Orange Crush
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| 09/15/2020 10:00 PM |
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| Btw - Col de Glieres Thursday 6 kms at 11% is where things will shake out. |
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longslowdistance
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| 09/15/2020 10:12 PM |
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Got that. Will watch intently, if not another snoozefest!.
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79pmooney
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| 09/16/2020 12:35 AM |
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Speaking of sauce - I wonder if there is a new testing regime that could catch whatever it is that has been the sky/Ineos magic. That one of their marginal gains has been taken off the table. As a team, they look a whole lot more human this year. I'm thinking maybe the Colombians might also be somewhat sauce free. Maybe we will read about it in a tell-all in 5 years.
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Cosmic Kid
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| 09/16/2020 06:46 AM |
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Bernal out...going home to rest, recuperate and reassess.
If he touches his bike in the next week, someone needs to tackle him. |
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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Orange Crush
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| 09/16/2020 09:39 AM |
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Looks like Poels spine is stronger than Bernals.
Good to see him at head of peloton after two weeks of survival mode.
Looks like it will once again come down to final 3k. The harder they make these routes the longer they wait. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/16/2020 11:12 AM |
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Well that was certainly an interesting final 4k. Hope you were at least somewhat entertained LSD.
The stretching and shrinking elastic between Roglic and Podagar as gradients varied was fascinating.
Gutted for Carapaz; that was a gutsy ride but it was always clear he didn't have enough buffer.
Looks like Superman is doing it for the Columbians. Porte got passed Uran but he can't afford to let the gap to Lopez grow too big.
Tomorrow will be last day for non-TT specialists to try a long-range attack with Glieres as the launch pad. Last call for Landa, although today already showed his limitations again. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/16/2020 01:46 PM |
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BTW - Slovenia is a beautiful country with excellent food. I briefly set foot in it in 2012 (the medieval coastal town of Piran, south of Trieste), courtesy of in-law family with benefits. They own a motor cycle related business (https://www.deprettomoto.com/) and also own a boat that took us from Venice to Piran. Posh. Posh.
Slovenia sits next to Italy so an emerging cycling culture now that they they are out of claws of former Yugoslavia is perhaps not a surprise. The Giro always visits this border region. If you read about the history of the Giro and its role in trying to be a unifying force for Italy, the reason why they do this is because this region and Trieste as main city have historically been in dispute and have flipped hands a few times. Slovenia is mostly cut of from Mediterranean because of Italy's insistence on keeping Trieste in fold. |
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longslowdistance
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| 09/16/2020 06:53 PM |
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| Yes thanks OC I was entertained! Still I miss the epic flyers but that’s not how it works today. Hopeful for some fireworks tomorrow |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/16/2020 07:16 PM |
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| The epic flyers are not ever coming back unfortunately. Doping or no doping, radios or no radios, the teams are simply too strong for this. Not like the old days where they grabbed a guy off the street and called him a domestique. The increased professionalism and training programs have killed the excitement of old. On top of that for the Tour everyone brings their A team. In Vuelta and Giro you still see B teams hence flyers and excitement can still happen there. That is the contradiction that is Tour, biggest race is also often the most boring. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/17/2020 09:49 AM |
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| They don’t have gravel in Tasmania evidently. |
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longslowdistance
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| 09/17/2020 01:10 PM |
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| Great stage. Even had an epic flyer! |
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longslowdistance
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| 09/17/2020 08:10 PM |
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| And I found myself rooting for a team I usually dislike, which was fun, too. Classy work today. |
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Orange Crush
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| 09/17/2020 08:25 PM |
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| Yes that was quite the showmanship of those two. |
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longslowdistance
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| 09/17/2020 09:41 PM |
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Felt genuine to me. Maybe I'm gullible.
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Orange Crush
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| 09/17/2020 10:15 PM |
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| Agreed on the genuine. But still a good show. |
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