Pro-cycling thread

Talk about creating a mountain out of a molehill.

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Are you suggesting Cav has doped and then lied about it in a book?

Perhaps don't form up for a group photo when all the photographers are stuck behind the peloton with no space to come up the road?

Whu?

I'm also FURIOUS and DISGUSTED that there are no official photographs of the Colombian riders together and I'm convinced that the CIA rang Christian Prudhomme to ensure that none were taken.

eh!

Just a dig at Millar. Can’t stand him.

Race radio did call for photographers to move up to them but I don't know if any got through. There wasn't any warning so by all accounts you can't really blame the ASO.

@dubtap

They asked for it, asked the video guy, and then called their separate team cars as well as getting race radio. They were assembled for something like 10-15 minutes waiting.

Okay there wasn’t warning like two days advance notice, but if Pinot, Bardet and at the Philip were assembled they sure as hell would have gotten through.

I appreciate it’s a road full of cyclists but we just watched three weeks of the buggers beeping their horns to get from the back to the front to take photos of French riders from every angle.

Besides, why wasn’t there a photographer at the front?

Talk about creating a mountain out of a molehill.

Well, it's Colombia. Their molehills probably are mountains. :)

Hehehe

Besides, why wasn’t there a photographer at the front?

CIA interference. Diplomatic pressure. String were pulled. Epstein at the top.

who gives a fuck about the photo. well chuffed for Bernal for winning, and great stage win for young Quintana too.

but I don't recall Uran or Montoya doing anything. well Uran had a funny argument with Nibs.

who gives a fuck about the photo.

I do. But yeah, they could have picked a better spot I suppose.

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Brilliant.

Great

Drums are not a solo instrument.

Reports that Katusha are to merge with Arkea-Samsic for next season. Quintana and Bouhanni as the two major signings.

given one is a WT team and other is PC, will most of the Arkea-Samsic get culled? Did this happen with CCC and BMC?

11 riders from each team apparently. Katusha have 11 riders under contract for next season, that was discussed on the Cycling Podcast during the Tour.

They’ll retain the existing Katusha WT license.

Bouhanni doesn’t seem like a major signing, though I’d forgotten that he’s won 5 grand tour sprints.

Meanwhile on the Yorkshire World Champs route

Bunny-hopping time.

A course for Roglic.

Not to be outdone by the Alps.

What's currently happening with the Vuelta course?