- Jun 7, 2011
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Didn't expect Oss to do so well. Everyone at Total Energies seems to have started the season in decent shape.
So QST just needs to do one more echelon coup and drop Van Gils, Buitrago and Rui Costa to propel Tim Declercq to victory!
A man can dream.
A man can dream.
It's been a good race with interesting and varied terrain - Think it will also be a good training race for the upcoming classics.
- Apr 10, 2019
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The country also has multiple climbs that are harder than the Zoncolan...
You could design a really inhuman race there, with lots of brutal climbs and potential crosswinds stages...
- Jun 7, 2011
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- May 10, 2015
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So QST just needs to do one more echelon coup and drop Van Gils, Buitrago and Rui Costa to propel Tim Declercq to victory!
A man can dream.
I think the wind is gone tmrw
Count me in. It´s difficult to find similar conditions in europe but the idea of stages like this in bigger races is really intriguing.
- Aug 1, 2016
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To be fair, despite all the issues with the cameras, it was an interesting race.
Fingers crossed for a last crosswind show tomorrow and DeClercq stealing the overall.
Fingers crossed for a last crosswind show tomorrow and DeClercq stealing the overall.
- Feb 23, 2014
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Sagan better be serious this season. I need him scoring points.
- May 10, 2015
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Wind today 38km/u
Wind tmrw 11km/u
So probably just a bunch sprint with maybe a battle for the boni seconds at the intermediate in the end.
That was a lot of fun to watch with classics training wind conditions ripping the race to shreds then finished off with a brutal murito made to seem all the more difficult for being so wide and on such good roads yet still having the leaders literally zigzagging all over the road winching their way to the top.
- Sep 28, 2010
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The race is not the only thing inhuman here. I don't get how people can enjoy a cycling race in freaking Saudi-Arabia. Qatar, Azerbaijan, Oman were already bad enough as hosts for an international cycling race, but Saudi-Arabia? I can't watch it and I certainly can't enjoy it and I would prefer to not have a race in such a despotic, human-rights violating sh*thole of a country.
- Sep 20, 2017
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Because I do not feel like me not watching the race would have any effect whatsoever on the perpetration and/or the normalisation of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia. The race very obviously does not make money so I'm hardly financing such things, and it also doesn't change my opinion on the country. I would also rather not see the race there for obvious reasons (although if we were to draw the line at any systematic form of human rights violation, most if not all mainstream cycling countries would also be excluded), but at the end of the day, when I'm watching sports, I do not find myself thinking about the situation in the country where the race is being held outside the not-actually-existing bubble that is the world of sport which is the other half of the reason why I've watched.
Is it unethical? Maybe, but the immediate following question is whether watching a sport with a long doping history and a significant environmental footprint is ethical regardless of where it's taking place. You could argue that cycling as a whole should strive to improve its ethics but then I can return to the point whether me no longer watching a race like the Saudi Tour would contribute to that at all.
- Jul 28, 2015
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Considering that this year Total are resurrecting the dead QS mode should bode pretty well unlike what looked like looking at their recent seasons where even riders that were good suddenly turned into retiring material after signing with them. Unless his decline is related to lack of motivations.
- May 5, 2010
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Groenewegen wins, Ewan had a mechanic.
- May 10, 2015
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Was thinking the same thing. Ewan bad positioned and now a flet, first stage Groenewegen bad positioned. UAE it is I guess with Ewan, Groenewegen, Bennett, Cavendish, Philipsen, Demare, ...
Mezgec must be happy that Groenewegen can hold his wheel in the final.
- May 8, 2014
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He finally works for a sprinter that rewards his work with wins.
The human rights issue some people here mentioned clearly is important - agree… But, most of all, cycling (sports in general) makes people from all races, from all nationalities, come together. It‘s perfect to unite people.
A perfect example: in few week‘s time, there is UAE Tour. Then, in this islamic country, we see teams Israel PremierTech, Bahrain Victorious and UAE Team Emirates race against each other. In a highest-class competition, fair and respectful. Here, pro cycling delivers a perfect example how it can be done peacefully.
A perfect example: in few week‘s time, there is UAE Tour. Then, in this islamic country, we see teams Israel PremierTech, Bahrain Victorious and UAE Team Emirates race against each other. In a highest-class competition, fair and respectful. Here, pro cycling delivers a perfect example how it can be done peacefully.
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