Wout van Aert appreciation thread

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    ddraver said:

    Ooof

    Chasey's love of Wout Vs Chasey's dislike of podium children

    He'd hate the the GC podium then. loads of kids and only one definite adult... :wink:
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Big up to Rick and his main man: big phat hat.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    ddraver said:

    Ooof

    Chasey's love of Wout Vs Chasey's dislike of podium children

    not just podium children but any children. distasteful things.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    ddraver said:

    Ooof

    Chasey's love of Wout Vs Chasey's dislike of podium children

    Was busy bathing my own child to watch!
    _
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    To win a mountain stage, a TT and a bunch sprint in one Tour takes a very special rider. I think Merckx did it, possibly Hinault, but there can't be many who've achieved that.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    Not just a bunch sprint but the bunch sprint.
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  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    andyp said:

    To win a mountain stage, a TT and a bunch sprint in one Tour takes a very special rider. I think Merckx did it, possibly Hinault, but there can't be many who've achieved that.

    pblakeney said:

    Not just a bunch sprint but the bunch sprint.


    In 1979 Hinault won two TTs, 2 or 3 mountain stages, and 2 or 3 flatter stages, one of which was the final stage (the bunch sprint) on the Champs-Elysees.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited July 2021
    jimmyjams said:


    In 1979 Hinault won two TTs, 2 or 3 mountain stages, and 2 or 3 flatter stages, one of which was the final stage (the bunch sprint) on the Champs-Elysees.

    But in 1979 it wasn't a bunch sprint. It was just him and Zoetemelk in a breakaway. And the stage classified as a mountain stage was actually a 13 man sprint.
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  • DeVlaeminck
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    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    RichN95. said:

    To think that the UK get Null Points at Eurovision.

    There is a reason for this, and it's nothing to do with music.
    you obviously missed this years excretion that was the UK's entry....

    I thought it was OK - well in Eurovision terms anyway I'm not rushing out to buy it on 45 - one of the better entries.
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    DeVlaeminck said:

    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    RichN95. said:

    To think that the UK get Null Points at Eurovision.

    There is a reason for this, and it's nothing to do with music.
    you obviously missed this years excretion that was the UK's entry....

    I thought it was OK - well in Eurovision terms anyway I'm not rushing out to buy it on 45 - one of the better entries.
    are we talking about the same fat lad screeching along dressed like he was going to Edwyn's to buy some toilet bleach with two superimposed trumpets fliating above him?

    even he said it wasshite and he wrote and sang it.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    RichN95. said:

    jimmyjams said:


    In 1979 Hinault won two TTs, 2 or 3 mountain stages, and 2 or 3 flatter stages, one of which was the final stage (the bunch sprint) on the Champs-Elysees.

    But in 1979 it wasn't a bunch sprint. It was just him and Zoetemelk in a breakaway. And the stage classified as a mountain stage was actually a 13 man sprint.
    I bow to your better knowledge. Still, to win the last stage on the Champs-Elysees remains something special, irrespective how achieved.
    Did Hinault ever explain why he broke away from the peloton that day?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Cos Zoetemelk did...
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    RichN95. said:



    The post I quoted literally said "Ca plane pour moi" . I assumed that this was seen as Belgium's greatest track.

    Just off the top of my head: Jacques Brel, Jonny Halliday, Stromae, Axelle Red
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226
    davidof said:

    RichN95. said:



    The post I quoted literally said "Ca plane pour moi" . I assumed that this was seen as Belgium's greatest track.

    Just off the top of my head: Jacques Brel, Jonny Halliday, Stromae, Axelle Red
    Johnny Hallyday is a bit of a stretch isn't it? Born in Paris to a French mum and Belgian dad who left after a few months, brought up by an aunt in Paris and tried for ten years to get Belgian citizenship to avoid French tax but failed because he couldn't prove a strong enough link.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    ddraver said:

    Cos Zoetemelk did...

    I guess that answers the earlier question in the other thread about what would happen if somebody tried an attack on the last day. Also refer to the comment by Bernard that every day is a race day, including into Paris.
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  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    ddraver said:

    Cos Zoetemelk did...

