Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

breezy1985

jimm wrote: »

Some junior staff member was probably told "Go get a photo of that Irish cyclist, watshisname from Deceuninck–Quick-Step". Quick Google search and up pops Remi Cavagna. Junior thinks "hmm...Kavanagh? close enough".

Reminds me of the time Contador won the tour and the Danish national anthem was played at the prize ceremony!!

The picture came off the Sam Bennett Getty images page.
It was probably picked because he is holding a medal and the staffer assumed it was important

jimm

breezy1985 wrote: »

The picture came off the Sam Bennett Getty images page.
It was probably picked because he is holding a medal and the staffer assumed it was important

I Know....just trying to inject a little humour

Eamonnator

Because we were talking about Oisin O'Callaghan, I thought, why not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nOYfXVuNw

breezy1985

Eamonnator wrote: »

Because we were talking about Oisin O'Callaghan, I thought, why not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nOYfXVuNw

Haha Ocean O'Callaghan.


In fairness DH mountain biking looks mental maybe he should have beat Katie and Sam for the big one

Junior

jimm wrote: »

Some junior staff member was probably told "Go get a photo of that Irish cyclist, watshisname from Deceuninck–Quick-Step". Quick Google search and up pops Remi Cavagna. Junior thinks "hmm...Kavanagh? close enough".

Reminds me of the time Contador won the tour and the Danish national anthem was played at the prize ceremony!!

I would just like to point out at this time, it wasn't me who made the mistake.

eeeee

Eamonnator wrote: »

Because we were talking about Oisin O'Callaghan, I thought, why not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nOYfXVuNw

'Ocean' :mad::pac::pac::pac:

Captain Havoc

Maybe it's because the tour is on TG4 and RTE shows the odd bit of boxing.

Eamonnator

eeeee wrote: »

'Ocean' :mad::pac::pac::pac:

The director of that video, who is Irish, did his best to encourage correct pronunciation, but finally surrendered.

MangleBadger

Sam won the Irish Independant Sports Star of the Year.

Hopefully he celebrates with a stage win or 2 this week.

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/Sammmy_Be/status/1363921018348331010

EC1000

Another one for Sam - very messy sprint.

seaviewphotos

Well done Sam, good win in a very strong field.

Seth Brundle

https://twitter.com/SafeCyclingEire/status/1364540969799057413

a_squirrelman

Enjoyable to watch that finish, fair play to him.

wirelessdude01

Easy win in the end. Be interesting to see how Dekker progresses.

Spurion

Added insult to injury by not knowing who Dekker was in the interview

De Bhál

50th pro win for him, he said in the interview

dastardly00

It was a messy sprint alright. Great win for Sam considering the other top sprinters paticipating.
Sam is obviously a well-liked guy in the peloton; a lot of the other riders congratulated him after they crossed the finish line.

deise08

Was only able to watch the early part of the race. Looking forward to watching the finish. Carlton was saying it would all boil down to it at at the end because of the heat over there.

Well done Sam.

CramCycle

MOD VOICE: One and only warning to all of those who had the time to watch it live and then spoiled it. Many posters didn't or couldn't. Unless its a stage or race specific thread, don't post it until the next day, you ruin it for those of us who can't see it live. Next time its a card or ban for the rest of the season.

happytramp

I assume it's fine to post stuff as long as it's spoilered right?

CramCycle

happytramp wrote: »

I assume it's fine to post stuff as long as it's spoilered right?

Technically yes but in reality, you may as well put up fliers to say something really interesting happened with Sam. I can set up a race thread for it and people can post in there to their hearts content?

breezy1985

Do we have a general race thread for all the smaller races that don't get stage threads ?

buffalo

breezy1985 wrote: »

Do we have a general race thread for all the smaller races that don't get stage threads ?

You can start a thread for any race, no matter how small! Threads are free to start!

happytramp

breezy1985 wrote: »

Do we have a general race thread for all the smaller races that don't get stage threads ?

Yeah, it's a lot of hassle to be setting up specific thread for smaller races every day that probably wouldn't be posted much in..... but at the same time not mentioning a win (or loss) till the next day will kill off discussion. Maybe if people posted in a general racing thread or something... Think their used to be one.

CramCycle

Makes sense, put a spoiler notice in the title that it could contain spoilers for any race, job done. People who want to avoid spoilers can just avoid the thread for the day.

breezy1985

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058163389/1/#post116399183

Sorted. Mods can feel free to add stuff to the title or whatever for spoiler rules

Seth Brundle

https://twitter.com/ParisNice/status/1368871737815875586

dublin49

I hear reports he won sprinting on the Hoods,is this significant?

hesker

Good analysis by Chris Horner on YouTube.

He benefited from a couple of things and took his opportunity really well.