Paris-Nice 2024, March 3-10

[Berflamand]

Anyone who remembers Catalunya 2017?

BMC awarded Volta a Catalunya TTT victory after Movistar penalised for pushing | Cyclingnews.com

UCI officials overturn their original ruling and punish all of the Spanish team

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Enter Paris-Nice 2024:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765101125680664906

View: https://twitter.com/GrootLem/status/1765101125680664906

I don't think you can deduct from that picture that there was without a doubt a push. It could also be that the rider was signalling something to the team car.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Though luck.

Through taking a risk. If others miscalculate, that's not luck, it is being tactically superior on that occasion.

 

[Netserk]

Is there a video? So we at least know how long it took, if the person was going backwards or something else

IIRC, Rojas also merely tapped a teammate (to let him know that he should take his place in the rotation).

 

[Volderke]

Enter Paris-Nice 2024:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765101125680664906

View: https://twitter.com/GrootLem/status/1765101125680664906

IIRC, Rojas also merely tapped a teammate (to let him know that he should take his place in the rotation).

There was no physical contact between the SQS riders.
Anyone able to see Sporza clips can check it here:

Remco Evenepoel pakt halve minuut op concurrent Roglic, maar ziet UAE domineren in ploegentijdrit Parijs-Nice | sporza

De atypische ploegentijdrit in Parijs-Nice heeft voor heel wat plotwendingen gezorgd. Soudal-Quick Step leek op weg naar de overwinning, maar Remco Evenepoel en zijn blauwe garde vielen in een regenachtige finale terug naar de vierde plaats - op 22 seconden van het ongenaakbare UAE. Toch was er...

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2nd clip, 0:50-0:55. There is only hand-waving. So much trying to make something out of nothing.

 

[joseph89]

People will take whatever they can and twist it to fit their narrative, smh.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Roglic drifted to talk to Vlasov, possibly to tell him that he doesn't feel the best, but hey, you can think whatever you want.

...except for the fact that he got on Remco's wheel at that point, but hey, you can think whatever you want.

 

[Berniece]

Breakaway isn't getting that much leeway

 

[Rob5091]

Less then 2 minutes with over 100 km to go for the break... peloton wants a sprint, I think!

 

[Berniece]

Less then 2 minutes with over 100 km to go for the break... peloton wants a sprint, I think!

Do you know who's doing the bulk of the work? Can't seem to find it.

EDIT: Found it. Lidl-Trek, Tudor and Visma are pulling in the peloton.

 

[wansteadimp]

I will be happy if Plapp or Buitrago wins the GC, so I don't have to read endless chatter about the idiosyncracies of Remco and Roglic.

As if Plapp or Buitrago winning will make any difference.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Only following via PCS at the moment, but it looks like Lotto-D are heavily invested in it staying clear.

 

[Rob5091]

Campenaerts and Eenkhoorn join the break - Lotto D on the move! (shame De Lie's gone home, thought he'd go for this stage)

 

[Samamba]

This counterattack from at least Campenaerts was written in the stars. Doubt peloton falls asleep like in the Tour.

Not sure why not more teams go with them tho

 

[Berniece]

I can't imagine this working but it makes for a more exciting race

 

[Pantani_lives]

Evenepoel's biggest rivals might turn out to be the Colombians. Bernal is back and could try something on Sunday. Buitrago is a good climber and ahead of Evenepoel in the GC. The little Belgian is in a good position, but the most important stages are yet to come.

 

[Froome]

Evenepoel's biggest rivals might turn out to be the Colombians. Bernal is back and could try something on Sunday. Buitrago is a good climber and ahead of Evenepoel in the GC. The little Belgian is in a good position, but the most important stages are yet to come.

I think jorgenson will also be in the fight, at least for the podium.

 

[Samamba]

I can't imagine this working but it makes for a more exciting race

Think they jumped across to early. They won't be fresh for the last 40km like last year in the Tour.

Anyways makes it more exciting and also a harder race. Peloton has to go hard on these shallow climbs now.

 

[Samamba]

De Kleijn dropped, Thijssen and Jakobsen about to drop

 

[joseph89]

De Kleijn abandoned

 

[glassmoon]

De Kleijn abandoned

Jakobsen too?

 

[Netserk]

Break may be getting tired, but so will those behind. 8 riders pulling through, they can still make it.

 

[Samamba]

Break may be getting tired, but so will those behind. 8 riders pulling through, they can still make it.

Naa seems impossible with that kicker in the end. Legs will explode on that. But maybe they can tire out the peloton so that an attack on that little hill is possible.

 

[Rob5091]

All the sprinters going home - must be hilly stages coming up ...

 

[Netserk]

Naa seems impossible with that kicker in the end. Legs will explode on that. But maybe they can tire out the peloton so that an attack on that little hill is possible.

The disintegration in the break is worse, I think. Those who pull the bunch can feel the hill too.

 

[joseph89]

Jakobsen too?

Yip

All the sprinters going home - must be hilly stages coming up ...

Yip, Groenewegen & Bennett left of the pure sprinters