S*** Small Races 2025
Do we need an additional thread: Extra S*** Small Races that Pidcock might get an invite to?
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Ouch.
The TDU is almost upon us. Still can't believe it's actually WT. I wouldn't normally bother with watching anything much of this, given how S*** and how Small it is, but ADVANCE VIKING KLAXON WARNING: Albert Withen Philipsen is racing it for Trek, and I'm sure everybody is as excited as me to get a peek of him in a pro race.
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I'm sure everybody is as excited as me to get a peek of him
I wouldn't bet on that if I were you.
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I've put £100 on him winning every stage outright and finishing top 5 on the general classification.
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Harsh to include the biggest race in the southern hemisphere in this thread. Oh, wait, no it isn't - so much for World Tour!
Edit - they do have the Worlds in the southern hemisphere this year though.
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Great shout. Beat Paul Sexy-ass in the only stage races they competed against eachother in last year.
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Plapp misses out on his apparent season's focus by finishing runner up to Durbridge in the National Championships.
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^gifted apparently
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Reads like it was. Fair play to him: he's had the last 3 years.
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Womens TDU ,.. distraction from the apocalypse. Last 50k has some movement S1
"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 -
Glad to see the season back
"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 -
If a race takes place in Adelaide in January and no one is around to watch it, does it really mean the season is back ?
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Was a fairly boring stage despite the big teams flubbing it up. Given the circumstances it should have been more fun to watch, but the flub was quite large and the roads so wide, leading to no real suspense and weird pack dynamics. Can group 2 syndrome spread to an entire peloton on a "sprint stage"? It seems so with EF in particular riding weirdly and rather unhelpfully.
Worthy winner.
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W-TDU decent enough stage 2. Worth watching the 2 ascents of Willunga Hill.
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Overall the women's TDU race was ok . Things happened.
"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 -
Stage 3 yawn was pretty boring. Why bother going off the front if you're not going to commit to it?
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Welsford repeating his TDU sprinting glory of last year.
Was G signing autographs out the back or is he having an Annus Froomius retirement year?
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Not really a surprise, last two years G has done nothing until making the podium of the Giro
He's also said on Insta that he was ill overnight
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Ill overnight apparently.
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Having said I was going to try and pay attention to the TDU this year because of Withensen, it turns out I can't get any coverage at all here in DK. This is despite it being carried by Discovery elsewhere, which in DK is part of Max, which I have. Bastards.
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