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Hard to forget that crash at Pau on the barrier at the 2019 Tour. It was so gruesome people hid it from the cameras with the barrier.
Today, it looked like MVDP was going to catch them. The seconds were dropping quickly. But somehow Wout and Tadej dug deeper and pushed the gap back up. It was glorious riding.
- Aug 9, 2021
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I might have a better word for it, but then I would get a warning so I can't say it
But isn't a Golden a bit more friendly?
SignificantlyI might have a better word for it, but then I would get a warning so I can't say it
But isn't a Golden a bit more friendly?
- Feb 20, 2010
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To be fair, to be an elite sprinter you already need to have something of a lack of regard for your own personal safety, it's not always just about wisdom or lack thereof.
TDF route planner should include an ITT stage over some cobbled stretches used in the PR so that the big/heavy riders could also shine.
It was a great race in the end even though I wasn't a fan of all the randomness. Having that opinion definitely isn't the reason I have a problem with half the forum, it's quite easy to see what is if you're willing.
- Feb 20, 2010
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This is cooking on gas, would be immense to see, like something out of the Peace Race in the 50s.
I do think we'd have absolute social media catastrophe with regards to fairness because of punctures etc. however, as that kind of thing, although it can often even out over the course of a Grand Tour, creates far more drama when it happens in a stage race because the time is important for all of the stages to come as well, rather than being a one-day first-past-the-post type thing, which is why you don't often see fair play / unwritten rules drama come up in one-day races - and I think they might have to enforce using the road bike because I dread to think about riders handling the TT bikes through some of those sections.
And once again we saw something very obvious:
PR>>>>>>>>>RVV>>>>>>> every other race.
PR>>>>>>>>>RVV>>>>>>> every other race.
There isn't a problem though. This is just how internet forums go, particularly with sport. It isn't any different in soccer, basketball, skiing, triathlon , or sewing forums. People have favorites, and other's have competing favorites, who compete with their favorite. I don't actually dislike anyone riding...well, Philipsen, but I mean, that should be self evident.
I don't take any of this too seriously, though I will admit that today was a great day for me. I have always rooted for the underdog, and Wout fits that in today's peloton. It's how I have always been. I don't cheer for the guy who is clearly the strontest, probably because I can relate on a personal level to the guy who will never be the strongest...I mean, I did pretty well in law school, but even then, I was only 4th.
I have never discounted Pog, and I truly believe there has never been a more talented cyclist. Doesn't mean I want to see him win everything, nor is that an illogical desire.
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Way less dangerous to be around at the very leastI might have a better word for it, but then I would get a warning so I can't say it
But isn't a Golden a bit more friendly?
And tomorrow, will start my yearly sadness of having to wait 364 days until we get to watch another.
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Nice win for Wout. Actually, smart racing and luck got him this although I do think that he was by far stronger one out of the two today.
Too bad for VdP. He has really done tremendous amount of work. If it was only one problem he would have been absolute favorite to win.
Mad respect for Pogačar. His body type is clearly physically less adapted for flat cobbles and somehow he manages to be in top 2 two years in the row. The save he pulled on Carrefour is something else. Having won MSR was a problem as 5 in a year sword was hanging over him and he was not able to risk it for tactical gamesmanship.
Hopefully we'll see some resistance from Seixas and Remco at LBL so we finally get to a stage where at least 4 monuments are open.
Too bad for VdP. He has really done tremendous amount of work. If it was only one problem he would have been absolute favorite to win.
Mad respect for Pogačar. His body type is clearly physically less adapted for flat cobbles and somehow he manages to be in top 2 two years in the row. The save he pulled on Carrefour is something else. Having won MSR was a problem as 5 in a year sword was hanging over him and he was not able to risk it for tactical gamesmanship.
Hopefully we'll see some resistance from Seixas and Remco at LBL so we finally get to a stage where at least 4 monuments are open.
- Jul 9, 2009
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You seem to do a lot of complaining about a forum which you only joined nine months ago, What was your previous username?
Pogacar has hinted that he won't be doing Paris-Roubaix next year.
- Feb 20, 2010
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I hold Paris-Roubaix slightly higher than the other Monuments on my estimation / valuation largely because it's not replicable by any other race on the calendar. There are other races on the calendar that ape what you can get from the four other Monuments, hell de Ronde has an entire sequence of races that use many of the same climbs in different orders that lead into it, with only the Koppenberg really being maintained as sacred to RVV. As for Liège, it comes at the end of a week of similarly-profiled hilly races in the same region; Sanremo is "just" a race for the durable sprinter with a few chances to get away in the last part of the course, its unique factor comes from the distance which is not really replicated anywhere on the calendar. Lombardia changes route like, every single year and so while I have a soft spot for it and it has its legendary sights, it doesn't have quite the same feeling of theatre when they reach particular landmarks as some of the other Monuments.
But there are no other races that truly replicate what Paris-Roubaix has to offer.
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No, posters not being fans of Pogacar also isn't the reason, but you're getting closer.
Solid argument. I'll take it into consideration. <I'll give you a hint, it was an example, not the only example>
You can't help but be a ***.
It was a great day. Thanks for checking in.
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Maybe just the sting of losing his most sought prize, beaten in the sprint, in the legendary velodrome!
This was the one he wanted most. How can he even think about skipping next year if he's so obsessively hunting all five Monuments? But maybe not all in a single year anymore...
After winning Romandy and Switzerland this year, he will probably take on Pays Basque to win the 7 classic one week races and Giro to win the 10 big stage races.
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Bissegger said all the mechanicals showed that the favorites had to risk a lot today. Usually it would mostly affect the weaker riders having to take risks to hang on, today it was the other way around.
Asked if he is already looking for more next year, he said that it's not a race he enjoys or looks forward to, just one he is good at.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNn0gwTAGpU
Asked if he is already looking for more next year, he said that it's not a race he enjoys or looks forward to, just one he is good at.
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