Tour of Poland (Tour de Pologne) August 12 to 18, 2024

[Coffeeplanter]

THI-BAU! THI-BAU! THI-BAU!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

That‘s definitely not how you film a sprint with that sort of helicopter picture delay.

 

[Lequack]

Great job by Visma and UAE to lead out Nys.

 

[Rob5091]

What a win - Nyss gets third win at Poland as everyone sat and looked at each other ... chapeau!

 

[Netserk]

Meh. Stage 1 had the best finish this week. Pothole in the ITT decided the overall.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Meh. Stage 1 had the best finish this week. Pothole in the ITT decided the overall.

I feel like this is Poland every year, on paper it looks kinda good, but its just too easy usually.

 

[Squire]

This stage could have benefited from a couple more times up that steep climb. All GC road stages has had very same-y finishes.

 

[E_F_]

They need to get some cobbles involved! (And the toughest/steepest climbs).

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Thibau is probably the biggest favorite in Plouay next week. Be interesting to see how he will handle that status after 6 hours on the bike. No more sitting back, he will have to carry the race.

 

[Anderis]

I feel like this is Poland every year, on paper it looks kinda good, but its just too easy usually.

It doesn't look good on paper, you can see that the stages are too easy and basically just uphill sprints.

Between 2014 and 2019 the Bukowina stage was up and down from the start and that was good. Recent years not so much. The problem is that Poland is too flat and cities or towns have to pay to host the start/finish otherwise the race wouldn't be able to sustain itself financially, so that really limits the terrain that can be used for more difficult climbs, of which there are not many in Poland (especially if you're looking for something with good roads and good infrastructure nearby).

 

[Didinho]

Another one Thibau. They’re good at giving him smaller races where he’s almost guaranteed a stage win. Triple crown.

 

[Netserk]

It doesn't look good on paper, you can see that the stages are too easy and basically just uphill sprints.

Between 2014 and 2019 the Bukowina stage was up and down from the start and that was good. Recent years not so much. The problem is that Poland is too flat and cities or towns have to pay to host the start/finish otherwise the race wouldn't be able to sustain itself financially, so that really limits the terrain that can be used for more difficult climbs, of which there are not many in Poland (especially if you're looking for something with good roads and good infrastructure nearby).

I think it's mostly fine for what it is, given the constraints. But it would help a lot if just one of the hilly stages wasn't an uphill sprint.

 

[Red Rick]

It doesn't look good on paper, you can see that the stages are too easy and basically just uphill sprints.

Between 2014 and 2019 the Bukowina stage was up and down from the start and that was good. Recent years not so much. The problem is that Poland is too flat and cities or towns have to pay to host the start/finish otherwise the race wouldn't be able to sustain itself financially, so that really limits the terrain that can be used for more difficult climbs, of which there are not many in Poland (especially if you're looking for something with good roads and good infrastructure nearby).

I think on stages like today you just have to do more laps of the hard circuit.

Also Poland used to have the 230km stages for fun.

 

[RJH]

Onley and Vingegaard always are equally strong in autumn.

 

[scribers]

Still summer

 

[RJH]

Still summer

For me everything after the Tour is autumn…

 

[scribers]

Mads crash got me thinking we need an all-crash first team. Him and roglic for sure

 

[Rob5091]

Stage 7 final stage - Wieliczka to Krakow 142.1 km, start 13.40 CET, TV from 13.30 CET. A few lumpy bits for the break to form, a couple of sprints, then some laps around Krakow. Just think, if Nys could TT a bit, this race would be long over with. As it is Vingegaard should complete the GC win, barring accidents, and the 2019 disaster will be just a bad memory.

 

[shadowrider]

No surprise that Melier as he has been the best performed sprinter this year. His issue is will he ever ride the TDF ? Surely a team must have considered buying him out of his contract.

He already participated at the Tour in 2021 and won the third stage.

 

[RedheadDane]

Cavagna out front.
Chased by Archie, another EF, and a Pole.
Not chased by the peloton.

 

[tobydawq]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824868453548999047

View: https://x.com/LidlTrek/status/1824868453548999047?t=maDZ88zPu8nB7a9E6enWgQ&s=19


It turns out that ilmaestro is in fact Benji Naesen while I apparently am a Lidl-Trek communications worker.

(Although, in fact, Benji totally has a point).

 

[Rob5091]

Nyss is only 21 and did cyclocross during the Winter so it's not smart to think he's going to do a full road program.

 

[tobydawq]

Nyss is only 21 and did cyclocross during the Winter so it's not smart to think he's going to do a full road program.

I think the problem is the races he has done who have been a little low-quality. But granted, if a rider only starts the season in late April, there is a limit to what his season can look like, especially if you for some reason don't want to put him in a Grand Tour.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nicki Sørensen: I'm trying to insert some excitement here! (about whether the break will be caught.)

 

[yaco]

He already participated at the Tour in 2021 and won the third stage.

Yet. he contested one sprint and won, then he was forced to lead out Philipsen. The fact is that he has contested one TDF sprint in his career.