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I can 100% assure you people will complain about safety when they have to ride in 40km/u (average) winds lmao. Highly likely that would also mean insane gusts so... Obviously not anything close to that tomorrow.
I can 100% assure you people will complain about safety when they have to ride in 40km/u (average) winds lmao. Highly likely that would also mean insane gusts so... Obviously not anything close to that tomorrow.
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It isn't ridiculous because it can happen. Cycling is unpredictable and these stages (gravel stages) bring fans and entertainment.
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Was that when Mollema said after the race: "Valverde also f***ed us when he used doping"? I always hated Mollema since then.
I feel that we shouldn't be taking it too seriously, fans comparing crosswinds to gravel in regards to riders safety. On top of that fans in general are not all that good, when it comes to riders safety. The truth is an average fan just doesn't care, enough, about this aspect of the sport. So in the end it's not really the fans, on whose responsibility it is, to improve riders safety in the peloton. Bickering about it, when something actually gets done, that is something fans are indeed good at.
So it's an interesting dynamics, to say the least.
So it's an interesting dynamics, to say the least.
- Apr 30, 2011
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On meteoblue there's crosswinds of ~30 km/h with gusts above 40 km/h after Issoudun.
- May 10, 2015
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On Windy only one of the predition models saying +20km/h, let's see if it changes this evening.
But yes if it's 30 or even 25+ it should be guaranteed splits. Riders often say, if its above like 22 and from the righ direcion on open roads it will split if someone tries.
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The default model says closer to 35 km/u in the second part of the race
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Dno, I just know that I disliked Rabobank ever since 2007 and they have not helped themselves since then
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I don't see that at all, only wind gusts are that high. Or I am looking at the wrong thing
- Aug 3, 2015
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You were always a Valverde-fan at the bottom, you cried silently
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Oh no, not this s*** again... Valverde was dropped in every single climb before Fuente De.
- Aug 3, 2015
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Yes youre indeed right, lets not hop into PCS and actually look for ourselves again
Relative to scale this stage could be flatter. If the pannenkoek was 200 km wide the little dimples and bubbles could produce more elevation changes than this stage route. Somehow, years ago, someone got a legit grant to study the saying “Kansas is flat as a pancake” and discovered that a pancake the size of Kansas (a state in the center of U.S.) would in fact be hillier terrain than the physical topography of the state.
Not sure why I just wasted my time and yours writing that, but I’m going to blame rest day ennui
ed. In case you thought I was making that up: https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200310/pancake-kansas.cfm
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Yes dude, Valverde benefited a lot from Purito-Contador fighting and looking to each other. I saw that race, don't try to fool me. Contador would put a lot more time into Valverde if Purito wasn't in the race.
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Issoudun sounds like somewhere out of Lord of the Rings
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Tadej Pogacar (UAD): "Hats off to Remco Evenepoel, it's the first time we've run a big Tour together, it's nice to race against him! We saw yesterday that he could be very offensive . It's really good to see a guy go all out."
View: https://twitter.com/VelonCC/status/1810358237495263532
View: https://twitter.com/VelonCC/status/1810358237495263532
- Jul 3, 2022
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Interesting that Tadej takes the little dig at Jonas. In the end, it will all be settled in the high mountains.
Im afraid I know a strong candidate to lose time tomorrow, eh? (hoping to counter-jinx it)
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