Pro Cycling 2023

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Remco went down while I was making lunch, about 1:02 into GCN coverage... Sat for a while but back on, we shall see.

e2a: dog again ffs, albeit likely stray.

Remco Evenepoel crashes after dog runs into road in shocking moment at Giro d’Italia on Stage 5 - Eurosport

Remco Evenepoel was sent crashing to the tarmac after a stray dog ran into the peloton’s path on Stage 5 at the Giro d’Italia.

www.eurosport.co.uk

 

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Evenepoel down again, inside last 3km.

Hectic last 10km.

 

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Cavendish slides to 5th on his arse.

 

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Hours of nothing punctuated by just shitty crashes today, won't need more than the highlights.

 

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Just seen a clip. Looks like cav drifted left, lost a pedal and took someone into the barriers.

 

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I believe he lost the rear a bit on the white lines, recovered, tried to get back into position, then Dainese contacts as he's moving up, whereupon Cav loses control and goes into Fiorelli, who slides along the barriers to 8th while Cav enters the gymnastics triouts. That was where commentary landed anyway... I think probably can be written up to 'all's fair in love and wet sprint finishes' rather than any particularly bad riding.

 

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Dainese disqualified from the stage so Cav slid to 4th

 

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Cav will be delighted with that....well maybe not.

 

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Cav will be delighted with that....well maybe not.

He's pretty chill

 

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“When sprinting, a bike throw to the line is a useful skill to learn…”

 

[sleaterkinney]

Feel for Vollering at the Vuelta, she was clearly stronger than Van Vleuten. I'm sure it's not quite how VV would've like to have one either?

The mtf in Covodonga was epic, came down to seconds in the end.

 

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“When sprinting, a bike throw to the line is a useful skill to learn…”

Talk about not keeping your line…..

 

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The rider who was stretchered off at the finish (Vendrame, AG2R) is riding again today incidentally... Separated shoulder.

 

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The rider who was stretchered off at the finish (Vendrame, AG2R) is riding again today incidentally... Separated shoulder.

Kinell, I had that after falling off on black ice once and I was off the bike for six weeks. It hurts.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Kinell, I had that after falling off on black ice once and I was off the bike for six weeks. It hurts.

Remember when G rode pretty much the entire TdF with a broken pelvis?

 

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Also not allowed much more than a couple of paracetamol right? At least since the Tramadol ban (G was before that, but still). Though my post was more that, of the reasons to be stretchered off a sprint finish, separated shoulder is one of the better ones.

It is easy to forget just how utterly batshit what these people do is when you're just watching the GCN stream or whatever... Like it when they have bits of on-bike footage from the TDF, gives more of an impression of speed, noise etc.

 

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Highlights my arse. I watched some of the so called "highlights" at work last night and this was not even mentioned.

Injured Cavendish crashes again at Giro d’Italia but finishes stage

Briton falls at foot of descent of Colle San Pietro, finishes over 18 minutes down

www.cyclingnews.com

Finished 20 minutes down; does not bode well.

 

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Well, we shall find out today.

He was in the grupetto for most of the stage iirc, and the peloton went pretty hard to catch the breakaway, so 18 minutes down is probably not much of an indication.

e2a: yeah, looks like he finished with grupetto...

Giro d'Italia 2023 Stage 6 results

Mads Pedersen is the winner of Giro d'Italia 2023 Stage 6, before Jonathan Milan and Pascal Ackermann. Andreas Leknessund was leader in GC.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

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That was dull. Watch the Tour of Hungary stage instead.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Possibly the dullest GT I can remember.

 

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Possibly the dullest GT I can remember.

You'd have thought someone would at least have tried to see if Remco was injured. After the ITT he'll be near three minutes ahead but I still think it'll be an interesting last week as Ineos, Bahrain. and UAE all have multiple options left.

 

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Possibly the dullest GT I can remember.

Not nearly as exciting since they cleaned up most of the drug abuse

 

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Ganna out with covid. That’s a big loss for G/Ineos.

 

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Ganna out with covid. That’s a big loss for G/Ineos.

No. 4 out with COVID from either 3 or 4 teams. Still quite a thing then.

 

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No. 4 out with COVID from either 3 or 4 teams. Still quite a thing then.

They had Jonathan Vaughters on (EF manager, also managed Dan Lloyd with Cervelo) and discussed this a bit... Teams don't actually have to remove someone with covid these days, but generally do just because it's liable to spread through the team, and because it's obviously a lot easier to test for than e.g a cold or the flu. Also may be a political/collegiate aspect there... Can read current regs below if you're really interested, or watching another boring stage.

COVID-19 protocols

COVID-19 pandemic - International events: protocols for organisation and participation

www.uci.org

 

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Ben Healy going for it out the break, up a stupidly steep hill is around 50km from the end if anyone's catching up. No idea whether it'll stick, but it's a nice little moment.

 

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Rob Hatch doing his absolute best to jinx it; 'with 20km left to go, we can say with near absolute certainty that Healy, who only <hyperbole continues> will take the stage'

Dude has 2 mins mind you, superb effort.

 

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Roglic trying to dent GC too.

 

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Beast, that is one deserved win.