    But that wasn't the case acc to Wikipedia:

    „There were a few escape attempts early in the stage including by Thurau and Zoetemelk, who was trying to get away from Hinault. At 124 kilometers into the stage Hinault left everyone behind and only Zoetemelk went off in pursuit. It took him four kilometers to catch Hinault.“

    I can understand Zoetemelk's early attempts, but Hinault didn't have to escape and leave everyone behind at all, he had a 3-min lead. So why?
    I suppose the answer is simply 'So was Hinault', with an accompanying French shrug.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    jimmyjams said:

    ddraver said:

    Cos Zoetemelk did...

    But that wasn't the case acc to Wikipedia:

    „There were a few escape attempts early in the stage including by Thurau and Zoetemelk, who was trying to get away from Hinault. At 124 kilometers into the stage Hinault left everyone behind and only Zoetemelk went off in pursuit. It took him four kilometers to catch Hinault.“

    I can understand Zoetemelk's early attempts, but Hinault didn't have to escape and leave everyone behind at all, he had a 3-min lead. So why?
    I suppose the answer is simply 'So was Hinault', with an accompanying French shrug.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,589
    MattFalle said:

    DeVlaeminck said:

    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    RichN95. said:

    To think that the UK get Null Points at Eurovision.

    There is a reason for this, and it's nothing to do with music.
    you obviously missed this years excretion that was the UK's entry....

    I thought it was OK - well in Eurovision terms anyway I'm not rushing out to buy it on 45 - one of the better entries.
    are we talking about the same fat lad screeching along dressed like he was going to Edwyn's to buy some toilet bleach with two superimposed trumpets fliating above him?

    even he said it wasshite and he wrote and sang it.
    I'm trying to work out if that should say "floating" or "fellating"
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Pross said:

    MattFalle said:

    DeVlaeminck said:

    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    RichN95. said:

    To think that the UK get Null Points at Eurovision.

    There is a reason for this, and it's nothing to do with music.
    you obviously missed this years excretion that was the UK's entry....

    I thought it was OK - well in Eurovision terms anyway I'm not rushing out to buy it on 45 - one of the better entries.
    are we talking about the same fat lad screeching along dressed like he was going to Edwyn's to buy some toilet bleach with two superimposed trumpets fliating above him?

    even he said it wasshite and he wrote and sang it.
    I'm trying to work out if that should say "floating" or "fellating"
    tbh, i wrote it but i think you have chosen better england to replace my hideous spelling caused by small telephone & Cumberland sausage fingers.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    There was a rider who retired not so long ago, who at various Tours won:

    A flat finish sprint stage
    An uphill finish sprint stage
    A time trial stage
    A team time trial stage
    A cobbled stage
    A medium mountain stage and
    A high mountain stage

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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,833
    RichN95. said:

    There was a rider who retired not so long ago, who at various Tours won:

    A flat finish sprint stage
    An uphill finish sprint stage
    A time trial stage
    A team time trial stage
    A cobbled stage
    A medium mountain stage and
    A high mountain stage

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Indeed
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,024
    I was going to suggest him a while ago, but didn't know he won a TT. Was it a prologue?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    TheBigBean said:

    I was going to suggest him a while ago, but didn't know he won a TT. Was it a prologue?


    Yes. 2006. The next day he got his arm cut by one of those big hands being waved in the crowd.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458
    A mountain stage, which doesn't finish on top of a mountain, has an asterisk against it.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I can’t remember Hushovd winning a maintain stage but his main problem was his threat diminished substantially over 200km.

    Never won a monument
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,024
    edited July 2021
    rick_chasey said:

    I can’t remember Hushovd winning a maintain stage but his main problem was his threat diminished substantially over 200km.

    Never won a monument

    When he won the worlds it was 260km.

    He was my PTP pick when he won on a mountain stage, so I remember it well. Dropped on the climb by one rider, caught him on the descent and then soloed to victory.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    It was a properly #Epic ride that...

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,589
    My memory is playing up as I thought Hushovd won his medium mountain stage in the Vosges but it was down in the Drome.

    The high mountain stage was from Pau to Lourdes but was a classic breakaway stage - lumpy with the Aubisque just after half way as the only major climb.

    I also thought he'd beaten Cav to green several times but again my memory was playing up.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226
    How would you classify stage 7 in 2020? Crosswinds, but classic Sagan stage with a sprint at the end but a big long climb in the middle after a sharp climb near the start.

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