Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Libertine Seguros]

And you're expecting people in a cycling forum to give a damn about skiing?
Why don't you head over to the Skiing News Forum to discuss that boring-ass sport? Then we can discuss cycling here.

Now... Shooo!

We have more than one very active Nordic sports threads on the board. There's quite a lot of overlap between sports that have similar characteristics and racing formats, believe it or not.

Anyway, Reusser has decided it's time to turbo diesel it.

Or should I say Turbo-Disl?

 

[RedheadDane]

In the interesting sport, things have started to heat up!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Not sure how Kopecky thinks she’s going to win the TDF

TBF if Geraint Thomas can win a Tour de France, it wouldn't be any more crazy for Kopecky to do so.

I don't see her doing so based on the current opposition level, but she finished 2nd on Blockhaus last year, so on her absolute best form she can definitely do a lot better than she's doing here in the high mountains. However, if we're going to start to see more multi-climb stages like last year's Alpe d'Huez stage going forward (and we should), rather than hockey sticks and flat-to-rolling selections like we have had in the formative years of the WWT, then the more the likes of Kopecky are going to struggle to be as GC-important as they have been lately.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

In the interesting sport, things have started to heat up!

I've watched a lot of boring bike races in my time.

I'm willing to bet you have, too.

 

[RedheadDane]

I've watched a lot of boring bike races in my time.

I'm willing to bet you have, too.

Yeah... but at least cycling has a potential of being interesting...
Now, tell me; would you go to the Skiing forum - as in not the thread down in the non-cycling section of this forum - and expect people there to know who Vos is?
So, why are you expecting people here to know who Bjørgren is?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yeah... but at least cycling has a potential of being interesting...

You admitted to never having watched cross-country skiing last time you threw a tantrum about somebody (probably me, but could have been Samu or someone else) mentioning it, but you're mighty judgmental about it.

Stiasny climbing like she should, still up there with ELB and Spratty among the best of the rest, but sadly for me (and my CQ game team) she has done her usual job of rendering herself irrelevant to any GC battle by dropping six unnecessary minutes in the flat part of the race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm surprised Chabbey is stronger than Labous, but I do need those CQ points so I won't complain.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kastelijn really now starting to struggle and I think Marlen is gone now, and if not now, then definitely very soon.

Edit: yes, now.

 

[RedheadDane]

You admitted to never having watched cross-country skiing last time you threw a tantrum about somebody (probably me, but could have been Samu or someone else) mentioning it, but you're mighty judgmental about it.

Exactly. Never seen it has having even the potential of being interesting, so why would I watch.
But anyway; you still haven't explained why people here should be expecting to give ten flying fucks about skiing.
I'm judgemental about your constant need to bring it up.
NOBODY CARES about it!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Exactly. Never seen it has having even the potential of being interesting, so why would I watch.
But anyway; you still haven't explained why people here should be expecting to give ten flying fucks about skiing.
I'm judgemental about your constant need to bring it up.
NOBODY CARES about it!

You could have applied when they were asking for mods.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Exactly. Never seen it has having even the potential of being interesting, so why would I watch.
But anyway; you still haven't explained why people here should be expecting to give ten flying fucks about skiing.
I'm judgemental about your constant need to bring it up.
NOBODY CARES about it!

But if you don't care, then why even comment on it?

 

[RedheadDane]

You could have applied when they were asking for mods.

Or... you could just shut up about it.

Anyway. Impressive ride by Reusser.

But if you don't care, then why even comment on it?

I. Am. Commenting. On. LS's. Dumbass. ASSumption. Of. Anyone. Here. Even. Caring. Who. The. ***. Bjørgren. Is.

 

[Netserk]

Remind me - again - who that's supposed to be.
Sorry if I can't remember which random skiers you're comparing world famous cyclists too, because that would require actually knowing a damn about said random skiers, and why would I have any such knowledge?

Please just ignore references that you don't get instead of making a fuss about ordinary speech.

 

[RedheadDane]

Please just ignore references that you don't get instead of making a fuss about ordinary speech.

