It's on GCN Race Pass as most other races. It's so cheap that I really can't wrap my head around any cycling fan not subscribing.
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That's why you have stages for the breakaways and the sprints. And jerseys for the different categories, but yellow is the focus and the parcours, in my opinion, should reflect that. Otherwise you risk taking out favorites even before the real battle begins. Even the dynamics of team strategy reflect this. In the Classics it's all or nothing on the day, at the Tour it's a long-game project over 3 weeks: already a dangerous proposition, no need to throw in a circus-like stage just for kicks. Paris-Roubaix at the Tour is not the stuff of a well-planned three week course, considering the probability of GC altering crashings and the dynamics of team strategy over a three-week (not one-day) ordeal. The Tour is not a crapshoot.Froome was injured entering the cobbled stage in 2014 and the Tour is not a race where you can hide an injury. Nibali put minutes into his rivals because he had a plan and his team executed perfectly.
The Tour is a bike race across all types of terrain. It does not require cobbled stages but the idea that stages which aren't mountains are "contradictory to the tour" is silly. Not everything revolves around GC rider W/KG numbers.
In the US it is shared with NBC Sports. Now Peacock. So double the money.It's on GCN Race Pass as most other races. It's so cheap that I really can't wrap my head around any cycling fan not subscribing.
It's on GCN Race Pass as most other races. It's so cheap that I really can't wrap my head around any cycling fan not subscribing.
Not sure if this has been posted here already (excuse me if it was).
Florian Vermeersch has put his Strava data online, including power numbers:
370W Weighted Avg Power
And still a decent sprint in the end, pushing nearly 1000 watt for 20 seconds, peaking at 1476.
Well, I have ES here and that works fine, so I am not in that situation with cycling, but I can understand the problems of some Americans for instance. Obviously there have often been problems with GCN, and also they don't show some important races, so you have to have a bunch of subscriptions?
Personally I try to buy those gift cards for internet abos if possible instead of subscribing, because if you have a problem, if they book the money twice, if you want to terminate the abo but it doesn't work, there often is only a chat bot to talk to, and that's really annoying. So if you like cycling but aren't a hardcore fan, I can understand you aren't keen on this.
Has this guy Rowe even apologized? Apparently he stated that everybody with an opinion about what he did can go *** themselves.
He explicitly said it was about people who accused him doing it on purpose. Those people are nuts imho.Oh please. This is just causing a crash and then mouthing off on people criticizing you for causing it. Full **** behavior.
That's right I don't want an apology either. Maybe he has reached out, don't know. It's still the reaction of a total jerk though.
eurosport. €2 a month. Cycling as you've never seen it before (italy today!)In the US it is shared with NBC Sports. Now Peacock. So double the money.
It’s been said before, but I’d still like to see a TdF route that hits the mountains early, but finishes off with a couple days in northern France including a stage on the cobbles. Planche de Belles Filles on Wednesday, Ardennes-ish day Thursday, Cobbles Friday, 45km ITT Saturday, roll into Paris on Sunday.They did, but not in 2014 except for Nibali, who had not, nor has, ridden Paris-Roubaix. It is a tough call, because Paris-Roubaix is a crap shoot in which the best rider without problems (who may or not have been the best on the day) wins. You can be the best, on the from of your life, and still be screwed by mechanicals and crashes in a way that is unique to the sport. In the past rarely a Tour winner had the qualities to win Paris-Roubaix, but it happened. By contrast a normal Paris-Roubaix winner has no hope of winning the Tour. And frankly eliminating potential Tour winners before we even get to the mountains and decisive stages, because someone or several have broken bones falling on the cobbles of Northern France seems contradictory to what the spectacle intends to be: namely a direct fight between the best grand tour racers in the world where their strengths come to the fore (in the mountains and timetrials). For the rest, we have Paris-Roubaix in the spring.
In the US it is shared with NBC Sports. Now Peacock. So double the money.
