Pro-cycling thread

Rog statement claims Fred rode into the back of him and took his bars
WAC

https://www.teamjumbovisma.com/longread/news/one-crash-too-many-for-primoz-roglic-though-there-is-hope-for-safer-racing/

That is what happened, but Rog didn’t have the right to swing over and into him or complain about it now.

That’s really poor form. It was, at worst, a racing incident but to come out and blame Wright explicitly like that is bad.

"The crash was not caused by a bad road or a lack of safety but by a
rider's behaviour. I don't have eyes on my back. Otherwise, I would
have run wide. Wright came from behind and rode the handlebars out of
my hands before I knew it."

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Cycling Twitter seems to be firmly on the Wright side.

This is after contact.

lack of context in just posting an image, i'm on team Wright.

I watched it back a couple of times and I can fully believe that Roglic had no idea fred was there so goes to slide onto the Bora lads wheel and bumps his side. There's no way fred wouldn't have come down as well if he had 'come from behind' and hit his bars.

Slovenian cycling Twitter are embarrassing themselves a bit LOL

There are coincidences and then there are patterns. Roglic falling off is definitely a pattern. Stupid skier.

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I think by now you would feel bitter . A bit like sagan and his wild ways.

Good second place for Fred …. He’s getting nearer….. and at least non of the Jumbos tried to knock him off … !

https://cyclingtips.com/2022/09/roglic-instigates-bizarre-uncharacteristic-war-of-words-in-aftermath-of-vuelta-crash/

Roglic needs to apologise to Fred or get back to the ski jumps. Pathetic.

Sagan doing Formula 1 pitstop 💩

Twitter user simonkl posted a video that shows Rog simply rode into FW. FW rode a straight line.
Rog is wrong and his team needs to retract that idiotic statement.

The only strategic reason I can see for them making the statement, which everyone can see is inaccurate, may be to intimidate younger riders into giving JV more space on the road. It could work if it plants a seed in the minds of next gen that they’ll be called out by the big JV machine. Mourinho tactics coming into the world tour?

Pogacar beating WVA in a drag sprint in Montreal

https://twitter.com/Noticiclismo1/status/1569058802686631936?t=efEuN3qKsDjJqu7H5tAr7w&s=19

Pogacar played WVA like a cheap fiddle in the final 10 kms. Put him under pressure on the climbs, as did Yates, then let him do all the work on the flat.

This is ace. He won. Who won?

https://twitter.com/robynjournalist/status/1569645033929703424

Niki Terpstra is finishing his pro career and I still cannot find an image of the team intro at the properly fucking freezing Omloop 2018 where he covered his entire face in Vaseline to combat the windchill to create the most disturbing TV interview of a pro cyclist ever.

https://twitter.com/inrng/status/967370091066200064/photo/1

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Jesus, don't just post it there, trigger warning at least 😀