heywoodu 13,560 Posted November 9, 2020 #291 Share Posted November 9, 2020 On 05/11/2020 at 15:07, Grassmarket said: Sad story, he was always a real hard-worker who did at least get a few great moments, notably in the 2015 Het Nieuwsblad. Former British champion Ian Stannard has been forced to retire because of rheumatoid arthritis. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54821989 That is sad indeed I see he was also third in that weird Roubaix where old Mathew Hayman of all places took an awesome win, 2016. Stannard is (or was, now) among the kind of riders I like most, that also includes for example Magnus Bäckstedt: those huge powerhouses who excel in classics like Het Nieuwsblad or Roubaix. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted November 18, 2020 #292 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Awet Gebremehdin (went from to ), who finished Lombardy and the Giro d'Italia last year, is stuck in Ethiopia. He went to visit his family which had fleed there, and now they are in hiding in the Tigray region, where a civil war is brewing Pretty much all talented Ethopians who were up-and-coming are from Tigray, basically the only Ethiopian region where cycling is a thing (thanks to it's connection with Eritrea), but that's all going down the drain rapidly now. Hopefully things calm down there, but considering things like history it's hard to imagine it will actually calm down If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted November 21, 2020 #293 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Fun bit of analysis with a top-10 of 2020's best sprinters. https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/ranking-the-top-10-male-sprinters-of-2020/ The top-4 is quite clearly miles above the rest, as we could see the whole season basically, with Bennett in first...although interestingly, he loses in all the head-to-heads against the other three of the big four If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted November 24, 2020 #294 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Vini-Zabu was building up the excitement yesterday, big news coming?! Aaaaaand....nope. A one year contract renewel for the 108th place finisher in the Giro d'Italia whose best result in the entire year, by far, was a 22nd place in a poor field in the Trofeo Laigueglia dcro and Gianlu33 1 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,574 Posted November 30, 2020 #295 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,479 Posted November 30, 2020 #296 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Honestly a miracle more riders didn’t crash. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,182 Posted November 30, 2020 #297 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Much better than that Kazakh biathlete, who fell 5 meters before the finish line and placed 4th instead of taking Olympic gold. Olympian1010 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted December 3, 2020 #298 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Not much discussion possible about it, but Primoz Roglic won the prestigious Velo d'Or. The only one who could have remotely challenged him was probably Wout van Aert, but his performances were mostly centered on shorter times whereas Roglic was nearly impossibly good the entire year, both before and after the COVID break. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted December 3, 2020 #299 Share Posted December 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Not much discussion possible about it, but Primoz Roglic won the prestigious Velo d'Or. The only one who could have remotely challenged him was probably Wout van Aert, but his performances were mostly centered on shorter times whereas Roglic was nearly impossibly good the entire year, both before and after the COVID break. For me Pogačar 1st Roglič 2nd Alaphilippe 3rd. Van Aert ? sorry not even in top 10 dcro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted December 3, 2020 #300 Share Posted December 3, 2020 16 minutes ago, hckosice said: For me Pogačar 1st Roglič 2nd Alaphilippe 3rd. Van Aert ? sorry not even in top 10 I forgot it wasn't Van Aert who won Flanders If it was a Velo d'Or for the first weeks post-COVID, obviously there would have been no other choice than Van Aert Now I'm curious about who you would see in the top-10 then. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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