Did Marianne Vos not turn up?
Jens Voigt's legs have been told to shut up for the last time. Unsurprisingly, he was out in the breakaway for the last stage of the US Pro Challenge.
... with Phil Brown making the long trip to the fast Hull V718 course. Phil Finished 59th, with 86 of the 143 riders posted times under 20 minutes. Full mens results.
Phil’s ride of 19m 38s is a new Senior and Vets Club 10 record.
Fantastic finish from Stannard - the Etixx/Quickstep boys must be really stunned.
Just over a year ago a young lady turned up at our winter track nights having just taken up cycling to do the Newcastle-London 24hr ride.3hour race = "classic" ?
Fast forward to today and she has just finished (which was better than half the field) her first cobbled classic.
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Le_Samyn_des_Dames_2015
OK, 94th isn't near the podium, but it is a finish. Vicariously proud of a former club member.
Great shot! What are the square things sticking out beyond their stems?
i bow down before your superior tactical analysis.
Well, for a start, they won the race.
Havent seen any coverage - what did Katusha "do right"?
Paris-Roubaix today apparently :)
So Kraftwerk Tour de France is on the radio. ;D
There are penalties in Paris-Roubaix for jumping closed level crossings. The winning breakaway got DQed a couple of years ago for that.
Meh. Closing the door on somebody in a sprint is standard practice.
Meh. Closing the door on somebody in a sprint is standard practice. Is it time to mark individual lanes in the finish straight, because that seems to be what the commissaires want?
So it looks like Kittel is replacing Cav at Ettix
Ohohohohohoho
There’s no way they [Sky] would have shut that down.
I watched the stage looking for these towing motorbikes. They are a figment of Yates' imagination.
Will the uci and race organisers now finally address the increasing number of incidents with motorbikes?
http://road.cc/content/news/184184-team-wanty-gober-rider-antoine-demoiti%C3%A9-dies-after-gent-wevelgem-crash
RIP
That's an interesting one. The injury sustained looks really horrible - really amazing that he didn't feel it at first. I suppose that's adrenaline for you. British Cycling are watching the introduction of discs into the pro-peleton to see if it is appropriate for the domestic scene. This type of injury isn't going to help in getting them approved.
Daily Mail: British Women's Olympic team are Armitstead, Harris and Pooley (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3654713/Cycling-King-hits-British-Cycling-Rio-omission.html)Seriously different course for the Olympics though.
I really hope that Hayley whups Emma Pooley in the national TT tomorrow.
Daily Mail: British Women's Olympic team are Armitstead, Harris and Pooley (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3654713/Cycling-King-hits-British-Cycling-Rio-omission.html)Seriously different course for the Olympics though.
I really hope that Hayley whups Emma Pooley in the national TT tomorrow.
2019 Road World Championships :thumbsup: After the success of the TdF and Tour de Yorkshire they should put a good show. It'll be interesting to see what route they pick for the road race. No one will be complaining about 40°C heat and a lack of crowds.... or a boring pan-flat course, I suspect :)
It was all going so well but then the wheels fell off (http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wheel-failures-decimate-team-skys-tirreno-adriatico-ambitions/)
Sagan's fault entirely. Rode into the jacket. SHame because it was an absolute cracker. One of those where you feel the pain for the last hour..Absolutely.
Here's the fall https://twitter.com/petosagan/status/848891489153404928 (https://twitter.com/petosagan/status/848891489153404928)The one of Boonen on the Kappelmuur with the fan sitting on the wall shouting his lungs out is brilliant.
There are some marvellous photos of the race here: https://cyclingtips.com/2017/04/photo-gallery-gilbert-masterclass-2017-tour-flanders/ (https://cyclingtips.com/2017/04/photo-gallery-gilbert-masterclass-2017-tour-flanders/)
Not a Wiggins interview :
https://twitter.com/RondeVlaanderen/status/1114898860869074945
Anyone else’s enjoy an Amstel Gold yesterday?Yes, both of them :demon:
Great Britain's Tom Pidcock won his first elite World Cup mountain bike race, beating Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel in the cross-country final in Nove Mesto, Croatia.
It is the first World Cup victory for a British man since 1994.
