Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

c.p.w.g.w

dahat wrote: »

Any chance he stays at Bora?

Reading odds and ends online Sagan may miss the tour next year so if Sam got the Tour he may stay possibly.

I could be way off the mark as well.

Why would Sagan miss the tour?

cunavalos

I hope Sam lays off the Flandrien Super8 until later in the week

dahat

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Why would Sagan miss the tour?

His agent spoken of the huge effort it took Sagan to get the green hersey again plus he isn't a pure fast man so winning stages there is harder for him now. He is currently have a break with a reduced programme before world's.

I may be way off but it's strange that Bennett hasn't confirmed stating or going yet so things may be changing in his favour at Bora. One thing for sure he seems to love the team.

f1000

Savage sprint @ Binckbank. Just watched the highlights and the helicopter camera showed how much Sam had to do in the last 1km for the win. Class

velo.2010

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Why would Sagan miss the tour?

He has the green jersey record. Taking a year out breaks up any new pressure of how many he will win or who might beat him.

I was struggling to see Sam Bennett in the highlights of the finish today. The Irish jersey doesn't stand out. It's lost among the many other white shouldered jerseys in the head on view. The green ban is difficult to see in the overhead shots too.

I guess the trade teams dictate how much of the national flag/emblems cover their jerseys.

f1000

velo.2010 wrote: »

The Irish jersey doesn't stand out. It's lost among the many other white shouldered jerseys in the head on view. The green ban is difficult to see in the overhead shots too.

Why not something similar to the Italian jersey or is that not allowed now?

Eamonnator

f1000 wrote: »

Why not something similar to the Italian jersey or is that not allowed now?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057061624&page=41

Go back 3 pages.

f1000

Quick edit, I like

f1000

Eamonnator wrote: »

Go back 3 pages.

Facepalm moment

Didn't realise the politics

CantGetNoSleep

f1000 wrote: »

Quick edit, I like

Needs an O'Neills logo

CantGetNoSleep

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Why would Sagan miss the tour?

Tokyo Olympics just after too - Tour has been brought forward a week for this but they still need to get to Japan.

marvin80

dahat wrote: »

His agent spoken of the huge effort it took Sagan to get the green hersey again plus he isn't a pure fast man so winning stages there is harder for him now. He is currently have a break with a reduced programme before world's.

I may be way off but it's strange that Bennett hasn't confirmed stating or going yet so things may be changing in his favour at Bora. One thing for sure he seems to love the team.

If Sagan doesn't go to the Tour they'd probably give the German (Ackermann) the spot and give Sam the Giro.

He deserves the tour and would win a few stages.

CrowdedHouse

velo.2010 wrote: »

I was struggling to see Sam Bennett in the highlights of the finish today. The Irish jersey doesn't stand out. It's lost among the many other white shouldered jerseys in the head on view.

Also hindered by having a white helmet today instead of the green Bora one. I think he was wearing the green yesterday in the Euros

Beasty

velo.2010 wrote: »

I was struggling to see Sam Bennett in the highlights of the finish today. The Irish jersey doesn't stand out. It's lost among the many other white shouldered jerseys in the head on view. The green ban is difficult to see in the overhead shots too.

I was looking for the helmet. If he had been wearing the regular Bora one he would have stood out

The other thing, I guess, is he's usually in a train, and 2 or 3 Bora jerseys in front of him makes it a lot easier to spot him

jimbobaloobob

f1000 wrote: »

Quick edit, I like

It's a bit Kerry for Sam looking. Boom boom.

cunavalos

cunavalos wrote: »

Just noticed the commentator say it was the first world tour road race win by a rider in the Irish NC jersey. (I think Ryan Mullen won in the TT jersey)Just trying to think of any other professional wins in the jersey, would David O Loughlin have won a stage of the RAS in the jersey?

To answer my own question while David O'Louglin did win a stage of the RAS in 2008 while riding for Pezula in the Irish Champions jersey it may not count as a professional win at the time so we have to go back to David McCann winning Stage 5 at the 2006 Tour of Qinghai Lake. Funnily enough he did not have a team issued champion jersey and won wearing a Cycling Ireland jersey and the Irish Team bibs of the time



As an aside can you imagine what that bike must be worth now, if a bike "nearly" ridden by David McCann at the Olympics was for sale at €8000 a bike that he actually rode to a professional win must be worth twice that.

velo.2010

Its ironic that the full tricolour can't be worn so as not to offend our unionist brethren, yet the flag was created with the opposite in mind - the orange stands for protestantism after all!

c.p.w.g.w

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Why would Sagan miss the tour?

Thought I heard or read somewhere that Bora are considering going all in for GC with Buchman in the near future

De Bhál

Great win there. Couple of nice shoulders by him to keep him in there.

mr spuckler

De Bhál wrote: »

Great win there. Couple of nice shoulders by him to keep him in there.

Absolutely, he wasn't shy in throwing it about a bit.

De Bhál

mr spuckler wrote: »

Absolutely, he wasn't shy in throwing it about a bit.

Great to see

CramCycle

cunavalos wrote: »

I hope Sam lays off the Flandrien Super8 until later in the week]

Must be doing alot of upper body work in the gym, no way I hold a keg over my head after a race :pac:

Eamonnator

CramCycle wrote: »

Must be doing alot of upper body work in the gym, no way I hold a keg over my head after a race :pac:

It was only a firkin, thing of nothing.

neris

Win again today on stage 2

velo.2010

I thought Bora had got the memo on making Sam's Irish Champion jersey more visible until I realised he was just wearing the race leader's green jersey!

mr spuckler

velo.2010 wrote: »

I thought Bora had got the memo on making Sam's Irish Champion jersey more visible until I realised he was just wearing the race leader's green jersey!

Looked more like an old An Post jersey!

Bora team cars loaded down with the prizes he's won too

De Bhál

https://twitter.com/ByTheMinCycle/status/1161646775876378624

brilliant stuff

c.p.w.g.w

Lads his a some form...might he be in with a shout to add the rainbow strip to his Bora jersey?

From the photo, only the width of the rim in it.

EDIT:

cunavalos

Today was officially Sam's 40th Professional win since his breakthrough win in the 2013 Tour of Britain and he has the second highest number wins this season in races .1 and above, only one behind Alaphilippe
Rnk Rider Team Wins 2nd 3rd
1 Alaphilippe Julian Deceuninck - Quick Step 12 4 3

2= Groenewegen Dylan Team Jumbo-Visma 11 4 3

2= Bennett Sam BORA - hansgrohe 11 4 3

4 Ewan Caleb Lotto Soudal 9 8 8

5 Viviani Elia Deceuninck - Quick Step 9 7 4

6 Roglič Primož Team Jumbo-Visma 9 3 4

7 Ackermann Pascal BORA - hansgrohe 9 2 6

8 Coquard Bryan Vital Concept - B&B Hotels 7 4 3

9 Lutsenko Alexey Astana Pro Team 7 0 1

10 Schachmann Maximilian BORA - hansgrohe 6 1 2