Pro-cycling thread

Wrong thread.

To be fair, most of the "teams" there have more sponsors than some pro-conti teams.

Brands got to be on trend and looking cool.

'gram eyeballs > eurosport eyeballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=qj312NZGvbk

It'll be on eurosport later in the week too

http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/ghj8wz/cycling-spring-cup/

look forward to watching that one.

http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/gino-bartali-radsportler-und-judenretter-a-1202537.html

Erneut gewürdigt wird Bartalis Mut nun während des Giro d'Italia: Die Italienrundfahrt beginnt am 4. Mai mit einem Einzelzeitfahren in Jerusalem - und damit zum ersten Mal außerhalb Europas. Enkelin Gioia wird dort sein, an ihren Großvater erinnern und gegen Antisemitismus eintreten. Ein Theaterstück mit dem Titel "Bartali, Champion und Held" wird uraufgeführt, ein Radweg nach ihm benannt.

Ob Gino der ganze Rummel um seine Person gefallen hätte? "Sicher nicht", sagt Gioia Bartali und lacht. "Er hätte abgewinkt und gebrummt: 'Ich habe doch gar nichts Besonderes gemacht. Nur das, was ich am besten konnte: Fahrrad fahren'."

I never knew that, thanks!

Women's Tour of Yorkshire is live on ITV4 on Thurs and Fri which is great. My mate Alicia is racing for Team OnForm so look out for her!

STAGE 1 - THURSDAY 3RD MAY - ITV4
Women's Race LIVE: 0835 - 1230
Highlights: 2000 - 2100

STAGE 2 - FRIDAY 4TH MAY - ITV4
Women's Race LIVE: 0855 - 1245
Highlights: 2100 - 2200

Tour DE Yorkshire.

;)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/131/399/fry.PNG

Nicht sicher, ob das ernst gemeint war...

Please, make it stop

Awesome, thanks for this.

You’d think with all the access they get, Sky news might be able to get a picture of him.

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At least they got the Tony Martin involved in cycling and not the trigger happy Norfolk farmer.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/02/lizzie-deignan-female-cyclists-are-still-a-long-way-behind-the-men

Deignan looking for new team! Boels presumably not happy they weren't kept in the loop re. her pregnancy

Deignan had a “mixed” response when announcing her pregnancy. Boels-Dolmans were “a little bit surprised”, she said. She did not tell them she was trying to conceive and hid debilitating morning sickness from them for the first 12 weeks when she couldn’t ride her bike “and couldn’t even look at a vegetable”.

How were Boels with her three 'missed' tests ?

I don't know about the specific contexts but several parts of that article made me feel awkward.

She did not tell them she was trying to conceive

Why should she? I'm no expert on pregnancy nor employment law but my understanding is that there is some threshold mid pregnancy (12 weeks?) before which it is unusual to disclose pregnancy because of the higher risks of miscarriage. Before then I don't see why she should have any obligation to tell the team.

hid debilitating morning sickness from them for the first 12 weeks when she couldn’t ride her bike

This is the one case where telling the team might be relevant, but surely this is what the team doctor is for. If she's unwell then the doctor should be able to take her of the roster without fully divulging the medical details until Lizzie is comfortable to do so.

With no team salary coming in any more and no maternity pay, statutory or otherwise.

Isn't she still under contract with Boels? Surely they have an obligation to pay maternity leave? And how come she won't have a contract when she comes back, can teams just dump riders once they become pregnant?

Without knowing all the details this article certainly makes it sound like pro cycling is a pretty unwelcoming environment for women.

Sigh.

She’s under contract with Boels-Dolman to the end of this season.

All riders are on short term contracts, and are effectively treated as contractors rather than employees. I’m not sure how employment law handles pregnancy, but whichever way you look at it, it just adds more to the pro women cyclists have to fight horrible sexism case.

Break has got it at ToY. Great effort.

Edit - Tanfield. Yorkshire lad. Rayt proud.

Love it when the break makes it by the skin of their teeth .... well done Tanfield - big unit powering through ....

Didn’t even get out of his saddle. Just stamped his way through like a proper trackie.

Looking sleek af <3

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Harry fooking Tanfield

not a very good start - Froome during recon: