Road Cycling 2021 Discussion Thread

[Monzanator 4,510]

Turns out British Paralympian legend Sarah Storey is another case of asthma TUE glory. And the TUE was granted AFTER she tested for too high salbutamol level. How long this crap will be tolerated? There must be millions in play if thet let these cheaters get away with such obvious rules bending. Good thing Storey isn't Russian or else they'd ban her ass forever.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/57054880

[Grassmarket 3,414]

 rider Connor Swift pays a tribute to Julian Alaphillipe in the Tro Bro Leon - sits up & celebrates the win too early, almost loses it.  Millimetres in it.

[heywoodu 15,152]

Well, at least it's basically an indirect apology for their major fuck up of last year...better than nothing, I guess.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,152]

Just catching up on the week's cycling outside of the Giro, this finish of Wednesday was insane  What a freaking monster kilometer   That is really not the 11% the road book said it was  

 

[heywoodu 15,152]

Just saw it now but this was pretty cool, winning in your not really big home city (born and raised) after a great solo, how often does one get that chance?  

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-ciclista-a-la-region-de-murcia/2021

[heywoodu 15,152]

Oh and this, Impey  (go to the finish after a minute or so)

 

[heywoodu 15,152]

Ronde van Limburg on Monday...Brent van Moer was working on a great solo ride and might have been on the way to the win (although the peloton was catching up very fast, I don't think he'd have made it)....but then was misdirected a few hundred meters before the finish  

 

 

The video of the misdirection is on the NOS website, not sure if it works outside of the Netherlands:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2382153-dramatische-ontknoping-seingever-stuurt-wielrenner-verkeerde-kant-op

[heywoodu 15,152]

Damn what a win. And he basically did the same earlier this month.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-classique-des-alpes-juniors/2021/result

 

New Evenepoel  (although Evenepoel did this for more than a year, going on a solo attack and winning by minutes)

 

He does have a World Tour contract at BORA for next year already.

[Grassmarket 3,414]

This item could go in several categories.... Tom Pidcock has broken his collarbone in training. Is out of the Tour de Suisse, but still optimistic for the Tokyo VTT.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57338232

[Grassmarket 3,414]

ASO announce an official Women’s Tour de France for 2022.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57352842