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News in 2023
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 05-01-2023 10:47
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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 
"Ringo is exactly right", Shonak - 8 September 2016
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 05-01-2023 11:07
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https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/04/jumbo-e...estigation
It appears that the Jumbo-Visma team is safe from potentially looking for another sponsor...for now at least. The article only mentions that Jumbo would scale down their involvement in motorsport (Max Verstappen is safe as he's aguably their biggest sporting asset), but nothing about their other sporting properties like the cycling and speed skating teams.
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 05-01-2023 11:08
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Hi!
French newspaper L'Equipe has that. Don't know whether that really what you're looking for, but it's easy enought to navigate through the months and seems quite complete:
https://www.lequi...nvier-2023 |
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 05-01-2023 11:57
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https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/migu...ellin-epm/
The downfall of Miguel Angel López has been so sudden. But unfortunately for him, he can only blame himself - he had multiple chances, but he blew them. Hopefully this humbles him big time
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 05-01-2023 12:20
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Thanks All 
"Ringo is exactly right", Shonak - 8 September 2016
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| LLDS |
Posted on 06-01-2023 08:08
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Wow, the last couple of years have been a roller coaster for him.
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| LLDS |
Posted on 06-01-2023 08:11
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Paris-Nice with a TTT in the 3rd stage, this year.
I enjoy TTTs, I hope to see one on cobblestones in the following years .
Source (in French): https://www.lequi...pe/1372958 .
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 12-01-2023 16:56
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Pinot is retiring after this season:
https://www.lequi...on/1374293
Just 32 years old still, but the last few years have really taken a toll.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| LLDS |
Posted on 13-01-2023 13:54
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One of my favourite cyclists.
He has some of the most beautiful victories from the past decade.
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| Ad Bot |
Posted on 03-12-2024 18:19
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 13-01-2023 17:27
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LLDS wrote:
One of my favourite cyclists.
He has some of the most beautiful victories from the past decade.
Same here. Wish he would've won that Tour Bernal took at the very end.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-01-2023 21:03
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+1, likely the rider I would have most wanted to see win a GT (the Tour! I absolutely wanted Pinot for le Tour). I almost cried with him in that cursed 2019...I hope to be on the roads in next Lombardia to pay the right tribute to him.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-01-2023 21:09
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probably one of the highest in love-by-people/results ratio I've seen in cycling in years from riders like Vandenbroucke maybe? this can be a good discussion topic
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 14-01-2023 15:06
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I'm still amazed how he transformed himself from an awful into a decent descender by willpower and atypical action, love that determination. Rarely I like a Frenchie, he however was always top class and also always leading a pretty likeable team sticking to his roots.
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| LLDS |
Posted on 14-01-2023 16:48
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Croatia14 wrote:
LLDS wrote:
One of my favourite cyclists.
He has some of the most beautiful victories from the past decade.
Same here. Wish he would've won that Tour Bernal took at the very end.
Same here. After he abandoned, i did not watch the last stages of that particular Tour.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 15-01-2023 11:44
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Former Dutch cyclist Lieuwe Westra has passed away yesterday at the age of 40. Westra probably got most famous for his battle with Wiggins for the overall victory of Paris - Nice in 2012 and even won a mountain stage during that race, and he also helped Nibali in the cobbles stage of the Tour in 2014 where Nibali took a lot of time on his competitors.
Westra has struggled with depression for years, which was also the reason why he suddenly quit cycling in 2017. There's no official information yet about the cause of death, but rumors say he has lost the battle with himself.
I was shocked when I read about his passing, I remember very well what he meant to Dutch cycling back in 2012-2013.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 15-01-2023 11:48
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The Westra news did hit me quite hard this morning. One of the riders that I grew up watching. RIP 
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| Wilier |
Posted on 15-01-2023 14:21
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I really saddens me when people struggle so much with mental problems that they end their life. 
R.I.P. Lieuwe 'It Beest' Westra |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 15-01-2023 14:27
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Westra was a really nifty all arounder in an era where that was not nearly as fashionable. Terrible that his struggles ended his life so young. R.I.P.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 27-01-2023 14:38
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Two messages. First of all, it turned out Westra's death wasn't self-inflicted. He was going through a bad period, also because of his divorce, but he seemed more positive. He actually got a heart attack and a friend who was with him tried to reanimate him, but he couldn't be saved anymore. (Iirc his father also died young because of heart problems.) I think it's important to share his cause of death after early rumors that turned out wrong.
Second message: Peter Sagan will retire road cycling after the 2023 season, and will retire at the end of 2024, in which he'll focus on the Olympic Mountainbike Race. It's a pity he'll leave but understandable. His performances haven't been as they used to be, but I'll still miss him. In my head he's still the young talent who's already at world level, but we all age. But a unique cyclist will leave the peloton.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 27-01-2023 14:49
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Thank you for sharing that about Westra. Important to get the facts right, as you say.
Sagan was one of the most memorable and crafty riders of his generation, no question. It's weird to think how quickly he kind of fell off a cliff performance wise after the rainbow threepeat and Roubaix win. Only just turned 33 as well.
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