tour de luxembourg 18-22 september 2024

[Samu Cuenca]

GOATdu!

 

[RedheadDane]

Gaudu takes the stage.

I have no clue who won the GC. Tiberi, apparently.

 

[kingjr]

Can you even call UAE a team at this point unless they're forced to ride for Pogacar

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pick the phone up and get that boy Davide not one not two but seven dedicated domestiques for le tour 2025, none of that sprint train or letting Valentin go for some stages sh*t.

 

[ciranda]

come a long ways since his cat killin' days

 

[kingjr]

Gaudu takes the stage.

I have no clue who won the GC.

Tiberi

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Vuillermoz waving to the crowds as he crosses the line, I guess this might have been his last race.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

For me is hard to be a big fan of tiberi given what he did but on the bike he is really likeable rider, what a way to won the race, mugging the big boys

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Fraudu.

Until a month ago, yes.

 

[Offline]

Haha what a joke Ayuso is

 

[Bolder]

Verdict is still out on Skinny VDP but Fat Matt doesn't get to fight for the GC in this race, I think.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Gaudu - coming good late in the year, but better late then never. Tiberi gets the GC! wow ... what a mess up by UAE & MvdP. Ayuso & Hirschi did not seem to be on the same page.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

come a long ways since his cat killin' days

Next sacrificing goats?

 

[tobydawq]

Who could have foreseen that it ended up being costly for Mathieu that almost his entire team abandoned on stage one?

 

[Netserk]

 

[TourOfSardinia]

UAE_Fail

 

[yaco]

Chapeau Gaudu - coming good late in the year, but better late then never. Tiberi gets the GC! wow ... what a mess up by UAE & MvdP. Ayuso & Hirschi did not seem to be on the same page.

How is it a mess up by VDP. Alpecin only has a team of three, so, support is limited. Of course, UAE is a different story.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

With all this 'can Van der Poel survive the Zurich circuit?!' I feel like Pedersen is very much enjoying this situation where he is able to fly under the radar at such an extent. Those legs look more than solid.

 

[broppo]

Uae wasnt strong enough to drop VdP. They tried but the legs weren't there. Ayuso was not on the same level as Hirschi and VdP. I don't think they made any tactical errors. As far as VdP goes, he was in a impossible position. He can't respond to every attack. Sprinting all out for the bonus seconds by VdP was a mistake however, but that is easy to say in hindsight. Overall a very entertaining race.

 

[sam6]

This was actually one of the best GC races of this year. I think the route is excellent, I wish we could replicate a similar route in the tour of Britain as I am sure there is potential for that here. But, alas, the organizers are incompetent

 

[Ricco']

VDP had a gap before the last intermediate sprint. With his team I believe he should have gone for it and trust G2 dynamics and UAE team spirit.

 

[Samamba]

This was actually one of the best GC races of this year. I think the route is excellent, I wish we could replicate a similar route in the tour of Britain as I am sure there is potential for that here. But, alas, the organizers are incompetent

Helped that Van der Poel didn't have a team tho.

 

[theyoungest]

With all this 'can Van der Poel survive the Zurich circuit?!' I feel like Pedersen is very much enjoying this situation where he is able to fly under the radar at such an extent. Those legs look more than solid.

On the only stage that was somewhat similar to Zurich, Pedersen got dropped like a sack of potatoes though.

 

[postmanhat]

Only watched a couple of stages, but is it being harsh to say Simmons could have easily podiumed this if he rode with half a brain cell, or was it team tactics?

Either way, he's obviously coming into form for an already very strong US team at The Worlds.

 

[zlev11]

i just watched this stage with my cat sitting in my lap and we both coughed up a hairball at the end