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Not the sort of cycling news you want to see getting reported by the mainstream press, truly horrible to hear that #GinoMader has passed away after his crash yesterday :blobsad:
A very talented young rider who had been plagued with bad luck in the last few years, and someone who always came across as a genuinely nice person.
Thoughts are with his family, friends, team mates and all the peloton who knew him.
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Not the sort of cycling news you want to see getting reported by the mainstream press, truly horrible to hear that #GinoMader has passed away after his crash yesterday :blobsad:
A very talented young rider who had been plagued with bad luck in the last few years, and someone who always came across as a genuinely nice person.
Thoughts are with his family, friends, team mates and all the peloton who knew him.
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Not the sort of cycling news you want to see getting reported by the mainstream press, truly horrible to hear that #GinoMader has passed away after his crash yesterday :blobsad:
A very talented young rider who had been plagued with bad luck in the last few years, and someone who always came across as a genuinely nice person.
Thoughts are with his family, friends, team mates and all the peloton who knew him.
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Not the sort of cycling news you want to see getting reported by the mainstream press, truly horrible to hear that #GinoMader has passed away after his crash yesterday :blobsad:
A very talented young rider who had been plagued with bad luck in the last few years, and someone who always came across as a genuinely nice person.
Thoughts are with his family, friends, team mates and all the peloton who knew him.
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CW: Tour de Suisse - stage 5
Only thing that matters about today's stage of the Tour de Suisse is to hope that Gino Mäder is ok and can make a full recovery from what sounds like a horrific accident on the final descent to the finish.
Also hope Magnus Sheffield is ok and recoveries quickly, though his situation sounds almost trivial compared to Mäder's :blobsad:
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CW: Tour de Suisse
Felix Gall is having a rather impressive 2023! That was a very impressive stage win today at the Tour de Suisse, and he also looked very good on stage 3 as well along with Skjelmose.
Add his performances this week to Ben O'Connor's ride at the Dauphine last week and AG2R are starting to look like a serious GC challenger.
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 2 & 3
DSM womens team really do have the sprint leadout down to a fine art, not sure many of the mens teams have one as good.
Wouldn't have been surprised if Kool had cleaned up all 3 stages if she hadn't been in that late crash in stage 2, but it didn't look like it affected her to much for stage 3.
Dygert power might just have provided Canyon-SRAM with the missing ingredient they needed to get some wins.
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 2 & 3
DSM womens team really do have the sprint leadout down to a fine art, not sure many of the mens teams have one as good.
Wouldn't have been surprised if Kool had cleaned up all 3 stages if she hadn't been in that late crash in stage 2, but it didn't look like it affected her to much for stage 3.
Dygert power might just have provided Canyon-SRAM with the missing ingredient they needed to get some wins.
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 2 & 3
DSM womens team really do have the sprint leadout down to a fine art, not sure many of the mens teams have one as good.
Wouldn't have been surprised if Kool had cleaned up all 3 stages if she hadn't been in that late crash in stage 2, but it didn't look like it affected her to much for stage 3.
Dygert power might just have provided Canyon-SRAM with the missing ingredient they needed to get some wins.
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 2 & 3
DSM womens team really do have the sprint leadout down to a fine art, not sure many of the mens teams have one as good.
Wouldn't have been surprised if Kool had cleaned up all 3 stages if she hadn't been in that late crash in stage 2, but it didn't look like it affected her to much for stage 3.
Dygert power might just have provided Canyon-SRAM with the missing ingredient they needed to get some wins.
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 1
Charlotte Kool could easily clean up all the stages, she looked very comfortable making it into the front group when the peloton started breaking up and she totally bossed the sprint.
Deignan looks like she's already getting back up to speed which could be very interesting later in the summer.
Opening stage marred by a few nasty crashes. Balsamo out with her left & right mandible & scaphoid fractured :(
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 1
Charlotte Kool could easily clean up all the stages, she looked very comfortable making it into the front group when the peloton started breaking up and she totally bossed the sprint.
Deignan looks like she's already getting back up to speed which could be very interesting later in the summer.
Opening stage marred by a few nasty crashes. Balsamo out with her left & right mandible & scaphoid fractured :(
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 1
Charlotte Kool could easily clean up all the stages, she looked very comfortable making it into the front group when the peloton started breaking up and she totally bossed the sprint.
Deignan looks like she's already getting back up to speed which could be very interesting later in the summer.
Opening stage marred by a few nasty crashes. Balsamo out with her left & right mandible & scaphoid fractured :(
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CW: RideLondon Classique - Stage 1
Charlotte Kool could easily clean up all the stages, she looked very comfortable making it into the front group when the peloton started breaking up and she totally bossed the sprint.
Deignan looks like she's already getting back up to speed which could be very interesting later in the summer.
Opening stage marred by a few nasty crashes. Balsamo out with her left & right mandible & scaphoid fractured :(
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CW: Itzulia Women - Stage 3
A dramatic finish to what has been an entertaining 3 days in the Basque Country, but unfortantly the tv coverage today only started after the top of the final climb.
We got pictures with AVV & Vollering away on a very sketchy looking descent, but the effort clearly cost AVV and SD Worx played the Reusser card and no one could chase her while Vollering let her teammate take the stage & overall win.
