Strade Bianche 2024, March 2, one-day classic (men's)

[gregrowlerson]

Anyone pulling who isn't UAE has let the fans down, let cycling down, and deserves to lose everything.

Lifetime ban I suggest.

 

[staubsauger]

This is from 2021. At that time Lenny was indeed not yet in their team, but he was part of their structure. Despite not having an official junior team, FDJ often sponsors juniors with gear and equipment. Lenny Martinez, Eddy Le Huitouze and Titouan Fontaine in the past, Baptiste Gregoire (younger brother of Romain) now. You can even find Vlad Van Mechelen in FDJ gear, despite obviously never making it to an official FDJ team.

Philippe Gilbert would be the most famous example!

 

[Red Rick]

Anyone pulling who isn't UAE has let the fans down, let cycling down, and deserves to lose everything.

Straight to gulag

 

[Salvarani]

looks like coverage will start with 110K to go

With luck, probably 45 minutes of pointless interviews and experts saying random stuff before live pictures.

 

[Potomac]

well, maybe with 100?

 

[Potomac]

I thought maybe with the woman's race over they would just get right to it.

 

[Red Rick]

Considering Strade Bianche being tailor made for him, I guess it's not really. But it still feels like he should have won a race where the winners come from a spectrum ranging from Cancellara to Kwiatkowski. If Cancellara, MvdP, WvA, etc. have all won it, he really should have too.

Cancellara and MvdP have much better results in attritional one day races, and Van Aert as well is simply much better in races with more climbing than Sagan.

There's definitely weaker winners than Sagan on the winners list of Strade, but nearly all of them are better monument riders or better climbers.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Looks like it's starting 6 minutes earlier than they said yesterday

 

[Samamba]

It's raining in Siena

 

[Penninepeddler]

Would be nice to get coverage just before San Martino in Grania starts...

 

[DNP-Old]

Rain dance successful.

 

[Red Rick]

Rain dance successful.

This confirms Strade is a big race because Pog is always lucky as hell with weather in big races.

 

[Salvarani]

This confirms Strade is a big race because Pog is always lucky as hell with weather in big races.

Sounds like hate.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

This confirms Strade is a big race because Pog is always lucky as hell with weather in big races.

Sarcasm isn‘t conveyed well over the internet.

 

[DNP-Old]

Break caught.

 

[Netserk]

Tailwind on the upcoming sector.

 

[DNP-Old]

Crash Kwiatkowski.

 

[Netserk]

Rain dance successful.

 

[DNP-Old]

Simmons attacks.

 

[Netserk]

Apparently, it's really kicking off.

 

[Salvarani]

Blythe, delete him.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hopefully we get to see the winning move from Pogacar in 10kms time so we can all go back to sitting there in silence waiting for Paris Nice

 

[DNP-Old]

Only 25 riders in the first group.

 

[Netserk]

UAE and Jumbo at the front, Cort and Simmons have been caught.

 

[DNP-Old]

We're missing all the action because Jens Voigt wants to predict that Laporte is going to win in a sprint.