Tour de Hongrie 2024-05-08 to 2024-05-12 ; 8th of May to 12th of May 2024

[Bolder]

Quaranta 2nd. He is Ivan's son, I guess?

He is!

That was a nasty crash.

 

[Bolder]

Sagan has already managed to crash

He avoided a crash but flatted in the gravel. Stayed upright. Unlike Pog!

 

[Ricco']

Welsford, Quaranta and Mareczko

Of course it was a pancake flat stage

 

[yaco]

Poor season for Jayco continues. Lead out rider Stewart brought down by Liepins. Luckily, Groenewegen avoided the crash but that was the end of his sprint.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Most embarrassing sprint ever by Liepins, first ensuring half the sprinters went down and then having literally the lowest speed of the remaining half. Just like last year, DSM have a singular competent sprinter and for some reason they put him on domestique duty more often than not. At least this one might be removed as an option for a while if the UCI do their job for once...

 

[ManicJack]

Liepins should get a month on the sideline for causing that crash.

Just watch the finish. Terrible move. Any injury updates?

 

[tobydawq]

Not even a DSQ for Liepins, only relegated to last place in the bunch. What a horrible punishment for him, season in tatters.

 

[Rob5091]

Welsford was notable by his absence in Turkey (van Popppel even took over the sprinter's role) so a good confidence boost for him.

 

[yaco]

I am interested in how Groenewegen performs today. He could not hold the wheel of his lead-out Stewart and was indirectly responsible for the crash.

 

[Landeirovic]

Cavendish beat Groenewegen!

 

[Faserr]

Groenewegen beat Welsford in the last km

 

[yaco]

No surprise if you saw stage one where Groenewegen could not hold the wheel of his leadout.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Groenewegen given a 10 second penalty, 10 year jail sentence would probably be more appropriate

 

[RedheadDane]

Groenewegen given a 10 second penalty, 10 year jail sentence would probably be more appropriate

What did he do?

Not home, and only had enough bandwidth to watch the Giro stage.

 

[Tim Cahill]

What did he do?

Not home, and only had enough bandwidth to watch the Giro stage.

Elbowing Welsford because he wanted to be on the Astana train, almost sent him to the barriers

https://twitter.com/x/status/1788629851215159783

10 seconds in

 

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[QueenStagiaire]

How did they get past this blockade of the giant stork???

 

[Samu Cuenca]

How did they get past this blockade of the giant stork???

It seems I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread the other day:

it's been raised about 3 metres, so they can ride under it.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

How did they get past this blockade of the giant stork???

OMG, now I get it, Sagan just bunnyhopped it!!!!

 

[yaco]

I reckon it was Welsford's fault for trying to push into a gap that was not there.

 

[Marco-Sun]

You can watch #freeemu to destroy this unworthy folks today ... Mark my words

 

[ciranda]

hi florian

 

[Faserr]

Poor Emu

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Thibau Nys the GOAT???

 

[Filippo_3467]

Good effort from Buchmann but in the end the climbs not long and steady enough if Nys and Ulissi are still there.

Nys is really a rider that could win a lot of big races in the future. maybe even L-B-L could be possible.