2013 Pro-cycling season thread

Like a Vos

Excellent race

She's amazing... no two ways about it.

Very impressive.

The best cyclist on the planet right now.

I enjoyed that immensely, enhanced by having my nearly 4 year old daughter cheering for Marianne for the entire last lap.

Ha, and I thought that sort of thing only happened to Jan Ullrich ... would be very surprising if it was true.

Not really, the Brits like running them backwards.
Same thing happened to Hoy for his Kilo WR attempt.

No shit, I remember that... epic fail if there ever was one.

...if I remember correctly, he fell short by 0.003 seconds.

.228

Fuck... Cutting his nose hair that morning would have made all the difference, well that and a capable mechanic. The likes of Coppi, Anquetil, Ritter and Merckx were renowned for setting up their own bikes... for good reason it seems.

...if I remember correctly, he fell short by 0.003 seconds.

Minutes, not seconds of course, which would make it .18

.228 or .18... no real point in splitting hairs, unless of course you're going for the 1K world record.

Dorks

The tarmac on that finishing loop already looked wet yesterday it was so slick, so in the rain its going to be grim even before you hit the white paint and street furniture.

even before you hit the street furniture.

Doing it wrong ... although that was my main thought yesterday, that descent is going to be sketchy in the wet, especially as it will probably be a bigger bunch making it over the first couple of loops at least.

In other news JTL has been asked to explain his blood values while at Endura and has withdrawn from the British squad. I expect Sky will be bundling him out the back door shortly too.

I think this gives Sky the excuse they were looking for to release him from his contract.

Next year: JTL challenges hippy for the 24.

Did someone forget to tell Cav that the ITT was in the week?

well its definitely wet.

what time will they hit the circuit?

About now.

oh, i thought there was quite a bit of race before the laps. thanks

More than 100k, but it obviously doesn't count very much compared to the finishing laps.