Tour of Norway 2024, May 23-26

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Nice race. Will be interesting to see if Holter and Lemmen (or Brenner?) can drop Nys tomorrow when its a 5,5 km 8,8% climb at the end.

 

[Tim Cahill]

So what does this tell us about Wout's form? Can he build up until the Tour?

Looking crap on purpose so he doesn't have to carry Vingegaard's bags and can focus on the Olympics instead

 

[Froome]

So what does this tell us about Wout's form? Can he build up until the Tour?

I think he was very decent today, after what's happened to him.

 

[Norbea]

Some questionable riding from UNO-X and Dversnes who set the tempo with 2 Trek on his wheel and then only the 2 Trek could follow and Dversnes just stopped puling. He needs to have his team mates on his wheel when he sets the pace like that. No he just set Trek up for the win.

Ådne Holter wasn´t pleased about it in the post race interview, but he also said "Cycling isn´t easy and if it was I probably wouldn´t do it"

 

[Froome]

Looking crap on purpose so he doesn't have to carry Vingegaard's bags and can focus on the Olympics instead

He can do both!

 

[Tim Cahill]

He can do both!

Looking forward to the road race, Evenepoel going in an early breakaway with 200k to go with Patrick Gamper, Mohammad Almutaiwei and some Syrian refugees 'to put pressure on other teams and help Wout'.

 

[Ricco']

Nice one from Nys, a shame they didn’t ride the Giro with him this year. Vuelta is probably too late in the season and conflicts with his CX preparations

I would ditch the start of the CX season, when he should be one of Trek's best bets for those lesser late summer WT classics like Plouay or Canada (even more with Skjelmose and Pedersen scheduled to race the Vuelta) there's no need of missing that for some random Ethias crosses.

Plus, with this kind of climbing legs, wouldn't U23 Road World Championships be a goal to him?

 

[Samamba]

This might be the worst climbing field in a European .Pro race I've ever seen.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Magnus Cort has absolutely swindled UNO-X for millions, good man, the Norweigan Winston Bogarde.

 

[Wvv]

Nys and Vinokourov both win today. Is it September 2005?

 

[RedheadDane]

Magnus Cort has absolutely swindled UNO-X for millions, good man, the Norweigan Winston Bogarde.

Whole spring was a little "thumbs down" for him.
Or maybe "forced thumb(s) up, because he got it in a cast."

 

[yaco]

Based on Hungary think Nys could find the climb on stage two beyond him. I wonder how he would go at Fleche Wallone with further development.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Aert will either finish 2nd or 60th, no in between

 

[Gwbert]

Nice race. Will be interesting to see if Holter and Lemmen (or Brenner?) can drop Nys tomorrow when its a 5,5 km 8,8% climb at the end.

Probably not

 

[QueenStagiaire]

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VAN AERT Wout

Team Visma | Lease a Bike

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Nostradamus, tell me my future

Roglic will either finish 2nd or DNF at the Tour, no in between.

 

[tobydawq]

This might be the worst climbing field in a European .Pro race I've ever seen.

ZLM Toer?

 

[Volderke]

Roglic will either finish 2nd or DNF at the Tour, no in between.

We want lottery numbers, no mathematical laws.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

We want lottery numbers, no mathematical laws.

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[AmRacer]

We want lottery numbers, no mathematical laws.

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[Lequack]

Wout short interview

https://twitter.com/x/status/1793725591138812236

View: https://twitter.com/markcoyle65/status/1793725591138812236

And the winner

https://twitter.com/x/status/1793693153012171197

View: https://twitter.com/RoadCode/status/1793693153012171197

 

[Wyndbrook]

Lovely top 22 for forum favourite and British semi-cyclist Ethan Hayter!

Solid training for the big G.

 

[Unchained]

Holly f-ck!!! I have skimmed this race a few times. I came home and saw YouTube thought I should watch stage 1 highlights. I am absolutely blown away at all the photography and natural beauty. This race is gorgeous!! People along the root are drinking beer, probably other things, but there is a decent amount of snow on the ground but most people are wearing shorts and enjoying the weather.. It's like watching a post card or travel advertisement!!

 

[Rob5091]

Last 2 hours of stage 1 at

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMaiuTl2x7A


Good lead out by Vacek & Nys finished it off ... easy peasy!

 

[Volderke]

Holly f-ck!!! I have skimmed this race a few times. I came home and saw YouTube thought I should watch stage 1 highlights. I am absolutely blown away at all the photography and natural beauty. This race is gorgeous!! People along the root are drinking beer, probably other things, but there is a decent amount of snow on the ground but most people are wearing shorts and enjoying the weather.. It's like watching a post card or travel advertisement!!

it is absolutely stunning.
You can check lanterne rouge's coverage of this race, e.g. 2022 when Remco won is something I remember, not for Remco but mostly for the landscape!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isx8Eiz1kl8

 

[shadowrider]

I think there are better climbers (Lemmen, a few Norvegians...) then Nys. With great legs Nys could resist. Nys had a nice win yesterday, but I didn't have the impression he had the legs of Hungary. His period of top form has been going on for quite some time now. As a non-climber, he will have to be absolutely top to survive the steepest passages of the final climb.