Pro-cycling thread

yes, that's why I posted the other pic.

what a nightmare finish it was

dry, okay, but there will have to be some serious evaporation action before it will get dusty at Arenberg

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Reached a work deadline this morning so can allow myself to watch a bit of telly in the office today. But which link? No working feeds so far.

basque country? you've still got a couple hours before feeds from eurosport start.

Boo.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/adam-yates-breaks-finger-in-tour-of-basque-country-crash-video-165319

Why didn't they just put some barriers round them? The road was plenty wide enough.

Eurosport Player users!

I will be out on Sunday, meaning I'll miss the live broadcast of P-R.

I notice on the Player, if you click on "More videos" next to "On now" you get a selection of archived racing broadcasts from the past week. These seem to have a one-week lifespan.

Question: how soon are these put online after the main broadcast?

Has Betancur dropped out of Basque? I can't find him on the list of finishers. Christ what is happening with that guy. He seems happy enough on instagram.

He finished in a group 3.09 back yesterday, I don't think the full results from today are out yet, are they?

^ He had to double back to get seconds at the feed station.

A bonus edition of Wiggins Watch.

Betancur seems destined to become the guy who did well at the Giro then faded forever. Hope I'm wrong.

Gerrans returning at Brabantse Pijl.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders-angry-after-high-speed-basque-country-crash

^^^ That's a good read. Cheers.

I quite like to think WigginsWatch™ will continue sporadically even after his retirement.

Scheldeprijs today, but who cares. Hang on, Lars van der Haar is on the team with Giant Alpecin today. I wonder if he can sprint just as fast with 200km in the legs as he usually does in his CX starts.

Meanwhile, Les Amis de Paris-Roubaix are busy making sure the cobbles are in 'perfect' condition for Sunday

The epitome of Cavendish's "shitty, small race". Unless he wins it of course, then it's nearly a monument.

Is he even riding?

Nope -
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/wiggins-confirmed-to-ride-scheldeprijs-but-no-cavendish-for-etixx-165394

No, but Viviani, Sagan and Kristoff are. Wiggins and Thomas too. No Degenkolb though.

It's the 'queen stage' at the tour of the Basque country today. Looking for ward to seeing Quintana in action.
I don't like that phrase 'queen stage'.

Kristoff has raced pretty much every race I can think of this year. He'll surely need a decent break after Roubaix.

I was promised Schelderprijs and yet I'm being given live WTA tennis from Katowice.

It's on Sporza. 86 kilometres of not much still to go.

Looking for ward to seeing Quintana in action.

Me too - I didn't see any of T-A, so excited to see him. Shame Contador isn't defending.

Sorry for the @ - forgot you hate them.

It's the 'queen stage' at the tour of the Basque country today. Looking forward to seeing Queentana in action.

Fixed.

No worries Mark. The 'new' forum is like that finishing straight on Monday, you know someone thought it was a good idea but you can't figure out how they thought that.