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First road racing action of the year comes up tomorrow morning - the Australian National Criterium and Road Races on Discovery Player, overnight and in the early hours of Friday, Saturday & Sunday morning. 

 

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UCI accepting this idiotic last kilometer in San Juan :lol:

 

 

You've got a super straightforward strage, basically going straight ahead for 140km, and then in the last kilometer - when the peloton is in full sprint mode - all of a sudden there's a split in the road which wasn't fenced off, so they still had to choose a left or right :d 

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Road furniture in the last Km, someone spraying the peloton with a hose just ahead of that, questionable television direction; the Vuelta a San Juan is in full swing :cool: :p

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Jakobsen got punched by a phone

 

 

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