UK cycling phenom Tom Pidcock has just won the Czech Republic round of the 2021 World Cup XC series. This is the first male XC World Cup winner from Britain for 27 years. The last UK winner of World Cup XC was actually only back in 2017 when Annie Last won at Lenzerheide. The last British male World Cup XC winner was the legendary Gary Foord in Mammoth Mountain in 1994, the era of the much longer but far less technically demanding XC racing.
Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.
Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.
R Porte certainly defied expectations in the Tour last year, not for his podium finish but rather because he didn’t go home in an ambulance :demon:
Impressed that Thomas and Porte have both made it this far.
R Porte certainly defied expectations in the Tour last year, not for his podium finish but rather because he didn’t go home in an ambulance :demon:
That's it, you've jinxed him now. :demon: ;D
ETA - Unless Tom Pidcock falling off his TT bike and borking his collar bone (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57338232) this week was a case of "taking one for the team"...
Geraint Thomas crashes in the Olympics, as he does in most other races. Maybe that's why he only smiles in the Zwift adverts, where there's nothing to hit.
Good race!
Poor Yves Lampaert. :'(That's got to sting a bit. Some spectators are total idiots.
Some level-headed thoughts on the Lampaert crash from Lanterne Rouge on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GV6jO7Hta4
TL;DW: poor show by the race organisers w/r/t both the bollards on the pavement through that pavé section and the relevant rules enforcement, but otherwise just shitty luck - Lampaert understandably trying to squeeze every inch of smooth road available to him, and spectators without the twitch reactions of a racing cyclist.
[…]debateably-trousered[…]
It seemed to me at least possible that Lampaert actually rode straight at the debateably-trousered chap and just expected he would have vapourised by the time he reached the spot a nano-second later.
Geraint Thomas has managed to stay on his bike for long enough to become the first BRITON to win the Tour de Suisse.And avoid the C-word too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/61859360
Geraint Thomas has managed to stay on his bike for long enough to become the first BRITON to win the Tour de Suisse.And avoid the C-word too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/61859360
The peloton was decimated by withdrawals due to it.
(And in this case I think decimated is approximately correct, for any grammar pedants reading)
Oscar OnleyNow has broken collar bone
... For some reason they dragged someone in off the street to commentate on the Junior Mens race ...I think there was some kind of fault with the commentary feed - if you stuck with the coverage after the race finished then Marty & co suddenly appeared!
... For some reason they dragged someone in off the street to commentate on the Junior Mens race ...I think there was some kind of fault with the commentary feed - if you stuck with the coverage after the race finished then Marty & co suddenly appeared!
My husband said something about the other guy doing a podcast of some kind. He also commentated on the coverage of the team relay which for some reason wasn't on Discovery - you can find it on YouTube and it is a good race.
Tour of Columbia today...<sniiiiiiiiff !>
Tour of Columbia today..:thumbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGZas_SUIc&t=515s
Several other prolific posters on this this forum also engage in that behaviour and it is wholeheartedly condoned by moderators. ::-)https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uci (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uci)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGZas_SUIc&t=515s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGZas_SUIc&t=515s)
There you go again m just posting random YT links with no context or description. I never click on them.
Start of the British Road Racing season :thumbsup:
Unusually warm and dry out today, racing close to Portsmouth. Alex Dowsett and Ed Clancy were out, but didn't place. Great to have racing back on the roads.
https://thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2024/02/11/2024-portsdown-classic-report-and-results/
Start of the British Road Racing season :thumbsup:
Unusually warm and dry out today, racing close to Portsmouth. Alex Dowsett and Ed Clancy were out, but didn't place. Great to have racing back on the roads.
https://thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2024/02/11/2024-portsdown-classic-report-and-results/
I did wonder, though, whether the race would still have been neutralised if less famous names had been involved.If all the race ambulances and medical crew are being used to treat and move people, then they neutralise, regardless of who is injured.
Apparently:
Jonas V - broken collarbone / broken ribs
Remco - broken collarbone / fractured scapula
Jay V - fractured vertebrae
Roglic - battered, no fractures
Cras - pneumothorax, fractured ribs/vertebrae
I did wonder, though, whether the race would still have been neutralised if less famous names had been involved.If all the race ambulances and medical crew are being used to treat and move people, then they neutralise or stop the race, regardless of who is injured.
(I saw a tweet somewhere that suggested that on this occasion the riders effectively neutralised before the official decision.)
Great finish on Mur de Huy in Fleche Wallonne - mens. :thumbsup: Cold one, though.
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