Road Cycling 2016 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,767]

http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/cyclisme/tour-de-france/actualites/tour-de-france-la-16e-etape-en-direct-815630

 

3rd win for the czech Sagan ...still better than Slovakia/Slovenia issue but this one

[stepansevs 129]

6 minutes ago, hckosice said:

http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/cyclisme/tour-de-france/actualites/tour-de-france-la-16e-etape-en-direct-815630

 

3rd win for the czech Sagan ...still better than Slovakia/Slovenia issue but this one

but i was very happy for him today. And Tinkov was great too.

[hckošice 14,767]

35 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

but i was very happy for him today. And Tinkov was great too.

 

 

yes, but still nothing new about Tinkoff continuing also next season...so far he put up only this pic https://www.instagram.com/p/BIAhgeNhANU/

 

[Dmitry 92]

Perfect Sagan! Congratulations to Slovakia!

[hckošice 14,767]

13 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

Perfect Sagan! Congratulations to Slovakia!

 

Spasiba

[hckošice 14,767]

Cavendish abandoned the tour.

 

Sagan is now 177 points ahead of the second (Kittel) in the green jersey battle with one sprint stage 3 mountains and 1 time trial remaining

[heywoodu 14,896]

11 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Cavendish abandoned the tour.

 

Sagan is now 177 points ahead of the second (Kittel) in the green jersey battle with one sprint stage 3 mountains and 1 time trial remaining

 

As you know I'm a big fan of Sagan like almost everyone else, but I really hope this points system gets changed in some way. Not "to fight against Sagan", but because certain things are just weird. If a stage is a mountaineous stage, you get much less points for winning the stage (logical), but it's unbelievably strange that the number of points for the intermediate sprints stay the same...

 

For example in a flat stage you get 50 points for winning the stage and 20 for winning the intermediate sprint.

In a mountain stage you get 20 points for winning the stage...but still 20 for winning the intermediate sprint..that makes no sense and I hope that gets changed as soon as possible. 

 

If they want to make differences between the stages in terms of points, that's great I think, but then they should just cancel the intermediate sprints in mountain stages  

[hckošice 14,767]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

As you know I'm a big fan of Sagan like almost everyone else, but I really hope this points system gets changed in some way. Not "to fight against Sagan", but because certain things are just weird. If a stage is a mountaineous stage, you get much less points for winning the stage (logical), but it's unbelievably strange that the number of points for the intermediate sprints stay the same...

 

For example in a flat stage you get 50 points for winning the stage and 20 for winning the intermediate sprint.

In a mountain stage you get 20 points for winning the stage...but still 20 for winning the intermediate sprint..that makes no sense and I hope that gets changed as soon as possible. 

 

If they want to make differences between the stages in terms of points, that's great I think, but then they should just cancel the intermediate sprints in mountain stages  

 

i understand your view, but you know that its mainly the intermediate sprints in the mountains stages which are the Sagan strongest card and which make the difference

 

but yes, well, you know that they changed the rules because Sagan won easily the green two years in arow, so suddenly they made 50-30-20 points system in sprint arrival, just to make the competition harder and as they say more interesting, (which is very unfair, if you finish third you are already 30 points behind, so it´s why there need also the intermediate sprints in the "lumpy" stages to give all kind of racers more or less the same chances.

but sure, I would more like if they returned back to the previous system. but no chance for that, now I´m really wonder what they will invent for the next seasons, maybe 100 points for the flat stages winner and 50 for the second

[heywoodu 14,896]

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

i understand your view, but you know that its mainly the intermediate sprints in the mountains stages which are the Sagan strongest card and which make the difference

 

but yes, well, you know that they changed the rules because Sagan won easily the green two years in arow, so suddenly they made 50-30-20 points system in sprint arrival, just to make the competition harder and as they say more interesting, (which is very unfair, if you finish third you are already 30 points behind, so it´s why there need also the intermediate sprints in the "lumpy" stages to give all kind of racers more or less the same chances.

but sure, I would more like if they returned back to the previous system. but no chance for that, now I´m really wonder what they will invent for the next seasons, maybe 100 points for the flat stages winner and 50 for the second

 

Personally I would go for 0 points in mountain stages (there are mountain points for that), a few points in hilly stages and for flat stages something like 25-20-18-etc (a bit like in MotoGP or Formula 1). And no intermediate sprints, they're useless  

 

 

[hckošice 14,767]

Tour de France 2016

Various Cities (FRA) - 02.07.2016 - 24.07.2016

 

 

Stage 17

  Bern  -  Finhaut Emosson 

(184,5km - Mountain)