Rolling Pro Cycling Thread

Impossible to say really. Vuelta à Burgos starts tomorrow, and unless they cancel it tonight, they'll go ahead with it, I'm sure. Don't know what will happen if one or two or eight riders or staff members get the Rona. Spain is experiencing something of a second wave, it's flaring up all over the country.

You just reminded me Saturday is Strade Bianchi. What a long long wait it's been!

Looks like everything is going just as well as one could expect.

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/how-coronavirus-has-affected-bike-racing-an-on-the-ground-perspective/

from the comments there:

Meanwhile in Romania, a week before the Sibiu Tour, 750+ positive cases discharged themselves from hospital and new cases surged to record levels while the race was on. Alpecin-Fenix and Androni Gioccatoli-Sidermec pulled out before the race, but the riders from Bora-Hansgrohe, Israel Start-Up Nation and Bardiani that raced in Romania are now blocked by the Italian government from racing again until August 11 (meaning they'll miss Strade-Bianche and Milan-San Remo).

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/sibiu-tour-riders-blocked-from-racing-strade-bianche-milan-san-remo/

... the beginning of the end

interesting and not great

Start to the season couldn't have been much better w/ Saturday's Strade. What a ride.

Oh good, cycling’s back :-/

Vue de très près de l'énorme chute😱🥵 sur la ligne d'arrivée sur la 1ère étape du @Tour_de_Pologne 🇵🇱@FabioJakobsen @GroenewegenD@deceuninck_qst @Team_JumboVisma #TDP20
#tourdepologne 🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/Fi7xXYkAHW

— Pistolero10 (@pistolero100917) August 5, 2020

yeah not watching that. heard it was horrible

highlights so far

remco still a beast
annemiek still a beast
wout still a cutie
RIP froome

Jakobsen has been put into an induced coma and taken to hospital, has internal injuries apparently. The finish line judge is in a critical condition, was resuscitated at the scene by some accounts.

: /

Polish doctor just said he’s “fighting for his life” and suffered severe brain trauma. Fuck.

https://lfgss.microco.sm/api/v1/files/c762e7b14cc0d68575c9998d4199f6b4e487213d.png

#TDP20 1/2 Very GOOD news from assistant director of hospital! General condition is STABILIZED, but the next few hours will be the most important in terms of neurology. There is NO brain injuries, though there are facial and skull injuries.

— Daniel Ludwiński (@D_Ludwinski) August 5, 2020

Polish doctor speculating about severe brain trauma should be fired too iirc.

anyway, glad he seems to be doing RELATIVELY ok.

iirc=imo=yolo

Doctors confirm: Jakobsen is awake, can move his limbs, is breathing independently and can communicate

I saw the last 20-odd km of Milan-San Remo yesterday (joined the action on the Cipressa) and it was great (though I don't know how much of that is due to me not seeing any cycling for so long).

The last 20-odd km were the only great km's tbf, but yeah that was nice.

I also caught the last stage of the Tour de l'Ain yesterday. Jumbo Visma running the show like Sky used to; Bernal could barely hang on. Should make for a really interesting TdF.

thomas looked heavy. froome looked typically ragged. roglic looked imperious

Agreed. Bernal will be up for it but I don't think Thomas nor Froomey will be of much use, the latter not really motivated either. Jumbo looking very strong, but with Evenepoel and a bunch of outlaws from other teams at the ready to shake things up it should, in theory, be a great TdF.

Oh wait Evenepoel is doing the Giro... That's a shame.

Ineos train melting away today was *chef's kiss*

carlton calling them sky all afternoon as well, lol

Zappi otm, it was beautiful

last year Thomas was supposedly out of shape and had been partying all winter, etc. And he finished 2nd (and could've won, Bernal just was the first to tactic, before the final stages got scrapped)

so I still think Gerraint Thomas will be up for it. Froome not so much.

wiggins said recently he thought thomas would win it. doubtful but would love to see it

according to the watts occurring podcast ben swift had to do two big shites during strade bianche. lovely stuff

kinda wish I'd done this now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOvAnIy7Vc

Deceuninck-QuickStep domestique Tim Declercq shows the impact of being hit by hailstones on today's stage.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PzLM4GkLnEHyeRQLegWg6k-970-80.jpg

ffffffffffffffffff yeouch

niki terpstra's nutrition strategy for dirty kanzelled
https://i.imgur.com/XPI7KYg.png

holy shit at declercq!!

so stoked to see kuss delivering like we knew he could, pride of durango. one writer noted that between kuss with xc and roglic with jumping, lotto has some nordie skillz.

declerq 🤮 holy fucking jesus

froome on a semaine sans

Ineos is losing riders up front like leaves on a tree in autumn.

formolo looks goosed

... in the big ring though. weapon

Formolo having a great start to the season. Bernal is fried.

looked like sivakov finished ahead of him

He did indeed.

max schachmann crashes into a civilian’s car (!) in il lombardia and still finishes 7th. how the hell the car got onto the route... serious questions for the organisers to answer

heard remco took a sore one on the descent of the sormano too

that was scary indeed! seems he's ok though, and he definetely still has his teeth.

I haven’t been following closely but why was Lombardia moved to the middle of August? I thought races were going back not forward.

fractured pelvis for remco; popped collarbone for schachmann

french mafia rallying for pinot on the last stage of the dauphine

durango y’all wooo

I haven’t been following closely but why was Lombardia moved to the middle of August?

I assume because the Tour/Giro/Vuelta are all in the autumn (and to some extent overlapping) and Lombardia is the kind of race that Grand Tour riders are more likely to win.

RIP G and froomey

kinda excited about seeing G in the giro tbf

my money's on carapaz for the tour