Road Cycling 2018 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 14,954]

Remco Evenepoel once again showing his utter domination

 

He was the only one in the lead group to do any real work and then when it was time for the sprint....he didn't even get out of the saddle and still the rest could do absolutely nothing against him   (26:30 in the video for the last 300-400 meters)

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[AlFHg 330]

Il 29/8/2018 Alle 21:59, wumo26 ha scritto:

I guess the Tour wants to become like the Giro

The fact that Tour de France is really held in France is the only thing that as Italian I envy to the Tour...

[heywoodu 14,954]

32 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

The fact that Tour de France is really held in France is the only thing that as Italian I envy to the Tour...

The Tour de France quite often starts outside of France. Tour and Giro both started outside of their countries five times since 2010.

 

Tour de France:

2017: Düsseldorf

2015: Utrecht

2014: Leeds

2012: Liege

2010: Rotterdam

 

Giro d'Italia:

2018: Jerusalem

2016: Apeldoorn

2014: Belfast

2012: Herning

2010: Amsterdam

[AlFHg 330]

1 ora fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

The Tour de France quite often starts outside of France. Tour and Giro both started outside of their countries five times since 2010.

 

Tour de France:

2017: Düsseldorf

2015: Utrecht

2014: Leeds

2012: Liege

2010: Rotterdam

 

Giro d'Italia:

2018: Jerusalem

2016: Apeldoorn

2014: Belfast

2012: Herning

2010: Amsterdam

Honestly I didn't remember this, but Israel, Denmark, Northern Ireland and Netherlands are surely border country with Italy... to be honest, it is not that I'm against the "brand development" of the Giro, but the southern part of Italy, where I live, is usually out of the way, in some years the Giro doesn't reach southern than Rome

[heywoodu 14,954]

Enrico Gasparotto of Italy is next to join Africa's Team  

 

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Enrico Gasparotto of Italy is next to join Africa's Team  

Why do you keep doing that? It's not like it is expected from commercial teams to have its all riders from their own continent.

[heywoodu 14,954]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Why do you keep doing that? It's not like it is expected from commercial teams to have its all riders from their own continent.

 

Because they have been bringing themselves to the world as Africa's Team, working for Africa and focussing on giving chances to African talents, and they end up having only one or two African riders in their main teams, mostly filled with old Europeans who can't really find a place somewhere else and some random Ben Kings

 

It was much nicer when it was still MTN-Qhubeka and much more focussed on African cycling. The more Kenyans, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Rwandans and Ugandans in road cycling, the better  

Edited September 4, 2018 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 14,954]

No Froome and Thomas at the world championships. 

[heywoodu 14,954]

The Danish had some bad food in Canada.

 

 

[heywoodu 14,954]

Dogs at cycling races