Spring Classics *Spoilers*

[Adam4868]

Not sure if these dates are set in stone

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1271463126874173440?s=19

 

[Adam4868]

Hard two weeks.

View: https://twitter.com/CafeRoubaix/status/1271454779617804288?s=19

 

[rich p]

Hard two weeks.

View: https://twitter.com/CafeRoubaix/status/1271454779617804288?s=19

From famine to feast!
Your head will be spinning Adam!

 

[Adam4868]

From famine to feast!
Your head will be spinning Adam!

I've had plenty of time to relax !

 

[mjr]

Several towns are refusing to allow Milan San Remo through, saying they've no longer enough capacity to close roads and manage crowds during the health crisis. RCS is attempting to find a solution. Original report in French at https://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur...tre-le-passage-de-la-course-le-8-aout/1153476

 

[mjr]

Strade Bianchi tomorrow!

 

[BalkanExpress]

Strade Bianchi tomorrow!

Eurosport coverage starts soon. Will be a fascinating day, we have no idea about anyone’s form and this is summer not spring so we are looking at 35degrees . It is going to be a crazy hard day on a crazy hard course.

 

[Adam4868]

I've got work ! Will have to watch later...

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1289547258308919296?s=19

 

[mjr]

Eurosport coverage starts soon. Will be a fascinating day, we have no idea about anyone’s form and this is summer not spring so we are looking at 35degrees . It is going to be a crazy hard day on a crazy hard course.

Did they show the women's race early or not at all?

 

[Adam4868]

Did they show the women's race early or not at all?

Not that I'm aware of...I think maybe it was on GCN app thingy ?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

*Sean Kelly hat on* They've mayyyde the calculayshooons that 4/6 riders in the break are using disc brakes

 

[Adam4868]

Hard race and a deserved win for Wout van aert !

 

[rich p]

Cyclo cross roolz.
After that horrific injury last year it's good to see WVA back

 

[coldash]

Did they show the women's race early or not at all?

Was show on the GCN app and a good watch it was.

 

[BalkanExpress]

I watched the men's and women's Strade Bianchi highlights yesterday. The men's had its own highlights program on Eurosport.

The women's race was great viewing but was shoved off into obscure online coverage*. You would have thought that having been starved of live racing for so long, that Eurosport would have made the most of coverage of what turned out to be a fantastic race.

The TV coverage was pants too, but I know Eurosport don't control that. They missed AvV's crucial move jumping from the peloton to the chase group. The time gaps were all over the place and had to be removed from the screen.

*I've shelled out £20 (early bird discount) for a year of the GCN app. It's not a lot for a year's worth. If it's crap I won't renew.

There appeared to be a lot of technical issues concerning time gaps all the way through. I was watching on Belgian TV as when they cut to the ad breaks they keep a small screen showing the race in the corner. However, I missed all the early positioning, did Quickstep make it so hard that they blew themselves up and had no one left to get Alaphilippe back on when he punctured?