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May 10, 2015
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LOTS of wind again on Wednesday here in Belgium. But a lot of headwind in the first part of the race so peloton will probably just get together after every section of crosswinds.
 
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May 6, 2021
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Kicking off a little bit


Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

 
Apr 30, 2011
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Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

The sad figure in that story was Poels. Of course will Quintana defend his position behind his teammate.
 
Apr 13, 2021
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Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

This is very interesting to me
 
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Oi. The first wet Ronde since 1852?
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Please...
 
May 6, 2021
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I'm hoping we get to see some footage of the incident at some point, we never got to see the fabled punch of Purito on Philip Deignan in the Veulta, which sounds good also.
 
May 5, 2010
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Earliest possible time of latest rainy edition...

I'm quite sure it has rained since 1985, though.

That's what I couldn't quite wrap my head around. How was 1985 - supposedly - the earliest possible year for the most recent rainy Ronde?
Did she mean that 1985 was the earliest possible edition for a rainy Ronde because it was definitely rainy in 1985?
Who goes around remembering if it rained on a specific Sunday almost 40 years ago?
 
Apr 27, 2022
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Do we have any news on the Paris-Roubaix course? A few years ago there were articles and fb posts by Amis de Roubaix, that the new to be build sector Willems à Château d'Hem would be ready this year. On the map you can see the sector 2 of the race, which has ***. They want to put asphalt on it. And for that there would be a new one.

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Still no sign of the mythical new sector. Has the plan been abandoned?
 
Apr 10, 2019
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The route of the Österreich Rundfahrt (still refusing to use the English name as the official one) has been revealed
2. JuliPrologSt. Pölten (3 km)
3. Juli1. EtappeBad Tatzmannsdorf - Bad Tatzmannsdorf (174,9 km)
4. Juli2. EtappeMaria Taferl - Steyr (179 km)
5. Juli3. EtappeSchladming - St. Johann/Alpendorf (153,1 km)
6. Juli4. EtappeSt. Johann/Alpendorf - Kals (151,5 km)
7. Juli5. EtappeKufstein - Kühtai (143,8 km)

The official stage profiles:
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Once again the Steyr stage features the Porscheberg near the final.
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The Alpendorf upill finish. The biggest climb of the day is the Dietner Sattel
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The Penultimate stage features the Glockner from North.
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Imo a finish in Lienz after the Islsbergpass would have been better, but whatever. The final climb is the one where MAL won ahead of Pinot in the TotA 2 years ago.
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The penultimate climb goes up to Igls, but the big climb of the day is the Kühtai Sattel
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That one km is actually 12.9% on average. I've done this climb multiple times when I still lived in Innsbruck.

Overall clearly an improvement from last year, Konrad Senior made an acceptable route.
 

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