Road Cycling 2020 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

Niki Terpstra will be back racing this week apparently.

[heywoodu 16,000]

Broken pelvis and end of season for Evenepoel. It's a miracle that's all, so I hope he'll count his blessings, so to speak.

[Olympian1010 8,229]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Broken pelvis and end of season for Evenepoel. It's a miracle that's all, so I hope he'll count his blessings, so to speak.

Damn, I really don’t want to imagine the force required to break your pelvis. I hope he’s able to make a recovery.

[Grassmarket 4,028]

Tour de Wallonie is sponsored by the local tourist board, so we are getting more chateaux than cycling at the moment.

 

 

Heading towards a city-centre bunch sprint in heavy rain....  Long, straight & wide last km, fortunately.

 

All went down safely, Caleb Ewan  takes the sprint.

[phelps 8,279]

19 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Damn, I really don’t want to imagine the force required to break your pelvis. I hope he’s able to make a recovery.

 

for those who haven't seen Evanepoel's fall yet...

 

video #1: https://twitter.com/i/status/1294652276162822145

 

video #2: https://www.facebook.com/gianluca.trentini.9/videos/10223439772205818/?t=6

 

 

by the way, Evanepoel's accident wasn't the only scary and life-threatening moment of the day...

 

also Maximilian Schachmann was almost killed by an idiot who hit him with her car in a zone where nobody was supposed to be there...

 

here's the video: https://www.eurosport.it/ciclismo/il-lombardia/2020/incidente-per-schachmann-un-auto-civile-gli-taglia-la-strada_vid1336468/video.shtml

 

after those 2 unacceptable accidents, UCI is expected to denounce RCS (the organizers of the race) in the coming days...

[Grassmarket 4,028]

Hah! Peleton in Wallonie caught taking a sneaky short-cut through someone’s neat suburban garden!  
 

Arnauld Demare gets over Caleb Ewan for the win.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Hugo Houle was found positive to covid.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

And we have another case, probability the 3rd this week. Larry Warbasse (Ag2r) was found positive to covid-19.

[dcro 10,210]

They had so much time to give all pros coronavirus on purpose, wait for them recover, and finally have them race without this mindless approach in which tons of tests get wasted for each race.

[Grassmarket 4,028]

31 minutes ago, dcro said:

They had so much time to give all pros coronavirus on purpose, wait for them recover, and finally have them race without this mindless approach in which tons of tests get wasted for each race.

Small question of medical ethics there, though.