The professional cycling thread
Discussion
MrBarry123 said:
More positive news today in the Tour of Flanders and that finish. Really happy with the result and interesting to see TP show his frustrations so openly.
It was a good race. I've not worked out if it was good tactically from Van De Poel or whether he just got lucky.He could have so easily given up when he stalled momentarily on the climb while trying to find a smoother path.
frisbee said:
MrBarry123 said:
More positive news today in the Tour of Flanders and that finish. Really happy with the result and interesting to see TP show his frustrations so openly.
It was a good race. I've not worked out if it was good tactically from Van De Poel or whether he just got lucky.He could have so easily given up when he stalled momentarily on the climb while trying to find a smoother path.
If you look at the finish you can see that VdPoel already created a growing gap with Pogačar before the latter was sandwiched.
The numerous hills, steep but short climbs where just too short for Pog to really make the difference. The consensus among the pundits after the race was that Pog made a mistake by not sprinting early, making it onto a long sprint. Instead he gave VdPoel the advantage.
And Pog obvioulsy also rode 273km before the finish.
DeltonaS said:
Good tactically? you mean the sprint ?
If you look at the finish you can see that VdPoel already created a growing gap with Poga?ar before the latter was sandwiched.
The numerous hills, steep but short climbs where just too short for Pog to really make the difference. The consensus among the pundits after the race was that Pog made a mistake by not sprinting early, making it onto a long sprint. Instead he gave VdPoel the advantage.
And Pog obvioulsy also rode 273km before the finish.
Pog and VdP were going considerably slower than the two catching them, if he had waited a fraction of a second longer they would have passed him and he wouldn't have been able to accelerate enough to match their speed.If you look at the finish you can see that VdPoel already created a growing gap with Poga?ar before the latter was sandwiched.
The numerous hills, steep but short climbs where just too short for Pog to really make the difference. The consensus among the pundits after the race was that Pog made a mistake by not sprinting early, making it onto a long sprint. Instead he gave VdPoel the advantage.
And Pog obvioulsy also rode 273km before the finish.
https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/events/uci-mountain-...
First XC World Cup of the year; and tonight it kicks off with the XCC (Short Track).
First XC World Cup of the year; and tonight it kicks off with the XCC (Short Track).
Safe to say Lampaert wasn’t impressed. That was a hard landing on cobbles. Nasty. Lewis Askey also finished looking like he’d been through it.
Hell of a ride from Van Baarle. He’s had a great last 9 months and Ineos did a very solid job yesterday. It’s been a really poor Spring classics campaign for Quickstep though.
Hell of a ride from Van Baarle. He’s had a great last 9 months and Ineos did a very solid job yesterday. It’s been a really poor Spring classics campaign for Quickstep though.
Gweeds said:
Safe to say Lampaert wasn’t impressed. That was a hard landing on cobbles. Nasty. Lewis Askey also finished looking like he’d been through it.
Hell of a ride from Van Baarle. He’s had a great last 9 months and Ineos did a very solid job yesterday. It’s been a really poor Spring classics campaign for Quickstep though.
The average speed and power figures are mind blowing from Van Baarle. I can’t comprehend how it is achieved over that ground.Hell of a ride from Van Baarle. He’s had a great last 9 months and Ineos did a very solid job yesterday. It’s been a really poor Spring classics campaign for Quickstep though.
Dunno what’s happened to Quickstep this year. Tough to maintain their recent form all the time I guess. Hopefully Cavendish can notch up some stage wins this year (TdF fingers crossed).
Hopefully Quickstep's torrid start to the year will convince Lefevre to select Cavendish for the TDF in order to get some stage wins under their belt and get a little closer to their yearly average wins.
I'm part way through watching Paris-Roubaix on GCN, I already know the results and I've seen the highlights, but this is a truly fantastic race.
I'm part way through watching Paris-Roubaix on GCN, I already know the results and I've seen the highlights, but this is a truly fantastic race.
Mastodon2 said:
Hopefully Quickstep's torrid start to the year will convince Lefevre to select Cavendish for the TDF in order to get some stage wins under their belt and get a little closer to their yearly average wins.
I'm part way through watching Paris-Roubaix on GCN, I already know the results and I've seen the highlights, but this is a truly fantastic race.
I don’t think it’s the performance of the sprinters that’s the problem. Jakobsen has had a strong start to the season. My head says that Cav won’t be at the Tour. I'm part way through watching Paris-Roubaix on GCN, I already know the results and I've seen the highlights, but this is a truly fantastic race.
LM240 said:
I have to admit, I thought Evenepoel might not be rider that the hype was suggesting. However, I’ll eat my helmet and accept that was very impressive today on L-B-L.
Perhaps one day races still the strong point rather than grand tour potential??
That was some attack. Perhaps one day races still the strong point rather than grand tour potential??
His ‘weakness’ seems to be the high mountains (and he hates gravel) so it could be that genuine GC ambitions in the 3 week tours are less likely (much like JA). He’s ridiculously aero though. I think he’s down to ride the Giro?
Sounds like Cav will be riding the Giro which makes an appearance at the Tour far less likely.
https://apple.news/AxIq831ooRs2qF8Dt_wyZoA
https://apple.news/AxIq831ooRs2qF8Dt_wyZoA
Gassing Station | Sports | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff