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News in 2023
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 28-02-2023 09:48
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For your daily dose of "wtf news", Trek - Segafredo talent shoots and kills the cat of the Minister of Tourism.
https://www.cicloweb.it/news/27812367...lo-multato
(I couldn't find an article in English yet, sorry)
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 25-03-2023 14:06
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ringo182 wrote:
Just thought it was time for a new thread 
While I'm here, does anyone have a link/website that provides a full easy to read calendar for the 2023 season? I can find the UCI World Tour Calendar, but struggling to find a definitive calendar with all the Pro 2/2.1 etc level races too.
Happy New Year 
I don’t know it you fund an answer, but you can make it in https://www.procy...ming-races
It not the full year, but almost.
Edited by Tamijo on 25-03-2023 14:14
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 30-03-2023 15:01
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Rumours say Jumbo will quit sponsoring the team after the 2024 season, After the scandal of Frits van Eerd, who definitely left the Jumbo company now, and the death of his father in december, the company is re-evaluating their sports sponsoring. They already quit some of their sponsoring in motorsports and now they might step back as title sponsor from the cycling team.
Source: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/ju...to-reports
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-05-2023 16:04
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 It's officially happening. The greatest sprinter of all time is retiring at the end of the 2023 season. A genuinely sad moment for me, if inevitable. A legend of the sport, and i'm just praying he can go out on a major record breaking high.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/6...g/65665546
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 23-05-2023 02:12
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I was never a Cav fan, until his comeback. He was a legend and had been riddled with illnesses and bad luck for so long. He had no reason to come back and keep fighting like he did, and he still went for it. I'll never disrespect him again after that.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 23-05-2023 12:26
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Maybe not the greatest (Van Looy? Maertens?), but definitely the fastest. He'll be missed.
I'm not sure Merckx' record should be beaten this summer, but I won't dislike him for it if he does it.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 16-06-2023 12:01
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R.I.P. Gino Mäder
https://bahraincy...ino-mader/
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| Wilier |
Posted on 16-06-2023 12:04
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Gino Mäder passed away after his crash in the Tour de Suisse yesterday. Terrible, terrible day for cycling. Again.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-06-2023 12:05
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Incredibly sad news. I'm a bit lost for words right now, but I feel that this could've been avoided.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 16-06-2023 12:06
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What the fuck Hadn't followed the cycling in a few days and didn't know it had happened. RIP.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 16-06-2023 12:56
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Tuned in to watch today's stage and saw this in the frontpage of l'Équipe. Quite shocked too, Bardet was talking about a fall yesterday, but then nobody knew how grave it was.
Horrible news.
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably."
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 16-06-2023 13:33
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No fucking way. This sport...
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-06-2023 15:16
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Very sad
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-06-2023 15:17
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It is absurd with those 100 k downhill finish
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 16-06-2023 15:41
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We always know better in hindsight... Fact is that this stage - or at least the final part - was ridden exactly like this multiple times before. According to Sven Montgomery, former pro and nowadays cycling expert on Swiss TV, it was the 14th time already that this downhill was done. Nothing new or fancy.
It isn't a particularly difficult or dangerous descent, the roads are good and they were dry. I've seen tons of Giro/TdF descents that were far trickier, and on bad roads.
As much as I hate the outcome, and as much as it hurts - it looks like Gino just made a mistake at the wrong time and then had a ton of awful luck.
I guess if downhills should be made more secure, they'd have to be neutralized in some way. Just avoiding downhill finishes wouldn't be enough imho, as crashes can happen anywhere, anytime. Sadly
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 16-06-2023 16:05
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I don't know what you think, IMO the remainder of the tour should be canceled and the results declared null and void. Anything else would be disrespectful. This tragedy was 100% avoidable, but the organizers were careless.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-06-2023 16:47
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Fabianski wrote:
We always know better in hindsight... Fact is that this stage - or at least the final part - was ridden exactly like this multiple times before. According to Sven Montgomery, former pro and nowadays cycling expert on Swiss TV, it was the 14th time already that this downhill was done. Nothing new or fancy.
It isn't a particularly difficult or dangerous descent, the roads are good and they were dry. I've seen tons of Giro/TdF descents that were far trickier, and on bad roads.
As much as I hate the outcome, and as much as it hurts - it looks like Gino just made a mistake at the wrong time and then had a ton of awful luck.
I guess if downhills should be made more secure, they'd have to be neutralized in some way. Just avoiding downhill finishes wouldn't be enough imho, as crashes can happen anywhere, anytime. Sadly
I know, I like the thrill of a sharp descend. I loved guys like Savoldelli and Nibali back in the days. But the last few years rider safety has become much more important. Stages are being shortened or cancelled because of the weather, something that was unheard of 10 years ago. Riders stop racing if they think certain finishes are unsafe, like in Schaal Sels a few years ago. A lot of riders voiced their opinion right after the stage, but then the damage was already done of course.
Bjorg Lambrecht was a stupid crash that could never be avoided. But this felt different. I still don't what to think of it. Just sadness.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 17-06-2023 23:08
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imo putting this downhill section at the end of the stage or in the middle make no difference (seeing Pidcock at Galibier for example)...Albula has a super fast road with apparently low risks...it's normal that they were going almost 100km/h, and the fate was bad in that moment.
As said before, I remember many times this finish in TdS in past editions, and never heard a rider hails against it until now (other riders still disagree it's a dangerous road).
Let's see if Magnus Sheffield will be able to tell what happened.
Terrible tragedy.
R.I.P. Gino
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 07-07-2023 09:55
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Sep Vanmarcke will never win his Roubaix. He's forced to retire immediately with heart problems
I will need a new avatar I guess.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 07-07-2023 10:35
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That sucks. I remember after he lost to Cancellara, someone trying to comfort him and telling him he's so young, there'll be plenty of other opportunities for him to win it.
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