Elite male WC road race

[TheGreenMonkey]

It is raining, hopefully we do not see too many crashes. Certainly no repeat of the women's crash

 

[GuyIncognito]

Phil Liggett on commentary = AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

José Been with him = Yaaaay

 

[TheGreenMonkey]

Cancellara punctures

 

[GuyIncognito]

Cancellara punctures

Usually Cancellara would attack the second that happened, but I guess that's not going to happen for once

 

[TheGreenMonkey]

Liggett claiming two wheel changes for Cancellara.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Liggett claiming two wheel changes for Cancellara.

Insert ridiculous motor conspiracy

 

[Pricey_sky]

Is this rain in for the day or will it clear up later?, it could be very tricky if it's still wet for the final lap.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Phil Liggett on commentary = AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

José Been with him = Yaaaay

Looks like I will have to wait for BBC tv coverage to start at 1.20pm to get rid of Liggett.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Is this rain in for the day or will it clear up later?, it could be very tricky if it's still wet for the final lap.

Hopefully for the day, otherwise bunch sprint pretty much guaranteed

 

[Sleimas]

Is there any unrestricted english streams?

 

[GuyIncognito]

Is there any unrestricted english streams?

Use a proxy on the UCI stream

Google has an extension called Hola that uses a proxy for only one page. Works fine for me usually.

 

[Descender]

Is there any unrestricted english streams?

Where are you? If the race isn't broadcast by any TV provider in your country, you can watch the race from the UCI youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4HCDs-EYZE

 

[SafeBet]

Can we please have this thread pinned?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Weak break, don't think anything will happen for the next 150km...

Only a big crash can break up the procession in the meantime.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Where are you? If the race isn't broadcast by any TV provider in your country, you can watch the race from the UCI youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4HCDs-EYZE

I think he's saying it's blocked for him.
Which is odd, it would mean it's on TV in his country

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Weak break, don't think anything will happen for the next 150km...

Only a big crash can break up the procession in the meantime.

And if there is, we just end up with a situation like the women's race.

The only difference between that and today is that a weak break has been allowed to go here, so they'll get a gap and the rest will ride in holding pattern until the last 2 laps imo. We saw in the women's race that this course isn't tough enough for daring long distance moves, it's going to be about trying to drop people from the bunch on the penultimate lap and then trying to make a decisive move on the last.

 

[SafeBet]

Visconti with such an intense and focused look at the starting line.
He's allegedly convinced he has a chance on this parcours. Says this is the race that could change his life.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

He probably has got a chance, he used to thrive on courses like this back in 2009-10, but progressively improved his climbing in his last time at ISD and since moving to Movistar and so didn't focus on this kind of parcours so much. He could have a chance if the group contending the win gets thinned out enough - I just think it's likely said group would probably see him sprinting against the likes of Sagan, Valverde and Gerrans in which case he'd need to take risks.

 

[roundabout]

I think he's saying it's blocked for him.
Which is odd, it would mean it's on TV in his country

It could be on pay tv.

 

[Lupetto]

Hope it keeps raining the whole day.

 

[GuyIncognito]

It could be on pay tv.

True enough

 

[Netserk]

Why do we use the poll thread, and not the intended thread as race thread?

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=23017

 

[Arredondo]

Why do we use the poll thread, and not the intended thread as race thread?

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=23017

I already thought that too

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Why do we use the poll thread, and not the intended thread as race thread?

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=23017

Decisive action needs to be taken by the mods one way or another. Otherwise we could be looking at chaos.

 

[Netserk]

Decisive action needs to be taken by the mods one way or another. Otherwise we could be looking at chaos.

Why?

What action should be taken that hasn't already been taken?