General race thread 2021 spoilers

MangleBadger · 11-03-2021 2:39pm

EC1000 wrote: »

Average speed of 33 km/h today at Paris Nice so far - I'd keep up with that myself!!

Watching Tirreno. Was thinking from looking at the PCS live tracker they must be taking it very handy considering it is such a flat route.

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 4:12pm

3 km to go in Tirreno. Uphill finish

mr spuckler · 11-03-2021 4:19pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

3 km to go in Tirreno. Uphill finish

And what a finish! The early celebration he said he'd have learned from though :pac:

Even a freewheel to finish

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 4:21pm

Ah man what a cracking finish!!

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 4:24pm

1 km left to go in Paris-Nice now!

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 4:26pm

Yes Sam!

De Bhál · 11-03-2021 4:26pm

brilliant lead out train there for Bennett although he had to work hard to stay on the back of it. Some great jostling for position

griffin100 · 11-03-2021 4:26pm

An absolute masterclass in how to do a lead out.

retalivity · 11-03-2021 4:27pm

He's bolloxed after it now!

De Bhál · 11-03-2021 4:28pm

a leadout reminiscent of Cavandish at HTC there

odyssey06 · 11-03-2021 4:30pm

DQS double...

mr spuckler · 11-03-2021 4:31pm

Strong words from Sam there, maybe a lingering annoyance from Vuelta DQ

velo.2010 · 11-03-2021 4:35pm

Great win by Sam, but jesus, what strength in dept at Tirreno. The top four at the finish says it all.

mewso · 11-03-2021 4:41pm

devonp wrote: »

why ? Covid ?

Report I read said Woods has Bronchitis and Dan has some 'health issues' that went unspecified.

sy · 11-03-2021 4:46pm

Tirreno turning out to be a classic race! What a finish and not the last time these guys will be knocking lumps out of each other. Going to be a great week of racing.

Way to go Sam, and Morkov yet again the master of the lead out. Think the effort to get around two cyclists when he was pushed off his lead out train 'gassed' Sam and why he seemed wrecked and a little frustrated at the finish.

Itziger · 11-03-2021 4:47pm

Sam made that look easy, well the lead out was fairly classy too. I take it that was Morkov celebrating with about 25 metres still to go!

Dodge · 11-03-2021 4:51pm

Itziger wrote: »

Sam made that look easy, well the lead out was fairly classy too. I take it that was Morkov celebrating with about 25 metres still to go!

Yeah, Morkov. Sam lost his wheel with about 1k to go but got back on. Then held on until inside 200m to launch his sprint. Definitely a team win today

Meanwhile the Italian racing seems to be sensational. The top 4 today (along with Roglic) are the best there are IMO

breezy1985 · 11-03-2021 4:53pm

De Bhál wrote: »

brilliant lead out train there for Bennett although he had to work hard to stay on the back of it. Some great jostling for position

There was some pretty dodgy looking squeezing and blocking going on in the run up. Glad to see Sam just stick the shoulder in and put em back in their box

De Bhál · 11-03-2021 5:03pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

There was some pretty dodgy looking squeezing and blocking going on in the run up. Glad to see Sam just stick the shoulder in and put em back in their box

I only watched it once, live, but yeah at one stage it did look like some delebreate blocking was going on. Bora rider iirc

breezy1985 · 11-03-2021 5:11pm

De Bhál wrote: »

I only watched it once, live, but yeah at one stage it did look like some delebreate blocking was going on. Bora rider iirc

They came at him at both sides at one stage and I need to look again but I don't think it was riders who were going to contest the sprint

odyssey06 · 11-03-2021 5:16pm

Did I understand Sam's interview correctly - he's done with Paris Nice now to prepare for Milan San Remo on saturday week?

Eamonnator · 11-03-2021 5:26pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Did I understand Sam's interview correctly - he's done with Paris Nice now to prepare for Milan San Remo on saturday week?

I understood it to mean, that he was going to use the rest of the P/N for training.
I could be wrong, I sometimes am.

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 5:30pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

And what a finish! The early celebration he said he'd have learned from though :pac:

Once a showman, always a showman!

mr spuckler · 11-03-2021 5:31pm

CN carrying Sam's comments about disruption in the run-in here

dastardly00 · 11-03-2021 5:32pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Did I understand Sam's interview correctly - he's done with Paris Nice now to prepare for Milan San Remo on saturday week?

No it sounds like he will use the rest of the race as training

"From now it will be a bit of strength and conditioning until the end of the race and then San Remo."

a_squirrelman · 11-03-2021 5:33pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

There was some pretty dodgy looking squeezing and blocking going on in the run up. Glad to see Sam just stick the shoulder in and put em back in their box

Are those kind of tactics frowned upon? Sam seemed proper annoyed about it in the interview but yer man on Eurosport said "What's nice is people are trying to get him off the wheel, that's brilliant....you've got to disrupt him....get in his way"

velo.2010 · 11-03-2021 8:00pm

I've noticed there is little or no buffering when watching Eurosport on eurosport.co.uk rather than the dedicated player site. No commentary on the ad-free version, but that may be a boon to some!

11-03-2021 8:19pm

One of the best for a while

https://twitter.com/procycletrumps/status/1370045682611068929

velo.2010 · 11-03-2021 11:28pm

BTW, where is Marc Hirschi?

11-03-2021 11:55pm

velo.2010 wrote: »

BTW, where is Marc Hirschi?

Moved to UAE Team and apparently for 14x what he was on with Sunweb now DSM, starts his season in Catalunya on the 22nd.

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