Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021

[heywoodu 15,296]

We'll have a bit of a different finish than planned, because of a big fire close to the finish. Curious who knows the way best  

[Grassmarket 3,558]

  On 3/28/2021 at 1:46 PM, heywoodu said:

We'll have a bit of a different finish than planned, because of a big fire close to the finish. Curious who knows the way best  

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It’s worse than you think.  Wout van Aert is “on fire” according to Matt, the English ES commentator.  

[heywoodu 15,296]

  On 3/28/2021 at 1:59 PM, Grassmarket said:

It’s worse than you think.  Wout van Aert is “on fire” according to Matt, the English ES commentator.  

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According to the Belgian commentator, Gent-Wevelgem is now a monument.

 

Ugh  

[Vektor 3,326]

Attila Valter was 3rd on the final stage of the Tour de Catalogne, which probably doesn't seem much for others, but for Hungarian cycling this is huge. It's been ages since we had anyone notable in road cycling. (Okay, not ages, but László Bodrogi's WCh medals from the 2000s feel like a distant memorable at this point.)

[Grassmarket 3,558]

Oops 

[heywoodu 15,296]

Can't feel good when Van Aert just absolutely rockets past you like this on the Oude Kwaremont

 

https://streamable.com/w2kq9g

[heywoodu 15,296]

Meanwhile, tomorrow is the Day of Days. The High Mass. Flander's Most Beautiful. De Ronde. Lazy pants on, TV on at exactly 09.00 and there...we...go  

[heywoodu 15,296]

The level of the interviews on Belgian TV is....somewhere under sea level.

 

To Sagan: "Normally you are one of the top favorites, now you are one of the favorites."

Sagan: "Isn't top favorites also favorites?"

Interviewer: .....

 

To Sagan: "Why do you want to start in Flanders?"

Sagan: "....because it is a big classic and important for us?"

 

 

Next thing you know the guy is going to ask if he's planning to use a bike or not.

[hckošice 15,056]

  On 4/4/2021 at 7:37 AM, heywoodu said:

The level of the interviews on Belgian TV is....somewhere under sea level.

 

To Sagan: "Normally you are one of the top favorites, now you are one of the favorites."

Sagan: "Isn't top favorites also favorites?"

Interviewer: .....

 

To Sagan: "Why do you want to start in Flanders?"

Sagan: "....because it is a big classic and important for us?"

 

 

Next thing you know the guy is going to ask if he's planning to use a bike or not.

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Still better than Paris-Roubaix "football-cycling" reporters:

 

You are the Ibrahimovic of cycling ?"

"Who is ibrahimovic ?" 

 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 4/3/2021 at 5:23 PM, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile, tomorrow is the Day of Days. The High Mass. Flander's Most Beautiful. De Ronde. Lazy pants on, TV on at exactly 09.00 and there...we...go  

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How do you even begin to watch a whole 200 km long race?