Tour de Pologne 2020

[Arked]

Beautiful win by Evenpoel. Hats down.

 

[sir fly]

Will have to rewatch it later, but heard and seen enough to get the impression.

Really nice cycling afternoon.
A good moment to fall in love with the sport.

 

[DNP-Old]

Not to take anything away from Remco since they're only one year apart, but that's one hell of a ride from Skin Quimmons.

 

[Bonimenier]

What a destruction of the field. Crazy!

 

[Big Doopie]

Will he do the brush? So exciting!

thank god, no.

 

[johnymax]

Remco is nuts! He is from another planet wow. Fantastic day of bike racing.

I missed the attack. How did he get away in the first place? Was it by pure strength or did he catch them by surprise. Everybody and their mothers know by now that you just don't let him go. He gets 10s at 50km to go and you don't see him again until after the finish line.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Nice touch with Jakobsen's number.

I agree, but it is scary to think that he was so confident that he would win by such a comfortable margin that he chose that as his celebration.

 

[JosephK]

No time trial in this year's edition. Carapaz has to be the favorite, now.

Oops. I stand corrected. It was not a surprise to see Remco take off with about 50 Km remaining, but I did not expect him to be able to execute that well. I should have learned my lesson by now. Insane performance! Chapeau. (And maybe there was a time trial, after all. Remco inserted a 50-kilometer one in today's stage.)

 

[DNP-Old]

Remco is nuts! He is from another planet wow. Fantastic day of bike racing.

I missed the attack. How did he get away in the first place? Was it by pure strength or did he catch them by surprise. Everybody and their mothers know by now that you just don't let him go. He gets 10s at 50km to go and you don't see him again until after the finish line.

The latter. He caught the rest sleeping whilst stocking up on supplies.

 

[jaylew]

The pace had been hard and there had been some attacks, Simon Yates being particularly active. There were only ~25 tired riders when he went. Perfect timing, perfect legs.

 

[jaylew]

The latter. He caught the rest sleeping whilst stocking up on supplies.

Were they actually feeding at the time? If so, I missed that but no real surprise since I was watching 2 races at once which I'm sure others were doing.

 

[Faserr]

The others were sleeping a bit, but everyone was a on the limit when he attacked. He was also the strongest on the climb.

 

[Lequack]

Who needs strategy when you can just ride faster! Giro is going to be very exciting.

 

[VDB44]

The others were sleeping a bit, but everyone was a on the limit when he attacked. He was also the strongest on the climb.

Sleeping? Remco just closed a gap on Yates & co. before and some moments later just started pedalling faster, that's the way he attacks. Wait 10 seconds and he is gone.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Without a doubt the best performance I have seen so far from Evenepoel, even taking San Sebastian into account. This was a top quality field with many GC and classics riders in great shape (and not tired after the Tour).

I would have liked to watch the attack to see why nobody followed Evenepoel - the live feed mentioned that Fuglsang tried to go after him several times and was caught back again when Evenepoel's gap had already reached 1 minute. Also, the british commentators (Brian Smith?) called it a big mistake on Fuglsang's part that he did not respond to Evenepoel (not sure I would say that in hindsight given that the gap between the two just kept growing from 1 minute to almost 2 minutes even after Fuglsang committed to the chase).

 

[Faserr]

Yes, but you know about drafting in cycling? Wait 10 seconds = sleeping. But nevertheless they had no chance.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Who needs strategy when you can just ride faster! Giro is going to be very exciting.

I think you missed a "not" in your post.

 

[ciranda]

It was just a normal stretch of road. Cattaneo did great disruption work when Fuglsang and some others tried to counter. Then Dunbar was leading the group for a long while while Bora, UAE and Sunweb support riders looked on. But I don't think a harder chase would have mattered, he's just that much better.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Not to take anything away from Remco since they're only one year apart, but that's one hell of a ride from Skin Quimmons.

Yep, i noticed ZZ in the chase, one of the stronger performances of his with the pros. If not the strongest. Already bumped his thread yesterday ;-)

 

[GuntherL]

Has anyone here experienced the Merckx era? Can this be compared to his dominance? I’ve watched cycling for around 30 years and I’ve never seen anything similar.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Beautiful win by Evenpoel. Hats down.

This is a beautiful example of how we can communicate more efficiently. No need to say hats off, and hands down and everybody knows what you mean.

 

[GuntherL]

This is a beautiful example of how we can communicate more efficiently. No need to say hats off, and hands down and everybody knows what you mean.

I prefer this over hands off.

 

[RedheadDane]

I agree, but it is scary to think that he was so confident that he would win by such a comfortable margin that he chose that as his celebration.

Is it possible he was simply carrying it with him in case he won by a big enough margin?

I prefer this over hands off.

Me too. I like my hands firmly attached to the rest of my body.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I prefer this over hands off.

Trouble with the ladies, huh?

 

[memyselfandI]

Can't chapeau for this, it's bit high to handle personally. If it looks too good to be true, it usually is. Sorry. What I mean is that other athletes are mostly no beginners.