It doesn’t look like it‘s raining anymore in those pictures, so it could get better.
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And... if when the race arrives in Barcelona it is no longer raining and the asphalt is in good condition... what will happen? why is this decision made now and not (for example) an hour before the end...? You cannot know now how the weather conditions will be at 5 in the afternoon
No. Too dangerous. The logical endpoint is exercise bikes in gyms. Or maybe even dialling it in from home
And the English language viewers will be guided by Carlton Kirby so we probably won’t know the outcome until the final results are published
Shouldn't matter. Don't go changing the race during the race. Thats just messing with the fans.
Anyway, rain fans should be watching the Tour of Scandinavia where its currently biblical.
So many keyboard riders risking the life of others. Everything for the spectacle, no matter what the danger. This stage would always have been about a couple of seconds max, but you rather risk injury and race ending crashes right.
The vuelta organisers are determined to undermine the prestige of their race, already this small grand tour is no longer on the level of tour or Giro. Last year they do a route easier than tour de l'avenir with 130km Hill stages and this year they just make stupid mickeymouse processional neutralised stages.
Just put the race at a normal time , not at night, and do normal stages with no neutralisation or weird gimmicks. Stop penalising riders who do well in bad weather. If the conditions are really bad during the race they can neutralise gc, but going back and forth before the start using some kind of crystal ball is stupid.
I don't wish for riders to end their race in absurd conditions, but you can't predict what will happen at the end of the day in the morning.
Things are made worse by rider representatives and organisers always pandering to random twitter users who are constantly trying to get engagement and keep recycling the same discussions
Please bring me back the big classics, tour flanders, Paris roubaix, lombardia, world championships. Real showmen of the sport pogacar, Van der poel, alaphilippe, masnada, Van baarle, sagan, remco going head to head
Just put the race at a normal time , not at night, and do normal stages with no neutralisation or weird gimmicks. Stop penalising riders who do well in bad weather. If the conditions are really bad during the race they can neutralise gc, but going back and forth before the start using some kind of crystal ball is stupid.
I don't wish for riders to end their race in absurd conditions, but you can't predict what will happen at the end of the day in the morning.
Things are made worse by rider representatives and organisers always pandering to random twitter users who are constantly trying to get engagement and keep recycling the same discussions
Please bring me back the big classics, tour flanders, Paris roubaix, lombardia, world championships. Real showmen of the sport pogacar, Van der poel, alaphilippe, masnada, Van baarle, sagan, remco going head to head
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It's also messing with the riders, who're significantly more important.
They should make a rule requiring you to ride in a closed rain jacket the entire time if a race is partially neutralised due to rain.
Who will put on a show? The GC riders will most likely take it easy, and then we are left with Gregoire, Kron and what not fighting for the stage. Might as well be stage 1 of Vuelta a Andalucia were watching.
View: https://twitter.com/lavuelta/status/1695768721908736263?t=GZCW-7V1sOmp9RJQbIBXpA&s=19
Bonuses to be maintained, whats the point of taking the GC times at 9km? What a 💩 show
Bonuses to be maintained, whats the point of taking the GC times at 9km? What a 💩 show
Oh look, an appeal to emotion. If you don't agree with the riders you must be a terrible person.
Yesterday they needed TT bikes. Today, the DS cars could bring the water bikes on the roof.
They'll probably get through it.
I mean, they have to. It's my first free 8 hours in two years, opportunity to watch full bike race.
It's enough that the broadcasters apparently drowned their brains not willing os to show us the start, but please : get it on, under all curcumstances.
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes I wonder what you do for a living.
That should make Jumbo drill the neutralised section before the climb. 16 bonus seconds is a lot on offer. If *** happens, they can just sit up again.
Seems like it has stopped raining in Barcelona after more than 10 hours of non-stop pouring. The sky is cleared up now, so probably will be a dry finish.
Yet it's fine to do a team time trail in the dark lol
Bonimenier
BANNED
I believe it's 8-5-2 seconds on Montjuïc, so 18 potential bonus seconds in total.
But it's fine to do a team time trail in the dark and wet lol. Smh
You could unbalance getting off the exercise bike and hurt yourself
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