Liège-Bastogne-Liège: October 4th, 2020

[fuiers]

I went away to something to eat and something like this happens.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Extra lol for Eurosport switching onto super bikes before the result.

And the commentator's last words before the programme were, "How do you follow drama like that?"

Not by leaving it unresolved. They are obviously so determined to get people to pay for the online coverage that they no longer give a *** for those who pay for the channel as part of a TV package.

 

[Salvarani]

Im on the opposite side of this: Pogacar and Hirschi are kids who are already at the very forefront of the sport and already have big wins this year. I like them both but couldn’t care less that they didn’t get to sprint for another win. That was pure comedy and I loved it.

They had a chance to win a monument, who says they will ever get the same chance again. In their career.

"Pure comedy and I love it".

An attitude I think is so wrong on so many levels.

 

[Red Rick]

Biggest Steve Bradbury win since?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

For everyone declaring Hirschi was gonna win: watch again and notice Pogacar's building speed.
You can never know for sure, but I honestly believe Pogi was going to win.

The thing is that Hirschi had barely opened his sprint and was on the wheel of Alaphilippe when Alaphilippe swayed in front of him. I believe that Hirschi would have had an extra gear if he had been allowed to open up for his top speed. He is usually the faster rider of the quartet and on Roche he looked majestic

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I went away to something to eat and something like this happens.

You went to eat before they got to the finish line?

 

[tobydawq]

Or just allowed to get on with the race with zero punishment, like the Vantomme incident. It's hard to argue that Sagan is a guy that gets a rough deal from the commissaires, because the two times Sagan has been penalised, he absolutely should have been, and it's not like he hasn't trodden that line without crossing it enough to be penalised a couple of times too. The DQ the first time was harsh and the initial relegation seemed fair... but relegation's the same thing that has happened to Alaphilippe here and rightfully so. It's just that with it being a small group the relegation doesn't send him that far down. It's only because it's a one-day race and not a stage race that there are no longer-lasting implications like the points penalty proved for Sagan.

No, it's not hard.

If you hate him, sure, otherwise no.

 

[movingtarget]

Hero to zero, oh well, not as if it hasn't happened before.

 

[Bonimenier]

That was actually worse move than Groenewegen in Poland. Alaphilippe was lucky it was Hirshi behind him, who can handle his bike really well.

It was very bad, but how on earth is it worse? Way lower speed, less riders, moving to the middle of the road instead of to the barriers (twice).

 

[fuiers]

You went to eat before they got to the finish line?

No just after the Giro stage was finished. There was 10km to go I think.

 

[Salvarani]

Ala 5th. Relegated.

Correct decision. Ruined the whole outcome of the race.

Only good thing to come out of this, there wasnt a crash. Which wasnt far from happening.

 

[Asero831]

Will Ala apologies to Hirschi?

 

[Billie]

It was very bad, but how on earth is it worse? Way lower speed, less riders, moving to the middle of the road instead of to the barriers (twice).

cause he looked back, saw them coming and then decided to cut them off.

 

[Escarabajo]

Nobody will be relegated. So don't get excited.

Or maybe yes!
Lol. Ala needs to learn to ride straight. He moves his bike too much!

 

[Panda Claws]

I don't mind Roglic winning cause he made no fault of his own. He can't help Alaphilippe can legitimately be called some nasty words.

Just a bit sad that he really could not have won that sprint if Alaphilippe rode normally. If only because he could not have passed him on the right.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I love the way Roglic just put his head down and kept driving through that sprint.

 

[Breezy1985]

It was very bad, but how on earth is it worse? Way lower speed, less riders, moving to the middle of the road instead of to the barriers (twice).

Because it was caused by a rider he doesnt like

 

[Carols]

And the commentator's last words before the programme were, "How do you follow drama like that?"
Not by leaving it unresolved. They are obviously so determined to get people to pay for the online coverage that they no longer give a *** for those who pay for the channel as part of a TV package.

Yeah one is forced to have both these days

 

[movingtarget]

Ala was looking at the photographers.............

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Or just allowed to get on with the race with zero punishment, like the Vantomme incident. It's hard to argue that Sagan is a guy that gets a rough deal from the commissaires, because the two times Sagan has been penalised, he absolutely should have been, and it's not like he hasn't trodden that line without crossing it enough to be penalised a couple of times too. The DQ the first time was harsh and the initial relegation seemed fair... but relegation's the same thing that has happened to Alaphilippe here and rightfully so. It's just that with it being a small group the relegation doesn't send him that far down. It's only because it's a one-day race and not a stage race that there are no longer-lasting implications like the points penalty proved for Sagan.

I absolutely disagree with your statement on Sagan.

In the Cavendish incident he did no wrong, and should never have been DQ'd - which the UCI later admitted.

 

[fuiers]

One thing I've noticed that there are a lot of drama queens in this forum.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No, it's not hard.

If you hate him, sure, otherwise no.

I think both relegation incidents against him were fair. I think a lot of people go way out of their way to claim him blameless, just like those people that claimed Heinrich Haussler somehow crashed himself out in the Tour de Suisse those times. I know you're a big Sagan defender just as you know I'm a big Sagan detractor, and I don't think you're viewing those incidents any more objectively than you think I am. Alaphilippe deserved the relegation here, but because of the way the rules work here, it is of little long-lasting effect, since it doesn't impact an ongoing competition the way penalising Sagan the additional green jersey points (I didn't know about that part of the rule tbh) did, and of course because it was only a group of 5 putting him to the back of it doesn't really impact him particularly severely.

 

[roundabout]

Mathieu VdP best of the rest after that ride yesterday. Impressive

Technically Mohoric was. But VdP was still very impressive to make group 2.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

They had a chance to win a monument, who says they will ever get the same chance again. In their career.

"Pure comedy and I love it".

An attitude I think is so wrong on so many levels.

Have you considered taking the stick out of your rectum? Hirschi won FW a couple of day’s ago and barring accident or injury is a nailed on top contender in every hilly classic in the next decade. Pogacar just won some other bike race, one of those boring multistage ones. They are both about twelve years old. They got bumped out of a chance to sprint in one race. If you can’t see the funny side of that sprint, I don’t know what to say to you

 

[largebus]

Erik Zabel will be happy no longer holding the title of the worst "Celebrating too early" in cycling