Strade Bianche: August 1, 2020

[jaylew]

Finally. Live!

25k to go for the women

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Damn! Now DQ are cloning their riders!

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/strade-bianche-start-list-208034

ASGREEN Kasper
ŠTYBAR Zdeněk
JUNGELS Bob
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
ASGREEN Kasper
ŠTYBAR Zdeněk
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
SERRY Pieter
BALLERINI Davide

Imagine a full team, consisting just of Asgreens

 

[RedheadDane]

Finally. Live!

25k to go for the women

Not on Eurosport, it isn't...

 

[Broccolidwarf]

First race for 5 months and first world Tour race ...maybe this year...and we have ti scramble about to see any of it....no wonder cycling has no fans....UCI should be dumped in a pit because they only hinder cycling

It's not UCI who makes media deals - in this case it's RCS that owns the race.

 

[jaylew]

20k to go
Garcia Canellas solo

at 3:27 a group of 6 with:

Paladin, Van Dijk, Spratt

4:49

Peloton

 

[F_Cance]

The womens race is kind of underwhelming. Everybody was talking about wanting to race again and then there's actually only Mavi Garcia wanting to race. Don't understand why the chasing did not work at all.

 

[jaylew]

Chasing group completely exploding on this dirt section

 

[RedheadDane]

20k to go
Garcia Canellas solo

at 3:27 a group of 6 with:

Paladin, Van Dijk, Spratt

4:49

Peloton

What. Happened. To. Van Vleuten?

 

[jaylew]

Leah Thomas completely dropped the group and then had a mechanical. Then fell off trying to get going, What a shame. She had a big gap

 

[Bonimenier]

What. Happened. To. Van Vleuten?

Spratt was in the leading group of 11 so she didn't ride in the peloton.

 

[jaylew]

What. Happened. To. Van Vleuten?

She's in the peloton 4:40 back. MOst of the favorites are there but there are strong women in the chasing group, including Spratt so AVV playing teammate

 

[RedheadDane]

Spratt was in the leading group of 11 so she didn't ride in the peloton.

Yes, but normally she'd be in the front solo with a few days to the rest by this point.

 

[LaFlorecita]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1289555846561636352

View: https://twitter.com/inrng/status/1289555846561636352

 

[Bonimenier]

Yes, but normally she'd be in the front solo with a few days to the rest by this point.

Not this year. In 2020 she is very very average.

 

[Bonimenier]

Oh there she is

 

[jaylew]

Looked like that spectator trying to push Leah Thomas caused her to crash. Her wheel just slid out in the dirt.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Van Vleuten has appeared in the chase group

 

[jaylew]

Wow. AVV out of nowhere. Camera showed nothing until she was there.

 

[Hihope]

I don't think you can give him credit for ensuring that riders who were in Romania don't have to self-isolate if they were working (racing).

... As in credit for checking the start list, and pointing at Muhlberger who also was improving last year (e.g. TdF) and at Mallorca this year ☺️

 

[RedheadDane]

You guys just have to rub it in that you can actually watch the race?

 

[jaylew]

Garcia with ~2:30 on

AVV
Thomas
Brennauer
Canuel

Spratt chasing bur going the wrong direction. No one will work with AVV

 

[jaylew]

You guys just have to rub it in that you can actually watch the race?

You can as well. I'm just watching a feed like always

 

[LaFlorecita]

Van Vleuten is going so much faster than Garcia uphill. She could definitely still win.

 

[Bonimenier]

AVV is going to crush Garcia's dreams

 

[SafeBet]

Gap is not more than a minute. Just handclocked it at - 14.