Absolutely epic
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
one of the best races i've ever seen
― gbx, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
For the men’s race, I’ve only been able to watch some of the clips on https://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/q0jqzk/comment/hf8fw62/ but holy crap wet Paris-Roubaix is insane. And if I’m not mistaken the entire podium was all first-timers to the race?
― john shopkins (naus), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
yah, and second was basically a neopro
gcn has highlights available on youtube i believe
― gbx, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA6buKQUYAADjgc?format=jpg&name=large
― gbx, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
Oof! Biniam Girmay out of the Giro following a Prosecco cork directly to the eye during yesterday’s podium celebration
― john shopkins (naus), Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
Own goal but so so wrong and annoying. I hope he wasn’t injured for more than v short recovery. #cagecorksnow
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
Catching up but yeah what a terrible thing to have happen! Hope to see him back soon.
Giro as a whole was pretty good this year I thought, a couple of boring stages aside. And to have it come down to essentially the next to last day, works for me! Also Bora happily moving into a post-Sagan phase.
Bring on the Dauphine, need to recheck who is racing this time out...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
A meltdown from Nick Kyrgios after losing in the US Open quarterfinal! pic.twitter.com/hUTaihlTBF— Third and Five Podcast (@thirdandfivepod) September 7, 2022
#LaVuelta22 luego de su aparatosa caida en la etapa 16 el esloveno Primoz Roglic no presenta lesiones graves certificado médico emitido por la sanidad de la vuelta pic.twitter.com/CwdOjoqEBG— 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐒á𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐳 (@JORSTA) September 6, 2022
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Christ I've been so busy I keep forgetting to check on La Vuelta. Bad of me!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Watch the final 5 clicks of yesterday, all ya needs for st 16. It’s quite amaze short climb finish to flat/rolly day.
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
gutted for Rog, guy has terrible luck
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
I am as impressed by his demeanor, dignity, perseverance as his great power profile. Maybe more. He’s incredibly tough— but almost all those guys are. It’s easy to say “how boring, whatever,” but you know what’s easier? acting like that tennis ahole above.*chorus*: ask hunt3r how he knows!
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
https://derailleur.substack.com/p/sad-story-huh
"Everything was going to plan. I confess that I, like so many others, in some way needed him to win — to pull through so I could imitate him in pulling through."
"According to Addy Engels, his DS, after crossing the line, Roglič was barely responsive. Like a living pietà, he sat down wounded against the barriers, and then everyone knew — there was nothing left."
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Friday, 9 September 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link
Well that was a lot of fun! Van der Poel fell off his bike right in front of the restaurant where Stet and I had our first date lol.
― Madchen, Sunday, 6 August 2023 15:45 (seven months ago) link
that's pretty wild. the race was extremely legit imo, what a crazy and difficult circuit set-up they had. more turns than crit, and hard enough to keep the field shattered.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 6 August 2023 19:58 (seven months ago) link
I think I loved it, the way it turned into a crazy sort of devil-take-the-hindmost. Very glad it didn’t rain any more than it did.
― Madchen, Sunday, 6 August 2023 20:01 (seven months ago) link
for me wout vs mvdp is like the jonas vs pog vs rog: why choose? Each is distinguishable and amazing and imo very “sporting,” which is nice to an old. I rarely say this but I’m glad to be an overall cycling fan, and just to watch. Do I have preferences? Sure— in grand tours, I like the current versh Pog. He is ridiculously daring and “in-the-moment.”Second place— Rog, so classy and brave and smart and good. In one days? I go for mvdp, for the same reasons lol. But also i am a core cx fan, and mvdp’s ownership of the: skills vs “exercise contest” portion of that sub-discipline is persuasive to me. NB they’re both great at both obv.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 6 August 2023 23:42 (seven months ago) link
Congrats to Colorado’s own Sepp Kuss for winning La Vuelta today!
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 18 September 2023 02:26 (six months ago) link
Wow! I had to miss coverage because my vacation last week, couldn't make up the time, but that's great to hear.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 03:18 (six months ago) link
Impressively nice and friendly guy, with a v v remarkable physiology and mindset. Also very cheering to see like, all of cycling recognize all of these things in Kuss with applause and appreciation.
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:09 (six months ago) link
Kind of a relief: a few days before the end it looked like his dastardly team mates were going to repay his years of selfless service by stealing it off him.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link
Yeah the Defector piece about this today was not exactly sparing of the other two.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:59 (six months ago) link
very unique scenario; how often does a team have three legitimate GC threats and have them all come to fruition in a single grand tour, let alone three in a year.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 18 September 2023 22:54 (six months ago) link
Unless I've mis-researched, Kuss was the only rider to complete all three Grand Tours this year (Luis León Sánchez of Astana started them all, but did not finish the Tour) – and all with top-15 finishes (14-12-1)!
