Road Cycling 2020 Discussion Thread

[Federer91 3,372]

The first real race will be the Tour of Bulgaria  

[TomJa 64]

59 minut temu, heywoodu napisał:

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.

If you find a way to bypass (if any) geolocation, the Tour of Poland can be watched on the Polish television website, i.e. sport.tvp.pl

[TomJa 64]

16 minut temu, Federer91 napisał:

The first real race will be the Tour of Bulgaria  

If I were to find fault with it, the first races were in Poland. But the organizers have so spoiled the promotions of these races that it is better not to say than to praise that my country was the first to organize such races.

[dcro 10,210]

On 09/07/2020 at 22:08, heywoodu said:

 

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

 

The alien being Chris Froome...?

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 hours ago, TomJa said:

If you find a way to bypass (if any) geolocation, the Tour of Poland can be watched on the Polish television website, i.e. sport.tvp.pl

Interesting, since it was specifically mentioned no members of the media would be allowed. I wonder who films it

[heywoodu 16,434]

47 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

The alien being Chris Froome...?

Yes, the one who went from struggling for a top-100 finish in the Tour of I believe Poland (which was normal, considering he was nothing more than average) to nearly winning the Vuelta a few weeks later (and later actually winning, officially)

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 hours ago, Federer91 said:

The first real race will be the Tour of Bulgaria  

Is that the one that has something with the ancient Romans in the name? Because that got me very interested

[TomJa 64]

24 minuty temu, heywoodu napisał:

Interesting, since it was specifically mentioned no members of the media would be allowed. I wonder who films it

TVP is the inseparable media patron of this race. Even when the tour for this year's edition was announced, it was done in a public television studio, so I suppose there will be coverage. I looked at the schedule of this station, there will also be reports this year. If you want this broadcast plan to you.

[Federer91 3,372]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Is that the one that has something with the ancient Romans in the name? Because that got me very interested

 

No, that is a separate race, which will be held for the first time  The 67th Tour of Bulgaria starts next tuesday with Caja Rural and Delko Marseille as top teams. It took a global pandemic and stopped season to finally get Pro Con. teams 

[TomJa 64]

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