Giro 2021:- Stage 7: Notaresco – Termoli 181 km **Spoilers**

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,553
    Great win by Ewan that, I thought Gaviria forced him to go too early. That hill didn't do much to affect the sprinters. Horrible run in, lucky the weather was so much better than yesterday and no crashes that I noticed.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.


    Now don't go asking who won today
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,706
    edited May 2021
    bobmcstuff said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.

    The way you don't like him actually endears him to me ;)
    You are fully entitled to like the ugliest sprinting position cycling has ever seen.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    That was excellent by Ewan. In a different league to the rest.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Long long long sprint
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Mechanical?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    rick_chasey said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.

    The way you don't like him actually endears him to me ;)
    You are fully entitled to like the ugliest sprinting position cycling has ever seen.

    Boonen used to sprint like he was at a Metallica concert
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    I didn't see what happened with Hugh?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,622
    1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 4:42:12
    2 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-up Nation
    3 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
    4 Matteo Moschetti (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
    5 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
    6 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates
    7 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
    8 Max Kanter (Ger) Team DSM
    9 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane'
    10 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) UAE Team Emirates

    This means that Caleb Ewan won. He finished in first place. He crossed the line before everyone else. He conquered the rest and triumphed. Everyone else lost.

    For the avoidance of doubt.

    1. Caleb Ewan.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,553
    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?
    I think so ...
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?

    Yeah. You could see his teammate checking with the commissaire
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    TheBigBean said:

    1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 4:42:12
    2 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-up Nation
    3 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
    4 Matteo Moschetti (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
    5 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
    6 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates
    7 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
    8 Max Kanter (Ger) Team DSM
    9 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane'
    10 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) UAE Team Emirates

    This means that Caleb Ewan won. He finished in first place. He crossed the line before everyone else. He conquered the rest and triumphed. Everyone else lost.

    For the avoidance of doubt.

    1. Caleb Ewan.

    Photo finish:


  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Harm Vanhoucke's a ray of sunshine, isn't he?
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    rick_chasey said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.

    The way you don't like him actually endears him to me ;)
    You are fully entitled to like the ugliest sprinting position cycling has ever seen.
    Fine...but you can't argue today wasn't a properly good performance.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    RichN95. said:

    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?

    Yeah. You could see his teammate checking with the commissaire
    Does that rule apply to anything? I thought it was being delayed by crashes.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    kingstongraham said:

    RichN95. said:

    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?

    Yeah. You could see his teammate checking with the commissaire
    Does that rule apply to anything? I thought it was being delayed by crashes.
    Mechanicals count.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    Good stuff.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    Until it gets amended, Carthy's dropped down to 21st place @ 2:59
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,553
    Saddle issue, some debate whether that counts as a mechanical
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    Pross said:

    Saddle issue, some debate whether that counts as a mechanical

    Should have fallen off "by accident" because of it.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Sagan put into the barriers.
    Normally it's the other way around.

    Hugh Carthy going to cop a packet.

    Carthy was well inside 3k wasn't he?
    Yeah.
    I just got to thinking it was a categorised climb.
    Don't know why, it was only a drag.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,254
    Now updated results. Carthy back @ 38 seconds.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,342
    rick_chasey said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.

    The way you don't like him actually endears him to me ;)
    You are fully entitled to like the ugliest sprinting position cycling has ever seen.
    Garbage take. His super far forward position was a genius level adaptation for a small guy to try to beat Greipel and mainly Kittel at the time. He found a way to be even more aero in order to make up for his lack of outright power. That is spectacular innovation.
    Also, John Degenkolb's head bobbing sprinting style proves your point wrong anyway. 😛
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
    RichN95. said:

    rick_chasey said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ewan wins. Ugh.

    The way you don't like him actually endears him to me ;)
    You are fully entitled to like the ugliest sprinting position cycling has ever seen.

    Boonen used to sprint like he was at a Metallica concert
    More nodding along to a soft rock band. Degenkolb sprints like he's at a Metallica gig.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,342
    That is a regular beer bottle btw.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    m.r.m. said:

    That is a regular beer bottle btw.


    As someone with small hands, I have been hearing that joke for at least 15 years
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,342
    I'm glad it stays funny then. 😜😛😛😛
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023

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