Cycling thread

[Bruce Wayne]

Sad that it's ended this way for him.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Wout had that on toast until his own teammate Portal parked him up ffs. Nails by Pedersen to hold on in any case - great win to hold off Philipsen.

Bolex for Cav - went out on his shield having proved the whole world wrong. Dismissed as completely washed 5 years ago.

 

[sbbefc]

34 stage wins. One hell of a career. Even more so considering he's been unlucky with ill health, crashes and scandalously (imo) not being picked in recent years. I'm heading over to watch a couple of stages next week, gutted not to be able to cheer him on.

 

[Rita_Poon]

34 stage wins. One hell of a career. Even more so considering he's been unlucky with ill health, crashes and scandalously (imo) not being picked in recent years. I'm heading over to watch a couple of stages next week, gutted not to be able to cheer him on.

Saw him 3 times tour of Britain last year. If he was French (and lived in France) he'd be a superstar.

 

[Deulofeumygod]

Such a sad end. Looked to be enjoying himself.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Broken collarbone. Ouch. I wonder if he'll retire on such a sour note.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Doubt he will retire after that, he will be back in 2024.

Looking forward to Puy de Dome.

 

[TheWinslowBoy]

What a great first week (Not for Cav, Mas or Carapaz like)

Great to see Pog take a few more seconds back today....when I saw him getting dowsed in water before the climb I feared the worst, he hates extreme heat.

Only another 2 weeks to go!

 

[Hackbread]

Fair play that Woods fella made that look easy!! What a ride from him.
Glad to see Pog clawing back the seconds and Keeping the yellow jersey race still open

 

[sbbefc]

Doubt he will retire after that, he will be back in 2024.

Looking forward to Puy de Dome.

He's still competitive and 12 months down the line you'd imagine he still will be. Even if he comes back and doesn't win a stage, it would be nice to see him finish another tour and have his moment on the Champs Elysees. If anyone was going to hold off retirement for another year it would be him.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Word seems to be that Astana will give him another year (which makes sense as they have no one else to ride for)

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Fantastic first week - who've you all got

He's still competitive and 12 months down the line you'd imagine he still will be. Even if he comes back and doesn't win a stage, it would be nice to see him finish another tour and have his moment on the Champs Elysees. If anyone was going to hold off retirement for another year it would be him.

Crashing out sucks and taking Philipsen to the line at the age of 38 is amazing, so he'll feel like he needs to put things right. But I can see him calling time tbh - he has five young kids, he is the greatest sprinter ever and he doesn't need to break the Merckx record to validate that, Astana are really bad etc.

 

[spectateur]

Philipsen again!
Without VdP leadout. Seems he's sick with respitory problem.
Let's hope it's not covid.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Oh GCN



Pretty much saying "yeah, they go much quicker than the quickest doped up times because of wind and carbs". Funnily enough, they had a show discussing Festina the other day and William Fotheringham literally said that the media in the day were happy to look the other way. Imagine that

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Philipsen again!
Without VdP leadout. Seems he's sick with respitory problem.
Let's hope it's not covid.

Philipsen clearly the Boss right now. Heard that Jakobsen has pulled out today and has not started the stage. He's rated slightly faster than Philipsen in a pure test of speed but he hasn't been able to make anything happen this Tour, whereas Philipsen is winning for fun. Doesn't seem like Jakobesen is quite on the same page as his lead out man Morkov (which would be a Jakobsen problem).