12 days later

Strade Bianche today - first race of the pro season. I’m reasonably excited.

Aberdeen versus Rangers and the FA Cup an all.

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    I know. Good luck in TT though. I’ll be out nice and early myself tomorrow. Just made a fresh batch if my energy bars as well.

      5 days later

      Has anyone else seen the Fabio Jakobsen crash yet? Such an abrupt and devastating crash no wonder he’s in an induced coma.

      Groinwegen or however you spell his name definitely forced him into the barrier, clear as day.

      Definitely.

      That is bang out of order.

      He’ll get a lengthy ban for that. A little drift to defend a position is usually just part of the game, but he went halfway across the road and stuck his elbow out. Doubt it was intentional, but at the speeds they’ll have been doing down the hill, it’s terrifying - 70kmh?

        …do they really need a downhill section for a sprint finish? They go fast enough anyway, seems unnecessarily dangerous to me

        Sprint stages are boring as fuck - why would you race for 5 hours just for the sprint at the end? Don’t get it. Climbers just use those stages as rest days.

        Terrible riding caused that

        7 days later

        Jumbo Visma look incredible in the Critérium du Dauphiné. Ineos looked to have buried everyone with their pace on the front yesterday, but they seemed to only fuck their own own team (Froome is finished) - Roglic broke them all and just eased away.

        They’ll win the TdF and I’d love it if Roglic or Dumoulin won it.