Road Cycling 2017 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,959]

[Federer91 2,844]

Good old Sagan, stacking those second places.  Ewan has been untouchable in the sprints. 

[heywoodu 15,192]

Eurosport has taken over all exclusive rights for the Giro d'Italia and other RCS-organized races like Milano - San Remo for the next four years 

 

I don't know if it goes for all countries, but here it means both Dutch and (much worse) Belgian TV can't show anything live anymore...especially that last part is just pure horror for cycling fans in this part of Europe  

[heywoodu 15,192]

Andrei Grivko  (Astana) has been kicked out of the Dubai Tour after punching Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors) in the face during the fighting for echelons in today's stage 

[bestmen 2,827]

tour of Oman 2017 here

 

just happy to see the african team from RSA as winner

 

Rank	Team	Times	GAP
1.	RSA - TEAM DIMENSION DATA	62h 52` 46``
2.	FRA - AG2R LA MONDIALE	62h 54` 58``	+ 02` 12``
3.	KAZ - ASTANA PRO TEAM	62h 55` 06``	+ 02` 20``
4.	BRN - BAHRAIN - MERIDA	62h 57` 28``	+ 04` 42``
5.	USA - BMC RACING TEAM	62h 58` 03``	+ 05` 17``
6.	BEL - QUICK - STEP FLOORS	63h 01` 48``	+ 09` 02``
7.	IRL - AQUA BLUE SPORT	63h 07` 01``	+ 14` 15``
8.	USA - UNITEDHEALTHCARE	63h 07` 11``	+ 14` 25``
9.	POL - CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE	63h 10` 44``	+ 17` 58``
10.	UAE - UAE ABU DHABI	63h 11` 10``	+ 18` 24``
11.	BEL - WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	63h 12` 41``	+ 19` 55``
12.	RUS - TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN	63h 16` 24``	+ 23` 38``
13.	FRA - DELKO MARSEILLE PROVENCE KTM	63h 17` 36``	+ 24` 50``
14.	BEL - SPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE	63h 19` 33``	+ 26` 47``
15.	GER - TEAM SUNWEB	63h 20` 03``	+ 27` 17``
16.	ITA - NIPPO - VINI FANTINI	63h 22` 03``	+ 29` 17``
17.	BEL - WB VERANCLASSIC AQUALITY PROTECT	63h 25` 54``	+ 33` 08``
18.	ITA - WILIER TRIESTINA	63h 27` 13``	+ 34` 27``

 

[Federer91 2,844]

It's only february, but Valverde is already racking up wins and podiums.  This guy is such an anomaly of an athlete.  

[heywoodu 15,192]

Tour of Oman has been won by Ben Hermans  of BMC, Valverde of Movistar won the Ruta del Sol and Roglic of LottoNL-Jumbo took the glory in the Algarve, to sum up this week

 

Too bad Oman is such a "meh" race that they only have the last 100 meter live or something..thanks to Eurosport the Ruta del Sol and the Volta ao Algarve were all easy to follow

 

Just one more week and then all the preparation races in Australia and the Iberian Peninsula and catching some money in the sand in the Middle East is over and the season can really start with the Omloop 

[dcro 10,210]

African championships ended today with the road races.

 

Although we are far away from Olympic qualification, it's fun to see which nations would probably earn quotas if this edition was qualifying event. It would be and , both of whom never participated in cycling before. Swaziland wouldn't be far away actually.

 

African road qualification is always one of those very unpredictable events.

[heywoodu 15,192]

12 hours ago, dcro said:

African championships ended today with the road races.

 

Although we are far away from Olympic qualification, it's fun to see which nations would probably earn quotas if this edition was qualifying event. It would be and , both of whom never participated in cycling before. Swaziland wouldn't be far away actually.

 

African road qualification is always one of those very unpredictable events.

Although to be fair, not even one of Africa's serious pro cyclists was there..  

 

The Janse van Rensburg's and Kudus' of this world would probably be pretty far ahead (as long as it's a bit of a testing course)  

[dcro 10,210]

27 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Although to be fair, not even one of Africa's serious pro cyclists was there..  

 

The Janse van Rensburg's and Kudus' of this world would probably be pretty far ahead (as long as it's a bit of a testing course)  

 

That wouldn't matter as the likes of and will always qualify through rankings.