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Road Cycling 2021 Discussion Thread


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World class cycling comes to my home town!  So naturally I am sitting in a chair watching it on TV.  Tour of Britain rolling into suburban Edinburgh, going to be a breakaway win.

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On 9/8/2021 at 3:29 PM, Grassmarket said:

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 :NED in the first wave.

Not even a little bit the big favourite :d

 

 

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Great moment!  Little boy about 11 years rides a small climb on the pavement alongside the pros in the breakaway group, beats them to the top!  Pascal Eenkhorn gives him his bottle!

 

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I can't believe i missed it, but Sagan has signed a two-year deal with Total Direct Energie, a Pro-Conti team !?! :yikes: Like no one wanted to have Sagan on his team?! The guy will be only 32 in january.

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28 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

I can't believe i missed it, but Sagan has signed a two-year deal with Total Direct Energie, a Pro-Conti team !?! :yikes: Like no one wanted to have Sagan on his team?! The guy will be only 32 in january.

It is not about no one wanted Sagan it is about no many wanted his team. Peter has only one condition before signing the contract, his brother Juraj, his neighbor friend Erik Baška, the slovak DS Ján Valach, his personal masseur Maroš Hlad, and Maciej Bodnar must also join the team at the same time for the same period of the deal.

 

This time only Direct Energie accepted it, so he decided to make a compromise, dropped his salary condition, and they all 6 signed a contract. This is the way Peter is doing his career, helping his friends and family.

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:GBR teams for World Championships

 

Elite Women’s Road Race
Lizzie Deignan, Anna Shackley, Alice Barnes, Anna Henderson, Pfeiffer Georgi and Joss Lowden.

Elite Women’s Time Trial
Joss Lowden and Pfeiffer Georgi

Men’s Elite Road Race
Tom Pidcock, Luke Rowe, Fred Wright, Jake Stewart, Connor Swift, Ben Swift, Mark Cavendish and Ethan Hayter

Men’s Elite Time Trial
Ethan Hayter and Dan Bigham

 

And full teams for all the other races also.

 

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/Great-Britain-Cycling-Team-Announced-for-the-UCI-Road-World-Championships

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So after the pope yesterday today I saw Peter Sagan for the first time in my life :d Košice is like the most active city in the world lately haha

 

Today started the "Okolo Slovenska 2021" in Košice by a prologue in the main street and it was pure madness, thousands of people came to see Peter starting finally (first time ever) at the Tour de Slovaquie at his 31. I saw also Froome or Lutsenko. Especially Froomy had some nice welcome, he looked really happy to be there :) quite a great day, it was. Tomorrow the city will also be the start and finish place of the stage 1

 

A couple of pictures and short 1 minute highlights from the prologue of Okolo Slovenska still under the :VAT flags :p

 

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Prologue won by :AUS  Kaden Groves ahead of :GER Steimle, :POL Boguslawski or another famous name Cees Bol of :NED . Peter Sagan 10th by 2.63 seconds behind

 

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