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Reminds me of tennis.So I'll guess you stop watching cycling when Valverde quits?
I mean if you didn't like these races then you can't possibly be a cycling fan. Just a 1 rider fan.
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Reminds me of tennis.So I'll guess you stop watching cycling when Valverde quits?
I mean if you didn't like these races then you can't possibly be a cycling fan. Just a 1 rider fan.
So I'll guess you stop watching cycling when Valverde quits?
I mean if you didn't like these races then you can't possibly be a cycling fan. Just a 1 rider fan.
Please never be in charge of the extreme weather protocol, Koronin.
A light rain is fine, but NOT racing in a monsoon. This was basically the same as telling a college or NFL team to play a football game in the middle of a hurricane. Stupid at best.
The roads were fine on the whole, bar a small flooded section on top of the climb which was well marshalled and riders slowed down. They did the correct thing this morning in taking out the problem areas and avoiding them.
A light rain is fine, but NOT racing in a monsoon. This was basically the same as telling a college or NFL team to play a football game in the middle of a hurricane. Stupid at best.
So far you have been the only one. You sound like a 1 rider fan only.Worst week of worlds racing in a long time if not ever.
It should NOT have been raced in these conditions. These conditions are good ONLY for causing injury and illness to riders.
So far you have been the only one. You sound like a 1 rider fan only.
Weather was not good and I don't like it either. But race was really good.
It’s an outdoor event, you get wind, rain and sometimes snow.
Sport is tough, it isn’t a tea party.
Koronin wait until the Wollongong in 2021 - You'll probably find that with the poor performance of Matthews today, a flat course will be presented for Ewan.
Anyway my main takeaway is that circuit races are almost all terrible, and you're mostly dependent on weather. Maybe you instead make it like de Ronde but I guess that's logistically impossible.
I really just want to know how Innsbruck would've been without that hellhole climb or whatever it was called
I phrased that poorly. I've held that opinion for a long time.Why is that your take? You didn't get the chance to see how this race would have played out in good weather. Certainly it wouldn't just have been a roll-around for an eventual sprint.
I phrased that poorly. I've held that opinion for a long time.
With good weather this could've been better than most because of the techincality and irregularity, and with the bigger climbs before the main route. But if the main difficulty is only 8km from the finish the biggest favorites can wait that long and I really dislike that.
Maybe it woudl be interesting if 2020 had an easier circuit with some real bigass climbs in run in instead of just a hard climb in the circuit.
No.If it had been sunny, we likely WOULD have gotten a good race from this circuit. It was well designed, just had horrible weather and that usually makes for poor racing.
No.
It.
Doesn’t.
It can. It didn’t today. No amount of you saying it did will change that.
What? Some of the most memorable racing days in the history of cycling involved bad weather conditions (much worse than today, by the way; today was rather mild all things considered). Except for strong headwinds, most instances of bad weather make races better, not worse, because they make them both harder and more open. This is one hell of a bad take.If it had been sunny, we likely WOULD have gotten a good race from this circuit. It was well designed, just had horrible weather and that usually makes for poor racing.
What? Some of the most memorable racing days in the history of cycling involved bad weather conditions (much worse than today, by the way; today was rather mild all things considered). Except for strong headwinds, most instances of bad weather make races better, not worse, because they make them both harder and more open. This is one hell of a bad take.
Remember, that in Koronin's case, good racing is races Valverde wins.
She has also said before that she thinks the Tour is less prestigious than the Tour of California.
So it's pretty difficult to discuss topics like these with her because the foundations of our understandings and opinions differ quite vastly.