Tour de Romandie 2023, April 25-30

[EddyMazzoleni]

I'd like a Sobrero win tomorrow, however the are quite a number of good riders to beat.
Between the GC guys i have a feeling this will particularly suit Ayuso.

 

[Lequack]

What is this race, Tour de Sprinters? I thought Switzerland was a country with mountains.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Other than most of the sprint being filmed from above, I think the production was above average.

I thought the view was sort of nice for a change, but I did feel a little uneasy watching many people maneuvering their bikes in very little space at very high speeds from up above. Egads, I thought somebody would crash for sure!

 

[Rob5091]

Jumbo set up Hayter well, but Bardet third, chapeau!

 

[Wvv]

He grew up in Atlanta.

Really? I had no clue.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

GC

extended to 12th spot!

 

[YavorD]

Anyone knows what the downhill looks like? Are there a lot of corners?

 

[Rob5091]

Anyone knows what the downhill looks like? Are there a lot of corners?

Looking at the map on the official website (https://www.tourderomandie.ch/ ) it looks like a nice run in to the finish if the weather's not bad. Be interesting to see how Ayuso does.

According to Cofidis Twitter (https://twitter.com/TeamCOFIDIS ) Ion Izagirre and Anthony Perez have gone down with the Covid and are DNS today.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

I like how people talk about the fight between Bardet, Yates usw. "in the mountains" as if there are massive alpine stages coming up. We'll have Thyon 2000 tomorrow and that's it, I'd be surprised if we even see big gaps there.
Romandie has become the dullest of the 7 big one week stage races. Too close to the Giro, too close after the Ardennes. Everyone going for the Tour prefers to have a training block. Boring parcours and two time trials in six days, wohoo.
Only saving grace would be Masnada going for glory tomorrow.

 

[search]

looks like the weather has improved over night. There's still a bit of a risk of rain late on, but it's far less certain than it seemed like yesterday.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The creepy, cold and clammy hands of Covid have caught Cofidis, which has forced Izagirre and Perez out of the race.

 

[BR2]

Thats a nice time trial from Brenner.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Thats a nice time trial from Brenner.

To be fair, he‘s leading a hilly TT against the last-placed guys in the race, but it‘s still nice to see.

 

[Red Rick]

I like how people talk about the fight between Bardet, Yates usw. "in the mountains" as if there are massive alpine stages coming up. We'll have Thyon 2000 tomorrow and that's it, I'd be surprised if we even see big gaps there.
Romandie has become the dullest of the 7 big one week stage races. Too close to the Giro, too close after the Ardennes. Everyone going for the Tour prefers to have a training block. Boring parcours and two time trials in six days, wohoo.
Only saving grace would be Masnada going for glory tomorrow.

We can joke about Romandie having a *** parcours and I agree

I still think the one mountain stage it has is better than the TdF queen stage.

 

[Samamba]

DSM's TT setup must be really good. They are really good in every (team) time trial they ride.

 

[DNP-Old]

Jan Christen. 👀

 

[DNP-Old]

I don't care how wind resistant it is or how many watts it gives, anyone riding around with a sock around their head needs to be disqualified asap.

 

[Escarabajo]

What happened to Higuita? I saw his clock at a complete stand still on the mountain as he was catching the other rider? Then his time disappeared.

 

[DNP-Old]

Jan Christen!!! 👀

 

[Escarabajo]

I don't care how wind resistant it is or how many watts it gives, anyone riding around with a sock around their head needs to be disqualified asap.

I want to see them do that at the Tour with 40C of temperature. Lol.

 

[BR2]

Hm, the Bora riders don't seem to get a time.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I want to see them do that at the Tour with 40F of temperature. Lol.

Well, at 40F, you‘d like to have it, I suppose you mean 40C

 

[BR2]

I want to see them do that at the Tour with 40F of temperature. Lol.

That's protection for the neck, then... you also see those prolongued caps on playgrounds a lot...

 

[BR2]

So Higuita didn't get a time and I don't see an intermediate for Denz and Zwiehoff - am I just blind?

 

[BR2]

So Higuita didn't get a time and I don't see an intermediate for Denz and Zwiehoff - am I just blind?

Ah yes, I am.