Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2024 (March 18-24)

[Gratemans]

Vine is a niche rider, useful for teams like Alpecin, Cofidis, Intermarché... but totally useless for a Visma/Bora/UAE kind of structure.

This^

Aside from his usual crashing at every corner, Vine seems just too fragile for the spring races in Europe, all these injuries, illnesses, struggling in the cold.

He performs well outside of Europe or on a few Vuelta stages when it's warm. Last year he skipped Algarve, Tirreno, Catalunya, was useless in the giro. And again this spring is a disaster. Same story in 2022.

UAE has enough climbing stars already, imagine if they have Vine's contract to a guy like Cattaneo for example.

What a useless rider.

And, although that last statement is a bit too harsh (useless for UAE perhaps), this too.

 

[Nick2413]

Was there a split in the peloton that led to the attack? Can’t take everything on PCS without context

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogi is racing this like a training ride.

 

[yaf]

@mou as pog and novak are trained by sola it seems like they were doing an FTP session mid race. That would be embarrassing for the peleton🤭

 

[veganrob]

Lmao. Get in here. @mou

Please, no

 

[mou]

@mou as pog and novak are trained by sola it seems like they were doing an FTP session mid race. That would be embarrassing for the peleton🤭

yes, Sola is training them both and Pog is losing his form with these ciciban stages, etapa was excellent yesterday, good training and pace...

 

[Didinho]

Were there any boni seconds or so? He's just trying to win a stage race like Van Eetvelt.

 

[search]

Was there a split in the peloton that led to the attack? Can’t take everything on PCS without context

there isn't really much information yet, I think. Apart from the fact that Matxin was very amused

 

[search]

Were there any boni seconds or so? He's just trying to win a stage race like Van Eetvelt.

no, the breakaway had a 5+ minute advantage at that point already

edit: which may also be the reason he attacked, I guess. That gap established in ~10k, so the peloton must have been really slow, and he decided to have some fun.

 

[Froome]

there isn't really much information yet, I think. Apart from the fact that Matxin was very amused

Look how Matxin try with his hand to sabotage Pogacar.

 

[Blanco]

those who milked cows and goats in the morning, played a game of ballots after lunch and then "raced", those are the kind of farmers

You mean Van Looy, Gimondi, Poulidor, Ocana, De Vlaeminck, Maertens? That kind of farmers?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

there isn't really much information yet, I think. Apart from the fact that Matxin was very amused

You can see the fear and stress on Pogi's face, trying desperate moves because he knows he needs to do something to make up those 2 seconds to Nick Schultz.

 

[mou]

there isn't really much information yet, I think. Apart from the fact that Matxin was very amused

this is Pogi telling you to turn on the TV at 16:00 and bow to @mou

 

[Salvarani]

there isn't really much information yet, I think. Apart from the fact that Matxin was very amused

Pog is the happy and greeting one!

Not the angry and arm-waving one.

 

[Froome]

You mean Van Looy, Gimondi, Poulidor, Ocana, De Vlaeminck, Maertens? That kind of farmers?

Also Joaquim Agostinho.

 

[Izzyeviel]

I'm not sure whats worse, sites that won't let me use them because I won't disable ad block or sites like procyclingstats constantly throwing up pop ups asking me politely to disable adblock.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Gils started today after all, it seems.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770010684740317323

View: https://twitter.com/lotto_dstny/status/1770010684740317323

 

[Netserk]

Seems Pogi was full of ***:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770054447839768746

View: https://twitter.com/LEtapaReina/status/1770054447839768746

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Pogacar is just helping Catalan farmers to fertilise

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770076903224881538

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1770076903224881538

 

[topcat]

Rumour has it that the forum is going to catch rabies at 4 p.m.

 

[chickenlips]

So Pog only need a 1.10 gap to have a dump. He needs to eat more.

 

[bNator]

So Pog only need a 1.10 gap to have a dump. He needs to eat more.

What did you expect - a champion of his stature to be bad at taking a dump?

 

[Stasat]

What did you expect - a champion of his stature to be bad at taking a dump?

1400w dump. At least he has a higher w/kg now, marginal gains from a marginal loss

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

What did you expect - a champion of his stature to be bad at taking a dump?

In his team, he is known as the dumpling.

 

[Salvarani]

What did you expect - a champion of his stature to be bad at taking a dump?

The greatest doing legendary things!