Pro-cycling thread

DCQS and JV riding hard in the pink jersey group - gap at 35 secs to the fuglsang group

bora also riding with majka in the second group... wyd lads

The nervousness in fulsgang group seems palpable. Lots of road captain/domestiques clearly hammering it because they fucked their main role

I bet it will rain 😞

reckon yates group will probably get back, but might get more echelons closer the finish

Whats the Italian for Chute?

So crashy

Tape Ganna?

'lo scivolo' according to google

I prefer chute I think.

Arnold of the Sea?

Too easy.

Relegation for leaving his line?

He was all over the place

Arnold "Trois" Marrrh

👏 Eurosport.

With the UCI deviating from their line of only punishing in case of bodily harm I could see him getting relegated for this.

Looked pretty straightforward and any deviation didn’t impact riders behind as they couldn’t keep up.

Starting to feel sorry for Sagan at this point

I don’t particularly like David Millar but the documentary is great.

Who’s the ex pro DS from Europe who talks on it a fair bit? Not Wegelius, the other one.

Andreas Klier, I think.

Why isn't the giro showing up on Eurosport player?

Do I have to update the app on apple TV?

Is it just me, or did Démare go right from one side of the road to the other when he opened up his sprint? Whatever happened to the 'sprint in straight lines' rule reinforcement after the Groenewegen/Jacobsen incident?

These might help:

Is that Demare chopping somebody? Great gif choice.

I don't believe there is such a rule. Moving line in a sprint is a legitimate tactic, it becomes controversial when you move line violently, or purposefully take someone into the barriers, as Groenewegen did.

Demare's move didn't impede anyone and was a gradual (or as gradual as you can do in a sprint at 60+ km/h) manoeuvre so I doubt the commissaires gave it anything more than a cursory review.