S*** Small Races Thread - 2022

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    I don’t buy the argument that UAE should have gone all in for the 19 year old Ayuso on the third stage of a 7 stage race.
    Almeida is only 6 seconds behind and Soler, who is in today’s break, only 30 seconds off the race lead.
    Hence Ag2r are forced to work.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    Dear God what awful commentary, today. Even worse than normal Kirby standards.
    A total stuck record from both and just plain wrong to boot.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    I'm back on the Swedish commentary tbh.
  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    Ben Tulett leads Ineos 1-2 at Coppie Bartali
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    kingstongraham said:

    I'm back on the Swedish commentary tbh.

    I don't know what they are saying, but they just mentioned Claudio Chiappucci and Pedro Delgado.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    Bonus second for O'Connor at the sprint - neat.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    edited March 2022
    Pace goes up and Valverde goes out the back, Carthy about to get properly dropped.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    Another non event with Ineos leading the pack.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    blazing_saddles said:

    Coverage is a shambles with DePanne commentary

    Bet it still made more sense than when CK turned up to commentate on the actual race you were watching though.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    kingstongraham said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I'm back on the Swedish commentary tbh.

    I don't know what they are saying, but they just mentioned Claudio Chiappucci and Pedro Delgado.
    Probably talking about donkeys.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    blazing_saddles said:

    Another non event with Ineos leading the pack.

    I still find it quite impressive when they shell quality riders out the back.

    Good racing now.
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Ah, there we go with the imagined conversations

    Dismal
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    edited March 2022
    Despite wheel sucking Almeida all the way, Quintana still lost.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    kingstongraham said:



    That’s not doing a tap, that’s attacking, which he did after following in 4th and last wheel.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:



    That’s not doing a tap, that’s attacking, which he did after following in 4th and last wheel.
    Ah you never specified exactly what he did wrong. Clearly he shouldn't even have done that, because he still didn't have a fast enough sprint. Should have wheelsucked all the way.

    Whatever, it's got him the leader's jersey.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,951
    RichN95. said:

    kingstongraham said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I'm back on the Swedish commentary tbh.

    I don't know what they are saying, but they just mentioned Claudio Chiappucci and Pedro Delgado.

    That's a hell of a delay on their feed
    Maybe Delgado just turned up for the prologue.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,951
    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:



    That’s not doing a tap, that’s attacking, which he did after following in 4th and last wheel.
    Don't these youngsters know that when attacking on a climb you should be in the drops?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    kingstongraham said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:



    That’s not doing a tap, that’s attacking, which he did after following in 4th and last wheel.
    Ah you never specified exactly what he did wrong. Clearly he shouldn't even have done that, because he still didn't have a fast enough sprint. Should have wheelsucked all the way.

    Whatever, it's got him the leader's jersey.
    Yes, thanks to "fast man" Higuita's sprint!

    He got lucky today, in so far as Almeida had a second agenda. Otherwise, that group would have definitely stalled and O'Connor might well have clung to the jersey, with no further uphill finishes.
    As it stands it's nicely posed for Sunday's usual Barcelona-Montjuïc circuit.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    Tulett, Sheffield and Plapp have all won for Ineos this season. They were all born in the 21st century.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    Not a lot to recommend today's stage. Given the lack of sprinters in the race, the likelihood is that a breakaway bandit will take the spoils.



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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    edited March 2022
    Kirby pays the price for going 5kms too soon with the hysterics and drags Smith with him.
    Both calling Ethan Hayter, who is in Italia, as winner of the stage in Catalunya.
    Of course, when the penny drops, Kirby blames Smith....

    FFS.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,661
    MvP wins stage 4 Coppi e Bartali, timing his sprint better than Hayter.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    edited March 2022
    blazing_saddles said:

    Kirby pays the price for going 5kms too soon with the hysterics and drags Smith with him.
    Both calling Ethan Hayter, who is in Italia, as winner of the stage in Catalunya.
    Of course, when the penny drops, Kirby blames Smith....

    FFS.

    Go back and listen. It was Smithy who called it wrong first.

    Edit: Should say I rather enjoyed the last 15km or so. The rest of it was ruddy awful.
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 578
    Well done Ethan !
    Strange trophy for the stage win ,
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,472
    Sheffield really seems to be quite good. Haven't seen enough of the others yet.
    seanoconn said:

    MvP wins stage 4 Coppi e Bartali, timing his sprint better than Hayter.

    Shame this is not on GCN in Germany at least.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    m.r.m. said:

    Sheffield really seems to be quite good. Haven't seen enough of the others yet.

    seanoconn said:

    MvP wins stage 4 Coppi e Bartali, timing his sprint better than Hayter.

    Shame this is not on GCN in Germany at least.
    The race didn't have live coverage, but Rai's evening highlights packages are available on Tiz.
    I tend to click on each "mirror", as one is usually played through YouTube. In this case MvP's stage 4 win.

    https://tiz-cycling.io/video/settimana-internazionale-coppi-e-bartali-2022-stage-4-highlights-italian/?tape=3
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    I'm a bit late posting today's stage.
    It seems as if Carapaz and Higuita have got themselves up the road, 1' - 20" ahead of the peloton.


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  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    Carapaz wins the stage and Higuita in to the the lead after a 130km raid together.

    UAE a but rudderless sans Pog

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