Glasgow Worlds 2023 *spoiler thread*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited August 2023
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    RichN95. said:

    It looks like they may have cleared the road

    Nothing says 'fight climate change' quite like stopping people riding bicycles. Their messaging is so terrible.

    Greenpeace showed how it should be done last week.

    Let’s protest and stop a sporting event that has managed to shut down the centre of a major city to traffic for several days.

    Yup
    Makes perfect sense.

    I did what they should be doing to promote their case: went for a walk.
    Every time they go people keep assaulting them to get them out of the road..... ;)
    Are you talking about the protesters or cyclists? ;)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Like a mega version of the UK tour series vibes
    "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
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Kirby's mind would explode at all these corners
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    So that the leaders through the finish line..

    10 laps from here?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    I thought I'd stumbled on the Daily Mail forum by accident a couple of pages back.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
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    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Mikkel Bjerg mech :'(
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,035
    Just switched on after being out for a ride.
    Can anyone kindly summarise which main players are at the front, and or if any big names missed out or crashed out so far?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Mikkel Bjerg mech :'(

    Was never getting back, he abandons.

    One puncture and you're out in this race

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,485
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Pot Still was full of Dutch & Belgians during the protest.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Mørkøv is putting in some shift here.

    Dutch rider down, hit his head quite hard, not sure who
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Plapp and Durbridge finished for the day
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    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Alaphilippe attack, Søren Kragh goes with him

    Dutchies down everywhere
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Benoit puls it back, Skjelmose counters with an Italian
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    'Dis gonna be weird...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Just started raining in Glasgow. I'm sat on a railing on Montrose Street...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Rain. Hmmmmm
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    It's not really come to much here - I think it looks like there might be some heavy localised showers
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Some big holes opening up after Powless started forcing, some selections being made now
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    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Bettiol goes with Mads on his wheel, POg can't close immediately
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    This race is in pieces already

    Mads P and Bettiol have a small gap
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited August 2023
    Bob, if you're struggling to work out what's happening at the roadside....no one can help...

    Edit - what I've done there, accidentally, is give a multilayered meta-analysis of the race too...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    There's a selection of maybe 15-20 riders with pretty much all favourites in it with a gap maybe 20"
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Rolf Sørensen thinks the route is too technical for Remco - not got the skillz in the corners and has to put more power in to recover
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    It's mad that the race has been so hard but there's no selection made.

    It's just a line out until someone snaps

    It's a Ras stage
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    ddraver said:

    Bob, if you're struggling to work out what's happening at the roadside....no one can help...

    Edit - what I've done there, accidentally, is give a multilayered meta-analysis of the race too...

    I've got a list of the rider numbers and kind of figuring out where the front of the race is... but yeah everyone is just cheering loudly every time the riders go past!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Really hope last year wasn't Fred Wright's peak year...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065
    Sagan abandons.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Peter Sagan

    Fin.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!

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