website statistics
Jump to content

Road Cycling 2017 Discussion Thread


hckošice
 Share

Recommended Posts

Teams in the Tour of Croatia are mad :d 

 

First they had a 227km stage yesterday and then an almost 500km (!!) drive to the start of the 2nd stage :yikes:

 

@dcro Couldn't you plan the start of stage 2 a little closer to the finish of stage 1? :d  (or the finish of stage 1 closer to the start of stage 2 for that matter)

Edited by heywoodu

.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Teams in the Tour of Croatia are mad :d 

 

First they had a 227km stage yesterday and then an almost 500km (!!) drive to the start of the 2nd stage :yikes:

 

@dcro Couldn't you plan the start of stage 2 a little closer to the finish of stage 1? :d  (or the finish of stage 1 closer to the start of stage 2 for that matter)

 

I don't really know. :d If they wanted to have a flat sprint stage on the first day, they could have easily put the finish in Karlovac for example.

#banbestmen

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Meanwhile in the women's race at Fleche Wallonne, Puck Moonen :NED has already dropped the pace after 8km...confirming once again her contract at Lotto Soudal is most likely not because of her performances, but her looks.. (she's sort of semi-famous here and mostly in Belgium ever since her relationship with cyclo-cross junior world champion Eli Iserbyt came out) 

.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

16 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Todays stage in Croatia has a huge MTF. 28 km with an average 5-6%, that is a climb for the Giro/Tour  :yikes: For a 2.1 race, they are really punishing the riders.

 

 

Well, it seems like they're trying to make the race an alternative warm up for the Giro to make it more interesting.

Nibali is a massive favourite, but guys like Zoidl, Roson, Hirt and Hansen will be interesting to see.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

24 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Todays stage in Croatia has a huge MTF. 28 km with an average 5-6%, that is a climb for the Giro/Tour  :yikes: For a 2.1 race, they are really punishing the riders.

  Reveal hidden contents

21fa2dc6e0700d9b49a6e02a94210282.jpg

 

  Reveal hidden contents

CbDHoP2.png

 

 

Not gonna happen, due to snowfall. :( Climb will be only 12 km.

#banbestmen

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share

  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • I remember Caroline Golubitsky. She competed with Vezzali for a while but not for long. Rita Konig, whom Vezzali defeated in the final of the Olympic Games in 2000, was more famous, as well as Sabine Bau and Anja Mueller. From what I remember, the Germans competed fiercely with us at some point, but they almost always lost.
    • Shemyakina won a bronze medal in 2014 Worlds and was one of our leader but leave the squad due to pregnancy (she has 2 daughters if I'm not mistaking, so she chose family instead of sport). And speaking of foil we have back in the day Sergiy Golubitskyi, who was Olympic silver medalist and won some medals in other competitions and coached his wife Caroline Golubitskyi - one of the German foil specialists. Even in women's foil we had medal in Women's foil at the European championship - it was Olha Leleiko, our current national coach. So no, we are pretty good fencing country, and depending on generations of our athletes some events are more "profitable" for us and some don't. 
    • Shemyakina that was a very strange story. She unexpectedly won the games but before and after she literally achieved nothing. After that success in 2012 she also completely disappeared. It's only in epee that such strange situations. That's why I've always preferred foil and sabre, because the top was more stable there, although that's changing now. The competition has grown a lot all over the world.
    • Sinner probably won't play in another edition of the Davis Cup. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Next season, Wimbledon and maybe Paris should be the goal.
    • No, our epee was good always, we have Shemyakina, who was Olympic Champion in 2012, Reizlin with bronze in 2020, medalists of Worlds like Kryvytska (who is our finisher today), Svichkar (who is our finisher in men's side) and Stankevych, European champion Kharkova, medals in other conpetitions from men's team epee who were one of the main contenders in Tokyo, but unfortunately failed to take a medal. 
    • Does Ukraine have good relations with Poland, or are they more cold, like, for example, Italy with France?
    • Until recently, Ukrainian fencing was just Kharlan and sabre. Maybe epee sometimes. I don't remember them ever was strong in foil. There was a time when Russia, Romania and Poland were strong in foil at that time when Italy dominated but I don't remember Ukraine anymore.   Hungarian women with Aida Mahomed were too strong for many years.
    • No surprise with Aaron Judge winning AL MVP and Shohei Ohtani winning NL MVP awards.   Ohtani is the second player in history to win MVP in both leagues. Frank Robinson (1961 Reds & 1966 Orioles) was the only one before.
    • Ukraine twice in one day defeated Italy and France, like what the heck? 
×
×
  • Create New...