UCI Racing News/Results 2020 (Spoiler Alert)

mr spuckler

Great ending to Brabantse Pijl which came on Eurosport after the Giro stage.

JA very nearly messed up on the line again by celebrating too early. Played the sprint nicely by boxing in van der Poel though.

The look on the face of JA at the line when he saw VDP coming close was brilliant!

velo.2010

mr spuckler wrote: »

Great ending to Brabantse Pijl which came on Eurosport after the Giro stage.

JA very nearly messed up on the line again by celebrating too early. Played the sprint nicely by boxing in van der Poel though.

The look on the face of JA at the line when he saw VDP coming close was brilliant!

He'll get stung again if he keeps that up, but he did do well to keep MVDP boxed in on the short run to the line.

dastardly00

Julian you plonker

MvDP would have won that easily if he didn't get boxed in. Chapeau to Alaphilippe

harringtonp

Haven't seen it but what does boxing in mean ? If he moved to close him off he would have been relegated. Was in coming up by the barriers with Vdp behind ?

mr spuckler

The sprint was led out by the AG2R rider with MVDP on his wheel, both on the right hand side of the road close to the barriers. Alaphillipe came around the outside of MVDP and stayed tight to his left hand side, meaning MVDP basically had nowhere else to go / was boxed in until after JA opened up his sprint. Nothing at all untoward in it, just very clever.

Macy0161

mr spuckler wrote: »

The sprint was led out by the AG2R rider with MVDP on his wheel, both on the right hand side of the road close to the barriers. Alaphillipe came around the outside of MVDP and stayed tight to his left hand side, meaning MVDP basically had nowhere else to go / was boxed in until after JA opened up his sprint. Nothing at all untoward in it, just very clever.

Yep, good tactic by JA - he did similar in Strade Bianche a few years go iirc. Celebrating before the line, again, not so much.

harringtonp

Watched last hour last night. Great racing. So fluid at front and group gaps so small

mr spuckler

Bernal won't race the Vuelta, Froom and Carapaz to lead Ineos.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bernal-ends-his-season-as-froome-and-carapaz-lead-ineos-at-vuelta-a-espana/

retalivity

mr spuckler wrote: »

Bernal won't race the Vuelta, Froom and Carapaz to lead Ineos.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bernal-ends-his-season-as-froome-and-carapaz-lead-ineos-at-vuelta-a-espana/

Dunno if froome will be up to much, he's currently knocking around belgium doing bugger all

Any word on how Dunbar is recovering or is his season done now too?

velo.2010

retalivity wrote: »

Dunno if froome will be up to much, he's currently knocking around belgium doing bugger all

Looking at Procyclingstats, since a return to racing Froome's results have gotten worse with each race he's done, culminating in a DNF at Liege.

velo.2010

velo.2010 wrote: »

Looking at Procyclingstats, since a return to racing Froome's results have gotten worse with each race he's done, culminating in a DNF at Liege.

Didn't see the whole race because Giro, but be interesting to know how much he contributed or if he was just there to get race miles in the legs.

neris

Paris Roubaix is off apparently

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/Paris_Roubaix/status/1314490793210515456

Big shame about Roubaix, and they were to have a womens race for the first time too this year.

Paris-Tours looks ok for the weekend but thats south of Paris , thats been a decent race the last few editions since the changes were made to the route.

dastardly00

Ah balls

Inquitus

dastardly00 wrote: »

Ah balls

Aye gutted, Oct weather and Paris Roubaix were made for each other

dastardly00

Inquitus wrote: »

Aye gutted, Oct weather and Paris Roubaix were made for each other

Guaranteed to be raining in northern France on October 25th now!

dastardly00

Live TV coverage of Scheldeprijs has started on the GCN & Eurosport apps.


It's Sam vs Ewan vs Ackermann and a whole host of other sprinters.


Here's the route profile

dastardly00

59 km to go and the breakaway have less than a one minute lead.

Mark Cavendish (Bahrain McLaren), Michael Schär (CCC Team), Chris Juul-Jensen (Mitchelton-Scott), Travis McCabe (Israel-StartUp Nation), Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ), Dmitriy Gruzdev (Astana), Luc Wirtgen (Bingoal-WB), Piotr Havik (Riwal Securitas)

Mads Pedersen who won Gent-Wevelgem has abandoned with a hamstring niggle. And Casper Pedersen, winner of Paris-Tours, crashed earlier and abandoned.

mr spuckler

Bennett still has a gilet and arm warmers on as he rides at the back of the bunch. It's been a fast race but not really a stressful one so far. The Irishman has just been named in QuickStep's Vuelta line-up, so that's a Grand Tour double for the first time in his career.

Hopefully just saving energy...

neris

did Cav just try go away solo or did he fall out the back of the breakaway and into the peloton? its like watching one of those nature programmes where the animal has been chased caught and is slowly dying as its nibbled away at by a pack of hyenas

Break for cav again

Raoul Duke

Can the Eurosport producers please tell Carlton Kirby to stop breathing so heavily into the microphone. A very unnerving minute or so there with just the sound of him breathing like a stalker over the telephone.

Decent choo-choo and position here for Sam.

De Bhál

Deleted User wrote: »

Decent choo-choo and position here for Sam.

ewan welded to him

neris

Feckin impossible to spot Sam without a green jersey

neris

man down

mr spuckler

Not sure what happened to Sam there, he looked like he had to ease off and then didn't even compete.

Dodge

neris wrote: »

Feckin impossible to spot Sam without a green jersey

Had a mechanical. Didn’t even contest the sprint. Kept looking down at the bike

EDIT: that’s my opinion. Maybe he didn’t feel good but either way he didn’t contest sprint