Pro-cycling thread

I think Ben O'Connor just comes across as a great bike rider but still needing work on the mental game to get to the top level. Maybe they did a lot of that over the break before this season as his Giro was pretty good. Guess we will see at the Tour when there are more big names (hopefully)

Blimey , one of the Yates brothers going to Jumbo , Visma lease a bike wotnot etc…. think it’s the one without the fuzzyfelt stick on beard ….
Vinny and Yates up against Pog and Yates next year ?

Our taiyo with covid

I do hope Tao's bad luck will end at some point.

He won the giro. With the greatest of respect that's his lifetime of luck in one 3 week dump

Vingegaard named in the Visma-Lease a Bike Tour team, alongside Wout Van Aert.

A classic case of the team bluffing . Oh he ain't ready as he drops everyone in the third week much to everyones disappointment.

I think he would have beaten Roglic in last year's Giro, too, if he hadn't crashed out. Obviously, suppositions don't count for anything in sport.

That nice Mr Wiggogins is apparently bankrupt and 'homeless'. Sad to hear. I haven't followed his story and don't know what happened, other than that it's probably been down to poor business sense.

Didn’t he front the money for his team? If you’re famous you’re the face, not the wallet

sofa surfing

Oh dear, although I'd imagine it's not a fag burned old sofa in a 60's brutalist flat block in Kilburn.

Believe he took significant (c. £750k) director's loan from his company and doesn't have the means to pay it back.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/20/katie-archibald-to-miss-paris-olympics-cycling-after-suffering-double-leg-break-in-freak-accident

Terrible luck.

I'd be more willing to place a bet on Sunak winning the election than Vingegard winning the Tour.

Moscon is going to beat him into fourth place.

Literally!

Anna van der Breggen is to return to racing for SD-Worx next season, having retired at the end of 2021.

I wouldn't be overly confident about that. Apparently he looks back to himself in training. It's a 3 week tour with a lot of climbing in the final week and Pogacar has a Grand Tour in his legs, albeit he appeared to be in cruise control. Vingegaard can quietly ride himself into form.

This presumes a two horse race, nobody told Evenepoel that, I believe he will get stronger than he was in Switzerland. Roglic is a Grand Tour multiple winner and not just a dominant rider in one week tours, he shouldn't be written off. This doesn't even begin to consider the multiple wild cards.

It probably will be a two horse race, a fully recovered Vingegaard will be fresher but with questionable form.

When do we start thinking world championships

Have you seen the stages in the first week? There’s no time to ‘ride yourself into form’.

I’ve watched very little racing this year,
Where’s the each way money…?

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adam yates

Egan at 66/1?!

He's got this one in the bag.

what’s bala at

Almeida at 90/1 ew looks reasonable with the previous caveat

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