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Road Cycling 2018 Discussion Thread


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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

His shooting looks very....Slovak :evil:

 

 

Indeed...only a couple of weeks remain to the start of my usual and regular nightmare :zip:

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Marco Benfatto wins the 7th stage in Hainan, which is mostly a festival of Italian B-sprinters, and adds to his...interesting list of wins :d 

 

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Alejandro Valverde won the Saitama Criterium, beating fellow attackers Geraint Thomas and Yukiya Arashiro. Surely it was purely coincidence that the world champion, Tour de France winner (in his yellow jersey) and main Japanese hero ended up forming the deciding breakaway together :whistle: 

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Much to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Tom Dumoulin has won his 5th consecutive "Cyclist of the Year" award in the Netherlands, with Anna van der Breggen getting the women's award.

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44 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Much to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Tom Dumoulin has won his 5th consecutive "Cyclist of the Year" award in the Netherlands, with Anna van der Breggen getting the women's award.

 

Meh, how is random podium better than Tour des Flanders victory...

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7 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Meh, how is random podium better than Tour des Flanders victory...

First of all, Dumoulin > Terpstra. 

 

Second, random podium :lol:

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