Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2024

[heywoodu 15,168]

For safety reasons, Paris - Roubaix organizers have decided to let a full peloton of riders fight massively for a super tight and sharp 'chicane' right before the famous Arenberg cobbled section. Can't go wrong!

 

 

 

[Agger 1,663]

And meanwhile a very bad crash in Itzulia Basque Country taking down several profiles including Vingegaard, Evenepoel and Roglic. Especially Vingegaard and a couple of other riders are looking very bad.

[heywoodu 15,168]

4 hours ago, Agger said:

And meanwhile a very bad crash in Itzulia Basque Country taking down several profiles including Vingegaard, Evenepoel and Roglic. Especially Vingegaard and a couple of other riders are looking very bad.

Also Jay Vine....again. Peloton went on that downhill like crazy (for no real reason at all), even after someone in the lead group had already missed that turn a few minutes earlier...

 

Basque/Spanish TV director should be fired immediately by the way, not only keeping the live pictures there forever, but even zooming in, showing all the replays, slow motion scenes of riders who may or may not be conscious.....those utter imbeciles from the Giro d'Italia TV during Wouter Weylandt's last moments alive all over again....

 

I mean, come on. They zoomed in as far as possible on Vingegaard, who we at least saw move a bit every now and then, and also on the UAE guy who was just motionless on his back (like Weylandt that time). We as audience don't need to see that, the riders' families don't need all that on TV. Fucking idiots.

Edited April 4 by heywoodu

[Agger 1,663]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Also Jay Vine....again. Peloton went on that downhill like crazy (for no real reason at all), even after someone in the lead group had already missed that turn a few minutes earlier...

 

Basque/Spanish TV director should be fired immediately by the way, not only keeping the live pictures there forever, but even zooming in, showing all the replays, slow motion scenes of riders who may or may not be conscious.....those utter imbeciles from the Giro d'Italia TV during Wouter Weylandt's last moments alive all over again....

 

I mean, come on. They zoomed in as far as possible on Vingegaard, who we at least saw move a bit every now and then, and also on the UAE guy who was just motionless on his back (like Weylandt that time). We as audience don't need to see that, the riders' families don't need all that on TV. Fucking idiots.

Yeah. Hadn't seen who the UAE-rider was when writing. 

Absolutely agree. They even spent time putting some semi-dramatic music on the crash. 

I understand that it's hard to be a TV director in the situation. The race was neutralized for what, almost half an hour and of course something needs to be on the screen, but it was wrong. Give us boring pictures and not this. 

 

It seems like Vine was injured the worst, while the Tour dream should be alive for all 3 favourites in the crash.

[heywoodu 15,168]

8 hours ago, Agger said:

Yeah. Hadn't seen who the UAE-rider was when writing. 

Absolutely agree. They even spent time putting some semi-dramatic music on the crash. 

I understand that it's hard to be a TV director in the situation. The race was neutralized for what, almost half an hour and of course something needs to be on the screen, but it was wrong. Give us boring pictures and not this. 

 

It seems like Vine was injured the worst, while the Tour dream should be alive for all 3 favourites in the crash.

And if you desperately need to show something, just keep it with the helicopter shot from high up without zooming in. That way we see the situation isn't cleared yet, but we can't see the details of what they're doing. But yeah, preferably just don't show it at all. Put an extra camera on the waiting peloton or something, that's pretty interesting often, hearing the riders talk and discuss the situation and so on.

[Grassmarket 3,429]

And here we are just about to hit section 28/28 of the pavė! Bb

 

Breakaway group of people most known to their families have 1’37.

Edited April 7 by Grassmarket

[Agger 1,663]

18 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

And here we are just about to hit section 28/28 of the pavė! Bb

 

Breakaway group of people most known to their families have 1’37.

Most known to their families? Like a former RVV-winner? 

[Agger 1,663]

Meanwhile with more than 50km to Arenberg the peloton is just about 30 riders after some echelons formed. They're just 15 seconds after the break

[heywoodu 15,168]

32 minutes ago, Agger said:

Most known to their families? Like a former RVV-winner? 

Tiller, Hagenes, Haller and of course indeed Asgreen...that was a lead group of rare strength for races like this.

[heywoodu 15,168]

Tarling  

 

Bike exchange and then was brought back to the peloton behind the team car, very clearly. Now he's taken out of the race, there you go. Another serious outsider gone.

Edited April 7 by heywoodu