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Unterlenkerfahrend

Unterlenkerfahrend

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Ackermann as usual opening waaay to early. Van Poppel really is a beast, almost winning this. Nice for BEX after the *** news with Yates today. Merlier should be disappointed not to have won a sprint yet, before the Vuelta I thought he was the favorite for most sprint stages.
 
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That was an excellent leadout by BEX - Groves issue has always been positioning ( usually not the fault of his team ), however he showed in stage two and three that he has enough raw speed to win a GT sprint - It's a pity he is leaving the team - Anyway, BEX has to be happy with 6 GT stage wins so far in 2022.
 
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YavorD said:
If Covid is not a thing for the general public and people don't get tester regularly, should not be a problem for cycling as well.

Otherwise you make a race (okay, pre-race and post-race) amongst untested, potentially infectious people/crowds putting riderriders at risk getting it and leaving the race.

Seriously, don't know how anyone feels, but I'm certain if it wasn't Covid most of the riders would carry on riding, as it's probably mild symptoms.
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Actually, I’ve heard several broadcast commentators (former riders) say that typically if a rider gets sick during a grand tour they are not going to get better during the GT because of how taxing the 3 weeks of racing are in their bodies. So regardless of testing, any riders that became symptomatic because of COVID—but particularly someone with a fever likes Yates—we’re going to perform well below capabilities when healthy. In the pre-no-needles days, riders were given Injections of antibiotics just for a common cold in an attempt to maintain high performance. And we know numerous riders perform like sh$t due to allergies.

My point is that some you are creating this story the race being degraded because of COVID regulations, when in fact any of the riders who’ve become symptomatic were likely going to have performance drops and become non-factors, just as they would have if this were a different illness. Yeah, COVID restrictions impact the race to a degree, like they have for all of our lives. It not to the degree some of you are making it out to be. If Yates and Sivakov are sick, regardless of what they are sick with, they would no longer be major factors in the race.
 
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Breezy1985

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Sciatic said:
Actually, I’ve heard several broadcast commentators (former riders) say that typically if a rider gets sick during a grand tour they are not going to get better during the GT because of how taxing the 3 weeks of racing are in their bodies. So regardless of testing, any riders that became symptomatic because of COVID—but particularly someone with a fever likes Yates—we’re going to perform well below capabilities when healthy. In the pre-no-needles days, riders were given Injections of antibiotics just for a common cold in an attempt to maintain high performance. And we know numerous riders perform like sh$t due to allergies.

My point is that some you are creating this story the race being degraded because of COVID regulations, when in fact any of the riders who’ve become symptomatic were likely going to have performance drops and become non-factors, just as they would have if this were a different illness. Yeah, COVID restrictions impact the race to a degree, like they have for all of our lives. It not to the degree some of you are making it out to be. If Yates and Sivakov are sick, regardless of what they are sick with, they would no longer be major factors in the race.
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Yes exactly. It is just like the rider getting a flu and dropping out but the difference is this is very contagious so 20 riders get this flu.
 
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memyselfandI said:
Well that's a bit harsh kinda.. First of all he is not and he's already ways above overall points over Hamilton. And he's not that fragile as Hamilton was and much more. Hamilton was excellent, but Alaphilippe is more than that. They're not the same. Just sad that he's found such a bad luck lately.
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It was meant to be humorous, in so far as both have shown a propensity for failing to stay upright on the bike. Beyond that, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
 
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Congratulations to Kaden Groves for winning the stage.

As a whole this stage was rather good but the Eurosport commentators were killing the mood. Being bored. A lot of kilometers in hot weather. Over landscape of a rather spiritual proportions. A great stage for opening the second part of this years Vuelta edition. Too bad for Alaphilippe. Luckily nothing broken and hopefully to heal soon. Sprint was rather intense. JV did a good job at the end of the stage and i noticed Rogla took over and could cope just fine for a final kilometer or so. The form is there. Looking forward to the following days. Starting tomorrow with a nice running up that hill.
 
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