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Adam4868
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Passed away this evening....RIP ☹️
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Archie from BR
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Stage 2 of d'Aosta has been cancelled out of respect for Samuele.
Archie from BR
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Widar takes a shortened stage 3 at d,Aosta by 1.53 and also now leads GC.
So must be fully recovered from his Next Gen crash.
So must be fully recovered from his Next Gen crash.
DeadCalm
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Quite a few riders abandoned after the 40km procession in honour of Samuele Privitera. Of the riders that continued, many did not race. Widar is a former room mate of Privitera and wanted to win for his friend.
Dogtrousers
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Just catching up and squeezing every penny out of my TNT sub. Zoe Backstedt took the Baloise Ladies Tour overall.
Yesterday was a split stage, with a road stage in the day and a TT in the evening, both of which Zoe won (she also won the prologue TT) Today was a sprint finish and she finished in the group to hold on to the overall win.
I've read about split stages in stories of the Tour in ye olde days, and how much the riders hated them. I don't think I've come across one in the flesh before.
Yesterday was a split stage, with a road stage in the day and a TT in the evening, both of which Zoe won (she also won the prologue TT) Today was a sprint finish and she finished in the group to hold on to the overall win.
I've read about split stages in stories of the Tour in ye olde days, and how much the riders hated them. I don't think I've come across one in the flesh before.
No Ta Doctor
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Think they inflicted one on the women in the TdF Femmes last year, and yeah, they caused rider strikes in the eighties
The final stage today in Baloise had a horrific crash, with Charlotte Kool maybe concussed and American rider Alexis Magner unconscious and resuscitated by the ambulance service after hitting her sternum - she's stable and in hospital now.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Wow. I had to stop watching probably seconds before the crash, and I never went back to it as I knew the result.
Aravis
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The historical information out there on split stages seems pretty fragmentary. Pulling it together would be interesting; maybe I should do it myself.
Wikipedia's main page on the Tour mentions them briefly, and the rather lazy "the scheduling of split stages continued well into the 1980s" isn't one of its finest efforts. FTR, the Tour last used a split stage in 1991.
The split stage seems to have been one of the last instruments of torture introduced by Henri Desgrange, in 1934. Evidently the organisation was so enamoured with the idea that by 1937 the Tour included no fewer than eight, three of them being triples. On the middle stage of one of these there was a dead heat for 1st place, so there were four stages winners on one day. Balancing this surfeit of stages were six rest days, and 1937 was the first Tour to allow riders to change gear. No-one could accuse the Tour organisation in the 1930s of standing still.
A closely related topic is the flying stage, and you'll do well to find any mention of these at all.
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
UAE farming 1.1 races is a bit much
misforturob
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This is now confirmed.
UAE for Vuelta: Joao Almeida, Juan Ayuso, Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Großschartner, Domen Novak, Ivo Oliveira, Marc Soler, and Jay Vine.
No Ta Doctor
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Celebrated it by signing an extension with Cofidis until end of '27
Must really fancy a crack at the "Ride the TdF Without Anybody Knowing" challenge
