General News Thread

[Monte Serra]

Deceuninck switches over to Alpecin-Fenix. In the press release the fact that they also want to support women's sports is mentioned. Maybe they were not too happy with some of Lefevere's comments?
https://www.alpecin-fenix.com/deceuninck-new-co-sponsor/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1465728489164845064

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/AlpecinFenix/status/1465728489164845064

 

[Nirvana]

Tour de Pologne 2022

Four stages out of seven longer than the longest Giro stage, RCS should give a call to Lang to replace Vegni instead of promoting Allocchio.

 

[tobydawq]

Four stages out of seven longer than the longest Giro stage, RCS should give a call to Lang to replace Vegni instead of promoting Allocchio.

Yeah, what great fun those flat 240km stages from the early days of Tour de Pologne were.

 

[Nirvana]

Yeah, what great fun those flat 240km stages from the early days of Tour de Pologne were.

Always wanting the fun and the show is what ruined the sport and relegated endurance to an irrelevant role.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Maybe they were not too happy with some of Lefevere's comments?

In fairness, they had hit the exit button long before Pat made those comments.

 

[tobydawq]

Always wanting the fun and the show is what ruined the sport and relegated endurance to an irrelevant role.

240km flat stages are just stupid, they add nothing of value.

 

[Breh]

In fairness, they had hit the exit button long before Pat made those comments.

His comments are way more talked about in anglosaxon media I think. Nobody really cares in Belgium.

 

[Nirvana]

240km flat stages are just stupid, they add nothing of value.

They put fatigue because they have to stay six hours on the bike and the more the stage last the less time to recover you have. I'm pretty sure that without 250 kms the day before we wouldn't have had the same carnage in Le Grand Bornard (just to cite the most recent example). Like I said in the thread about the perfect GT flat stages should always be extremely long to be useful, if you put a short flat stage is just an extra rest day.

 

[tobydawq]

They put fatigue because they have to stay six hours on the bike and the more the stage last the less time to recover you have. I'm pretty sure that without 250 kms the day before we wouldn't have had the same carnage in Le Grand Bornard (just to cite the most recent example). Like I said in the thread about the perfect GT flat stages should always be extremely long to be useful, if you put a short flat stage is just an extra rest day.

The Le Creusot stage was hardly a regular flat stage but seven hours of complete carnage.

I don't buy what you say in the least. Unless you have some data to support that view it honestly just seems like some home-spun theory by a grumpy person who thinks everything was better in the old days.

 

[Red Rick]

240km flat stages are just stupid, they add nothing of value.

Nobody is forcing anyone to watch really. It's also not like riders will go very hard in the extra 40km.

Poland route looks good to me, though the profiles are always wonky

 

[tobydawq]

Nobody is forcing anyone to watch really. It's also not like riders will go very hard in the extra 40km.

Poland route looks good to me, though the profiles are always wonky

Yeah, the profiles are pretty useless, I think, so very hard to assess what's in store.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Four stages out of seven longer than the longest Giro stage, RCS should give a call to Lang to replace Vegni instead of promoting Allocchio.

I mean, 2.1 and 2.2 races like the Tour of Thailand and the Vuelta al Ecuador have a longer longest stage than this years Giro, that doesn't say much...

 

[Nirvana]

The Le Creusot stage was hardly a regular flat stage but seven hours of complete carnage.

I don't buy what you say in the least. Unless you have some data to support that view it honestly just seems like some home-spun theory by a grumpy person who thinks everything was better in the old days.

I can't deny the highlighted part...
But I think it's also undeniable that the more they have to stay on the bike and the less time they have to recover/sleep the more fatigue they get and the more likely is to have big gaps, domestiques done early and riders crack. Belli when is at the comment always says that nowadays they are too fresh and is a different sport already compared to when he was riding and they had 7+ hours stages that started at 9/10 AM and so they had to wake up at 5/6 AM.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The final 3 stages of the 2022 u23 Giro will take place in the province of Cuneo, Moretta will get the final parade stage.
https://www.cuneodice.it/sport/savi...-larrivo-del-giro-ditalia-under-23_56543.html
Fingers crossed that Fauniera will get repaved for this one (and used in the Giro in the coming years).

