S*** Small Races Thread - 2022
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Lone leader doing well to stay away.0
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Geraint Thomas back in his old domestic role."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Great finish but Sheffield’s lack of experience cost him the race after great work by Thomas and Fraile. Laporte takes the stage and GC with Sheffield second on both.0
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Rush of blood after he closed the gap, that was the time to sit on Laporte.1
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Jumbo have successfully turned Christophe Laporte into Julian Alaphilippe.
Unfortunately the race did boil down to the dreaded bonus seconds."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
These Jumbo superstars don't just go from also ran to world class overnight, they don't tire after dominating the world's biggest race for 3 weeks."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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Was talking with someone who rode at international level 30 yrs ago and he voiced a similar opinion. He said their recovery was superior to anyone else. LaPorte was a good rider but now he is at a higher level.0
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Marco Haller mugs Wout in Hamburg classic. Part of 5 man break, his team mate led out the sprint Marco was behind Wout and Herman’s jumped early and got a bit of gap the others couldn’t close.0
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Arnaud De Lie won Schaal Sels Merksem, as he continues his one man attempt at keeping Lotto up by cleaning up .1 races.
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MvdP returns on Wednesday at the VLAAMSE DRUIVENKOERS, which Google helpfully translates for me as FLEMISH GRAPE RATEWarning No formatter is installed for the format0
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Ned Boulting has found his way to GCN/Eurosport and is commentating on the Deutschland Tour, where Ineos's new boy, Kim Heiduk is the current leader in the prologue."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Adam Yates now leads his new team mate and in a short, prologue TT no less.
Olav Kooij has just had a nasty crash pushing too hard around a bend. He was fastest at the split, but had to limp home."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Excellent work from GCN/Eurosport this afternoon we had a choice of Mr Motormouth with the Vuelta or no mouth at all with the Deutschland Tour.
80kms of complete mute. Not even the sound of a motorbike.
They should be paying us to watch, not the other way around."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Sometimes when it’s live theirs no commentary but when you watch later on catch up there is. Or when watching on the iPad no sound but on the tv there is.
I blame wiggle.0 -
Ewan showed his discontent with Cycling Australia by avoiding crashing or finding a second tier sprinter to beat him.blazing_saddles said:Excellent work from GCN/Eurosport this afternoon we had a choice of Mr Motormouth with the Vuelta or no mouth at all with the Deutschland Tour.
80kms of complete mute. Not even the sound of a motorbike.
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We have the delights of Ned Boulting on his Jack jones at todays Tour of Germany.0
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He’s managed to prove the selectors right today by getting blown out of the echelons that are all over the road at the moment. Lead group with 4 Ineos and about 20 others, second group being driven by Bora and Bahrain.Pross said:
Ewan showed his discontent with Cycling Australia by avoiding crashing or finding a second tier sprinter to beat him.blazing_saddles said:Excellent work from GCN/Eurosport this afternoon we had a choice of Mr Motormouth with the Vuelta or no mouth at all with the Deutschland Tour.
80kms of complete mute. Not even the sound of a motorbike.
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Whilst it's not really a pro race, it is an excellent indicator of future success, so it was interesting to see that Ineos' new signing, Josh Tarling, took the opening stage of the Junior Tour of Wales this evening.2
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A strong provisional startlist for tomorrow's Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France includes Pogacar, WVA, Sagan, Demare, Girmay, Søren Kragh Andersen, Michael Matthews and most of the cream of the French riders not at the Vuelta.
Coverage on GCN is showing as starting at 4pm my time (11am CET), which is either a mistake or they will be broadcasting virtually the entire race.
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I can confirm that pretty much the whole of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France is being shown live here in the UK and elsewhere.
From their website it says the start is at 10-50CET.
Not sure why GCN miss the first 10 minutes..."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Just watching GP Plouley which has commentary on the TV but not on my IPad. This through the app on the tv as well.webboo said:Sometimes when it’s live theirs no commentary but when you watch later on catch up there is. Or when watching on the iPad no sound but on the tv there is.
I blame wiggle.0 -
It’s frightening to think he is still eligible to ride it. The race is certainly a good predictor as my 1990 (when it was the Gwent 2 Day) lanterne rouge shows 😂andyp said:Whilst it's not really a pro race, it is an excellent indicator of future success, so it was interesting to see that Ineos' new signing, Josh Tarling, took the opening stage of the Junior Tour of Wales this evening.
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This is exactly what happened.blazing_saddles said:I can confirm that pretty much the whole of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France is being shown live here in the UK and elsewhere.
From their website it says the start is at 10-50CET.
Not sure why GCN miss the first 10 minutes...
Live began not long after the start, with the now usual silence instead of commentary.
Eventually Jez Cox turned up. ( plus B Smith)
Anyhow the breakaway had already formed, with 6 riders, including Luke Rowe.
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Oh and I almost forgot.
The Junior Tour of Wales is underway in it’s usual bank holiday slot."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
blazing_saddles said:
Oh and I almost forgot.
The Junior Tour of Wales is underway in it’s usual bank holiday slot.
Just looking at the most recent results - of the last ten pre-covid editions, eight of the winners made it to the World Tour. The likely winner has already signed for Ineos I believeTwitter: @RichN950 -
Anyone know where the Tour of Netherlands has gone on Eurosport. It was there on the schedule but after I’d watched the Vuelta and went back to watch it had disappeared.0
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It’s disappeared alright.webboo said:Anyone know where the Tour of Netherlands has gone on Eurosport. It was there on the schedule but after I’d watched the Vuelta and went back to watch it had disappeared.
My guess is the usual rubbish coverage given to a lot of women’s races caused a terminal technical problem."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
The technical problems continue today. You could watch the stage but it looked it was being filmed on a wind up camera.blazing_saddles said:
It’s disappeared alright.webboo said:Anyone know where the Tour of Netherlands has gone on Eurosport. It was there on the schedule but after I’d watched the Vuelta and went back to watch it had disappeared.
My guess is the usual rubbish coverage given to a lot of women’s races caused a terminal technical problem.0 -
Looks like MvdP won some race today.0
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Corbin Strong pips Fraile to win Stage 1 of the ToB. Piddock 5th in ST.0
