Pro Cycling Discussion 3: 2024 The Year of Crashes?

[Zebra Cheeks]

Uijtdebroeks abandons due to illness. No wonder he looked like shit yesterday. Looks like the streak of bad luck for Visma just continues as Kooij abandoned the day before.

Even that mountain stage pog won he looked like he was about to collapse on the line which was strange because he’s climbed much tougher paces. Makes sense to me.

Happy to see affinity in the break today. I like that young crew at visma. The van djick brothers are fun racers

 

[BangBang]

Long ole stage eh? Only 40 seconds, they will get swallowed up whole…..

 

[Yorick]

Chiclamino, a word not used nearly enough IMO.

 

[Videer]

Finally a big win for Alaphilippe? It has been a long time since the last one

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Finally a big win for Alaphilippe? It has been a long time since the last one

I was watching with my daughter around the 108 to 98km. And my daughter was amazed at Alaphilippe. I was like, the peloton will swallow them in the last 4km. Boy was I wrong. Lol!

 

[Yorick]

Scorching statement by Alaphillipe, well done mon ami!

 

[eddymotto]

I was watching with my daughter around the 108 to 98km. And my daughter was amazed at Alaphilippe. I was like, the peloton will swallow them in the last 4km. Boy was I wrong. Lol!

It was nice to not only see Alaphilipe win but to win in such an Alaphilippe way; an audacious attack that put aggression over calculation.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Milan by hulk smash again today.

My guy is having one hell of a year.

 

[Videer]

Ganna decided he wants to hurt sprinty bois, this is great

 

[Yorick]

Roads repaved, beautiful for big pack.

 

[Yorick]

Wow that’s three for Milan.

Chiclamino!

 

[Videer]

Impressive for how long Milan can keep his sprint going

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Wow that’s three for Milan.

I had a feeling when I saw him at adriatico.

The guy reminds me of Kittel and Greipel.

 

[Yorick]

Bravo, Ganna!

 

[Videer]

Bravo, Ganna!

Well gotta have one stage that pretty much guarantees Italian winner.

Arensman sixth at GC now, I believe that Ineos 2-3 is well within the realm of possibility and here I was wondering why does he ride for GC after catastrophic stages 1 and 2

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Bravo, Ganna!

When a tt specialist sweats while nervously watching a climber trying to beat you in a tt. Ganna deserves this stage but he was probably shitting his pants during Pog's run.

 

[Videer]

When a tt specialist sweats while nervously watching a climber trying to beat you in a tt. Ganna deserves this stage but he was probably shitting his pants during Pog's run.

I dont think there is too much difference between a TT specialists and a modern GC rider. Jonos, Poggo, Roglic and Remco are all extremely good.
Times when teams gave their GC rider a TT bike and told them to go ride are long gone, and I am kinda hating it. Smaller teams simply have no chance at all, none. It is just too damn costly.

 

[BangBang]

When a tt specialist sweats while nervously watching a climber trying to beat you in a tt. Ganna deserves this stage but he was probably shitting his pants during Pog's run.

Pogacar is not just a climber as you know but with a pan flat parcours like today Ganna was always going to a be a big favourite.

 

[BangBang]

Well gotta have one stage that pretty much guarantees Italian winner.

Arensman sixth at GC now, I believe that Ineos 2-3 is well within the realm of possibility and here I was wondering why does he ride for GC after catastrophic stages 1 and 2

I’m big on Arensmann. 6th in the last 2 GTs he finished. There is something about this talented Dutch rider, an arrogance maybe. Leaving GT behind on a climb, was in in the Vuelta IIRC (when he could have waited) surprised me. He is someone going places.

 

[Videer]

Big mountain stage today, who is going to crack?