Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2024

[Grassmarket 3,403]

Horrible day in the Dauphiné today with a huge crash on very wet roads, several riders taken to hospital & stage neutralised.  Van Baarle & Kruijswijk seem to be the unlucky ones.

[rafalgorka 1,517]

21 hours ago, Jinzha said:

With  Ganna and  Pogacar as well, definitely going to be an exciting contest in Paris. The men's time trial has been a really exciting contest over the past decade.

Slovenia sadly has only one quota in men’s TT. They need to choose between Roglic or Pogacar or sb else

[Olympian1010 7,971]

45 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Horrible day in the Dauphiné today with a huge crash on very wet roads, several riders taken to hospital & stage neutralised.  Van Baarle & Kruijswijk seem to be the unlucky ones.

Yeah, a freak crash on wet roads. It looked like riders just couldn't find traction the descents today.

[mpjmcevoy 362]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, a freak crash on wet roads. It looked like riders just couldn't find traction the descents today.

They redid the tarmac, which is a good thing, but it's too fresh so there's no grip when it rains - bizarrely, it's not worn enough. Still a bit freakish - in decent weather with dry tarmac it would have been a lovely surface.

[Olympicsnell 300]

On 6/5/2024 at 10:11 PM, Jinzha said:

With  Ganna and  Pogacar as well, definitely going to be an exciting contest in Paris. The men's time trial has been a really exciting contest over the past decade.

whats the course like in paris in terms of hills? kinda thinking that is make or break for tarling as thats where he lost a bag load to remco

[mpjmcevoy 362]

3 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Slovenia sadly has only one quota in men’s TT. They need to choose between Roglic or Pogacar or sb else

Seems like a three from four here -

 

17 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

whats the course like in paris in terms of hills? kinda thinking that is make or break for tarling as thats where he lost a bag load to remco

The road race is hilly, 2800 m of elevation.

 

The TT is almost pan flat

Edited June 6 by mpjmcevoy

[Olympicsnell 300]

1 minute ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Seems like a three from four here -

 

The road race is hilly, 2300 m of elevation.

 

The TT is almost pan flat

That gets my tail wagging, 

honestly can't wait for the road race if we get all the big names here, could be chaos

[mpjmcevoy 362]

17 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

That gets my tail wagging, 

honestly can't wait for the road race if we get all the big names here, could be chaos

I'm vaguely hoping Pidcock tries to do a Road Race MTB double, just for the shits and giggles. The course seems to have a liege-y Ardennes quality. The profile might also suit a Ben Healy.

Edited June 6 by mpjmcevoy

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Shoutout to Derek Gee . Dude's holding his own this week  

[heywoodu 15,135]

Roglic in big trouble in the last kilometers of the Dauphiné. He has 1:02 on Jorgenson, but is losing time very quickly and can only afford under 20 seconds more in the last kilometer.