Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021

[heywoodu 13,543]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

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

200km? That's when it's barely starting!

 

No way I would do so for a Tour de France stage or something average like that, but De Ronde is something else.

[heywoodu 13,543]

And official start  

[dcro 10,179]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

200km? That's when it's barely starting!

 

No way I would do so for a Tour de France stage or something average like that, but De Ronde is something else.

Clearly I meant the 254 km, but was too lazy to look up the actual distance.

 

Still, how do you watch the first 150 km or so?

[heywoodu 13,543]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Clearly I meant the 254 km, but was too lazy to look up the actual distance.

 

Still, how do you watch the first 150 km or so?

Having the TV on with the commentary as background while doing some simple other stuff, it's not 254km of intense staring at the TV  

 

Meanwhile, listening to the stories, interviews, analyzing and so on as the anticipation towards the climbs is building.

[Grassmarket 2,751]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Clearly I meant the 254 km, but was too lazy to look up the actual distance.

 

Still, how do you watch the first 150 km or so?

You have to be a big fan of Belgian agricultural methods.  “Oh, look, bumper asparagus crop this year!”  

[heywoodu 13,543]

Alpecin guy nearly shouldered an Astana guy onto the asphalt, wouldn't be surprised if Alpecin loses a rider within now and a half hour or so.

[dcro 10,179]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Alpecin guy nearly shouldered an Astana guy onto the asphalt, wouldn't be surprised if Alpecin loses a rider within now and a half hour or so.

He reacted to the Astana guy suddenly breaking.

[heywoodu 13,543]

33 minutes ago, dcro said:

He reacted to the Astana guy suddenly breaking.

Aaaand they're both out (Vergaerde and Fedorov).

[heywoodu 13,543]

Roodhooft (Alpecin team boss): "Fedorov misbehaved horribly and of course Otto (Vergaerde) reacted to that."

 

'Misbehaved horribly'  

[hckošice 13,219]

Still hard to get used to AG2R turning to Citroen from this season. weird situation for me, I really liked their cars