Tour de Pologne 2023 (July 29th - August 4th)

[RedheadDane]

Apparently this year they added moto crashes into spectators to make up for the relative lack of crashes in the peloton.

Uhm... @Sandisfan and @xo 1, you might wanna read the article.

 

[Landeirovic]

What will be the time gap Almeida-> Mohoric?

 

[Lequack]

What will be the time gap Almeida-> Mohoric?

You would think not a lot on a 16k TT, but then again Vingegaard put 3 minutes into Wout on a 22k TT, so anything is possible. Maybe world champion Tobias Foss will gain 5 minutes and win overall.

 

[Landeirovic]

You would think not a lot on a 16k TT, but then again Vingegaard put 3 minutes into Wout on a 22k TT, so anything is possible. Maybe world champion Tobias Foss will gain 5 minutes and win overall.

I think 16-19 seconds will be the difference

 

[Aimar16]

Why do they do ITT on cobbles?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bissegger is having one awful season. Not a single podium in a TT for him all year, and that doesn’t look like changing even in this weak field.

 

[Landeirovic]

Fisher black did great TT

 

[search]

conditions are getting better, though. There were still more wet patches earlier on.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

conditions are getting better, though. There were still more wet patches earlier on.

Still a faster average speed for FFB than everyone bar Cavagna in the 2021 Katowice TT, which used a lot of the same roads. There will probably be someone who beats it but he's very much in contention here.

 

[carolina]

Not a good ITT for Bisseger

 

[Samamba]

2M Euro Foss with a meeh TT once again

 

[johnymax]

Until yesterday I didn't even know Thomas was in the race. He is coming for the Vuelta guys. Forget Vingo, forget Remco, it'll be the Thomas, Almeida, Rogla show once again.

And like in the Giro we are gonna love every minute of it.

 

[DNP-Old]

2M Euro Foss with a meeh TT once again

Time trialing Vainsteins.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

2M Euro Foss with a meeh TT once again

Provided one more person beats him here, he will become the first-ever world TT champion who failed to reach the podium in more than two TTs during his year as the reigning champion whilst having done more than one TT (Ullrich didn’t do a single TT in 2002 after his world title in 2001, and Rogers didn’t spend 2004 as the reigning champion because Millar hadn’t been banned yet). Definitely the biggest fluke of this generation.

Edit: aand he’s been pushed into fourth, so congratulations to Tobias Foss on making history!

 

[Samamba]

PCS puts Thomas in 2nd, on screen timing in first...

EDIT: ok it changed on PCS.

 

[Samamba]

Really good TT from Wellens.

 

[search]

PCS puts Thomas in 2nd, on screen timing in first...

EDIT: ok it changed on PCS.

times at the finish always seem to be a bit off, though. Thomas crossed the line at -2.7s or so, and now he is listed with -1.8s.

And the official live timing has different times as well: https://tdp.infocity.pl/pl/etap6/

 

[Rob5091]

Ol' man Thomas can still do a good TT when he remembers to take off his gilet - chapeau!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Speaking of horrible TTs - what on earth is Sobrero doing?

 

[Aimar16]

McNulty looks like some redneck in that jersey and unshaven

 

[search]

Speaking of horrible TTs - what on earth is Sobrero doing?

he looked a bit off all week, at least

 

[Samamba]

Dark clouds approaching again

 

[theyoungest]

Provided one more person beats him here, he will become the first-ever world TT champion who failed to reach the podium in more than two TTs during his year as the reigning champion whilst having done more than one TT (Ullrich didn’t do a single TT in 2002 after his world title in 2001, and Rogers didn’t spend 2004 as the reigning champion because Millar hadn’t been banned yet). Definitely the biggest fluke of this generation.

Edit: aand he’s been pushed into fourth, so congratulations to Tobias Foss on making history!

I know Foss has become a bit of a meme, but this assessment is quite harsh. He has hardly raced due to covid. And he got to spend way less than a year in the jersey anyway.

Finishing on 7 seconds to Thomas is actually unexpectedly good.

 

[Aimar16]

Finishing on 7 seconds to Thomas is actually unexpectedly good.

Thomas will not win this

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I know Foss has become a bit of a meme, but this assessment is quite harsh. He has hardly raced due to covid. And he got to spend way less than a year in the jersey anyway.

Finishing on 7 seconds to Thomas is actually unexpectedly good.

There are barely any races with TTs in the latter stages of the season, he would have done at most one more TT in the jersey had the Worlds been at the normal date. He’s also hardly the first world champion to struggle with injury or illness.

Also, you calling losing to Thomas by 7 seconds a surprisingly good result is a damning indictment of a world champion and kind of proves the point.