Giro 2018 "contains spoilers"

[smutchin]

I was wondering if he had garnered enough stage wins and days in pink to decorate his palmares.

By any normal measure, he had a fantastic race. It's only a disappointment because it looked for a while like he might be in contention for overall victory. Better to go out in a blaze of glory than ride à la Zubeldia.

 

[rich p]

à la Zubeldia.

I like Tom Dumoulin, he comes across as a grounded, amusing bloke but he doesn't exactly animate races, does he?

 

[Adam4868]

I like Tom Dumoulin, he comes across as a grounded, amusing bloke but he doesn't exactly animate races, does he?

Been known to throw the odd hissy fit !

 

[smutchin]

I can't take credit for that gag, by the way - it's a term they use on the Cycling Podcast. I don't think you can apply it to Dumoulin because he has actually won races, but there are plenty of other candidates - George Bennett springs to mind, although to be fair he did win the Tour of California last year.

 

[gavroche]

Another bitter average rider

Sorry if I misread your post but are you calling Hinault an average rider?

 

[hoopdriver]

I suppose he would be now at the age of 63, but it would be drawing a rather long bow to describe him as such circa 1985....

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry if I misread your post but are you calling Hinault an average rider?

It is called sarcasm!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Sorry if I misread your post but are you calling Hinault an average rider?

Wot they sed

 

[Pale Rider]

Another bitter average rider

There is no comparison between York and Hinault.

York won one race anyone's ever heard of, Hinault won grand tours.

None of which prevents either having their say, but you do need to be very cautious when assessing the opinions of ex-professional sportsmen.

There's usually an axe, if not several axes, grinding away in the background.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

York won one race anyone's ever heard of...

That being?

And there's more to being successful than winning stuff that people (and by that I presume you mean the new breed of golfers/cyclists or the masses of plebs who think cycle racing takes place during 3 weeks in summer in France each year) have heard of.

If you think York was "average" then fair enough, but the impact of her wins was significant. And her views, in my opinion, have always been worth paying attention to.

 

[roadrash]

Even the new breed of golfer/cyclists /anyone who thinks as mentioned in @Pro Tour Punditry post above, cant escape the fact that in 1984 tour de france, York , or miller as was then, became the first british cyclist to win a major tour classification, king of the mountains.

 

[Adam4868]

Nothing much new but I liked the bit about Froome being 'fat' !
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/inside...ght-in-pain-and-thinking-about-quitting-giro/

 

[ColinJ]

Nothing much new but I liked the bit about Froome being 'fat' !
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/inside...ght-in-pain-and-thinking-about-quitting-giro/

That would be fat relative to his best racing weight, not fat relative to us!

I thought it was interesting to read that if '10' represented 'agony' then after his crashes he was sometimes at '9' - I thought it was more a '5' or '6'.

 

[Seevio]

BBC had an article on stage 19 which I found quite interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44372328
There's a link on that page to download the full interview with Dave Brailsford.

 

[DCLane]

I've just read it - the planning involved helped things to work together with the opposition not expecting anything until the final climb.