Itzulia Basque Country 2024, April 1-6

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Kirby gets a bee in his bonnet about certain riders and that is all we hear all day every day

Don't get me started on his Manny Buckman quips...He talks like he is best mates with 'Manny' and knows all his thoughts and brings him up everytime he can

"Si" Clarke was another big favorite of his.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

In 2022 he won the gc in Poland and was 15th in the Dauphine. So it's not that much of a stretch to have him target easier, small stage races.

But yeah, you are't wrong when it comes to his positioning...

I actually forgot he won two GC's. Not sure if he would be able to repeat that in today's peloton. But as a TT'er i rate him higher overall than for instance Bissegger.

 

[Netserk]

Difficult to know what happened here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775551188370399235

View: https://twitter.com/lucasaganronald/status/1775551188370399235

He is already on the ground (on his back?) when the video starts.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Difficult to know what happened here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775551188370399235

View: https://twitter.com/lucasaganronald/status/1775551188370399235

Easy to explain: he crashed

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kirby gets a bee in his bonnet about certain riders and that is all we hear all day every day

Don't get me started on his Manny Buckman quips...He talks like he is best mates with 'Manny' and knows all his thoughts and brings him up everytime he can

Carlton hearts betting and has a bit of a habit of a 'cheeky flutter' on some wildcarder or outside chance that leads him to suddenly become obsessed with them. At this race in the past we've had him screaming about Julián Arredondo thinking he was somehow leading out a sprint (it was Fabio Felline) and slating him when he didn't match Contador on the climbs, we've had him endlessly talking up Tosh van der Sande's chances for a finish when he'd crashed and abandoned before the stage made it to air.

I suspect with the Hayter this Hayter that stuff that this is similar and he has some money on him winning a stage - but amplified with his usual excitement for a Briton.

 

[hayneplane]

All I hear CK talking about constantly for the last 3 days is Hayter. Getting to be a meme at this point

I actually feel sorry for Ethan Hayter. It’s not his fault the commentary team are spending vast parts of every broadcast hyping him to the moon.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hey, why do you have my rider!

Because he fit within my criteria of having podiumed in one of the featured races within the 10 years.

 

[Froome]

Why Vingegaard lost 32 s? He was dropped?

Sorry, i couldn't see the stage.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Difficult to know what happened here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775551188370399235

View: https://twitter.com/lucasaganronald/status/1775551188370399235

Ugh, he is already on the ground at the start of the video. Did whoever recorded the video really only start recording at that moment, or couldn't he/she be bothered to uploud 5 more seconds?
Can't really tell much, but it doesn't look like a lot was going on. Maybe someone clipped his rear wheel, but in that case it would make sense for that rider to crash first/harder. Or he just went down by his own doing or clipped someone himself with his frontwheel.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Why Vingegaard lost 32 s? He was dropped?

Sorry, i couldn't see the stage.

Vingegaard got dropped every time the road went up. Really shameful.

No, simply boniseconds.

 

[Elos Anjos]

Nasty crash, I think it's Rogla's voice we hear.
Guess he feels pain after all.

 

[Froome]

Vingegaard got dropped every time the road went up. Really shameful.

No, simply boniseconds.

I was looking to PCS and First cycling and it was there that Vingegaard finished 32 s behind Hermans, but they already corrected the gaps.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I was looking to PCS and First cycling and it was there that Vingegaard finished 32 s behind Hermans, but they already corrected the gaps.

Ah, well there was a crash inside the last 3k, he might have been held up but wasn't involved in the crash i believe.

 

[red_flanders]

Difficult to know what happened here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775551188370399235

View: https://twitter.com/lucasaganronald/status/1775551188370399235

It is. Obviously he's down at the start of the clip. Don't see anyone else going down at that point but it's hard to see. Maybe he just crossed wheels with someone in front of him?

Rider in blue (looks like Movistar?) who ends up crashed in front of him seems like he went down afterwards, oddly just riding into the curb. Seems separate.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Movistar rider went down trying to avoid Roglic it seems like

 

[Rob5091]

A good day for Hermans & Alpecin, but for Roglic, Ayuso & Rodriguez a not so pleasant stage. Hope all are back tomorrow.

 

[proffate]

Carlton hearts betting and has a bit of a habit of a 'cheeky flutter' on some wildcarder or outside chance that leads him to suddenly become obsessed with them. At this race in the past we've had him screaming about Julián Arredondo thinking he was somehow leading out a sprint (it was Fabio Felline) and slating him when he didn't match Contador on the climbs, we've had him endlessly talking up Tosh van der Sande's chances for a finish when he'd crashed and abandoned before the stage made it to air.

I suspect with the Hayter this Hayter that stuff that this is similar and he has some money on him winning a stage - but amplified with his usual excitement for a Briton.

Hyping a rider would not actually help them win, but it might skew the odds if enough people believed the hype, making betting on them less profitable.

 

[search]

looks like Oldani had another bad crash, already his 2nd or 3rd this season. Classified with +0:00, but behind the guys who finished at 15 minutes.

 

[Faserr]

looks like Oldani had another bad crash, already his 2nd or 3rd this season. Classified with +0:00, but behind the guys who finished at 15 minutes.

One alpecin rider was laying on the ground...
/edit... He is at cofidis now...

Kämna also crashed today in tenerife. He is in hospital...

 

[KZD]

Good win for Hermans, Alpecin is on a roll. Very fast sprint from Remco and Del Toro in the intermediate.

Hayter is a good exmple that to be a great bike racer you need more than big watts.

Hope that we finally get a GC stage tomorrow.

 

[search]

Hope that we finally get a GC stage tomorrow.

let's hope so, but going by the current forecast, there'll be a headwind on the climb tomorrow, and consequently also on the first half of the run-in to the finish.

About Hayter, there's of course reason to criticize him, but he is always very modest in the interviews himself, and just yesterday for example said that he didn't train sprinting for a while. And it's fairly obvious that he is never going to be good in big, hectic bunch sprints, so I'm not sure he is really the one to blame here. He is strong and versatile enough to aim for a different kind of career.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Pogacar is still shitting his pants every time Masnada starts the same race.

Pogacar is currently training like a monk at Sierra Nevada , and Fausto is currently training like a monk at Etna. We are due for a serious battle finally.

 

[Froome]

Pogacar is currently training like a monk at Sierra Nevada , and Fausto is currently training like a monk at Etna. We are due for a serious battle finally.

Il Lombardia vibes 2021, but this time with Evenepol not slowing down the great Fausto!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pogacar is currently training like a monk at Sierra Nevada , and Fausto is currently training to become a monk at Etna.

FTFY

 

[Valv.Piti]

Still have been no point watching the race yet and we are half way in.

The last three stages should be good, especially the last, but man, what an underwhelming and pointless race so far.