Road Cycling 2020 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 16,572]

The 2nd stage of Okolo Slovenska (Žilina - Banská Bystrica) was a qute challenging mountains stage (10 climbs)

 

Nico Denz from Sunweb won the very small group sprint ahead of the GC leader another rider Jannik Steimle of Deceuninck-Quickstep, 3rd finished Jempy Drucker of   from Bora-Hansgrohe.

 

In the GC Steimle still leads ahead of Denz and Shane Archbold the rider of Deceuninck-Quickstep.

 

Todays stage pics

 

 

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[Federer91 3,372]

19 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Did you see him just casually be the only one to follow Diego Ulissi's attack in the pretty long uphill finish in Luxembourg yesterday?  

 

Grosu just keeps stacking up the podiums  GS leader now.

[Grassmarket 4,249]

Big crash in the Giro Rosa - World No. 1 Annemiek van Vleuten suffers broken wrist & will miss the Worlds next week

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54197661

 

[heywoodu 16,434]

3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Big crash in the Giro Rosa - World No. 1 Annemiek van Vleuten suffers broken wrist & will miss the Worlds next week

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54197661

 

Plus she was on her way to a very convincing win in the Giro. Painful fall, caused by a small move by Lianne Lippert (nothing to be blamed for really), Marianne Vos and Mavi Garcia went down as well but seemed to be relatively fine.

[hckošice 16,572]

Martin Laas won his second stage at this years Okolo Slovenska, This time the Bora-Hansgrohe rider won today the stage 3 of the competition from Banská Bystrica to Žiar nad Hronom, ahead of Sean de Bie (Binoga-Wallonie Bruxelles) and David Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix)

 

In the GC the germanJannik Steimle still lead the yellow jersey ahead of Nico Denz and Shane Archbold.

 

Todays stage pics

 

 

 

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[Olympian1010 8,284]

The pictures from this tour are magical 

[heywoodu 16,434]

That first one with the Dukla car is cool  

[heywoodu 16,434]

The Tour of Luxembourg has already been one hell of an organizational disappointment, but after the drama of the first two stages, today they managed to make it even worse. There was a freaking truck driving on the course 

 

[Grassmarket 4,249]

47 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The Tour of Luxembourg has already been one hell of an organizational disappointment, but after the drama of the first two stages, today they managed to make it even worse. There was a freaking truck driving on the course 

 

Just give the country back to Belgium & be done with it! 

[heywoodu 16,434]

Only one way this disastrous Tour of Luxembourg could end (or well, not 'end' yet  ).