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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Looks hot in spain
    "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
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,123
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    mididoctors said:

    Impressive by UAE there . Classic Yates . Bardet blew a gasket . Jorgensen is a engine .

    Great to see Bernal get a solid 8th there
    He was Cyril Guimard's man of the race and thinks it bodes well for the future.
    The French pundits were also not impressed with ag2r.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    davidof said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    mididoctors said:

    Impressive by UAE there . Classic Yates . Bardet blew a gasket . Jorgensen is a engine .

    Great to see Bernal get a solid 8th there
    He was Cyril Guimard's man of the race and thinks it bodes well for the future.
    The French pundits were also not impressed with ag2r.
    Surprised they noticed them at all with Pinot, the French kiddy (Lennart?) and sprinter Bardet all riding 😅
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Who won the piglet?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited May 2023
    mididoctors said:

    Who won the piglet?

    Laurent Pichon again. Bad news for the piglet

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/ive-won-three-pigs-and-i-almost-certainly-ate-them-tro-bro-leon-and-cyclings-oddest-prize

    Nizzolo won the actual race - Israel's first win I think.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Yummy bacon
    "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
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,818
    Pretty heavyweight lineup of sprinters in Hungary.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,818
    Nasty crash for Bernal towards the end. Looks like he did finish the stage.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Not sure how many more heavy falls he can take.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,818
    Worth watching the sprint from Hungary yesterday. Jakobsen's finish was reminiscent of Cav in his prime. Proper afterburners.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    GP Herning (1.2) - a nice little gravel sections race - saw Valgren take a third place today with a strong ride, good to see his recovery still progressing. Mathias Norsgaard took the win with a huge solo effort.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    S5 of Tour de Hongrie cancelled due to weather. The riders did 8 laps around the circuit for the fans.

    Lucky them!
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,400
    Bloomin fun race to watch in Brittany today (les Boucles de l'Aulne), and nice to cheer on a Devon boy...

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,400
    edited May 2023
    If anyone's interested, here are some of my photos from Sunday's race... sadly we had to leave before the end, but a really great race to watch, as it somes through the town so many times, from various directions, and the locals were lapping it up.

    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois/posts/pfbid02n65TzDnesDdh71KrdtRZTupsMWbiXrHsgxH4jAGxGtZW5bKYXqS8MaQzZPGaNzuul


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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Not much action in todays Circuit of Wallonia, the riders have been stood by road side for an hour. Apparently there’s been a crash of motorbikes up the road.
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    webboo said:

    Not much action in todays Circuit of Wallonia, the riders have been stood by road side for an hour. Apparently there’s been a crash of motorbikes up the road.

    Y, race was stopped for around 90 minutes then the remaining route was altered I think (wasn’t paying too much attention as I whizzed through the race on GCN last night after similar with the Giro stage). Sprint finish won by Jordi Meeus of Bora..
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    ~64Km of RideLondon Classique stage 1 left, live on bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/65585787
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    edited May 2023
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    ~64Km of RideLondon Classique stage 1 left, live on bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/65585787

    Been trying to figure out why SD Worx are not riding. Thought WT teams were required to ride WT races. Women's WT different?

    It'll be nice to see a different team crossing the line mind you.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Ben Tulett wins Tour of Norway prologue by 1s over team mate Magnus Sheffield
  • davieb78
    davieb78 Posts: 99
    JimD666 said:

    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    ~64Km of RideLondon Classique stage 1 left, live on bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/65585787

    Been trying to figure out why SD Worx are not riding. Thought WT teams were required to ride WT races. Women's WT different?

    It'll be nice to see a different team crossing the line mind you.
    Yeah, not a requirement for them to ride all the WT races (because of the smaller amount of riders in teams - usually 14/15 - and the rapidly growing calendar, both making it too difficult)
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    JimD666 said:

    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    ~64Km of RideLondon Classique stage 1 left, live on bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/65585787

    Been trying to figure out why SD Worx are not riding. Thought WT teams were required to ride WT races. Women's WT different?

    It'll be nice to see a different team crossing the line mind you.
    They have a team in the Tour of Thugen? Which is on at the moment.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited May 2023
    Worth a watch tomorrow. The Mercan'Tour Classic Alpes Maritime.



    A smattering of big names taking part: Carapaz, Fuglsang, Guillaume Martin, Gall and Chris Froome...

    Live coverage from Midday to 3pm.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    Looks like Froome might just make it to the top of the penultimate climb in the peloton again.

    EF setting it up for Carapaz, should be a decent battle up the last climb.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    And all of a sudden, absolutely pissing down as they go on the descent.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Gall chasing Carapaz but all he’s doing is holding station.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Nearly closed now and Carapaz doesn't seem to have anything else to drop him. Carapaz probabl;y has the edge in a sprint but is looking increasingly desperate.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Looks like Gall may have blown now though.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    Lenny Martinez in 4th - good effort.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Chris Froome ended up finishing 14th, five places and two minutes ahead of team mate Jakob Fuglsang.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Keegan Swenson won the race that CyclingNews and VeloNews seem to think is the biggest race on the cycling calendar.
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