Road Cycling
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https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/10-riders-to-watch-at-il-lombardia-2021/
I think this is George's last ride for TJV.
Second in this race last year to Fuglsang, but the field looks a bit too rich for George this year.
Not sure TJV will be sentimental enough to let him have a crack. I think he'll probably be riding to support Roglic.
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George talking a bit about what's in store for him this year - but, with not many details.
Sounds quite promising - but, I can't see him being a team leader in any of the Grand Tours.
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George talking a bit about what's in store for him this year - but, with not many details.
Sounds quite promising - but, I can't see him being a team leader in any of the Grand Tours.
@chris-b saw this young fella training up the Coronet Road the other day. At first I thought it was a full kit piston wristed gibbon but he looked too good
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Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
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Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
@crucial said in Road Cycling:
Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
That sucks
Hopefully he recovers well for next year.
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@crucial said in Road Cycling:
Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
That sucks
Hopefully he recovers well for next year.
@davesofthunder said in Road Cycling:
@crucial said in Road Cycling:
Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
That sucks
Hopefully he recovers well for next year.
Seems to be possibly worse than Froome's crash and he was nowhere near in his first season back.
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@davesofthunder said in Road Cycling:
@crucial said in Road Cycling:
Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
That sucks
Hopefully he recovers well for next year.
Seems to be possibly worse than Froome's crash and he was nowhere near in his first season back.
Riding into the back of a bus? Ouch.@crucial said in Road Cycling:
@davesofthunder said in Road Cycling:
@crucial said in Road Cycling:
Egan Bernal pretty well farked for at least this year...
Bernal was transferred to the University of La Sabana Hospital near the capital. His team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebra and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
That sucks
Hopefully he recovers well for next year.
Seems to be possibly worse than Froome's crash and he was nowhere near in his first season back.
Riding into the back of a bus? Ouch.Aye, and it sounds like at 50km an hour In the aero tt position. Brutal
Hope he can get back to his best. Fun having a few beasts to fight over wins
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Been enjoying the Lanterne Rouge channel on Youtube, with highlights of different little tours as we start heading towards the fun stuff later in the year.
Cavendish has been going gangbusters of late.
@gt12 thanks for this, will look it up.
Fun stuff starts this weekend with Omloop, the first of the one day Flandrian races. The next 2 months are my favourite of the year with the upcoming cobbled classics and 3.5 monuments (I’m counting Strade Bianche as half a monument, as imo it should be given this status). Proper cycling.
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Haven't watched my recording of the Oomloop yet but caught up with the UAE
George Bennett immediately justified his salary doing a perfect job for his team and for Pogacar on the climbs.
If that's his team role though the poor bugger is never going to see a stage win.
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George's schedule for the next few months...
After the UAE Tour I’m back home in Andorra for three weeks before the Volta a Catalunya [21-27 March] and then it’s almost straight into the Tour of the Basque Country [3-8 April]. From there, I’ll take on the Ardennes classics [Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege] for the first time, which I’m excited about. It’s then onto the [Critérium du] Dauphine [5-12 June]. After, hopefully it’s the Tour de France [1-24 July]. It’s never locked in this early but I’ll throw my hat into the ring. As for the end of the year, we have a lot of stuff pencilled in but you can take that with a pinch of salt in February.
Quite an interesting interview...
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Volta a Catalunya starts tomorrow night.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/volta-a-catalunya/2022/startlist
Quite a strong field. Looks like George will be supporting Joao Almeida.
UAE has recruited pretty heavily in the off-season and have pretty much as strong of a roster as TJV and Ineos. They picked up Almeida, George and Marc Soler - among others.
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Volta a Catalunya starts tomorrow night.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/volta-a-catalunya/2022/startlist
Quite a strong field. Looks like George will be supporting Joao Almeida.
UAE has recruited pretty heavily in the off-season and have pretty much as strong of a roster as TJV and Ineos. They picked up Almeida, George and Marc Soler - among others.
@chris-b I see both Trek - Segafredo and EF Education-EasyPost have each found a spot amongst their seven riders for guys from Eritrea of all places. Is this cycling's equivalent of Eric the Eel or Eddie the Eagle or are they decent riders? It clearly can't be because they brought their way in via sponsorship money they have backing them but still hard to believe that Eritrea has more riders taking part than NZ has.
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@chris-b I see both Trek - Segafredo and EF Education-EasyPost have each found a spot amongst their seven riders for guys from Eritrea of all places. Is this cycling's equivalent of Eric the Eel or Eddie the Eagle or are they decent riders? It clearly can't be because they brought their way in via sponsorship money they have backing them but still hard to believe that Eritrea has more riders taking part than NZ has.
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@chris-b I see both Trek - Segafredo and EF Education-EasyPost have each found a spot amongst their seven riders for guys from Eritrea of all places. Is this cycling's equivalent of Eric the Eel or Eddie the Eagle or are they decent riders? It clearly can't be because they brought their way in via sponsorship money they have backing them but still hard to believe that Eritrea has more riders taking part than NZ has.
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@higgins Might be the way of the somewhat distant future. The dominance some of the African countries have in distance running might carry over to road cycling if they start training numbers for it.
@chris-b There are also a few guys from the West Indies doing ok in the track cycling world, also a couple of Malaysians so things seem to be expanding from the predominantly European/Australian base that track cycling has always seemed to be. Quite a few South Americans doing well on the road too it is noted.
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Flat stage in the Catalunya last night, but cross winds near the end caught out a few of the bigger guns - Simon Yates (crashed and got caught out/attacked), Carthy, Mentjies, Hindley, Woods, Dumoulin, Storer - all lost 30-odd seconds.
George safely ensconced in the quite small leading group, with his leader, Almeida.
Richie Porte sick and withdrew.
At the end of Stage 1 Sonny Cobrelli had a cardiac arrest, but resuscitated and recovering in hospital. (Yeah - I nastily thought that too!).
Mountain stages the next couple of days.
