General race thread 2021 **spoilers**

Eamonnator

dastardly00 wrote: »

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

Now, there really should be a rule against that jacket.

Schachmann necked his beer

velo.2010

Photo-finish just popped up there. Jaysus, that was close. Usually they can blow the photo up and count the pixels, but that was fair tight indeed.

retalivity

velo.2010 wrote: »

Photo-finish just popped up there. Jaysus, that was close. Usually they can blow the photo up and count the pixels, but that was fair tight indeed.

velo.2010

That's clearer than the image posted on TV. Those painted white finish lines are only ever a guide to riders and viewers of where, almost precisely, the photo finish camera is situated.

breezy1985

Given his age Piddock is well on course to be the biggest star in UK cycling for a while to come

Weepsie

Cue ineos plotting 30mm tyres for the marginal gains

mirrormatrix

I never knew this - interesting article.

https://www.velonews.com/gear/tech-wearables/technical-faq-how-a-photo-finish-camera-works/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=velonews&utm_campaign=e01e1c9e-03e5-420e-952e-7504f0ac263e

dastardly00

mirrormatrix wrote: »

I never knew this - interesting article.

https://www.velonews.com/gear/tech-wearables/technical-faq-how-a-photo-finish-camera-works/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=velonews&utm_campaign=e01e1c9e-03e5-420e-952e-7504f0ac263e

You must have been listening to The Cycling Podcast

dastardly00

Good result for Dan Martin today in Stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps. He finished 3rd behind Simon Yates and Pavel Sivakov. Decent race.

A bad day for Pinot & Froome.

retalivity

Froome is going to be a complete bust for that Israel team.

Brian?

retalivity wrote: »

Froome is going to be a complete bust for that Israel team.

He’s past it but brings plenty of publicity

breezy1985

dastardly00 wrote: »

Good result for Dan Martin today in Stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps. He finished 3rd behind Simon Yates and Pavel Sivakov. Decent race.

A bad day for Pinot & Froome.

Whatever about Froome he is getting on a bit but things not looking good for Pinot. Im worried he could drop out early like Schleck or Dumoulin

retalivity

Brian? wrote: »

He’s past it but brings plenty of publicity

Has he though? the only publicity I've seen is him repeatedly getting spat out the back of the peloton and talking about coming back from injuries. Is that worth €5.5m? I know there the whole sportswashing angle of it, but do they need it as much as say UAE or Bahrain?

I don't think I even saw Pinot today. Is he still struggling with his back I wonder?

No idea what Froome did today either, I saw Dan pulling a group back to the leaders after the descent, he was a minute down at the end but a third place is solid enough given the work he had to do and proably paced himself very well up the climb. I honestly can't see Froome even competing for a stage win at the tour let alone GC and to be honest I don't think it's something I'd want to see.

velo.2010

Transcript below of Matt Stephens and Dan Lloyd on Eurosport today. They were wetting themselves when they thought Froome was bridging across to the leaders on the climb.

"Is that Chris Froome! Is that Chris Froome!" they shrieked. "That elbows out action has to be Chris Froome! That's why he deliberately lost time yesterday and didn't make the effort! He was saving it for today's stage!
"Hang on a minute...it's Dan Martin...er...yeah... it's Martin...er...similar elbows out style...er...okay...yeah..."

They were gutted.

TheBlaaMan

dastardly00 wrote: »

Good result for Dan Martin today in Stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps. He finished 3rd behind Simon Yates and Pavel Sivakov. Decent race.

A bad day for Pinot & Froome.

There was a couple of hair-raising moments on the fast descent before the last climb today. The still is of Yates coming off the climb and thru a village where the building at the kink in the road was completely unprotected with cushioning and no steward on it either. No way he survives the impact if he clips that bannisters at 70-80kmph.....:eek:.



But hey, he wasn't using the super-tuck position so all is good :rolleyes:






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They only saving grace is that would have been his second time through there today so he'd have had a look at it but still you could be talking very serious injuries there if he'd crashed.

neris

https://twitter.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/1384782929122021383?s=19

Uno X out of the tour of the alps with covid too. Shame as they've been very active in every race they've been in.

dastardly00

neris wrote: »

https://twitter.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/1384782929122021383?s=19

Seems like the positive results were false positives

40km to go in the women's fleche wallone

Macy0161

dastardly00 wrote: »

Seems like the positive results were false positives

I assume they're antigen tests, which shows the somewhat reluctance to use them here. A lot of the cycling "positives" have turned out to be false positives. At least for covid :pac:

CramCycle

dastardly00 wrote: »

Seems like the positive results were false positives

They were not false positives, it is more likely that the subsequent tests were false negatives than the other way around. Antigen testing has a window in the middle for catching people and is more effective at catching spreaders, it is a wide scale screening test rather than the two gold standard PCR tests they did have at the start. They were right to be excluded and they should be excluded for 14 days from the date of the positive. False negatives are a billion times* more likely than a false positive.

in the real world, a false positive only occurs if the sample was cross contaminated intentionally or otherwise. In this case, it isn't a false positive as the test detected what was there. A false negative can occur for a variety of reasons, although unlikely, it is the most believable thing.

*Poetic license used.

Mefistofelino

Fantastic finish from Van der Breggen for her 7th successive win. Just sat at the front of the group and span her way to the top. Didn't even get out of the saddle until Niewiadoma attacked with 200m to go.

De Bhál

commentary at La Fleche Wallonne is some cringefest.

Eddie Dunbar getting plenty of TV time on the front of the chase

Mefistofelino

De Bhál wrote: »

commentary at La Fleche Wallonne is some cringefest.

Eddie Dunbar getting plenty of TV time on the front of the chase

An hour later and he's still towing them along!

breezy1985

Mefistofelino wrote: »

An hour later and he's still towing them along!

His transformation from explosive rider to Ineos bot is complete then.
The new kwiatkowski

mewso

breezy1985 wrote: »

His transformation from explosive rider to Ineos bot is complete then.
The new kwiatkowski

Some team they have out for this all the same and yet Pidcock is probably their main man ahead of Yates, Carapaz, TGH.

mr spuckler

Mefistofelino wrote: »

An hour later and he's still towing them along!

Not any longer - that was a long bike change too...