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[mcelliott]

King Kenny!!

[johnxjsc1985]

The sprint final was awesome a real duel . Jason Kenny was superb and still a relatively young man too.

[Dr Imran T]

johnxjsc1985 said:

felt for the Italian guy but that finish was brutal too much even for Sagan

I caught the highlights of this the other day. Great win for FC, especially so as this is his last year racing. Eurosport are doing a mini series on him 'follow Fabian' or something like that - worth a watch.

Also Tirreno Adriatico starts today, was a great race that last year. Haven't checked the line this year but would expect to see some big GC names in there.

[mcelliott]

Love the Tirreno just watched the TTT gonna be some great racing, ditto P/N st weather forecast for both races too.

[johnxjsc1985]

its been a long winter thank God the Classics will soon be upon us

[Dr Imran T]

johnxjsc1985 said:

its been a long winter thank God the Classics will soon be upon us

well there's been some decent stuff going on in the Paris -Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

Nacer Bouhanni's disqualification the other day was interesting - his antics were certainly questionable!

[johnxjsc1985]

Dr Imran T said:

well there's been some decent stuff going on in the Paris -Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

Nacer Bouhanni's disqualification the other day was interesting - his antics were certainly questionable!

was that the one where he put the yellow jersey into the barriers ?

[ewenm]

johnxjsc1985 said:

Dr Imran T said:

well there's been some decent stuff going on in the Paris -Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

Nacer Bouhanni's disqualification the other day was interesting - his antics were certainly questionable!

was that the one where he put the yellow jersey into the barriers ?

Yep. Didn't give Matthews enough space so got relegated from 1st to 3rd, Matthews given the win.

[Johnny]

Great win for Steve Cummings today!

And I see tomorrow's stage has been cancelled due to snow...

Also top work by G today.

[ewenm]

Exciting racing in Paris-Nice today. Definitely worth catching the highlights!

[Wilmslowboy]

ewenm said:

Exciting racing in Paris-Nice today. Definitely worth catching the highlights!

Some of the most exciting last 10k of a stage I've seen for a long time..

Real lesson in not giving up by two great fighters. ....


.(in the spirt of no spoilers) Well done to the tour winner and bloody well done to the 2nd place gladiator

[mcelliott]

Stunning last stage, probably the best road racing I've seen in many many years. Two road warriors going head to head, and not once did they look down at their power meters.

[johnxjsc1985]

Cant believe I missed it but its on eurosport at 9.30pm

[pzero64]

ewenm said:

Exciting racing in Paris-Nice today. Definitely worth catching the highlights!

Watched a recording of the highlights. Fantastic racing and a great result.

[Granfondo]

Could be Marco Pantanni was not a doper according to Italian police!

[Potatoes]

Granfondo said:

Could be Marco Pantanni was not a doper according to Italian police!

Just saw that, this could get interesting

[johnxjsc1985]

so pleased for Thomas he really went through it on the last stage and his decent was epic. What a great time Cummins is having at the end of his Career. for some of us this is all quite incredible stuff having just the black and white films of Tom Simpson or the Tour wins of Barry Hoban now every time you put the TV on its World Champions jersey's TDF wins classic wins etc great stuff.

[johnxjsc1985]

I watched Pantani's film recently and he was devastated by that test failure and now it could well be a knobbled test. I hope so because he was so special.

[neilr]

Granfondo said:

Could be Marco Pantanni was not a doper according to Italian police!

Even if the Giro test was a fix it looks very much like he was using for the '98 tour. A shame, but lets be honest it's not entirely shocking is it.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/tour-de-france-to...

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/marco-pantani-...


I too enjoyed the Pantani film and Matt Rendells book is well worth a read if you havent already read it. The 'cult of Pantani' is an interesting one. A man who played a large part in creating the mystique surrounding himself, but ultimately found it impossible to face the reality of his use of PED's. A tragic story really.

[mcelliott]

johnxjsc1985 said:

so pleased for Thomas he really went through it on the last stage and his decent was epic. What a great time Cummins is having at the end of his Career. for some of us this is all quite incredible stuff having just the black and white films of Tom Simpson or the Tour wins of Barry Hoban now every time you put the TV on its World Champions jersey's TDF wins classic wins etc great stuff.

Oi you forgot Phil Bayton!