Paris - Tours 2022: Chartres > Tours 10/09/2022 - 213,5 km

[tobydawq]

Cycling is all about history and traditions. Period.

Must say my heart broke when they added the gravel-par. Mark this is written by a s*cker for gravels.
And cutting more than 40km of the distance in addition to significantly changed route design also makes it a completely different race.
It's not Paris-Tours then, but a severe insult to cycling history in order to obey for 5 sec TikTok preteens and senseless UCI rules.
And I do not like that.

For several decades Paris-Tour have been regarded as "the sprinters' monument".
Bring traditions home, please.


Fine with me. Now it's a totally different race anyway, served for TikTokkers, so why not?

It's another case with the Compiègne - Roubaïx Velodrôme one. Of which felt a bit soulless finishing outside the velodrome for a couple of years in the mid 80ies. But again, PreWWII posters here might grumble that the velodrome is a new post WWII thing.

And then I'm really devided about De Ronde. Some years in grief after the route changing.
But now I like the replacement of 'Round of Flanders' to 'Round and round and round in Flanders'.
Still it's a good race and not so much a reluctant race as the Limburg Semiclassic one (of which too have faded, also due to senceless UCI category rules and crusial 'races to the UCI points'.



Fine with me if your want to create a totally different race.
"Les Routes Blanches" sounds fine with me. And I'll watch it vividly.
But do not ever relate it to Paris-Tours.



I second that.
And, again please bring traditions home.

Getting slightly sick of everything needed to 'be spiced up', just to be able to compete with 5mins YT vids or 5secs TikTok ditto.
It is the prolonged enjoyment with the whir of the story that should count.
Meanwhile, send the impatient kids out to play with a ball.

I hope my position does not seem too vague

I doubt there are very many pre WW2 posters on this forum

 

[sir fly]

I doubt there are very many pre WW2 posters on this forum

And even they would be newbies to the WW1 posters.
Tough to track the race's true tradition.

 

[RedheadDane]

I doubt there are very many pre WW2 posters on this forum

And even they would be newbies to the WW1 posters.
Tough to track the race's true tradition.

All those modern-day 20th Century posters.

 

[tobydawq]

All those modern-day 20th Century posters.

They sure must seem young to you.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

And even they would be newbies to the WW1 posters.
Tough to track the race's true tradition.

You never know which side they will turn to in their grave

 

[RedheadDane]

You never know which side they will turn to in their grave

I suppose all those many 1896 posters would think that obviously it's supposed to be gravel roads; that's what roads are made of!

But anyway, back to the 2022 edition!

1		64	GOUGEARD Alexis
2		182	ABRAHAMSEN Jonas
3		201	CARDIS Romain
4		212	CARISEY Clément
5		223	GUÉGAN Maël

Peloton at six minutes.
92 Ks to go.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Old route just makes it a boring sprint race, and there's enough boring 1.WT sprint races as is.

Exactly this has been my trustworthy soulmate to enjoy immensly to close the seaon.
Well relaxed, fully back in the armchair. The joy of silent rattle of chains combined with commentators season reviews combined with enthusiastic spicy anecdotes and then sprint climax as grand finale to say goodbye and see you next year.
In recent years after route change I've had to replace with a hard wooden chair to sit on the edge of the last few hours. Very uncomfortable.

 

[RedheadDane]

Big crash. Philipsen down. Turgis down. A lotto rider - don't know who - seems badly hurt.

 

[tobydawq]

Again Kwiatkowski is pacing the peloton at a completely irrelevant point. Has je just lost all ambition?

 

[Samamba]

Well looks like De Lie is out. That's an annoying way to end the season, with an injury (probably).

 

[Samamba]

Bro what is this?

EF guy wasn't moving?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Wow, this is carnage. It didn't look good for the EF-rider

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Gravel Scheldeprijs vs. flat Strade Bianche Which one‘s better?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The TV production is trying reeeaaally hard to tell us that Ben Turner has shrunk massively

 

[sir fly]

All the splits on the road imply a very selected finale.
I don't remember a similar edition.

 

[RedheadDane]

Trentin crashed.

Anyone got any info on Rutsch?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

It's sad that a historic race has excessively tried to Gimmick itself to remain relevant, or to appear as hip and moderns, and just ends up being a survival contest decided by bad crashed and punctures.

Especially sad when it's now falling in the same day as a gravel race, meaning that nobody cares about its Gravel sections

 

[Salvarani]

Peloton better start moving soon.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Trentin crashed.

Anyone got any info on Rutsch?

I can now inform you that Jonas Rutsch is at the back of the peloton. Has anyone got info on the crashed riders and their injuries?

 

[RedheadDane]

I can now inform you that Jonas Rutsch is at the back of the peloton. Has anyone got info on the crashed riders and their injuries?

PCS said Rutsch was the EF rider who looked really bad. Guess pro cyclists really aren't made of chocolate.

 

[sir fly]

PCS said Rutsch was the EF rider who looked really bad. Guess pro cyclists really aren't made of chocolate.

Rock candies?

 

[ppanther92]

How is Gilbert doing?

 

[Salvarani]

Heiduk impressive today.

 

[tobydawq]

PCS said Rutsch was the EF rider who looked really bad. Guess pro cyclists really aren't made of chocolate.

That guy certainly has not been at the back of the peloton after the crash. I don't know who it was that lay still.

 

[Samamba]

How is Gilbert doing?

Still in the peloton. His legs are still ok, but he doesn't have the balls anymore to be in front of the peloton all the time. Understandable, I wouldn't take risks either in my last races.