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What is this thread about? Tennis or something? What is a GC?
The Giro d italia. The Tour of Italy. it is one of the 3 grand tours for cycling. 21 days
vuelta a Espana, Giro d Italia, Tour de France
The GC is the General Classification---over all winner. there are other winners too such as the points leader, king of the mountain, best young rider etc..
its sad that one has to pay t see coverage of the sport of road cycling while we have to endure other coverage such as corn hole--dont get me wrong i enjoy playing cornhole while tailgating and at BBQ's but cmon.
BTW today is also the start of the AMGEN tour of California legit bike race. once was a bit of a joke for the big teams but now is getting well deserved respect. NBCSN does cover this one thankfully
Don’t know crap about cycling except that wannabes constantly want to “share the road” during rush hour and it drives me nuts. I made the mistake (or good judgement) of calling a biker on a street during rush hour an “idiot” in front of my 5 year old. Now all bikers on city streets are idiots in her mind. I have yet to correct her.
Most of the members of this board don't even like the NBA, and that's a mainstream professional league for one of the Big 3 American sports. Nothing against cycling, but you probably won't find much of an audience among Husker fans/Iowa trolls.
It's bad enough that we have to pretend golf and soccer are sports, now riding a bike is one too?
"It's a gateway sport; next thing you know . . . "
I know the one by Rosenblatt still is. Just as overpriced as alwaysRollingLaugh
It's bad enough that we have to pretend golf and soccer are sports, now riding a bike is one too?
Lets talk about stock car racing....now there's a sport!!!
Man, can you issue a spoiler alert next time? I was recording that!
Why would you enter a thread about something you were trying to watch later.... also not sure if yore trolling.
Also I have no idea what this thread is about.
spoiler:
Giro stage 4
won by Ecuadorian rider
Carapaz
after a massive crash separated all the main GC threats except Roglic
Here is the GC standing:
1 ROGLIČ Primož Team Jumbo-Visma 16:19:20
2 YATES Simon Mitchelton-Scott 0:35
3 NIBALI Vincenzo Bahrain Merida 0:39
4 LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel Astana Pro Team 0:44
5 ULISSI Diego UAE-Team Emirates ,,
who do you not see on the list? Tom Doumalin --was in the huge crash and took a chain ring to the knee and thigh----may be out of the race tomorrow
Giro stage 4
won by Ecuadorian rider
Carapaz
after a massive crash separated all the main GC threats except Roglic
Here is the GC standing:
1 ROGLIČ Primož Team Jumbo-Visma 16:19:20
2 YATES Simon Mitchelton-Scott 0:35
3 NIBALI Vincenzo Bahrain Merida 0:39
4 LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel Astana Pro Team 0:44
5 ULISSI Diego UAE-Team Emirates ,,
who do you not see on the list? Tom Doumalin --was in the huge crash and took a chain ring to the knee and thigh----may be out of the race tomorrow
Who is the best American bike rider? It was cool when Armstrong was good (before he got busted), not sure if we have any good cyclists anymore.
as far as road stage racing or for big tours i suppose the top 5 perhaps are:
Lawson Craddock, Chad Haga, Ian Boswell, Taylor Phinney, Tejay Van Garderen
But in cycling there are so many disciplines and many different types of races that suit a large variety of racers.
in road cycling there are climbing courses, flat courses that change the dynamic. there are crit races that are time based and have many many accelerations and technical cornering. there is track racing in a velodrome which nearly every race is a sprint. points races, scratch races, Keiren, and even relay madison races. Cyclocross has become very popular, gravel racing, and mountain bike racing has some different disciplines.
Maybe so. But cyclists aren't above the law either. They're as obnoxious as j walkers or those that walk in front of traffic against a red light because they think pedestrians have the right of way. BS.
Pretty controversial decision by the race organizer after Van garderen snapped his chain and then encountered a crash to award the race leaders the same finishing time. so no change in GC standings. Jakobsen out sprints the great Peter Sagan for the stage win.
Tour of California stage 6--The Queens Stage
featuring the climb up Mt. Baldy
Pogacar used his brains and brawn masterfully and he is only 20 Y/O Van Garderen cracked up the climb and hemoraged time. he fell from leaders in the GC to 9th place a 1:22 behind.
General classification
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 30:01:56
2 Sergio Higuita (Col) EF Education First 0:00:16
3 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:20
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:29
5 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:41
featuring the climb up Mt. Baldy
Pogacar used his brains and brawn masterfully and he is only 20 Y/O Van Garderen cracked up the climb and hemoraged time. he fell from leaders in the GC to 9th place a 1:22 behind.
General classification
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 30:01:56
2 Sergio Higuita (Col) EF Education First 0:00:16
3 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:20
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:29
5 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:41
massive climbing stage of the Giro D'Italia today causes a huge shake up of the GC
Carapaz of Movistar takes the stage and the MAGLIA ROSA
stage results: top 8
Carapaz
Yates
Nibali
Majka
Landa
Lopez
Sivakov
Roglic
NEW GC standings
Carapaz
Roglic--07
Nibali-1:47
Majka-2:10
Landa-2:50
Carapaz of Movistar takes the stage and the MAGLIA ROSA
stage results: top 8
Carapaz
Yates
Nibali
Majka
Landa
Lopez
Sivakov
Roglic
NEW GC standings
Carapaz
Roglic--07
Nibali-1:47
Majka-2:10
Landa-2:50
have you listened to the doctor who was on rogan’s podcast awhile back talking about lance armstrong?
thought it was a really interesting take. basically, makes assertion that in comparison to the euros level of cheating it was nothing.
i know nothing about cycling, but i always felt euros were just jealous.
thought it was a really interesting take. basically, makes assertion that in comparison to the euros level of cheating it was nothing.
i know nothing about cycling, but i always felt euros were just jealous.
it was an era that was steeped in heavy doping even by cycling standards. Armstrong doped as much or more than most of them. Read or listen to the audio book by Tyler Hamilton (the Secret Race). His book graphically describes the doping that Armstrong and US Postal practiced. Hamilton is bluntly forth coming regarding his involvement. The sad part is how Armstrong behaved off the bike regarding the destruction of others.
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Had a great ride this morning. Now it's time to get on the bike.
i recollect some of that now, i guess ive slept since then.
do you think its really any cleaner now?
it has an ugly stigma.
pro cycling is considerably cleaner --the creation of the biological passport has really been instrumental. epo can be detected easier now and the age of red blood cells are able to be determined as well. there is still some amount of doping going on at the pro and even the amateur level of cycling--but nothing like it was in Armstrongs era