Pro-cycling thread

Needs a hill at the end really.

So far the only excitement has been Bahrain nearly sprinting into the back markers from Israel at the line...

It's relentlessly bad isn't it.

Yup - changed commentary to French

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That's not a bad idea. I just muted it, but I would rather have some commentary/idea what's going on.

That reminds me of the Hammer series chase TT, which was a little bit crazy.

I thought the hybrid TTT worked well and would be even better with a bit more of a climb at the end.

Happy to report this is miles better, although I'm marginally irritated by (I think) Jacky Durand's continual rising inflection. Infinitely preferable to Kirby's idiotic nonsense, however.

Looking forward to 7 hours of Carlton at MSR

Haha! Oh Jesus, no.

MVDP served that up on a platter.

That was such a solid leadout.

Pogacar is in tidy form.

He blew Vingegaard's doors off there, didn't he?

Little bit! Impressive from Gaudu to hang with Pog as long as he did.

Just a little.

Loving Gino's genuine surprise and joy at himself

Prior to MVDP doing what he did Ganna was an absolute machine.

https://twitter.com/maatte_T/status/1633549603554336779?s=20

Glad someone else picked up on Gino Mader; a real Beauty and the Beast change from looking half dead crossing the line to the most charming and attractive young man doing his interview.

Rog to the tour

This video, showing where Ganna was when Jumbo-Visma starting splitting it up in the wind yesterday, is spectacular.

https://twitter.com/maatte_t/status/1633549603554336779?s=46&t=2PATd_OtsVdKlFqH4sTWPQ

What a beast.

He blamed the bad positioning due to not being able to tell the distance correctly after an eye op.

Has anyone seen a video of Ganna?

Ganna doing something in a race once now

https://twitter.com/maatte_T/status/1633­549603554336779?s=20

guy moves up