Pro-cycling thread

Rigoberto Uran looks in good nick, just made winning the uphill finish in Slovenia look like a walk in the park.

Quintana looking lively in Switzerland.

That’s good because EFDC or whatever they are called need all the results they can get

#OVO is done and dusted! Had a lot of fun racing with my @WMNcycling ladies! Thank you @boelsdolmansct for supplying me with @SRAMroad wheel when I punctured! You are Champ with a big hearts! Dziekuje
Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

Isn't taking a wheel from a rival team what got Richie Porte in to trouble at the Tour?

The Giro was it? But yeah.

Vuelta

Tour of Britain

Ghent 6 day

Not sure about the reliability of this but Cycling Weekly names 7/8th of the Sky team as:

FROOME Christopher
MOSCON Gianni
THOMAS Geraint
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
POELS Wout
VAN BAARLE Dylan
BERNAL Egan

You'd have thought the 8th would be a rouleur or TT specialist. Castroviejo?

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-start-list-2-230321

Interesting dual leader choice for Lotto Jumbo NL, with both Roglic and Kruijswijk as aspiring GC riders.

Steven KRUIJSWIJK
Primoz ROGLIC
Robert GESINK
Antwan TOLHOEK
Dylan GROENEWEGEN
Timo ROOSEN
Amund GRÖNDAL JANSEN
Paul MARTENS

Froome, Porte, Roglic for the podium.

Thought it might have been the wee french climber guy.

Elissonde. He’s not riding, said as much after the Route Occitaine at the weekend, when he said that was the end of his first part of the season.

Either Castroviejo or a road captain like Rowe or Knees, someone who can make decisions on the road to respond to the race situation.

Same! You can take the kid out of Clapton...

#ftfy #justsayin ;)

Sam Bennett clearly had his giro win bonus payout!

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https://www.teamsky.com/article/team-sky-welcome-moscon-decision

Yay! racism now 'normalised' in cycling.

It's not about the racism incident, it's the accusation that he deliberately knocked Reichenbach off his bike. The famous 'Reichenbach falls'.

Different incident.

Not that you’re far off the truth on racism in pro-cycling, sadly.

Roglic not going for GC, week long races and stages only. Considering he's got three week long races so far this season, i reckon he'll add to his TDF stage haul this year.

Hinault saying riders should strike if Froome starts the Tour.

Diplomatic as ever!

He's just drumming up crowds isn't he?
Say something controversial, get people interested in event.

Riders tend to be supportive of their own, which Hinault seems to have forgotten.

I know some have spoken out on Froome’s case, but I think the majority accept that he has a right to due process and understand that it could easily be them in a similar position.

Caleb Ewan will be moving on from Mitchelton at the end of the season by the look of it.