General News Thread

[Fight.The.Power]

It worked!! Thanks a bunch Janraaskalt. Much appreciated.

 

[Kwibus]

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/10444/Offside/article/detail/3636432/2014/04/16/Wielerfan-vindt-flesje-pillen-na-crash-Parijs-Roubaix.dhtml

Apparently a british fan who spectated P-R found this after a big crash in the bunch. Dutch news, not the most reliable newssite though.

 

[Afrank]

Already a thread for that in the clinic.

 

[Kwibus]

Already a thread for that in the clinic.

Oh yeh. I guess it's better over there.

 

[pastronef]

Sam Bewley went down during Paris-Roubaix after a Cannondale team car touched him

here's a twitter discussion with Inrng, Squillari and others.

what happened with King last year during the Tour?



andrew lawry ‏@angellawry · 11 h
@inrng What's the story with cannondale team car crashing into Sam Bewley at Paris Roubaix? A neo pro career crushed by malicious driving?

Nick Squillari ‏@Tinea_Pedis · 11 h
@angellawry @inrng given what happened around King at the TdF last year, there's some sick irony in all this.

andrew lawry ‏@angellawry · 11 h
@Tinea_Pedis @inrng some payback? Bad blood between Orica and Cannondale ?

Nick Squillari ‏@Tinea_Pedis · 11 h
@angellawry @inrng has now potentially cut a riders career short.


andrew lawry ‏@angellawry · 11 h
@Tinea_Pedis @inrng ouch. Thanks Nick . I had to go back and look at the reports. Poor Ted.

 

[greenedge]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013...ur-de-france-exit-i-plan-on-being-back_297992


The OGE bus i'm presuming caused his crash

 

[Matdum94]

Does anyone know if Tour de Romandie will have live TV coverage?

 

[Afrank]

Yes, it should. It's broadcast live each year.

For the most part it's only the smaller races that don't get the coverage they should. All the big ones (PN, Tirreno, the GT's, Romandie, etc.) you'll be able to find coverage for.

 

[BigMac]

Does anyone know if Tour de Romandie will have live TV coverage?

Won't be on Eurosport. They don't have the rights for any race in Suisse. It should be live on Sky Sports and maybe Aljazeera Sports.

 

[Boardslide]

Won't be on Eurosport. They don't have the rights for any race in Suisse. It should be live on Sky Sports and maybe Aljazeera Sports.

According to my TV listings only British Eurosport have it live, on Tuesday at 3pm BST with Tour of Turkey at 1pm on normal Eurosport.

 

[Afrank]

Vuelta a Asturias cancelled.
http://m.cyclingnews.com/news/vuelta-a-asturias-cancelled-due-to-budget-shortfall

 

[Michele]

Sad news, one of my favourite short stage races.

 

[The Blues]

According to the following news, Jakob Fuglsang hopes to ride De Ronde next year, because he believes that it's a race which is rather well suited for him. He knows that he probably won't win it, but he'd like to race it, it seems.

http://sporten.tv2.dk/2014-04-26-fuglsang-kæmper-plads-på-stjernespækket-hold

 

[trevim]

According to the following news, Jakob Fuglsang hopes to ride De Ronde next year, because he believes that it's a race which is rather well suited for him. He knows that he probably won't win it, but he'd like to race it, it seems.

http://sporten.tv2.dk/2014-04-26-fuglsang-kæmper-plads-på-stjernespækket-hold

Frank Schleck said the same a couple of years ago.

 

[The Blues]

Frank Schleck said the same a couple of years ago.

That might very well be true. But looking at Birdie's physique, I'm inclined to agree with him. He definitely has a better shot at winning than Fränk.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

According to the following news, Jakob Fuglsang hopes to ride De Ronde next year, because he believes that it's a race which is rather well suited for him. He knows that he probably won't win it, but he'd like to race it, it seems.

http://sporten.tv2.dk/2014-04-26-fuglsang-kæmper-plads-på-stjernespækket-hold

This would be a very good decision by Fuglsang. Hell, I even think he would be suitable for PR.

 

[Ferminal]

Sure, why not, classics specialists cannot climb by default but it's not as clear going the other way, especially Paterberg.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Slagter skips Giro and will ride Tour. Garmin has decided that for him.

 

[Matdum94]

Is anyone going to open a new thread for Romandie?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Is anyone going to open a new thread for Romandie?

Why don't you give it a try?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Vuelta a Asturias cancelled.
http://m.cyclingnews.com/news/vuelta-a-asturias-cancelled-due-to-budget-shortfall

Sad, but not surprising. Owing to its calendar placement it always struggled to attract the same quality of field as the other Spanish races (I mean a few years ago, before the bottom fell out, not in recent years when weak fields have been universal at them) with top Spanish riders usually disappearing off to the Ardennes, and it often saw some dubious Portuguese continental teams, interesting Colombian teams (Boyacá es Para Vivirla with Freddy Montaña in 2009, Colombia es Pasión with Duarte and Alex Caño in 2010 and EPM-UNE with Juan Pablo Suárez and Giovanny Báez in 2011 being memorable). It also came with one of the most dubious winner's lists ever, with a long tradition of doped winners (Piepoli, Mayo, Sevilla, Koldo Gil, Adolfo García) and associations with doping (the LA-MSS whitewash in 2008, Mancebo winning for Rock Racing in 2009, Zaballa's long escapade and much later referral for doping in 2010).

However, regardless of shadiness, the big problem was clearly the reducing race days. It's traditionally been 5 with a split day, plus the Subida al Naranco was a separate, standalone one-day race from 2002 until 2010 (a hill TT to Naranco was often included in the main race prior to this). So traditionally you had 6 days of racing, a 1.1 and a 2.1. In 2011, the Subida al Naranco was incorporated as a day of the main race, bringing us from 6 to 5 days' racing (this was actually a success, with the small gaps from the final day leading to exciting racing as Zaballa sought to chase Javi Moreno to retain his title); 2012 saw the jettisoning of the traditional Alto del Acebo MTF as the race was cut to 3 days, making Monte Naranco the only mountain stage, an absurdity to anybody looking at a relief map of Asturias, but retaining the split day giving us 4 stages. Last year, they cut it even further, to just 2, with an intermediate stage and then the Subida al Naranco, using only a fraction of the province and removing the ITT. Although they had diaried 3 days for it this year, it was clear the most likely was that it would become a one-day race (like the Vuelta a La Rioja or the Vuelta a Madrid) or disappear entirely.

 

[Wallenquist]

Sergio Henao will be back in action at Tour de Suisse before heading to Yorkshire for the Grand Depart.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Sergio Henao will be back in action at Tour de Suisse before heading to Yorkshire for the Grand Depart.

source? That's quite big news.

 

[Wallenquist]

source? That's quite big news.

RMC

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Hopes to, all being well.

Very very very far from definate - not even sure its likely until I hear it from someone other than him.