General News Thread

[Flamin]

Coverage of Strade Bianche and Milano Sanremo on Sporza also in serious doubt **** Eurosport

 

[classicomano]

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Coverage of Strade Bianche and Milano Sanremo on Sporza also in serious doubt **** Eurosport

Who cares, ill take Jose Been over Jose de Cauwer any day! :lol:

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Re: Re:

Coverage of Strade Bianche and Milano Sanremo on Sporza also in serious doubt **** Eurosport

Who cares, ill take Jose Been over Jose de Cauwer any day! :lol:

Tell me you're not serious...

 

[Valv.Piti]

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They've climbed it thrice for as long as I can remember...

Maybe they need to do it three times.

Excuse me, are you having a hard time reading profiles? They will climb it 3 times.

 

[classicomano]

Re: Re:

Coverage of Strade Bianche and Milano Sanremo on Sporza also in serious doubt **** Eurosport

Who cares, ill take Jose Been over Jose de Cauwer any day! :lol:

Tell me you're not serious...

Ok. I'm not serious.

 

[Nirvana]

Finish of stage 2 of Tirreno is different from last year's.

And that's the finish of stage 5.

 

[spiritualride]

Really cool finishes there, stage 2 and 5. Can most of the big name sprinters stay on for a steady 5% grade? What is their limit... 3% steady maybe?

 

[Alexandre B.]

It's definitely for puncheurs.

 

[Netserk]

Pomarance has Ulissi written all over it.

 

[pastronef]

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Pomarance has Ulissi written all over it.

Ulissi will race Paris-Nice.
I like Paris-Nice, I don´t like Ulissi

 

[Netserk]

 

[Valv.Piti]

The Fermo-finish looks very juicy indeed..

 

[Gigs_98]

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The Fermo-finish looks very juicy indeed..

That whole stage looks great. Generally this route is so much better than last year. I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[Red Rick]

Good route, though bit of a shame there's no hilly stage like the one in 2013. But we haven't seen anything like that since then, so I guess it's too much to ask for.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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The Fermo-finish looks very juicy indeed..

That whole stage looks great. Generally this route is so much better than last year. I'm really looking forward to it.

Agree. Both the routes of P-N and T-A have some very well designed stages.

 

[Forever The Best]

That final in Fermo looks similar to the Chieti finals which is good.

 

[barmaher]

You guys are right about both PN and TA having nice designs. I looked at PN again, and stage 1 has a 1km ramp at 5% in the penultimate kilometre. Then false flat to the finish. The battle for yellow in the first stage will be between lots of different types of riders.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Grand Départ 2018

 

[Nirvana]

First stage a TTT, terrible, if there is a strong team will kill the yellow jersey fight in the first week.

Edit: my mistake, it's stage three.

 

[yaco]

Every GT should an ITT and TTT - After all GT is ultimately a team's race.

 

[Valv.Piti]

This smells like a crash fiesta.

Nevertheless, a 35 km test against the clock for teams is always interesting. The Tour doesn't include them very often, but when they do, its at least 30-40 km, so chapeau in that aspect.

 

[yaco]

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This smells like a crash fiesta.

Nevertheless, a 35 km test against the clock for teams is always interesting. The Tour doesn't include them very often, but when they do, its at least 30-40 km, so chapeau in that aspect.

Actually my preferred option is 25kms of TTT and 35 kms of ITT - Think this is a nice balance.

 

[barmaher]

Does the first stage have a climb to the old town of Fontenay le Comte?

 

[sQiD]

Lotto Soudal becomes Lotto Fix ALL (what a name !!! ) and changes jersey starting from Paris Nice.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Mount Etna erupted today.

Will this cause some complications for the next Giro?