S*** Small Races Thread - 2022
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Just a heads up to let folks know that the coverage of Romandie starts in half an hour.
82kms to go. Hermans in the break so they are being held at about a minute by Jumbo, otherwise Izagirre would be odds on ftw.
Brandon McNulty was the noticeable non starter."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Another shitshow at the tour of Hellas yesterday. Can you guess what happened when this was 200m from the finish on a dusty road and a sprint was on?
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Thomas dropped with 9km remaining.
Not good."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Plapp drags them all back to Rubio and up to the 250m mark. Higuita and Vlasov sprint for 1st and 2nd from Ayuso and O'Connor. Dennis loses 3s plus the bonuses.
Vlasov just about sitting up to let Higuita have it 😅0 -
Romandie is such a poorly designed race and yet they persist with the format.thejimmymethod said:Plapp drags them all back to Rubio and up to the 250m mark. Higuita and Vlasov sprint for 1st and 2nd from Ayuso and O'Connor. Dennis loses 3s plus the bonuses.
Vlasov just about sitting up to let Higuita have it 😅
Currently 7 of the top 10 is filled by team domestiques.
That was an awful finishing climb. One man could be bothered to attack.
The only meaningful gap on the road has been created by a crash.
Tomorrow has the hardest climb of the race and inevitably it’s raced against the clock.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.2 -
What’s going on with Thomas?blazing_saddles said:Thomas dropped with 9km remaining.
Not good.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Has shoulder surgery end of last year, and was slow back to training.seanoconn said:
What’s going on with Thomas?blazing_saddles said:Thomas dropped with 9km remaining.
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I don't know Switzerland very well, but there are obviously quite a number of very well known climbs in the country, and none of them ever seem to feature in Romandie. I presume the climbs simply aren't in the Romandie region rather than them not being included for some reason?blazing_saddles said:
Romandie is such a poorly designed race and yet they persist with the format.thejimmymethod said:Plapp drags them all back to Rubio and up to the 250m mark. Higuita and Vlasov sprint for 1st and 2nd from Ayuso and O'Connor. Dennis loses 3s plus the bonuses.
Vlasov just about sitting up to let Higuita have it 😅
Currently 7 of the top 10 is filled by team domestiques.
That was an awful finishing climb. One man could be bothered to attack.
The only meaningful gap on the road has been created by a crash.
Tomorrow has the hardest climb of the race and inevitably it’s raced against the clock.0 -
Romandie is the French speaking part of Switzerland (with about 20-25% of the population). The more famous climbs, and the higher Alps are in the German, Italian and Romansch speaking areas. There's also the weather to factor in at this time of year, and whilst it can be glorious, it is more likely to be cold and wet at this time of year, especially at high altitude.phreak said:
I don't know Switzerland very well, but there are obviously quite a number of very well known climbs in the country, and none of them ever seem to feature in Romandie. I presume the climbs simply aren't in the Romandie region rather than them not being included for some reason?blazing_saddles said:
Romandie is such a poorly designed race and yet they persist with the format.thejimmymethod said:Plapp drags them all back to Rubio and up to the 250m mark. Higuita and Vlasov sprint for 1st and 2nd from Ayuso and O'Connor. Dennis loses 3s plus the bonuses.
Vlasov just about sitting up to let Higuita have it 😅
Currently 7 of the top 10 is filled by team domestiques.
That was an awful finishing climb. One man could be bothered to attack.
The only meaningful gap on the road has been created by a crash.
Tomorrow has the hardest climb of the race and inevitably it’s raced against the clock.
That said, this year's race has been a turd of an edition, with a route that offers little to separate the GC riders, other than TTs.0 -
As predicted, a complete turn around in the Romandie GC with some huge time gaps and a startling podium.
Vlasov crushed everyone but so too did Gino Mader and Simon Geschke.
Dennis only managed 8th."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
The Tour de Romandie is the definition of this thread title
How it is World Tour level always astonishes me0 -
In other news, Simon Yates bounced back from whatever befell him yesterday, to win the final stage of Asturias.
