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Trek Segafredo, Movistar, Canyon/SRAM, Rally Cycling, at least, were present. EF podiumed at this event last year and have won others like it.
Gravel is influencing World Tour parcours. Either the World Tour will subsume gravel, or gravel will keep attracting WT riders and teams towards it.
It’s more fun not to turn your nose up at it, that’s what cross is for.
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Gravel is influencing World Tour parcours.
They were doing just fine before the "gravel" explosion...
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I've entered the Gravel National Champs. I'm not anti, I'm just aware of what it isn't.
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Gravel is influencing World Tour parcours.
Is it? Strade Bianche has been around for a while now, itself a spin off from Eroica, which was inspired by how pro races used to be long before the widespread use of tarmac for road surfaces.
Look back at photos from the major races in the post-war period and most of the mountain stages were run on unsealed roads. Pro cycling has started to return to this type of road because it presents a different challenge in a stage race, but is also a nod to the heritage the major races have.
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Trek Segafredo
Speaking of which, they made up a BS story about Kiel Reijnen running barefoot for hours (only to change to the story's details 3 times when called out on it), getting more coverage than the actual win.
Not sure the the WT teams PR machines are really adding value here...
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Unbound was won by a retired domestique. I'm not knocking LTD's former acheivements but gravel races are deffo not a pro races and deffo not worthy of this thread.