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General race thread 2021 **spoilers**

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    #872
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Promises made, promises kept:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116978460#post116978460

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #873
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Some save by Brambilla!


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    #874
    dastardly00
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    2nd place for Nico! There's still a bit of a sprint left in his olde legs!


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    #875
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    That was a great finishing circuit in Riva. Brilliant second place for Nico - neither he nor De Marchi ever gave up, even when just three seconds off the front.


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    #876
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,380 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Great day of racing in the Alps.

    Grossschartner (Bora) solo'd to victory from the breakaway.

    Nico held on for 2nd, out sprinting Di Marchi just before they were swallowed up by the peloton.

    Simon Yates with the overall.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #877
    CramCycle
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    Great stuff from Nico there.


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    #878
    [Deleted User]
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    Romandie starting today. Has to be my favorite tour outside of the grand tours.


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    #879
    breezy1985
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    Only just noticed Matt Brammeier is the GB head coach for the Olympics


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    #880
    dastardly00
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    This is one of the shortest prologues in a World Tour race that I can remember

    EDIT: the prologue at the Tour of Romandie is always this short :o Last year was even shorter


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    #881
    Finnrocco
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    The Dublin Bus 5 day - 1 lap of the Phoenix Park 2 mile circuit.

    I think Julian Dalby did 3.56.


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    #882
    Finnrocco
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    Happy days those were!


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    #883
    dastardly00
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    Superman racing for Movistar for the first time


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    #884
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,424 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Can they please stop mentioning CDA!


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    #885
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 26,171 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    Can they please stop mentioning CDA!

    What's CDA ?


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    #886
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    What's CDA ?

    Were you not just asked to not mention it?


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    #887
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 26,171 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    A loaded statement from Cycling News today

    "That does give Ineos a 1-2-3 for the stage. They are the Mapei of the time trial today."


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    #888
    CantGetNoSleep
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    130th for Froome today. Looking like 5 million well spent there


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    #889
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    130th and he's still being talked about. Whether his first or dead last he'll be talked about and that's probably as good as paying 8-9 guys to get in breaks for TV exposure


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    #890
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,380 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Weepsie wrote: »
    130th and he's still being talked about. Whether his first or dead last he'll be talked about and that's probably as good as paying 8-9 guys to get in breaks for TV exposure

    That strategy will have a short shelf life though unless he can pull some performances out.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #891
    [Deleted User]
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    Scenery is something else here in Romandie today.


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    #892
    De Bhál
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    Sean Kelly never on Eurosport anymore? Is he done with the commentry?


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    #893
    breezy1985
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    De Bhál wrote: »
    Sean Kelly never on Eurosport anymore? Is he done with the commentry?

    Hopefully just a Covid thing. The tour wouldn't be the same with out the bonifications and the classment


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    #894
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,380 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    De Bhál wrote: »
    Sean Kelly never on Eurosport anymore? Is he done with the commentry?

    He had a really bad crash before christmas. Might still be taking things easy.
    At the start of Paris Nice (I think it was) he did a quick call with the commentary team.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #895
    dastardly00
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    I wonder if Kelly doesn't want to do the commentary remotely (i.e. he would prefer to be at the race, or in the Eurosport/GCN studio like he was for the TdF last year)? Or maybe he has crap broadband.


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    #896
    dahat
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    Kelly back in May sometime according to one of the broadcasts from last week.


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    #897
    [Deleted User]
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    I remember someone posting about Kelly when he had his accident at Christmas and it was a fairly nasty one from what I recall. I think the ribs were still bothering him. He was on the phone during one of the races earlier in the year.

    I think last year he was commentating from the studio in Bath, certainly he was on the aftershow with Dan I think it was. There was a photo of him working away with an absolute library of notes stuck up around him.


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    #898
    dahat
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    Hoping Jake Stewart gets a good result here, has a good rider in Kung looking after him.

    Or maybe Kung will do his own thing.


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    #899
    dastardly00
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    Surely it will be Sagan


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    #900
    [Deleted User]
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    Plenty of congrats for Sagan there, usually a sign of someone being an OK guy.

    First time in a few years I've seen him without a beard I think.


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    #901
    Macy0161
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think last year he was commentating from the studio in Bath, certainly he was on the aftershow with Dan I think it was. There was a photo of him working away with an absolute library of notes stuck up around him.
    Eurosport/ GCN are back doing studio commentary as far as I can make out from a few podcasts that are by, or featured, some of the commentators. Pretty sure I heard on either Tour of the Alps coverage or his podcast that Matt Stephens is travelling to the Giro.

    I think they can commentate from both Bath and London though.


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