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Tim Cahill

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Teammate not being allowed to celebrate at the line anymore

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Who will be the first to break the rule?
 
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theyoungest

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Mina.S said:
Apparently no male Australian Nat champ has won a world tour race since Gerrans so we will see.
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The only time you even hear the name Luke Durbridge (or to a lesser extent, Luke Plapp) is around the Australian championships. Always a good amount of attention because they're held in January, but they're not an indicator of anything.

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Prohibiting celebrations is more of an anti-woke thing ;)
 
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theyoungest said:
The only time you even hear the name Luke Durbridge (or to a lesser extent, Luke Plapp) is around the Australian championships. Always a good amount of attention because they're held in January, but they're not an indicator of anything.


Prohibiting celebrations is more of an anti-woke thing ;)
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You are joking about Plapp right? Because if you didn’t notice Plapp after the nationals last season then I’m guessing you didn’t watch Paris-Nice or the Giro
 
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awavey said:
Tour down under starts early hours of the morning tomorrow for us Europeans, think it's 1.49am ish CET kickstarting the WWT season

Discovery+ allegedly have coverage but with their diet of tennis & snooker at the moment it will be app only streams and prob no highlights on the channels 🙄

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8lV2KpN366/
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At this point, I'm not sure the race will be broadcast in Denmark at all. That obviously doesn't mean I won't be able to watch it, but it's on at a time where it's too late to stay up for and too early (for me) to wake up for it.

The route it pretty good though. We'll see them climb Willunga Hill twice for the first time, which could shake things up. That probably also means that Gigante's record time isn't in any danger (it might not have been anyway), but it's a shame that she is yet again unable to race.


BTW, there's still about 10 hours left until I'll stop updating my spreadsheet for my Emerging Female Riders game, so if anyone reading this thread is able to think of 16 eligible riders, why not give it a go?

Samu's 2025 Emerging Female Riders CQ Game (The Muriel Furrer Trophy)

I'm happy to officially launch the second edition of my emerging female riders game. Like in the first edition, the game will only last for one season. The primary reason for that is that I don't want to be running multiple games simultaneously. Rules The average team size for women's...
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Mina.S

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yaco said:
As expected Hangeveld holds on for the win. Disgraceful by Liv Alula Jayco in their home race. They have riders for the sprint final and they never put their face in the wind.
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Typical Jayco, they either use all their riders including their leader before the race even starts if they don’t even bother to try and chase. No in between.
 
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yaco

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Typical Jayco, they either use all their riders including their leader before the race even starts if they don’t even bother to try and chase. No in between.
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The women's team is a worry. They can't get the best Aussie riders into the team, they lost decent riders in the off-season who have not been replaced. Their race strategy and placement of riders continues to be confusing. They had to bring Mavi Garcia for this race as Willunga Hill suits her characteristics, yet, she is riding the Trofeo races next week for the spanish team. Anyway, getting Gene bates back should see an improvement in the future.
 
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Mina.S

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The women's team is a worry. They can't get the best Aussie riders into the team, they lost decent riders in the off-season who have not been replaced. Their race strategy and placement of riders continues to be confusing. They had to bring Mavi Garcia for this race as Willunga Hill suits her characteristics, yet, she is riding the Trofeo races next week for the spanish team. Anyway, getting Gene bates back should see an improvement in the future.
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I feel like this is exactly my comments about them at the end of last year. They also lost more experience than they have gained over the past few years and pretty much all those people look happier in another team.

Garcia is still good for willunga hill but she is really not that young. You can’t build your whole team around her especially when she didn’t look that good in the grand tours last year. Domestiques don’t like working for leaders who get dropped before they do on climbs.

I found the comments from riders who left the team last year but staying was there first option very interesting. All basically said they wanted to stay but other teams came in with better offers earlier and Jayco just kind of expected everyone would stay and didn’t extend people until quite late in the season.

I hope they can improve their season outlook but it’s pretty disheartening.
 
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Yes I know it was late or early really but the bit I saw was enough to put me to sleep 😴 and such a weird landscape too, the brief tourist clips of the bits they were riding through made it look much better than the post apocalypse Mad Max style roads they were on
 
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