#ItzuliaWomen #ProCycling #WomensCycling #Cycling #Velophant
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CW: Itzulia Women - Stage 2
Slightly improved weather after yesterday.
Very exciting racing on the run into the finish with SD Worx launching attack after attack, but it was Niewiadoma who looked to have made one stick with an attack on the final climb that even had Vollering struggling.
Unfortunately for her Lippert tagging onto the back spoiled the break which let AVV & co back.
Vollering out sprinting the small group for another win
#ItzuliaWomen #ProCycling #WomensCycling #Cycling #Velophant
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CW: Itzulia Women - Stage 1
Don't think it got mentioned on the commentary, but it sounds like there was a very scary incident earlier in the stage with a police car & ambulance getting onto the course going the wrong direction and crashing headon into a number of riders. Have to hope none of the riders got seriously injured, though they had to be taken to hospital.
#ItzuliaWomen #ProCycling #WomensCycling #Cycling #Velophant
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CW: Itzulia Women - Stage 1
The Basque Country didn't treat the women to very pleasant looking weather of stage 1 of Itzulia!
Vollering soloed to a very impressive win on the final climb, and no one was going to be mad enough to even try chasing her on the descent to the finish (if it was even possible) in those conditions! She looked painfully cold in her post race interview.
#ItzuliaWomen #ProCycling #WomensCycling #Cycling #Velophant
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Only got to see the second half of the #BVB vs Wolfsburg match thanks to Sky tv in the UK providing their standard garbage #Bundesliga coverage by only showing the second half...
6-0 win that could have been more against a very solid Wolfsburgs team seems like a brilliant result, and it was, but it leaves me baffled how we have drooped points against the likes of Schalke, Stuttgart and Bochum
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Caught the last 60 minutes or so off the Arsenal vs Wolfsburg #WomensChampionsLeague semi final. Dramatic finish with Wolfsburg scoring late in the second half of extra time when it looked like going to penalties.
Jule Brand made a massive difference when she came on for Wolfsburg, perhaps it was partly down to fresh legs but looked like she was playing on an entirely different level to everyone else on the pitch.
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CW: Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Mens race was a bit dull with Pog having to abandon early on as Remco really had no challenge, and maybe it's just a personal thing but I don't find Remco' very exciting.
Shoutout to Ben Healy who has had a fantastic few weeks.
Demi Vollering though has been the absolute queen of the Ardennes on the women's side. No dramatic long range attacks, but her and SD Worx just delivered a perfectly measured masterclass.
#LiegeBastogneLiege #LBL #ProCycling #WomensCycling -
Been catching up with the #TourOfTheAlps and it was just the return of the Sky train 😴 Bit of a shame really, as it's a really beautiful race and for a five day stage race it has a lot of climbing.
Some impressive performances from some young riders though, like Felix Gall, Max Poole and Giulio Pellizzari.
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Late evenings at work are good for one thing and that is getting through audiobooks!
Finished Sharpe's Sword by #BernardCornwell which is the 14th book in the series and it is always a great adventure. Rupert Farley's voice is now as much Richard Sharpe as Sean Bean's is.
I normally don't spend my #Audible credits on anything under 8 hours, but #StarWars The High Republic: A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland was far more enjoyable than I ever expected.
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CW: Ronde Van Vlaanderen had all sorts of drama!
Pogi absolutely smashed the men's race, he knew his only chance was to break everyone else on the climbs and he threw everything at that. Do have to wonder how much MVDP positioning cost him in the end though?
Women's race, well Kopecky and SD Worx delivered another masterclass. Unfortunately Lippert's incident on the Koppenberg took everyone else out of the race.
#RondeVanVlaanderen #TourOfFlanders #RVV23 #ProCycling #WomensCycling
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Put the Ronde van Vlaanderen on with 230km to go and the peloton already has a massive split in it with MVDP 30+ seconds behind, what on earth happened???
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Sky Sports UK not bothering to show the Friday night #Bundesliga match on tv, but they do have it livestreaming on Youtube, not that you would know because they never bother to promote it...
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CW: Caught up with Dwars door Vlaanderen
Gutted for Lazkano & Kristoff in the mens race, Lazkano especially after having been out in the break all day, and still had the energy to even attempt chasing Laporte.
Womens race was just non stop fireworks from about 70km to go! SD Worx with a show of strength again with Reusser looking like another long range break might work, but then Vollering sealed the deal.
#DwarsDoorVlaanderen #ProCycling #WomensCycling #Cycling #CouchPeloton #Velophant
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My big takeaway from the Roglic vs Remco battles at the #VoltaCatalunya so far? I really like those leaders jerseys!
Also I've been very impressed with how Ciccone is rider, maybe he can actually be a GC rider?
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Listening to the new episode of Wheel Talk, the #WomensCycling podcast from Escape Collective this morning.
Really good review of the racing from #TrofeoAlfredoBinda at the weekend, but also a very interesting debate about the idea of a womens #MilanSanRemo
https://escapecollective.podbean.com/e/wheel-talk-the-new-trek-segafredo/
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Listening to the new episode of Wheel Talk, the #WomensCycling podcast from Escape Collective this morning.
Really good review of the racing from #TrofeoAlfredoBinda at the weekend, but also a very interesting debate about the idea of a womens #MilanSanRemo
https://escapecollective.podbean.com/e/wheel-talk-the-new-trek-segafredo/