2024 Races with Spoilers !

[Cathryn]

My fave bit was my husband saying he didn't think via Santa Caterina was that steep and I gently reminded him of the Tuscan hills he and I walked up last summer

(This is Umbria but the principle is the same)

 

[Adam4868]

Paris - Nice starts today, hopefully a good race for GC between Roglic and Evenepoel and a few others. It will be interesting to see how it works in his new team and hopefully another step on his recovery to form for Bernal and for a quiet few days I hope SWMBO's favorite goes well and his two team mates have gotten over what ever ailed them at the UAE Tour.
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Head says Rogla....heart says Remco...bank says Pederson for stage 1 😁
Decent line up for this,Remcos first French stage race ?

 

[roadrash]

1st paris nice stage and gc goes to olav kooij visma lease a bike

 

[Adam4868]

1st paris nice stage and gc goes to olav kooij visma lease a bike

Close in the finish !
Rogla v Remco it is then....but feck it's good to see Bernal back 😁

 

[roadrash]

feck it's good to see Bernal back

isnt it just ...

 

[tarric]

5 hours of cycling today, it should be another day for the sprinters at Paris- Nice and surely Ganna's a shoe-in for the opening TT at the Tirreno as the course is pretty much pancake flat with long straight sections and a few 90° turns.

 

[Adam4868]

5 hours of cycling today, it should be another day for the sprinters at Paris- Nice and surely Ganna's a shoe-in for the opening TT at the Tirreno as the course is pretty much pancake flat with long straight sections and a few 90° turns.

Sheffield in with a shout maybe ? Vingo was 30/1 yesterday and dropped to 11/1 today....not a bad TTer 😁
Anyway highlights for me tonight,I might just catch up on ITV4 for Paris Nice just to confirm to myself how much I can't stand David Millar.A sort of penance !

 

[tarric]

Oh well never mind it's Rob Hatch and who else but Sean Kelly on Eurosport for the Paris - Nice and it sounds like Carlton Kirby and Robbie McEwan for the Tirreno.

 

[Adam4868]

Ayuso....22 seconds on Vingo 😍
Marginal gains 🙄

 

[geocycle]

Ayuso....22 seconds on Vingo 😍
Marginal gains.
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Blimey,imagine what he could have achieved with an aero buff!

 

[roadrash]

bloody hell , Magnus shefield down , fancy the course designers putting a hairpin with a zebra crossing on it, sure they do it on purpose

 

[Adam4868]

bloody hell , Magnus shefield down , fancy the course designers putting a hairpin with a zebra crossing on it, sure they do it on purpose

He was motoring a bit as well....pushed it a little bit too much ☹️

 

[roadrash]

Filippo Ganna missed out by 1 second

 

[Adam4868]

Ayuso winning the TT by one second to Ganna and more importantly 22 to Vingo 😍 is a bonus for the race...let's hope that's the end of the "cock helmets" experiment ! Look ridiculous.

 

[rich p]

Great result for Ayuso!