twitter.com/RenaudB31/status/1797691553177334048

 

[Berniece]

Remco Evenepoel (SOQ): "I'm focused on the effort so I don't feel a lot of pain. In the morning, I wake up and my shoulder is still stiff, but that's how it is."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1797691553177334048

View: https://twitter.com/RenaudB31/status/1797691553177334048

We'll see what the impact is on his TT in 2 days. Tarling v. Roglic v. Evenepoel v. Ayuso

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Losing a finish like that against Cork is not the worst thing in the world but still a bit embarrassing

For a moment there, I thought I had wandered into a Donegal GAA forum bemoaning Saturday's result.

3 people on the forum, by my estimate, will get the reference.

Spoiler

I had a cousin once removed playing on one team, and a brother and all his family cheering for the other.

 

[Alien Performance]

For a moment there, I thought I had wandered into a Donegal GAA forum bemoaning Saturday's result.

3 people on the forum, by my estimate, will get the reference.

Spoiler

I had a cousin once removed playing on one team, and a brother and all his family cheering for the other.

I had no idea there were so many Cork supporters on this forum.
Three great goals

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Magnus Cort Nielsen for winning the sprint.

Good stage and i enjoyed it. The Fog alike atmosphere and the cat all splendid, the route had the biggest moustache to win today written all over it. Rogla a bit angry for not rewarding his team with a stage win, due to the work they put into it, still Rogla shaved and in good form, tomorrow is another chance. From tactical point of view one could argue mistakes were made in Bora camp, Rogla likely slightly out of position ... Still i like the fact they decided to stress test the team and try to take control of this race. Especially as stress test did show some room for improvement or at least to think about ideas on how to mitigate the problem, possibly already tomorrow.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I had no idea there were so many Cork supporters on this forum.
Three great goals

Make that 4 people.

 

[CyclistAbi]

I am a fan of Cort too, just not today, he could have gifted it to Rogla.

 

[Oldermanish]

Roglic finally committing fully to his 'heel turn', by burning two potential GC winners to catch the heroic breakaway rider and then bottle the sprint to a social media influencer

Yeah, that's all his specific fault. Why waste words?

 

[CyclistAbi]

And lets not forget all Uno-X did was wheelsuck.

 

[tobydawq]

Roglic finally committing fully to his 'heel turn', by burning two potential GC winners to catch the heroic breakaway rider and then bottle the sprint to a social media influencer

A social media influencer, what are you even on about?

 

[Lequack]

A bit of an overview so far with TJVG

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjlGLKU6tM

 

[Potomac]

I had no idea there were so many Cork supporters on this forum.
Three great goals

mama mia...the number of Cork Soakers on this forum beyond number

 

[RedheadDane]

So... Kron's turn today?

 

[CyclistAbi]

So... Kron's turn today?

No more gifts, cats and fog.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No more gifts, cats and fog.

We're talking about Kroooon here, so how about hedges?

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Cat killer DNS

 

[RedheadDane]

We're talking about Kroon here, so how about hedges?

Dunno who you're talking about, I'm talking about Kron.

This guy:

Not this guy:

And definitely not this guy:

 

[QueenStagiaire]

We're talking about Kroon here, so how about hedges?

I thought we were talking about Kron, I don‘t think Karsten Kroon has landed in any hedges.

 

[Berniece]

I think Tiberi just stopped training after the Giro instead of keeping a base level. It's not so weird to ride after a GT, look at Evenepoel after Vuelta '22, and MVDP after TDF '23. You can fly after a GT, but you need to properly handle training afterwards.