Road Cycling 2020 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 16,572]

The track of this years "Okolo Slovenska" was originaly build for Peter Sagan as it was expected he will finally compete here during his preparation for the world champs, but since the whole corona pandemic changed everything and during the 16-19 september period Peter will be at the Tour de France, Okolo Slovenska will be sadly again without our biggest cycling star of our history, however the organizers decided to not change the route of this year edition, so we will have some very "funny" stages around Žilina with many short but pretty hard climbs.

 

6 World Tours already announced their participation. and since Tour de France will be the only competition during this period for "Okolo Slovenska" we can expect some really interesting names on the Slovak roads this year, rumors saying about the likes of Matthews or even Evenepoel...

 

 

Teams https://www.okoloslovenska.com/en/teams-startlist

 

 

[heywoodu 16,434]

Well if Evenepoel is going, the rest can just stay at home because there's nothing to ride for anymore  

[dcro 10,210]

On 26/05/2020 at 15:57, dcro said:

Yay, I will be getting two signed Toms Skujins cards!

 

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Finally they have arrived.

 

"These trading cards will be worth almost nothing someday." - T. Skujins. Nevertheless, this my first signed item from an actual Olympian.

 

[heywoodu 16,434]

Damn, yet another young Belgian guy...apparently his heart stopped during sort of a practice race, CPR couldn't save him.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,434]

 

 

 

My picks:

 

Grabsch beats Brochard

Garzelli beats Millar

Caucchioli beats Hervé

Frigo beats Verbrugghe

Cunego beats Vandenbroucke

Rogers beats Lanfranchi

Virenque beats O'Grady

Jaksche beats Blijlevens

 

[Grassmarket 4,249]

Chris Froome to leave Ineos, but will ride for them in the TdF.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/53112149

[Federer91 3,372]

6 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Chris Froome to leave Ineos, but will ride for them in the TdF.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/53112149

 

Israel team of all places. Wasn't anyone else interested  The guy should just retire.  

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

 

Israel team of all places. Wasn't anyone else interested  The guy should just retire.  

 

Now we will see the alien in half the Eurosport commercials!   

[Dnl 726]

On 09/07/2020 at 21:15, Federer91 said:

 

Israel team of all places. Wasn't anyone else interested  The guy should just retire.  

Old but Gold  tbh in the last 4 years or so cycling has become more and more popular which is good and it's mostly thanks to Sylvan Adams

[heywoodu 16,434]

Androni and Gazprom have already pulled out of the upcoming Sibiu Tour, which is supposed to be one of the first somewhat decent races (there's also the Tour of Poland which won't be televised in any way since media won't be allowed, so yeah).

 

Meanwhile the Hamburg Cyclassics, moved from August to October, has now been cancelled.