General News Thread

[Armchair Cyclist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519581025663336448

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1519581025663336448

Is the UCI having a dig at Astana Qakaqstan, avoiding responsibilities and (rider salary) bills?

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Is the UCI having a dig at Artana Qakaqstan, avoiding responsibilities and (rider salary) bills?

I believe so.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519581025663336448

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1519581025663336448

WTF?! This has been posted by the official UCI Twitter account, correct?

That‘s absolutely weird. UCI normally never, ever would dare to post something like this.

I mean, they are the federation, Astana is their business partner, with whom they have long-term contracts.

Strange…

 

[dusty red roads]

It certainly is!

 

[SHAD0W93]

Former Tour de France winner Stephen Roche guilty of fraud - Canadian Cycling Magazine

Irish rider vows to fight back

cyclingmagazine.ca

 

[Berflamand]

Don't know where to put this but I laughed with this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526158940463054848

View: https://twitter.com/NairoInGreen/status/1526158940463054848?cxt=HHwWgICy0Y3egK4qAAAA

 

[Red Rick]

Don't know where to put this but I laughed with this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526158940463054848

View: https://twitter.com/NairoInGreen/status/1526158940463054848?cxt=HHwWgICy0Y3egK4qAAAA

Contador in pre Tour de France training, allegedly, trust him.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Main omission is Raúl Alarcón from ages 31 to 33, Mustafa Sayar, Dani Díaz on one day in January and Mirsamad Pourseyedi.

 

[Bolder]

I know this isn't technically road related, but that Colin Strickland/Mo Wilson story is nuts. A love triangle gone horribly wrong -- nothing like being able to buy a Sig-Sauer over the counter.

His career is probably done, whatever his culpability. Remember when EF wanted him to ride P-R a few years ago?

So tragic for Wilson and so pointless -- a star in any discipline (not sure how much road she's done but clearly had the engine for it).

 

[Bolder]

Strickland is done, sponsors dropped him like…an accessory to murder…

 

[RedheadDane]

Jaime Restrepo killed

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

I know this isn't technically road related, but that Colin Strickland/Mo Wilson story is nuts. A love triangle gone horribly wrong -- nothing like being able to buy a Sig-Sauer over the counter.

His career is probably done, whatever his culpability. Remember when EF wanted him to ride P-R a few years ago?

So tragic for Wilson and so pointless -- a star in any discipline (not sure how much road she's done but clearly had the engine for it).

Yeah, Strickland‘s career in cycling might be damaged, or even finished.

Kaitlin Armstrong could have fled to New York, apparently. If they arrest her, and she is guilty, she could even face death penalty (!), if it was first-degree murder…

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Yeah, Strickland‘s career in cycling might be damaged, or even finished.

Kaitlin Armstrong could have fled to New York, apparently. If they arrest her, and she is guilty, she could even face death penalty (!), if it was first-degree murder…

Reading a bit in social media, I get the impression that some people even believe now that the murder suspect, Kaitlin Armstrong, could have committed suicide within the last days…

Strickland in the meantime lost nearly all sponsors; RedBull is the only, or the biggest, sponsor, still supporting him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

With the recent lockdowns in China, does anyone here know if the Tour of Quinghai Lake is still happening?

 

[yaco]

All international sorting events in China are on pause to 2023.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Langkawi to be raced Oct. 11-18 instead of June 11-18.

 

[Samamba]

Langkawi to be raced Oct. 11-18 instead of June 11-18.

Looks like we'll be seeing Woods, Fuglsang and some Lotto Soudal riders in Malaysia at the end of the year

 

[Mayomaniac]

Looks like we'll be seeing Woods, Fuglsang and some Lotto Soudal riders in Malaysia at the end of the year

VS Celano and maybe also the Earle + Dyball combination

 

[RedheadDane]

All international sorting events in China are on pause to 2023.

Guess the UCI calendar will still be a bit mixed up, then.

 

[Sciatic]

Was the above comment something resurrected from when this thread started, in honor of the thread having reached 500 pages?

 

[RedheadDane]

Was the above comment something resurrected from when this thread started, in honor of the thread having reached 500 pages?

Nah, just a spammer.

 

[tobydawq]

Nah, just a spammer.

I thought it was a good post.

 

[RedheadDane]

I thought it was a good post.

There was certainly some truth to the "thread will (sometimes) become weird and ramply" bit.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Was the above comment something resurrected from when this thread started, in honor of the thread having reached 500 pages?

It was from the first page of this thread.
I liked that they had changed the word "lance" to spear, but not that they hadn't corrected the spelling mistake regarding Contador's body part.

 

[rallybanana]

Interesting that an anonymous guest from 2009 could foresee this forum becoming a terribly drawn out, long winded, rambling assortment of oddness...