UAE Tour 2021, February 21 - February 27

[Mayomaniac]

Tiberi inside the top 20 in his first stage race as a pro against a good field, that's a decent result.
How much of a factor was the wind? I'm asking because Pozzovivo finished ahead of guys that he has no buisness beating in a short, flat ITT.

 

[perico]

Meanwhile-
78th Meintjes, Louis +1:34”
83rd Froome, Chris +1:36”

 

[tobydawq]

We are talking here about Adam Yates not Simon

And he will need to get very nuclear to beat Pog

Like last year?

 

[tobydawq]

Tiberi inside the top 20 in his first stage race as a pro against a good field, that's a decent result.
How much of a factor was the wind? I'm asking because Pozzovivo finished ahead of guys that he has no buisness beating in a short, flat ITT.

A pretty big factor for Tiberi...

You know he was blown off his bike as he went over the line, right?

 

[Mayomaniac]

A pretty big factor for Tiberi...

You know he was blown off his bike as he went over the line, right?

Yeah, I just saw the footage after posting here.

 

[Lequack]

Colombian and World champ jersey are too similar. Who is the real World champ and who is the Colombian?

 

[spalco]

83rd Froome, Chris +1:36”

Well that makes one hopeful for his comeback, maybe he'll make it into the top half of the field by the time he's 50.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Colombian and World champ jersey are too similar. Who is the real World champ and who is the Colombian?

I might be going out on a limb here, but I reckon it's the guy with the colours of the Colombian flag, who's the Colombian.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I might be going out on a limb here, but I reckon it's the guy with the colours of the Colombian flag, who's the Colombian.

They both have the colors of the Colombian flag.

I'm not wrong.

 

[Escarabajo]

They both have the colors of the Colombian flag.

I'm not wrong.

The big yellow is what does it for me!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They both have the colors of the Colombian flag.

I'm not wrong.

I did realise that, so I guess I just added to the confusion instead of helping. Silly me.

 

[RedheadDane]

The big yellow is what does it for me!

The black and the green part on Ganna's skinsuit also helps. I suspect seeing them next to each other might also help clear up any confusion.

So... Ganna won an ITT? Now, that's some Porte-on-Willunga-Hill level of surprising.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I did realise that, so I guess I just added to the confusion instead of helping. Silly me.

Let's just say i wanted to know what it felt like to be RedheadDane, so i beat her to the punch.

 

[Ulle97]

Well that makes one hopeful for his comeback, maybe he'll make it into the top half of the field by the time he's 50.

I'd love to see Froome be competitive again with the front group, but we've waited for a good few races now and things don't look to be improving. It is still early in the season so we won't write him off just yet.

 

[RedheadDane]

Let's just say i wanted to know what it felt like to be RedheadDane, so i beat her to the punch.

Now, now, now. I'm the corrects-people's-spelling-and-grammar-mistakes person! And I definitely wouldn't have an issue telling the two kits apart; too many differences in the details.

 

[search]

A pretty big factor for Tiberi...

You know he was blown off his bike as he went over the line, right?

I don't think it was caused by the wind, though? Looked more like his chain dropped, causing him to lose balance when his pedal push went into nowhere

 

[johnymax]

My bet for today:

1: F. Ganna
2: M. Bjerg
3: S. Bissegger

Good try but you were completely wrong

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Now, now, now. I'm the corrects-people's-spelling-and-grammar-mistakes person! And I definitely wouldn't have an issue telling the two kits apart; too many differences in the details.

Talking about "last year" two days before newyear had nothing to do with spelling or grammar, yet you went on about that for a couple of pages. To me, you're more the "everybody understands the context and knows what is meant, but technically there's an inaccuracy to exploit" person. But i say this with all the love in the world, don't worry

 

[RedheadDane]

Talking about "last year" two days before newyear had nothing to do with spelling or grammar, yet you went on about that for a couple of pages. To me, you're more the "everybody understands the context and knows what is meant, but technically there's an inaccuracy to exploit" person. But i say this with all the love in the world, don't worry

Just because the rest of you need a couple of weeks to switch from "this year" to "last year".

 

[Offline]

Good try but you were completely wrong

DAMNNN! I was so close

 

[memyselfandI]

Well that makes one hopeful for his comeback, maybe he'll make it into the top half of the field by the time he's 50.

He was 4 sec faster than Kuss and told some time ago that his recovery and l/r balance is good, let's wait and see if we have something coming, thumbs up..

 

[tobydawq]

I don't think it was caused by the wind, though? Looked more like his chain dropped, causing him to lose balance when his pedal push went into nowhere

You're probably right. If wind could do that, it would be seen more frequently (it did remind me a bit of López' Giro crash, though).

 

[Lequack]

Move over, the future is now, old young man!

 

[Lequack]

Also, Tadej Pogacar is still the current Slovenian ITT national champion. And his bike reflects that, but he was wearing the young leader's jersey on behald of David Dekker (Almeida was wearing the points yersey)

 

[Krzysztof_O]

As expected Filippo "the Tank Engine" won the TT. A decent (but not very good) performance by Pogacar (almost 2 sec/km behind the winner) . Almeida very close behind him - they should be fighting for the GC in the mountains but Poga is the favourite ofc.