S*** Small Races 2024

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  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 940
    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21096433#Comment_21096433

    The whole squad looks like: who wants a free trip home, and does anyone fancy hanging out with their cousin for a week?

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Just about time to start watching I think.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Webboo2
    Webboo2 Posts: 1,114

    What do think of Dr Hutch as a commentator, to me he has a good attention to detail but he seems a bit dry compared to the column he writes.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Hutch isn’t Hatch imo.

    Dry is being polite.

    Thank goodness the race isn’t quite as dull.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    For a 2 man break, the boys have done good. Going to make it half way around the final lap, I reckon.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    GPS was wrong then.

    Jan Tratnik off to UAE in the near future?

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited September 13

    Bling wins the most innocuous sprint ever.

    A real, “Is that it?” Moment

    Girmay 2nd

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  • Webboo2
    Webboo2 Posts: 1,114

    It was so exciting I got to 5K to go and fell asleep only to wake to see the results.🥱🤣🤣

  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268

    Interesting race. As in Quebec looking European rather than N American. Never been there, been in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary etc.

    Oh yeah there was a race going on... 😉

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Ineos managed to get one rider in the first 50…..in 50th. There’s a tunnel at the end of the (Sky) light.

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21096474#Comment_21096474

    Quebec city is the complete antithesis of N. America. Well, the old town is. Preferred it to the three you mention.

    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Marc Hirschi gets his 5th consecutive win in 5 outings by taken the Memorial Marco Pantani.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 940

    He's becoming the Greipel of one day races.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691

    Pound-shop Pogacar

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  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 940

    Actual Pogacar nailing the Montreal crit.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Yup.

    Pogacar has flown another coop.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    Taking a wild hunch but I think pog is going to win the world's

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    Wild I know

    "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
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    edited September 15

    I can see my old apartment there.

    I also saw Greg Lemond go down that road in the opposite direction 35 years ago when the route stuck to the city centre.

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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21096757#Comment_21096757

    But there's still 2 weeks to go .....


    ..... oh, hang on, his form will be even better by then!

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610

    Just seen this:

    Tadej Pogacar finished in 7th place at Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec, his first loss in a non-stage race since 2024 Milano-Sanremo (181 days ago). It was Pogacar's lowest result in a non-stage race (ie excl. ITTs, GT stages) since the Worlds Road Race in 2022 (719 days ago).

  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226

    Needs an asterisk for his DNF last year really...

    He's only raced world tour races this year, and won 6 out of 8. Crazy numbers really.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,588

    Must be time for a 'Is Pogacar Finished?' thread surely?

  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575

    Cat Ferguson takes her first pro win in the opening stage of the Tour de la Semois in Belgium.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    Mauri Vansevenant won today’s Queen stage of the tour of Luxembourg and who, according to Rob “Hyperbole” Hatch, was in the form of his life.

    Hirschi couldn’t quite get rid of MVDP, as he Gaudu, Lemmen and Kelderman failed to cooperate and exploit the gap they had created.

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575

    Formolo was disqualifed (he'd finished 2nd, 18 seconds behind Vansevenant) for using the banned supertuck position on the final descent.

  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575

    MVDP clearly wanting a hard training ride today, ahead of his World's defence next Sunday; he's currently solo ahead of a 16-rider group that has 35 seconds on the peloton with 121 kms still to go in today's final stage of the Tour of Luxembourg.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    The Cat Killer takes the GC as MVDP and Mads Pedersen sprint out the lower positions of the stage top 10, which was won by David Gaudu.

    UAE and Vansevenant miss out on the podium.

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575

    Max Poole takes his first pro win in Stage 3 of the Tour of Langkawi. He takes the overall lead too.

    Meanwhile, Cat Ferguson takes her second pro win at Binche-Chimay-Binche pour Dames.

  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,035
    edited October 1

    That was very impressive from Ferguson, be very interesting to see how she performs against the worlds best as she gets older, and presumably gets even stronger.


    Just watched her interview, so humble and modest.

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