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 08:10 (six months ago) link
my mom/sister just got back from a trip to ecuador and i made a joke about running into richard carapaz (they don't know or care about pro cycling) and my sister was like 'oh yeah he was getting interviewed on tv all the time'
i guess he just got second in the tour of colombia?
anyway two weeks to strade bianche, the best one-day race [Remove Bookmark from this Thread]
― gbx, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:20 (one month ago) link
Race has such a consistently legit winners list imo
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:29 (one month ago) link
i was just going over it, everyone's a hitter
― gbx, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:48 (one month ago) link
I'm finally going to achieve a long ambition of mine and head over to Tuscany to cycle some of the strade bianche in a few months' time. Can't wait.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 18 February 2024 07:17 (one month ago) link
THE NEWSPAPER and disco inferno next weekend, really excited even tho I don't have the jerseys memorised yet so will probably spend half the time trying to figure out who is who. riding some of strade sounds awesome!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:47 (one month ago) link
ah nbs on the “his best life isht” wooo! *thinks*well if the rest of yr life is even better just don’t tell me for a bit. have fun be safe.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:04 (one month ago) link
Pogacar going nuts on an 80km solo victory yesterday. Today, Paris-Nice!
― tomorrow, Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:40 (three weeks ago) link
Phew! Definitely need to do some catching up -- which reminds me: if you're a Max subscriber at all, there's now access for free for a TON of cycling via their BR sports section. Supposedly that'll be a further paid section down the road but for now there's no limit and they'll be showing a slew of things over the next few months, including the Giro. (TdF and Olympics of course still with NBC/Peacock.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2024 17:39 (three weeks ago) link
Haven’t got to the mend yet but the women’s race was great. Commentators were giving it all ‘longo-Borghini is the better climber’ right up to the moment Kopecky smoothly pulled away on that last climb.
Never bet against the big flandrian in a race like that.
― Ed, Sunday, 3 March 2024 21:15 (three weeks ago) link
man if you told me anytime before a week ago skujins for 2nd at SB i woulda said no fucking way. he's fucking flying.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:08 (three weeks ago) link
yallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH1EJ2SWYAAKJ9-?format=jpg&name=small
― gbx, Monday, 4 March 2024 17:44 (three weeks ago) link
first time trial to the moon
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:18 (three weeks ago) link
Let's have it happen
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:19 (three weeks ago) link
and only JV ended up in the top ten
― gbx, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:17 (three weeks ago) link
Just watched an interview with LeMond where he explained there are hard limits on sustained wattage based on your VO2max, and if the UCI wanted to end doping they could just make VO2max part of your biological passport and then check the sustained wattage. Seems sensible?
― default damager (lukas), Saturday, 23 March 2024 06:51 (six days ago) link
to the smaller extent that vo2 max is trainable, and the more slight extent that its expression is influenced by the rider’s mass, i’m always kinda dubious. when dealing with a group of mostly equally-able soooooper outlier aliens, i am not sure how determinative it can be. can one say hey a rider with an 84ml/kg/min can never match w/gm a rider at 95 wrt w/kg? v v fair.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:18 (five days ago) link
but i don’t know how much the vo2 max can be argued to be a definitive permanent defin stmt. it has a ceiling for everyone, but it does move. with ppl built to cheat, when will you know you’ve got the correct ceiling measurement? also not all races are determined by that energy system. better races (imo) are determined not only by your w/kg at threshhold, but v v often by your super-threshold power layed down in just such a situation to make a gap and get away enough to stay away with other better performers, or if you can hold that superthreshhold power long enough to win with it (these “w’” efforts are ot usually long, they can last 8-10 mins, not much more). And in a long day, lots of difference comes out of how your body can recover during long hard days. Or how good your teammates are at hiding you until it’s time to make those super efforts, of either kind (roughly called aerobic and anaerobic). whether you’re eating enough. whether, even if youre eating, youre digesting it. whether youre digesting. even whether youre drinking. whether you are naturally just low and fast in position. there’s a shitton of smaller variables that cumulatively make big differences.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:35 (five days ago) link
i mean there are things that stand out as flags. relatively sudden big improvements obv. ppl going from excellence at anaerobic super performance to being aerobic w/kg supermen (like armstrong bw 97 and 99– and there were many of these in the late 90s obv). or low enders who suddenly just became gods, like froome.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:41 (five days ago) link
my main takeaway for lemond—as talented and as sorta regular decent person as I think he is— is that his vo2max numbers were like all-time great for any sport, like 95ml/kg/min. scandi xc level shit (who btw were also like patients zero for aerobic doping technique—but i’m implying that for lemond at all). so maybe everything looks like a nail to lemond, named vo2max. but i dunno, srsly all those riders move so much more oxygen that normies like me, and i just watch and clap.Lemond I like mostly but he also seems pretty obv very emotionally immature. Not fragile, he’s tough and v resilient,but perhaps best termed “whiny.” actually the first time i met him in the early 90s (i don’t know him obv), i turned around so he could sign the back of my team jersey in sharpie. then he was nice enough to talk to me a couple mins. near to the end he made a joke like “well, i’m just a retired wash-out now, they should just put us down, like horses.” it was said humorously and was appropriate and funny, but i walked away thinking “he really does seem a little shook.”
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:04 (five days ago) link
NOT IMPLYING lol
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:05 (five days ago) link
it was not a jersey of his team, it was a long sleeve of my team, i was out riding and stopped at a shop and there he was. I wish i’d kept that jersey in good shape— but i rode and warshed it to rags. ☹️
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:08 (five days ago) link