General race thread 2021 **spoilers**

Amstel Gold today, different to usual as it's a little shorter and is being run over laps.

Women's race earlier was exciting enough from what I saw of it for the last few laps and came down to a reduced sprint with Vos taking it.

Dodge

The Dutch women are incredible. So many brilliant riders

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Amstel Gold today, different to usual as it's a little shorter and is being run over laps.

Women's race earlier was exciting enough from what I saw of it for the last few laps and came down to a reduced sprint with Vos taking it.

Vos almost did a Vollering on the line there.

Just thinking there haven't heard Rob Hatch on Eurosport in about a month now I think. I know he was doing commentary for Flanders Classics on their international feed and not the Eurosport/GCN ones. Jose Been seems to be calling the races on Eurosport he'd normally call.

Raoul Duke

Deleted User wrote: »

Just thinking there haven't heard Rob Hatch on Eurosport in about a month now I think. I know he was doing commentary for Flanders Classics on their international feed and not the Eurosport/GCN ones. Jose Been seems to be calling the races on Eurosport he'd normally call.

Speaking of commentators, I think the current 2 (Dan Lloyd & Adam Blythe) doing Amstel are my favourite Eurosport combo at the moment. Of course, it's easy for new commentators to sound fresh and interesting as you haven't listened to them for 100+ hours saying the same things over and over again.

Edit: Ooops! It's Matt Stephens with Adam Blythe. Sounded like Dan Lloyd to me when I switched it on. Dan & Adam are still my favourite 2. Matt rising up the ranks quickly.

I was hoping this would have split up by now.

And just as I post we get some movement

retalivity

Tom Dumoulin on the side of the road watching

Dcully

retalivity wrote: »

Tom Dumoulin on the side of the road watching

Yeah heart warming to see him watching the race , hope to see him back sooner rather than later

G1032

No MvdP today? Anyone know why?

retalivity

G1032 wrote: »

No MvdP today? Anyone know why?

Getting in some mountain biking ahead of the Olympics I think

retalivity

3 ineos in the front 6!

dastardly00

Michael Matthews looks like he has huge shoulders compared to the othe riders (maybe it's just the jersey!)

retalivity

This has been like a sprint for the last 10k

dastardly00

Decent gap for Pidcock, Van Aert & Schachmann

Eamonnator

Pidcock looks very strong.

Eamonnator

dastardly00 wrote: »

Decent gap for Pidcock, Van Aert & Schachmann

I dont think these three lads are going to be caught

Eamonnator

Eamonnator wrote: »

I dont think these three lads are going to be caught

Shows all I know.

dastardly00

Eamonnator wrote: »

Shows all I know.

They still might stay away!

retalivity

wva got that?

dastardly00

That's tighter than a duck's a*se

neris

Love to see the overhead

breezy1985

That's almost a tie. Can't wait for the overhead

neris

With the shot eurosport are showing it looks like pidcock has it by a gnats pube

G1032

Looks like PIdcock I think.

neris

Can you have a draw in cycling

retalivity

This is going to need sub-atomic analysis...

Dcully

neris wrote: »

With the shot eurosport are showing it looks like pidcock has it by a gnats pube

They don't use that angle as closest rider to camera will always seem ahead when it's down to mere millimetres.

dastardly00

Never mind who won... Look at Adam Blythe's jacket :pac:

CantGetNoSleep

Did my internet cut off or did Eurosport just cut broadcasting before any photo was shown?

velo.2010

I can't eat my dinner until I've seen that official photo-finish.