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Catalunya is an amazing stage race and to say otherwise would be ignorant. It also happens to be harder than previous years and has the largest amount of GC talent facing off against eachother in a long while.
This race is just another warm up race. Good to watch but lets not get carried away.
Catalunya is an amazing stage race and to say otherwise would be ignorant. It also happens to be harder than previous years and has the largest amount of GC talent facing off against eachother in a long while.
This race is just another warm up race. Good to watch but lets not get carried away.
Yes, lets not get carried away, Frenchie.
Both races have a long pedigrees.
Both races are warm ups for bigger things.
Both races are likely to suffer route alteration.
Dwars with this: http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/dwars ... mas_visit/
Catalunya with deteriorating weather at altitude.
2000 metres climbs in March being a lottery.
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Catalunya has got a couple of good stages, but yesterday was a snooze-fest. Cobbled one-dayers are defo better imo.
Poor camera work ruined it completely they'll need to sort that out or people just won't tune in. It was almost as bad as that single camera we had at that Argentinian chipper at the beginning of last season which was just a static camera pointing randomly at nowhere inparticular and not the finish line.
Catalunya has got a couple of good stages, but yesterday was a snooze-fest. Cobbled one-dayers are defo better imo.
Poor camera work ruined it completely they'll need to sort that out or people just won't tune in. It was almost as bad as that single camera we had at that Argentinian chipper at the beginning of last season which was just a static camera pointing randomly at nowhere inparticular and not the finish line.
Yep, the camera work was hopeless. Anyone remember Eurosport's Tour of Taiwan coverage last year? So bad it was quite funny - endless focus on the break (because they were winning!) then all of a sudden it would cut to the finish and a bunch sprint with no footage of the break being caught and no explanation of what happened . Reminded me of my student days watching the magic roundabout over a smoke, and playing the game where you had to guess when the show was about to end (it was almost impossible - they didn't seem to understand plot structure/conclusion/denouement etc). Same applied to the Tour of Taiwan (minus the smoking ) - impossible to know when the race was about to finish.
With the Finish not due until after 4pm then the president will be long gone for his ceremonial lunch.
This used to be a circuit finish with the passing of the fin line and a couple of trips back to the Nokereberg.
Less interesting for the spectators these days.
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Now it starts to get serious.
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Great race.
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He's starting.
True. But then I think E3 is the better mini Ronde.
This race is just another warm up race. Good to watch but lets not get carried away.
Yes, lets not get carried away, Frenchie.
Both races have a long pedigrees.
Both races are warm ups for bigger things.
Both races are likely to suffer route alteration.
Dwars with this:
http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/dwars ... mas_visit/
Catalunya with deteriorating weather at altitude.
2000 metres climbs in March being a lottery.
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Sad I'm going to miss this.
Poor camera work ruined it completely they'll need to sort that out or people just won't tune in. It was almost as bad as that single camera we had at that Argentinian chipper at the beginning of last season which was just a static camera pointing randomly at nowhere inparticular and not the finish line.
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Yep, the camera work was hopeless. Anyone remember Eurosport's Tour of Taiwan coverage last year? So bad it was quite funny - endless focus on the break (because they were winning!) then all of a sudden it would cut to the finish and a bunch sprint with no footage of the break being caught and no explanation of what happened . Reminded me of my student days watching the magic roundabout over a smoke, and playing the game where you had to guess when the show was about to end (it was almost impossible - they didn't seem to understand plot structure/conclusion/denouement etc). Same applied to the Tour of Taiwan (minus the smoking
Training for the cobbles in the Tour. I guess if Valverde goes well he will race E3 as well. Interested to see how he goes.
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Twitter cant read then, cos Eisel's riding
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290, ... 96,00.html
It was from cyclingnews (probably from their Clinic correspondent!)
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/dwars- ... start-list
According to that UHC are planning to contest tomorrow without actually fielding any riders. And Ciolek will only have 4 team mates
What twerps, putting out a tweet
You know it's gonna be a horribly hard race when you see @eeckhoutniko was on the podium so many times!!
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Unfortunately that's half true. MTN will only have five riders, but Ciolek isn't one of them:
http://www.teammtnqhubeka.com/?news=team-mtn-qhubeka-up-against-it-at-dwars-door-vlaanderen
This used to be a circuit finish with the passing of the fin line and a couple of trips back to the Nokereberg.
Less interesting for the spectators these days.
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Love the guy - he's almost as old as me !! Thought he was still riding - retired lat year after 21 years pro.
He's certainly in it - 22 man break
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It's live now also:
http://www.steephill.tv/classics/dwars- ... eren/#live
In the break:
Longo, Sutton, Cummings, Millar, Irizar, Silvestre, Maes, Moeravjov, Smukulis, McCarthy, Bagdonas, Van Emden, Boeckmans, Saramotins, Vanlandschoot, Veuchelen, Vanbilsen, Van Asbroeck, Zingle, Songezo, Jarc, Schorn and Murphy