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@scribe said in Road Cycling:
Magic few days in Cahors and Couzou watching stages 19 and 20. The time trial went right past our front door (in the photo of Geraint Thomas). Solid 15 hour session with the locals on the Belgian beers and rosè.
That's fucking awesome. Sooooooo jealous.
Cahors might be my favourite place in France, consistently the best food I've ever had.
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@scribe said in Road Cycling:
@gt12 said in Road Cycling:
Cahors might be my favourite place in France, consistently the best food I've ever had.
Agreed. Lunch before stage 19 at a little cafe near the cathedral, was simply stunning.
Tasty wine, Beautiful bridge, Sarlat just down the road for Foie Gras, you lucky bastard!
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@scribe said in Road Cycling:
@gt12 said in Road Cycling:
Cahors might be my favourite place in France, consistently the best food I've ever had.
Agreed. Lunch before stage 19 at a little cafe near the cathedral, was simply stunning.
Lucky B'tard! Haven't been there since backpacking days late 80s. Did an overnighter out to St Cirq la Popie but ended up pitching the tent beside a forest listening to wolves all night.
Got a lift from a dutch guy the next morning who dropped us in Cahors for the day while he did some work then picked us up again late afternoon and drove us all the way to his girlfriend's farm out of Condom. Spent an awesome few days being taken to local Armagnac distilleries and eating home confit.
I do remember a long lunch in a proper local cafe at Cahors. Steak Frites and a few carafes. Not sure where it was in relation to the cathedral but it was the type of place that's probably still there. -
Angry Birds – World Championships riders fear attacks from swooping magpies
Notorious birds are known to attack cyclists in Wollongong at this time of year, sometimes with terrible consequences
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Tobias Foss surprisingly won the World ITT. Ganna quite a way off the mark.
Remco won the Vuelta. I was only keeping a loose eye on things. He'd built a bit of a buffer in the GC, but Roglic was starting to claw things back going into the final week and was looking like being an exciting show-down. But, Roglic crashed in the sprint finish on Stage 16 and couldn't continue. So the pressure came off and Remco did it comfortably.
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George is spending his off-season in NZ.
I saw him biking over the Aniseed Valley hill just before Xmas and carefully drove around him before waving vigorously behind and getting a wave in response.
Fuck, I'm a legend.
Saw him again today - unless someone else is out biking in UAE gear.
He's biking and not playing golf in his livery, so hopefully Hooroo isn't going to flame him for it!
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
George is spending his off-season in NZ.
I saw him biking over the Aniseed Valley hill just before Xmas and carefully drove around him before waving vigorously behind and getting a wave in response.
Fuck, I'm a legend.
Saw him again today - unless someone else is out biking in UAE gear.
He's biking and not playing golf in his livery, so hopefully Hooroo isn't going to flame him for it!
I think they are expected to train in team gear as part of their contracts.
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
Tour Down Under on at present.
I think there's 12 New Zealanders riding in it, which is surely a record for a World Tour race - at least, I can't remember a number like that.
Which is weird because it isn't going anywhere near Coogee
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
Tour Down Under on at present.
I think there's 12 New Zealanders riding in it, which is surely a record for a World Tour race - at least, I can't remember a number like that.
I see that Sam Gaze is riding in it.
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@Crucial Gaze did a really good time trial in the prologue (5th).
Corbin Strong, Michael Vink and Paddy Bevin were all in the top 20.
Strong has gone on with it and currently 5th in the GC - just 14 seconds behind Rohan Dennis. George next best at 38th (39 seconds down) - the others all have lost more than 2 minutes.
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Didn't watch today's stage, but Jay Vine wins the GC and is second behind Simon Yates on the stage.
Yesterday, a Frenchman called Bryan Coquard won the sprint (and did it well). His first ever win on the World Tour in 10 years of trying and couldn't have looked more thrilled.
George ends up 15th on the GC and would be quietly chuffed with that, I think. 7 seconds off 9th place and finished in the first pack on every stage (as well as shepherding Vine to the win). Not a race he would have peaked for and with a better prologue time trial could have been well inside the top 10.
Corbin Strong came 5th in yesterday's sprint - never close to heading Coquard, but showing a bit of promise to win stages sometime, somewhere.
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@Chris-B said in Road Cycling:
Yesterday, a Frenchman called Bryan Coquard won the sprint (and did it well). His first ever win on the World Tour in 10 years of trying and couldn't have looked more thrilled.
Jeepers. I would never have guessed he hadn't got a World Tour win, having seen him win quite a few times. Turns out that they were all Div 2 races.
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George Bennett – From 'as cracked as a man can get' to ready to roll with the punches
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