Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2021 (April 25th)

[Tinnekeisabella]

We are about to hit Mont-le-Soie.

Let the race begin!

Sporza not showing live coverage yet. should have started at 14.25

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Sporza not showing live coverage yet. should have started at 14.25

I wouldn’t worry about it. Nothing has happened yet

 

[sir fly]

Sporza not showing live coverage yet. should have started at 14.25

Something more important happening there or just an ordinary delay?

Modest leafing...

 

[Salvarani]

Astana! Gotta love them

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Something more important happening there or just an ordinary delay?

Modest leafing...

Gymnastics european championships. Lots of people falling from the beam

coverage started and yes, nothing missed yet

 

[memyselfandI]

Why Hirschi tagged to DSM in Eurosport interview, when standing there in UAE race kit?

 

[sir fly]

Watching them in low double-digit speed consoles me.

 

[Red Rick]

You cannot tell me that if you drill it into the Stockeau before that sharp corner then drill the Stockeau you can't delete 70% of the peloton and make LBL a loooot easier for you if you have numbers but no huge favorite.

 

[Red Rick]

Watching them in low double-digit speed consoles me.

They can do that climb so much faster lol

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Mcnulty cannot follow the pace

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

You cannot tell me that if you drill it into the Stockeau before that sharp corner then drill the Stockeau you can't delete 70% of the peloton and make LBL a loooot easier for you if you have numbers but no huge favorite.

Even now, a team really pulling up the haute levee afterwards would drop a lot of the peloton but nobody is willing to do so yet

 

[meat puppet]

Doesn't seem too windy. The prospect for crosswinds was floated by some a couple days back.

 

[sir fly]

They can do that climb so much faster lol

Me too.
... oppositely.

 

[Red Rick]

Even now, a team really pulling up the haute levee afterwards would drop a lot of the peloton but nobody is willing to do so yet

Yeah it's a little sad to see the hardest part of the route so neutralized.

The road from Stavelot to Aywalle is a deathtrap for this race.

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar mechancial

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Pogacar flat tyre. coming back through the cars alone.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

In one of the hardest extended stretches of the race the peloton has taken a whole 25 seconds out of a tired break of nobodies...

 

[sir fly]

I'd never ride the wheels that require that much time to be changed.

 

[Carols]

Why hasn't someone invented run flat tires for bikes yet?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Who’d have though Cofidis would be the ones to make it hard?

 

[hayneplane]

Dreadful race so far. This is a race every year that should be great but rarely is due to timid racing.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

For those not watching live:

The 2nd move is happening now, time to switch it back on

 

[Netserk]

In one of the hardest extended stretches of the race the peloton has taken a whole 25 seconds out of a tired break of nobodies...

And that is quite reasonable. Most of the favourites and most of the strongest teams will not really improve their chances with another tactic (in this given racing equilibrium).

No matter how slow they go here, the race is still plenty hard and selective enough in the end for them.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

There are teams trying to attack now, but they’d be more likely to get away if they’d made it harder earlier.

 

[Panda Claws]

It's time for an old man to win one again.