Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2019

[dcro 10,210]

Yes, that's strike 1 for @heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,124]

25 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

It's in the World Tour thread

Ah yeah, there's different threads for World Tour (which unlike World Cups in many sports is not a classification people actually seem to care about) and other races   Oops

[Agger 1,662]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ah yeah, there's different threads for World Tour (which unlike World Cups in many sports is not a classification people actually seem to care about) and other races   Oops

 

Considering that pretty close to all interesting races are in the World Tour nowadays (and some pretty damn uninteresting) I disagree

[heywoodu 15,124]

6 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

Considering that pretty close to all interesting races are in the World Tour nowadays (and some pretty damn uninteresting) I disagree

Pretty close to all races that get a lot of attention maybe  

[dcro 10,210]

Big flag.

 

Can you also spot a big truck and a big tree?

 

[ChandlerMne 1,036]

I am surely not cycling expert,least to say,so i need an explanation.

How is possible that Roglic can finish 1st two times,than 2nd and 3rd out of 6 stages? He has 31 sec advantage over Valverde. Such dominance is strange for me,because all other great cyclist werent capable of finishing top 3 almost every stage,at least i think.

I am not implying anything but he transitioned from being good time trial cyclist to cyclist that wins or finish in top 3 in majority of races he participates in. 

Edited March 1, 2019 by ChandlerMne

[Monzanator 4,490]

On 24/02/2019 at 12:59, dcro said:

Big flag.

 

Can you also spot a big truck and a big tree?

 

 

It's in the Guinness Record Book?

 

https://gulfnews.com/going-out/society/sharjah-raises-worlds-largest-flag-1.2119329

[mihamiha 124]

roglič won UEA tour

[heywoodu 15,124]

On 01/03/2019 at 15:40, ChandlerMne said:

I am surely not cycling expert,least to say,so i need an explanation.

How is possible that Roglic can finish 1st two times,than 2nd and 3rd out of 6 stages? He has 31 sec advantage over Valverde. Such dominance is strange for me,because all other great cyclist werent capable of finishing top 3 almost every stage,at least i think.

I am not implying anything but he transitioned from being good time trial cyclist to cyclist that wins or finish in top 3 in majority of races he participates in. 

 

Stage 1 (1st): team time trial, so he finished 1st there

Stage 3: rather tough uphill finish, which he has been good at since he entered cycling (and it only got better all the time)

Stage 4: same thing really

Stage 6 (1st): again, long uphill finish 

 

It's not really strange for someone in a multi-stage tour to be strong in most of the mountain stages and this tour just happened to have quite a lot of mountain stages  (+ definitely not everyone is in top shape yet)

[heywoodu 15,124]

Strade Bianche tomorrow Recon photos look good