Road Cycling 2021 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 14,930]

Davide Rebellin, 49 years old, climbing into the top-10 in a pretty decent field  

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/sibiu-cycling-tour/2021/stage-2-gc

 

Tutti pazzi per Pirazzi is also back, but nowhere near his pre-doping form  

[hckošice 14,779]

 

 

 

[Grassmarket 3,370]

To sum up: we have missed & must catch up on…
 

Tour de Wallonie
Classica San Sebastian M+F
Tour de l’Ain
Arctic Race of Norway

 

….before the Vuelta starts on Saturday.

[Monzanator 4,468]

Joao Almeida has won Tour de Pologne. Matej Mohoric and Michal Kwiatkowski round out the podium.

[heywoodu 14,930]

On 8/7/2021 at 7:17 PM, Grassmarket said:

To sum up: we have missed & must catch up on…
 

Tour de Wallonie
Classica San Sebastian M+F
Tour de l’Ain
Arctic Race of Norway

 

….before the Vuelta starts on Saturday.

Forgot Poland and Denmark, but I've caught up on those today and yesterday  

 

Also, this week we have the Tour de l'Avenir, where future star and huge favourite Juan Ayuso sadly crashed out today.

[hckošice 14,779]

Peter Sagan and Chris Froome of all people confirmed their participation at this year Okolo Slovenska. Peter will FINALLY compete in his home country

 

speaking about Peter, the guy just can not train normally like other people

 

[heywoodu 14,930]

First pro win for Erik Fetter  last week, Hungary is growing very rapidly in the cycling world   @Vektor

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-du-limousin/2021/stage-4

[Grassmarket 3,370]

Tour de Grande Bretagne starts tomorrow with a stage in Cornwall, which my brother almost single-handedly infected with COVID last month.  Probably the strongest field for any British race outside the TdF & Olympics.  Don’t know what kind of coverage Johnny Foreigner gets, but here in Blighty it is every stage live start to finish.  Well, except 15 minutes of ads per hour.

 

 

https://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/

 

 

[Grassmarket 3,370]

On 9/4/2021 at 5:53 PM, Grassmarket said:

Tour de Grande Bretagne starts tomorrow with a stage in Cornwall, which my brother almost single-handedly infected with COVID last month.  Probably the strongest field for any British race outside the TdF & Olympics.  Don’t know what kind of coverage Johnny Foreigner gets, but here in Blighty it is every stage live start to finish.  Well, except 15 minutes of ads per hour.

 

 

https://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/

 

 

Queen stage in the ToB today, a long day in mountains (ie gently rolling hills) or North Wales.  Wout van Aert was the pre-race favourite but at the moment is behind in-form Ethan Hayter & Ineos. 

[Grassmarket 3,370]

Alternatively you’ve got an exotic mixed team time trial relay in the European Championships at Trentino.  
 

Organisers have missed a trick to create drama by putting the nailed-on-certainty-to-smash-everyone team of  in the first wave.