 

[Red Rick]

The final 3 stages of the 2022 u23 Giro will take place in the province of Cuneo, Moretta will get the final parade stage.
https://www.cuneodice.it/sport/savi...-larrivo-del-giro-ditalia-under-23_56543.html
Fingers crossed that Fauniera will get repaved for this one (and used in the Giro in the coming years).

One Giro per year is not "Fauniera but no Fauniera" enough

 

[CTQ]

news from Premier Tech

Premier Tech announces the creation of its U23 development cycling team | Premier Tech

For over 25 years now, the commitment of Premier Tech toward cycling has been well known. The decision of creating and leading a U23 team was natural. It is in line with its vision and desire to maintain a global position.

www.premiertech.com

• Dylan Bibic, 19 ans, champion du monde junior de la course aux points 2021
• Charles-Étienne Chrétien, 22 ans, 12e au général du Tour Herald Sun UCI 2.1
• Matisse Julien, 18 ans, vice-champion junior du Canada
• Francis Juneau, 20 ans, participant du contre-la-montre des Championnats du monde U-23 2021
• Carson Miles, 20 ans, champion du Canada U-23 2021
• Robin Plamondon, 21 ans, 5e des Championnats du Canada U-23 2021

• Nicolas Rivard, 19 ans, champion du Québec U-23 2021
• Riley Sheehan, 20 ans, champion junior américain du contre-la-montre
• Florient Carpentier, 19 ans, 4e des Championnats de France élite en poursuite
• Guillaume Dauschy, 22 ans, deux sélections en Équipe de France U-23

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Prologue
1 ??? › ???
2 ??? › Marburg
3 ??? › ???
4 Schiltach › Stuttgart

The race will finish like 2018 on the Theodor-Heuss-Straße. So my guess is, that they will do the same lap.

The route is now known.

Prologue Weimar
1 Weimar › Meiningen
2 Meiningen › Marburg
3 Freiburg › Schauinsland
4 Schiltach › Stuttgart

We don't know the detailed routes yet. Stage 3 should be for the climbers (which means rolling climbs for Schachmann )

 

[Mayomaniac]

The route is now known.

Prologue Weimar
1 Weimar › Meiningen
2 Meiningen › Marburg
3 Freiburg › Schauinsland
4 Schiltach › Stuttgart

We don't know the detailed routes yet. Stage 3 should be for the climbers (which means rolling climbs for Schachmann )

There are nice hills around Marburg. The Murito up to the old town of Amöneburg would be something that I'd love to see.

 

[roundabout]

woo, a GC relevant stage in the Schwartzwald in the D-Tour. been a while

 

[Max Rockatansky]

woo, a GC relevant stage in the Schwartzwald in the D-Tour. been a while

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/aug05/germany05/graphics/profile7.gif

It was won by Cadel Evans.

Best Feldberg stage was in 2003, won by Azevedo, González de Galdeano, Nozal and Jaksche all of ONCE. Young Contador of ONCE was 6th that day.

 

[roundabout]

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/aug05/germany05/graphics/profile7.gif

It was won by Cadel Evans.

Best Feldberg stage was in 2003, won by Azevedo, González de Galdeano, Nozal and Jaksche all of ONCE. Young Contador of ONCE was 6th that day.

And then they ran into Mick Rogers in the middle of his mensis mirabilis.

 

[Earns1985]

The route is now known.

Prologue Weimar
1 Weimar › Meiningen
2 Meiningen › Marburg
3 Freiburg › Schauinsland
4 Schiltach › Stuttgart

We don't know the detailed routes yet. Stage 3 should be for the climbers (which means rolling climbs for Schachmann )

Seems like a route, which is a lot hillier than the last times..

Are Meiningen, Freiburg and Schauinsland already confirmed?
From Marburg to Freiburg it´s 350 km transfer..

 

[yaco]

World's parcour to be released tomorrow - Ewan will be disappointed.

 

[Nirvana]

The ITT looks a joke again, consediring it will be the same as women I fear something like ~28/32 kms or even less since is only a city circuit whereas the road race is better than the expected (almost) pan flat route but the city circuit at the end could be either good (triggering action from far out) or bad (in case of no selection before will favour an end in a mass sprint), the latter especially if repeated a couple of times.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Ashton Lambie ftw.