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

[Keldergoat]

Wilco's misery is reaching freaking cinema levels. Pretty sure some arthouse director can make the saddest movie ever on his career and crashes.

 

[tobydawq]

When they said Vingo is fat..I knew it was a trap.

You think he would usually lose to Wellens on an MTT?

 

[tobydawq]

Wilco's misery is reaching freaking cinema levels. Pretty sure some arthouse director can make the saddest movie ever on his career and crashes.

At least he lost the one Grand Tour he contended to win on legs and not a crash or bad luck.

 

[Rob5091]

Congrats to Wellens on the win, but Visma 1,2 on GC but that means lots of attacks by UAE for the rest of the week. Could be some fun viewing.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Battle of the young puncheurs tomorrow: Nys, Nerurkar and Christen? UAE have lots of cards to play as usual, hopefully its more than a 1 km explosion

 

[Netserk]

It will be hard to beat Ulissi tomorrow, but I still think Keldermerckx can Kuss this bike race!

 

[Samamba]

Battle of the young puncheurs tomorrow: Nys, Nerurkar and Christen? UAE have lots of cards to play as usual, hopefully its more than a 1 km explosion

If this is the same finish where I think Majka won last year it's more about battle for positioning and legs barely matter

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Bilbao also with a horribe TT, didn't even make the top 100

Why is he always doing these Mickey mouse races in the end of season, especially after leaving the tour with an ilnees? Man go to veulta to get a good level for world and lombardia!!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Since I know Red Rick is the biggest fan of Felix Grosschartner, do you have any explanation as to why he can't do this when he sits in front of a peloton and chasing randoms for Pogi in GTs?

 

[Rou]

Wellens receiving a huge trophy like he won the Champions League Final. What is this? LOL

 

[memyselfandI]

You think he would usually lose to Wellens on an MTT?

I think during last 4 months he's dug himself to a hole at least as deep and crashed at least as hard as Wellens in racing and training tbf. Probably this is training for him.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Since I know Red Rick is the biggest fan of Felix Grosschartner, do you have any explanation as to why he can't do this when he sits in front of a peloton and chasing randoms for Pogi in GTs?

Maybe he can only do it on 15k stages?

 

[Peyroteo94]

You think he would usually lose to Wellens on an MTT?

Seriously... I don't even know what cycling some people are watching... a decent Vingegaard would put a minute on Wellens today.

 

[Netserk]

Since I know Red Rick is the biggest fan of Felix Grosschartner, do you have any explanation as to why he can't do this when he sits in front of a peloton and chasing randoms for Pogi in GTs?

Other than the opening weekend of the Giro, has he not done that quite well?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Other than the opening weekend of the Giro, has he not done that quite well?

Not really, everytime he was in the front, the break pretty much gained time. It got quite close on a few occasions when it really shouldn't have because he really couldn't push out the proper watts!

 

[Hugh Januss]

He's just super preoccuped with Kelderman and Vingegaard, and I have found that quite annoying. Granted, only watched (listened rather) to 15 min yesterday and 30 min today, but I guess its not too terrible.

Nothing, I just felt like mentioning it. I love my 00's era, you know that

TBF they are sitting first and second overall?

 

[KZD]

Wellens is becoming really good in these sort of uphill drag TT's, he had already won in Andalusia this year.

Regrding the GC, with Kelderman 's mishap this is Vingegaard's race to lose now.

As for Nys, I really hope that he didn't go all out otherwise this was a Sosa level TT.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Isn't posting controversial stuff just because it's "fun" literally the definition of trolling?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Isn't posting controversial stuff just because it's "fun" literally the definition of trolling?

I don't post controversial stuff for fun

My opinions are my opinions and genuine. In this case it was that I wished pello focussed on other races, bigger races, in this part of the season. It annoys me that he does tour of Poland, which I consider to be a weak race in the WT.

This is why I call it Mickey mouse, which is a fun way to express that, there is literally no point to be here if we can't joke around a little bit. These forums are a nice little opportunity for self expression relating to a unique interest, they are not some g20 summit or somwthing
Cheers. Regard ilmaestro

 

[Netserk]

UAE gonna create havoc tomorrow

+0'25", 3rd: Ulissi
+0'50", 10th: Großschartner
+1'12", 16th: Wellens
+1'23", 19th: Majka

The penultimate climb that they do twice is roughly 7 km at 5 %. No carnage tomorrow.

 

[tobydawq]

I don't post controversial stuff for fun

My opinions are my opinions and genuine. In this case it was that I wished pello focussed on other races, bigger races, in this part of the season. It annoys me that he does tour of Poland, which I consider to be a weak race in the WT.

This is why I call it Mickey mouse, which is a fun way to express that, there is literally no point to be here if we can't joke around a little bit. These forums are a nice little opportunity for self expression relating to a unique interest, they are not some g20 summit or somwthing
Cheers. Regard ilmaestro

It certainly is a weak race for the WorldTour and I would also prefer to see him do the Vuelta if he had the shape but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.

But you did also refer to the Vuelta as a Mickey Mouse race recently so I was just wondering why everything was worthless to you. But maybe there isn't the biggest system to the comments.

 

[Netserk]

I was thinking much furter from finish line. 2km 10% at 90k to go

You're telling me that Wellens will ride away with Kelderman there and that no team will be able to chase them down?

 

[Rob5091]

As we're already chatting about Wednesday's stage 3, here's the details -

Walbrzych to Duszniki-Zdroj , 156.5 km, start at 12.35 CET, TV from 12.20 CET (tune in early if you can 'cause it'll be hard from km 0). 3100 meters of climbing in 156.5 km will be tough for some.

Preview from https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-and-defend-race-lead-in-roller-coaster-stage
The depart in Walbrzych features right away a 1.3-kilometer ascent at 7.4% and 2.6Km at 6.9%... After that there are three second category ascents (and a difficult non-categorized one) which will make any chase difficult. Strong groups may gain advantage that will be hard to bring back. The most difficult of which is 2 kilometers long at 9.7%. Towards the final third of the stage there is a small section where it is possible to reorganize before the final ascents, but it is a difficult one to control.

The ascent to Karlow is 7 kilometers long at 5%, finishing with 18.5 kilometers to go, with a plateau right after the top. After a small descent the peloton still faces an explosive hilltop finish where in one way or another differences are promised and a thrilling finish is likely. The final 900 meters average 8% and the gradients go up to 14% before gradually coming down to the finish line.

(If the finish is the same as last year, it's no more then a footpath on the last climb so being at the front is cruical. Also only two riders per team are authorised to use earpieces (those riders will be identified with Yellow bib numbers.)

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Nicki Sørensen or Lars Fink?

Nicki might be the most boring commentator in history.

Asbjørn Kragh Andersen would like a word with you.

 

[Hugh Januss]

I don't post controversial stuff for fun

My opinions are my opinions and genuine. In this case it was that I wished pello focussed on other races, bigger races, in this part of the season. It annoys me that he does tour of Poland, which I consider to be a weak race in the WT.

This is why I call it Mickey mouse, which is a fun way to express that, there is literally no point to be here if we can't joke around a little bit. These forums are a nice little opportunity for self expression relating to a unique interest, they are not some g20 summit or somwthing
Cheers. Regard ilmaestro

Tour of Poland is not Mickey Mouse, Froome isn't even here.