Soldato
What a moment that must have been for Devriendt to find himself alone at the front of PR.
Pro Cycling Discussion 2022
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Soldato
Clips of WvA and La Porte's mechanicals on Raris Roubaix with their Shimano wheels collapsing
Giro starting today, always a good race with unpredictable racing and weather! Yates and Carapaz are the two favourites but the Giro doesn't often follow the script! Hopefully Cav will show his quality and get a few stage wins and put his name in the hat for Le Tour.
Cav proving once again he's the best sprinter. Thought he'd gone too early, but that sprint kept on going.
And Pidcock absolutely bossed the MTB XC Today, pulled away on 3 of 6 laps and just grew the gap lap by lap. Great to hear him so confident in his goals of winning worlds.
And Pidcock absolutely bossed the MTB XC Today, pulled away on 3 of 6 laps and just grew the gap lap by lap. Great to hear him so confident in his goals of winning worlds.
Soldato
Yeah, I thought he was going into the barrier yesterday. MVDP got his wrong too I think, kind of gave up as the sprint started...
Forgot how useless eurosport are at highlights. Watching yesterdays little hour got down to 7km to go, goes to a break, come back and it's back to 40km, thought it was a display mistake on the counter but oh no its just replaying previous section. Goes to next break and down to 7km. Hope the discovery investment allows them to buy some useful directors/editors so they do a highlights package like itv do for the big races! Rather than just show the last hour /45mins.
Hoping for a big day today with some proper gc action.
Hoping for a big day today with some proper gc action.
Soldato
I pay the £40 a year for GCN Race Pass and quite like their long highlights, which tend to be between about 24 minutes and 40 minutes.
In theory it should be the same thing, but someone in eurosport messed something up. Big day today really narrowed down the leaders. Shame to see Yates drop out of contention after looking good so far. Landa vs carapaz for me, but hope bardet can keep it going.
Soldato
What a win from Girmay, genuinely out sprinting MvP when MvP was giving it everything, fantastic!
Mvdp full on thrash just had nothing against girmays slow Cadence drag. That lad has some power. Good to see he did what I said and got his position right, he's been sprinting well the whole race and can see him picking up the ciclamino Jersey with the way he's consistent finishing. Hopefully gives him some more confidence going forward too.
The Cork pop was unfortunately hilarious though!
The Cork pop was unfortunately hilarious though!
Soldato
Yeah, I read they took him to a local hospital as a precaution. It nearly happened to one of the earlier winners too, the cork popping out on it's own accord, I remember thinking it was a good job it didn't hit him in the eye!
Soldato
Crazy to go from the high of winning the stage to having to pull out of the race because of a cork! Time to Rethink the celebrations?
Soldato
It may have been Lopez that it happened to previously, and tbf I don't think it was anything he did, it looked like the bottle was already prepped. (Unless he'd removed the wrap earlier?) I'm sure the cork popped out as he bent down to pick it up... I've not seen Girmay's one though.
Caporegime
Maybe give them a sippy cup with some juice in it if they can't be trusted with a champagne bottle
Soldato
Girmay was standing directly above the bottle whilst he was unwinding the wire cap when the bottle was on the ground. Pretty daft really as it doesnt take much thought to not stand directly over the bottle when you are unwrapping it knowing these things are potentially under high pressure. Shame hes out of the race because of it
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Yeah, that's a little silly of him...