UAE Tour 2022, February 20 - February 26

[Samu Cuenca]

Van Poppel used like three quarters of the road in that sprint.

 

[Red Rick]

Honestly relegation worthy deviation from Philipsen

 

[Wvv]

Honestly relegation worthy deviation

Not at all. He keeps the side.

 

[Red Rick]

Not at all. He keeps the side.

He starts his sprint int he middle of the road and squeezes in everyone to his right.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Naa stop this sprinting police thing. 50% of sprint winners will get relegated like this. Doesn't do anything wrong at all.

I disagreed with both those relegations too, just highlighting the mess that the current application of the rules is creating.

 

[topcat]

Less than a month to go till the greatest one day race in cycling.

 

[AlfaLum]

Philipsen should get relegated for this. Clearly doesn’t keep his line and closes the door on a Groenewegen that was already next to him with his front wheel.

just two pictures needed to prove why:

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[Red Rick]

Alpecin needed this one after a pretty bad start of the season.



Naa stop this sprinting police thing. 50% of sprint winners will get relegated like this. Doesn't do anything wrong at all.

Except almost Groenewegening Groenewegen. Coudln't be more obvious too that he started when he noticed Groenewegen coming from behind.

It's hilariuos how results oriented this is. Someone crashes and we're screaming bloody murder, but if people don't nearly get killed it's ridiculous cause then we can relegate 50% of sprints.

I don't mind relegating 50% of sprints cause we've encouraged dirty sprinting for too damn long.

 

[F_Cance]

philipsen always so dirty in his sprints but somehow always gets away with it

 

[hayneplane]

Cavendish with the tutorial in "how to get boxed in from every single angle"

Was quite funny that with a motorway width road one of the best of all time still managed to get himself stuck in .

 

[Red Rick]

Was quite funny that with a motorway width road one of the best of all time still managed to get himself stuck in .

It's pretty normal that these super wide roads have messy sprints.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Also looks to me as though the bollards weren't quite straight, instead narrowing the road a bit right near the end? Most clearly visible at the zebra crossing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Who was the rider Groenewegen nearly got into a fight with?

 

[Salvarani]

Cavendish got lost, but he didnt have best lead-out here either. They dont have the best team here to compete. Vernon and Van Tricht looked like they struggled big time to stay at the front and were overpowered easily here. They probably need a little bit more time and experience.

I think he will be better off just following and trusting Morkov to get him in the right position and using one of the other sprint-trains instead, if he wants a chance to win a stage here.

Or they will continue with the younger guys trying to do the lead-out. It could be a good learning experience and Cav might still be feeling a bit iffy from the crash in Oman. Just get some more racing miles and a good result is bonus.

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[limak_]

Who was the rider Groenewegen nearly got into a fight with?

Wasn't that Barbier from Israel?

 

[AlfaLum]

Who was the rider Groenewegen nearly got into a fight with?

Barbier first took the wheel of Bike Exchange leadout and then gave Groenewegen a shoulder after that I think.

 

[yaco]

Seemed like Groenewegen was the fastest in the sprint but had no luck on his side - His sprint team is strong and they should get him a win on one of the remaining sprint stages.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Barbier first took the wheel of Bike Exchange leadout and then gave Groenewegen a shoulder after that I think.

Well I think they both made contacts, but the last one from Barbier was definitely worse than anything Philipsen did.

 

[limak_]

but the last one from Barbier was definitely worse than anything Philipsen did.

Well, while Barbier's moves ultimately didn't have any impact on the results, Philipsen by his swerve has propably taken the victory from Groenewegen.

 

[Volderke]

I am 50/50 about Philipsen and relegation.
The fact he did it to Groenewegen tipped the balance in his favour.
There wasn't a protest so all is relatively fine.

But if this was the Tour, I feel Groenewegen / BikeExchange would formally protest.

 

[limak_]

I am 50/50 about Philipsen and relegation.
The fact he did it to Groenewegen tipped the balance in his favour.
There wasn't a protest so all is relatively fine.

But if this was the Tour, I feel Groenewegen / BikeExchange would formally protest.

Making a protest or not, doing it to Groenewegen or to anyone else have nothing to do with the objective assesment of the situation. Philipsen clearly deviated his line and this move had probably an impact on the final result so there'd be every reason to relegate him. The other thing is the relegation policy is as we know very inconsistent and we've seen guys doing much worse things than Philipsen today and getting away with it.

 

[Volderke]

Making a protest or not, doing it to Groenewegen or to anyone else have nothing to do with the objective assesment of the situation. ...

ofcourse not, if I wasn't clear: doing it to Groenewegen and approving this, is my very subjective judgement. I wouldn't want him (or anyone) to crash because of closing the door, though, and I wish Groenewegen loads of wins in clean sprints.

 

[AlfaLum]

Making a protest or not, doing it to Groenewegen or to anyone else have nothing to do with the objective assesment of the situation. Philipsen clearly deviated his line and this move had probably an impact on the final result so there'd be every reason to relegate him. The other thing is the relegation policy is as we know very unconsistent and we've seen guys doing much worse things than Philipsen today and getting away with it.

Yeah it is a shame that the jury doesn’t relegate Philipsen. After multiple relegation this year I thought we almost got to a level where putting your colleagues in danger meant a DSQ. Now a couple of weeks into the season we already have inconsistent decision making on our hands again.

 

[Lequack]

Pogacar: "And then I told them: come to UAE, it's that not hot here"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1495118599308169219

View: https://twitter.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/1495118599308169219?s=20&t=glaxyCSLbc1a-IqJYdeGKQ

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Haha, that‘s Pogi as we know him… Being exactly the same he was before this winter:

Few hairs protrude through the helmet. The face is soft, with a slight grin. The tan is nearly non-existent, and the arms and legs look butter-soft.

Now I expect him to almost beat Ganna in the ITT and to beat the best climbers on the two MTFs.

Yes, hair and fat are where the should be. Oh boy, I'm already feeling for his rivals this year.