Pro-cycling thread

As Pascal Ackerman put it in his celebrations with the team after his first win.

My wife was crying, which is extraordinary considering she came in at 5km to go having never heard of him in her life

An incredibly touching reaction. I had wondered earlier in the stage who the woman was that the cameras cut to a couple of times too

In our occasional series 'Explaining fussballclub's Posts', this is part of a lyric by Almklausi & Specktakel (no, me neither):

https://genius.com/Almklausi-and-specktakel-mama-laudaaa-lyrics

It conjures up a scenario in which there is a pressing need to turn the music up ("Mucke" is German slang for 'music') and then uses a pun in German to express this. 'Mach mal lauter' ('make louder') in certain dialects/slang could become 'Mama lauda', which is then cleverly related to Niki Lauda's mother.

I hope everybody finds this helpful.

Thanks

The ignore function is even more effective.

That was actually very insightful.

'Mach mal lauter' ('make louder') in certain dialects/slang could become 'Mama lauda', which is then cleverly related to Niki Lauda's mother.

I hope everybody finds this helpful.

It's a great explanation but I wondered what the pun has to do with pro cycling and / or Giro?

You shouldn't be too greedy for explanation where none is needed. As fussballclub clearly (yes) posted, this was apparently what Pascal Ackermann said after his win.

https://video.eurosport.de/radsport/giro-d-italia/2019/giro-d-italia-so-feiert-pascal-ackermann-seinen-sieg-mit-team-bora_vid1196488/video.shtml

Obviously, Ludwig could simply have posted this video, but that would have been too easy.

I see it makes more sense to read his posts starting with the most recent and then read the preceding posts oh I don't know

Or something

I'm glad, it did require a fair amount of research into youth culture.

I think it's worth reading them all at the same time, a bit like how you gain a cosmic understanding of alien visits by viewing monumental Mayan line drawings from above.

So, does Sam Bennett feel:

• pleased, his team mate won
  
• relieved - at least the guy he was dropped for went on to win the sprinter's jersey
  
• pissed off, knowing that he probably could have done it himself given his form last year?
  

You'd hope he's focusing on whatever his next race is rather than stewing over how his team mate did or feeling that he's missed out.

It's a long time until the Vuelta though (shrug emoji)

He's got some Hammer Series to look forward too!

Apparently the company Sunweb have bought the company Corendon who sponsor the MVdP team.

Yes; and totally irrelevant.

^ Them lyrics in English: Don’t seem a problem to put the hammer down.

And Ackerman and the Bora team sang in German.

I'm so confused.