Calling cyclist by the name of skiers is ordinary speech?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Or... you could just shut up about it.

Anyway. Impressive ride by Reusser.

I could, but you could also choose not to mald over it.

 

[Netserk]

Calling cyclist by the name of skiers is ordinary speech?

Comparing athletes across sports, yes. Should I moan about every manner of speech that you use that slightly annoy me every single time you use it? No. It'd be pestering.

 

[RedheadDane]

Comparing athletes across sports, yes. Should I moan about every manner of speech that you use that slightly annoy me every single time you use it? No. It'd be pesting.

Why would you compare athletes across sports? That would require caring about multiple sports.

 

[Netserk]

Why would you compare athletes across sports? That would require caring about multiple sports.

Answer the question I asked you or ignore my post, or I will begin pestering you.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I. Am. Commenting. On. LS's. Dumbass. ASSumption. Of. Anyone. Here. Even. Caring. Who. The. ***. Bjørgren. Is.

She's not expecting that everyone has heard of BJØRGEN, but she knows that some has. LS does use the nickname as an insult though, while I choose to see it as praise (being called Kowalczyk would obviously be the highest praise possible).

 

[RedheadDane]

Should I moan about every manner of speech that you use that slightly annoy me every single time you use it?

If anything I post severely limits other people's understanding of what I mean - like LS writing 'Bjørgen', and only later revealing that she was in fact talking about Kopecky - then sure.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

After Vuelta, it's no longer a surprise that Reusser can climb so well even on very steep gradients, but I had hoped there would have been closer fight. Kopecky, Labous and ELB are clearly not at their very best and without Niedermaier and the peak version of Realini, which we may or may not ever see again, the Swiss army knife cut through everyone with ease.

Unlike Stiasny, Cavallar has actually managed to avoid losing a massive amount of time, so a top 10 is within reach for her, although I can still see her getting overtaken by multiple riders tomorrow. I could see the potential of Ségolène Thomas after following her in the French races over the last couple of seasons, but this is still a completely new level from her.

 

[Berniece]

TBF if Geraint Thomas can win a Tour de France, it wouldn't be any more crazy for Kopecky to do so.

I don't see her doing so based on the current opposition level, but she finished 2nd on Blockhaus last year, so on her absolute best form she can definitely do a lot better than she's doing here in the high mountains. However, if we're going to start to see more multi-climb stages like last year's Alpe d'Huez stage going forward (and we should), rather than hockey sticks and flat-to-rolling selections like we have had in the formative years of the WWT, then the more the likes of Kopecky are going to struggle to be as GC-important as they have been lately.

Sure, but Thomas climbed better compared to his opponents than Kopecky

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Why would you compare athletes across sports? That would require caring about multiple sports.

I don't know what's crazier, that you find the concept of somebody caring about more than one sport to be anathema, or that you think that your position of only caring about one sport is the normal one and therefore people demonstrating interest in, or knowledge of, multiple sports, need to be pointed and shunned for their insolence.

Also, this is an internet community that has been running with multiple separate sections for over fifteen years. It is only to be expected that cliques, in-jokes and/or humour that requires knowledge of forum lore would develop.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Sure, but Thomas climbed better compared to his opponents than Kopecky

By 2018 sure, but not so much in 2015 when he first became a GC-relevant climber I'd say.

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't know what's crazier, that you find the concept of somebody caring about more than one sport to be anathema, or that you think that your position of only caring about one sport is the normal one and therefore people demonstrating interest in, or knowledge of, multiple sports, need to be pointed and shunned for their insolence.

Problem is that by your constant referrences to Bjørgen, you're expecting everyone to know who the *** you're even talking about.
And, as Samu alluded to, that would require keeping track of your weird antipathies outside of cycling. It's hard enough to keep track of your weird antipathies within cycling.

Look, I'll watch the occasional atheletics (though mostly during Olympics, when the boredom over lack of cycling is driving me nuts), but I don't go around comparing riders to Duplantis.
Why? Because I'm aware most people here won't care.