Tour de Luxembourg 2023 (September 20-24)

[RedheadDane]

So you've given up with the glue then? Mind you just tell Hansen some protester has glued themselves to the road and hell cancel the entire race tout suite! Regradless if the protest is in Denamark.

Variation is good.
Except for racing schedules. Randomly having a stage in a race finish way early is not good.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Variation is good.
Except for racing schedules. Randomly having a stage in a race finish way early is not good.

All the finishes have been after 4, that's not unusually early. Later finishes would also make the clash with the Euros much worse for viewers.

 

[RedheadDane]

All the finishes have been after 4, that's not unusually early. Later finishes would also make the clash with the Euros much worse for viewers.

Yesterday's finish wasn't after 4, that was the problem!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Yesterday's finish wasn't after 4, that was the problem!

It was the sprint stage, so the one where an early finish hurts the least anyway.

 

[tobydawq]

Death, taxes, RhD bitching and whining over early finishes even though she could just watch it on-demand.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Maybe someone has let the goats out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1705164737816691088

View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1705164737816691088

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Maybe someone has let the goats out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1705164737816691088

View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1705164737816691088

In unrelated news, a red-haired woman was seen in a car with a Danish license plate leaving Mertert at speeds well above the limit.

 

[Rob5091]

According to PCS it was a car accident that caused a traffic jam that delayed two teams. Hope no one was injured and RhD can now see the finish!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Break: at 3m30s

1		16	TRONCHON Bastien	1:54
2		42	KNIGHT Oliver	6:49
3		123	MERTZ Rémy	0:31
4		155	DE WILDE Gilles	11:50
5		196	WENZEL Mats

 

[RedheadDane]

Death, taxes, RhD bitching and whining over early finishes even though she could just watch it on-demand.

Which, again, defeats the whole purpose of  live sport.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Which, again, defeats the whole purpose of  live sport.

especially when live sport means live forum!

 

[tobydawq]

Which, again, defeats the whole purpose of  live sport.

 

[tobydawq]

especially when live sport means live forum!

Yeah, I guess that's the real core of the issue.

 

[Rob5091]

A good day to try out the rain jackets - not having much luck with the weather.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I wonder why races rarely have the word "live" in their titles, when others have the word "Loire" twice.

 

[RedheadDane]

Look, I know you think that On Demand is basically the same as Live, even sometimes calling it "as live" to create some sort of illusion, but it isn't.
I understand that sometimes races have to finish early, if there is a scheduling conflict with another edition of the same race, but that wasn't the case yesterday.

I wonder why races rarely have the word "live" in their titles, when others have the word "Loire" twice.

Because the "live" bit is implicit?

 

[Landeirovic]

Christen 19 year is super!

 

[RedheadDane]

Bastien just Tronch(ing)on.

 

[Samamba]

Lovely weather

 

[RedheadDane]

Lovely weather

Looks like the kind of weather we had in Århus Tuesday.

 

[SafeBet]

Healy getting ready for Lombardia.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Strong attack but Healy's descending isn't the best

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Healy getting ready for Lombardia.

I find him annoying in races for some reason, which is silly because as a cycling fan you have to appreciate the way he races. He keeps looking over his shoulder for fausto.

Anyway today cold and rain is not good conditions for fausto

 

[Samamba]

He definitely has his classics legs back

 

[Bolder]

Gotta love Healy. Is there a less likely looking hard man in the peloton? He looks more like the guy who washes the bikes after the race.