CRO Race 2023, Croatia, September 26 - October 1

[DJ Sprtsch]

Carlton Kirby thinks Skjelmose might have a chance.

 

[Lequack]

Good showing from Kristoff.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Mohoric strong enough

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Another win for Motorič. Hayter should have led out Sheffield.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Sheffield takes the GC lead I think?

They definitely need to beef up the route next year though...

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Good showing from Kristoff.

How the F can he even be up there on a day like today with 3700 meters of climbing?
Very disappointing race overall with only reduced sprints and no stage that force proper selections IMO.

 

[RedheadDane]

Carlton Kirby thinks Skjelmose might have a chance.

That would... certainly be a surprise.

 

[Samamba]

What a boring race

 

[SafeBet]

New Slovenian sensation Gal Glivar 11th.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

How the F can he even be up there on a day like today with 3700 meters of climbing?
Very disappointing race overall with only reduced sprints and no stage that force proper selections IMO.

Maybe he had extra energy left due to his easier final yesterday 😉

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Current GC

 

[yaco]

The route looked tougher on paper than what actually happened in the race - Plapp has looked ridiculously strong in this race - He's made the right decision to change teams.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Plapp has looked ridiculously strong in this race - He's made the right decision to change teams.

What?
He’s been nowhere in the final part of any stages so far?

 

[yaco]

What?
He’s been nowhere in the final part of any stages so far?

I can tell you don't watch races - He's lead the peleton for four days and today was even leading out until the last 400 metres.

 

[tobydawq]

Fun fact:

Today's stage started on the island of Krk (that's not the fun part). Krk is tied for Croatia's biggest island with the island of Cres. Both have an area of 405.78 square kilometres.

There can't be many countries who have equally sized biggest islands.

 

[Potomac]

Fun fact:

Today's stage started on the island of Krk (that's not the fun part). Krk is tied for Croatia's biggest island with the island of Cres. Both have an area of 405.78 square kilometres.

There can't be many countries who have equally sized biggest islands.

When do we get to the fun part?

 

[Potomac]

Looking at the remaining profiles, I think Sheffield can keep the jersey. He could lose it to Hayter.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I can tell you don't watch races - He's lead the peleton for four days and today was even leading out until the last 400 metres.

First of all, it’s very dumb to try scoring a point with generalizing about “you don’t watch races” when someone is speaking about a specific race. For the future it’s much better if you try with “I can tell you didn’t watch this specific race”.

For the record I’ve only been watching the last 10-20 kms of the stages in this race.

And also I refuse to be very impressed by someone’s work at the front in a stage like today when Kristoff is still here in the end. Especially when we’re talking about a great talent like Plapp. If a 19 year old Conti rider did the same it could be impressive, but I expect a rider like Plapp to be much stronger and decimate the peloton a lot more for it to be impressive by his standards. Especially to deserve being called “ridiculously strong”.

 

[Lequack]

Looking at the remaining profiles, I think Sheffield can keep the jersey. He could lose it to Hayter.

We have another Roglic vs Vinge dilemma.

 

[Lequack]

Final sprint

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707775919790710818

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1707775919790710818?s=20

 

[CyclistAbi]

Bravo Moho, now that was a proper stomp.

 

[yaco]

They needed to do the full 4km climbtwice to make it more selective, instead of only doing 1km for the second ascent.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Exactly as I thought - You drop in,watch the last few kilometres of a race and you know it all.
Finally, it's hard to decimate a peleton when all the stages are flattish and the so-called Queen Stage barely makes a dent in GC.

I never said i know it all. If you had not been so angry you could’ve seen I used ? on both the sentences in the original post which clearly provoked you. I’m not a native English speaker, but where I’m from ? is not used to tell people how things are.

You are free to be extremely impressed by Plapp from what he’s done this week. I’m not.

 

[Lequack]

New Slovenian sensation Gal Glivar 11th.

Apparently he's already on UAE from August, but for some reason he's still racing for his old team here.

 

[KZD]

Finally a decent stage at this race. Good win for Mohorič and Ineos are now very well positioned to win GC.