Road Cycling 2021 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,174]

Hagenes, Gregoire, Svrcek (@hckošice) among others in the small lead group in the junior race, three out of the top-4 of last week.

 

https://www.facebook.com/TeamFrancoBallerini/videos/335885031616673/

[dcro 10,210]

The one I got on my phone.  Many more on the DSLR.

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Here are some of the better ones. Should have made a bigger effort to keep my camera still.

 

Earlier in the stage while they were passing through the southern Zagreb.

 

 

 

Final circuit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pesky helicopter

 

[Grassmarket 3,448]

Geez, this isn’t good.

 

 

A professional cyclist has detailed a harrowing attack during which he was knocked off his bike by machete-wielding thieves on motorbikes. 
 

Alexandar Richardson, 31, was training in Richmond Park on Thursday afternoonwhen four attackers gave chase, with two of them on motorbikes. 

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10072847/Pro-cyclist-reveals-details-shocking-attack-10-000-bike-stolen-Richmond-Park.html

[heywoodu 15,174]

45-year old Francisco Mancebo with his first win in 2,5 years over in Japan  

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/oita-urban-classic/2021/result

[Grassmarket 3,448]

Nairo Quintana stars in the Colombian version of The Masked Singer, dressed as a chameleon.

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nairo-quintana-appears-on-tv-singing-contest-in-chameleon-costume-after-il-lombardia/

[Grassmarket 3,448]

Stupidest woman in France goes on trial tomorrow. Short-sightedly, the French closed Devil’s Island back in 1953.

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/opi-omi-spectator-who-caused-tour-de-france-crash-to-be-tried-in-criminal-court-thursday/

[Grassmarket 3,448]

Tour de France 2022 route revealed…..

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-2022-route-revealed/

[Grassmarket 3,448]

….and the Women’s TdF also.  Finishes on La Planche des Belles Filles, setting up an obvious newspaper headline.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/58912981

[Grassmarket 3,448]

On 10/13/2021 at 6:02 PM, Grassmarket said:

Stupidest woman in France goes on trial tomorrow. Short-sightedly, the French closed Devil’s Island back in 1953.

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/opi-omi-spectator-who-caused-tour-de-france-crash-to-be-tried-in-criminal-court-thursday/

Gets off with a slapped wrist.   

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10092805/Spectator-caused-crash-Tour-France-handed-four-month-suspended-PRISON-sentence.html#comments