The Tour is a bike race across all types of terrain. It does not require cobbled stages but the idea that stages which aren't mountains are "contradictory to the tour" is silly. Not everything revolves around GC rider W/KG numbers.
Which important races do they not show? They show pretty much everything.
Apparently not, at least in the US?
Did it rain back in 1989? (I honestly don't know anything about that stage).
If this guy becomes a force please someone tell the German commentators to put the emphasis on the right syllable, VERmeersch is driving me crazier than ALaphilippe.
Have you seen the documentary that movingtarget had posted a link to downstairs in the cafe? It's very basic... Paris-Roubaix isn't meant for every rider in the peloton, hence, not every pro rider should even try it regardless of the season.
Hope I'm not being nasty toward you, btw., just talking a bit about the Paris-Roubaix.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA&ab_channel=MrFixie
I don't think there would be any interest on the part of the organizers and sponsors to have the race go over the cobbles two days from the finish. Too much is at stake, too great a risk of denaturalizing the event. I mean nobody would want to see a dominant rider over the cols and tts crash suddenly, unavoidably, catastrophically and be eliminated, not because of his ability, but simple misfortune on a course that is best left to an April day's outing for that day's glory. The luck (or lack there of) factor becomes too significant for a three week odessey, in which the most efficient engine over high mountains and tts has always detetmined the outcome and rightly so. The Tour has its own logic and reason, the classics something else.It’s been said before, but I’d still like to see a TdF route that hits the mountains early, but finishes off with a couple days in northern France including a stage on the cobbles. Planche de Belles Filles on Wednesday, Ardennes-ish day Thursday, Cobbles Friday, 45km ITT Saturday, roll into Paris on Sunday.
Great Post thanksHave to admit, that I on live signal yesterday only had the opportunity to watch the race from 22k to go.
Now I've watched from the start until 67k to the finish line, and from those parts I cannot fathom folks yelling about Colbrelli wheel sucking. Either some ppl have bad memory or simply didn't watch the race, except for the last hour maybe (?). What I've just witnessed so far is Sonny Colbrelli animating the favourite group on several occations on the last 50-60k's incl. his breakout up to the group in front.
A long, exhauating and maybe not so clever move, however a strong effort teying to put MvdP and van Aert under pressure.
And then when MvdP rejoins and put the group under pressure, Colbrelli is immideately there and even doing more pulls in the front.
And then in the finale Colbrelli answers fully on Carrefour de l'Abre on MvdP's attack.
So still with reservations, haven't yet watched a 45k part in the finale, I would postulate he has largely been one of the riders who has helped to animate the race, of what I've seen until now.
And so if the next part is hesitation and wheel sucking, thats a part of a great race, too.
Think I've mentioned it before, I'm very keen of classics where the cunning cheats the less cunning, due to clever tactics and having the sense of the right moments.
Yesterday, however, I think it was both the smartest and the strongest rider who won the great cobblestone trophy.
Ofcourse previous historic P-R long distance rides of Cancellara, Boonen, Tafi, etc. are fantastic, but I like the excitement to be spread out right to the velodrome.
For me this is the best edition since 1993, no maybe even better I think - and yet still have to watch 45k to get the full picture ;-)
The obvious implications in Rowe’s response are that a) he got the flat while already in Arenberg b) there are no support cars in Arenberg (or at least not any close enough to support him at that time) c) he needed to ride, with a front flat, to the far side of Arenberg to get a new tire.Just have to weigh in on the moronic move by Rowe...he tries to give us the "I do this for a living so you commoners need to STFU," defense. He indicated that we have no idea what it's like to ride on the pave of Arenberg with a flat front...yeah, because I'm smart enough to not ride a flat on one of the worst sections of cobbles in France...in the rain...you know, because it's pretty freaking predictable that control will be an issue. Fk us? No, Luke, fk you. You cost a contender his chance...an you weren't the contender.