Pro-cycling thread

Please interview Soler eurosport.

I like listening to Sporza. No fucking clue what's going on but it's soothing.

That’s a beautiful picture

probably the best-informed and knowledgeable commentator there is: Jose De Cauwer

Would be doubly nice to understand his dulcet tones then!

get to work on it then! best come live in Flanders or the Netherlands to learn the language ;-) you learned French, so you can learn Dutch

Sep Vanmarcke won a bloody race!

Oh, pull the other one. :)

Well, I've always wanted an authentic Flandrian facial...

I can sort of see why Soler was pissed off, but then again, seeing as his team leader was in a position to take the race lead, surely he wasn't in a position to be complaining about having to support him?

Do Movistar dislike Quintana that much?

Dunno, hard to see unlikable traits in him and I've not read anything in the media.

I guess if it's anything like Sky it's just a case of too many chiefs and not enough of the anecdotal Indians.

It was a shame the coverage missed so much of the final climbs, there was apparently a lot of drama while the feed was down

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/vuelta-a-espana/primoz-roglic-miguel-angel-lopez-crashed-vuelta-gravel-section-436199

Also reports of riders shivering waiting to get down the mountain in cable cars, which must be awful after a race like that

Don't those cameras have internal storage? Maybe they can't transmit but surely they can record so we can see afterwards what happened.

Rolf Aldag leaving Dimension Data at the end of the season. Which is no surprise after he was over ruled on selecting Cavendish for the Tour.

As Head of Performance though, you have to ask questions of him about the quality of coaching and support for the riders at the team.

I think it was because he was going to take the stage and Quintana looked to be in an OK state to not need a tow up the hill.

That whole thing confused me, as did Valverde attacking a group with Roglic which brought him up the road.

Sep Vanmarcke won a bloody race!

Vaughters is gonna be pissed

Ironic that Movistar keep winning the Team classification when they're so fractious as a team.

Because half their team normally end up just off the podium

https://twitter.com/javierchipi/status/1168258029533487107

https://twitter.com/josselin_riou/status/1168204335261597696

Anticipating some sickness/abandons on Tues...

Its such a pity that we missed the gravel part. Looked like an awesome road when they previewed it.

Quintana confirmed for Arkea-Samsic for next season.

is it official Arkea-Samsic and Cofidis are getting bumped up to WT?