Quoting Meat Loaf: Two out of three ain’t bad."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Quite a few of them were literally ski resorts last week...phreak said:
I don't know Switzerland very well, but there are obviously quite a number of very well known climbs in the country, and none of them ever seem to feature in Romandie. I presume the climbs simply aren't in the Romandie region rather than them not being included for some reason?blazing_saddles said:
Romandie is such a poorly designed race and yet they persist with the format.thejimmymethod said:Plapp drags them all back to Rubio and up to the 250m mark. Higuita and Vlasov sprint for 1st and 2nd from Ayuso and O'Connor. Dennis loses 3s plus the bonuses.
Vlasov just about sitting up to let Higuita have it 😅
Currently 7 of the top 10 is filled by team domestiques.
That was an awful finishing climb. One man could be bothered to attack.
The only meaningful gap on the road has been created by a crash.
Tomorrow has the hardest climb of the race and inevitably it’s raced against the clock.We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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The heat befell him apparently. First hot race day of the year and his body didn't react well to it.blazing_saddles said:In other news, Simon Yates bounced back from whatever befell him yesterday, to win the final stage of Asturias.
Quoting Meat Loaf: Two out of three ain’t bad.1 -
Just watched the final stage of tour of hellas. Another strange one. Stage neutralised at the top of the biggest climb of the week because of bad visibility, and all riders rolled 8km down the other side together. Then they all got set off again at the same intervals that they crossed the top in. This was 75km from the finish and the leader over the climb held on till about 5km from the end.
(Then Denmark's Emil Toudal outsprinted Rosskopf, the USA champion for the win.)0 -
In case anyone can’t wait for the Giro, the 4 days of the 6 days of Dunkirk starts today with coverage from 2pm or there abouts from our usual sources."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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If there were only 8 editions with 4 stages, why have they stuck with the name for the next 57 goes around?
I like the look of the 1971 edition - 7 stages plus a prologue over 6 days, including a 150km road stage followed by a 1.4km TT on the same day.0 -
Big crash going across the line. Lots of leaning and elbows out, small gaps closing etc.0
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Oh dear.
The commies have their work cut out.
De Lie had a very narrow door closed on him by Sam Welsford just shy of the line and a huge crash ensued.
No celebration at the end.
The slight left hand bend on the line didn’t help.
De Lie finished 7th on his back."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
No idea who's going to get that, but most of the fault is with the De Lie. Basically wiped out almost the whole race literally on the finish line.0
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De Lie tried to force his way through the narrowest of gaps. He legitimately had the right to, but he was throwing elbows so Welsford was entitled to defend his position. Be interesting to see if the commissaires agree.0
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After the tenth viewing, I can't see Welsford keeping that.0
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Agreed.
Anyhow, Welsford confirmed as the winner, with the result standing.
To sprint in a "straight line" on that finish, a rider would have to end up on the other side of the road. You have to wonder sometimes...."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Welsford now relegated, apparently.
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That's true, but even on a road turning left, he managed to move towards the left hand barrier.blazing_saddles said:Agreed.
Anyhow, Welsford confirmed as the winner, with the result standing.
To sprint in a "straight line" on that finish, a rider would have to end up on the other side of the road. You have to wonder sometimes....0 -
Gap was there when de Lie went for it, then it got closed by Welsford
Not a full DQ offence but defo a relegation.0 -
He hooked him up but it's a hard impulse to fight still a DQ in my
Book ...that was a small gap de lie went for though"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 pm0 -
Bit more of a normal finish today, but it's amazing nobody hit any of the obstacles in the road on the circuit. Fair play to them. Carlton was very ready to commentate on the crash that never was in the last km, and to be fair there was a pretty sketchy bit to take at full speed.0
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It was a good job the hill with 12 or so Km to go split the race up. A full bunch in to the final run in would have been carnage.kingstongraham said:Bit more of a normal finish today, but it's amazing nobody hit any of the obstacles in the road on the circuit. Fair play to them. Carlton was very ready to commentate on the crash that never was in the last km, and to be fair there was a pretty sketchy bit to take at full speed.
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