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Russian Bear
Dec 26, 2007


Nah, it was a stop for ice cream, sea side cruise mostly.

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Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




Good to see Sagan given the green just for the hell of it

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
5 team busses are stuck on the course, they were directed the wrong way and now they cant get further up or back down.

ok_dirdel
Apr 27, 2003

Horrible crash on stage 2 today. Looks worse than the early on one from the Tour.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
I really dont think we need to see riders on the floor in neck braces.

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

serious gaylord posted:

I really dont think we need to see riders on the floor in neck braces.

I don't understand how something like this happens. I mean its not like they're piping in some paparazzi's feed, it's all official. But it still takes them ages to eventually cut away?!

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Smirr posted:

I don't understand how something like this happens. I mean its not like they're piping in some paparazzi's feed, it's all official. But it still takes them ages to eventually cut away?!

Eurosport have no other choice but to cut to adverts, they dont control the feed at all and this is what the tv directors want to show i guess.

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
So who attacked after the crash? Sky?

Eurosport sucks

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Paddyb posted:

So who attacked after the crash? Sky?

Eurosport sucks

Katusha and Movistar, Sky haven't been on the front all day.

That wont stop people from saying it was them though.

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
They wouldn't shut up about Froome, hence my confusion.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Quintana's gone 'gently caress ya'll' and is gonna ride away.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
And Nibali is at least 40 seconds back after stage 2.

carborexic
Nov 9, 2008

serious gaylord posted:

And Nibali is at least 40 seconds back after stage 2.

That's the least of his problems.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

carborexic posted:

That's the least of his problems.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/08/news/nibali-faces-race-jury-over-chase-back-to-bunch-following-crash_382368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQW8OX8VqA&t=13s

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Oh haha! And here was me just expecting him to get a tiny fine because all the live coverage had was him drafting the cars. How on earth did they think they'd get away with that?

lazy old sun
Feb 12, 2007


"See ya later shitlords"

Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

Hahahah fuckin team of cheaters, literally everything they do is crooked.

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Lmao

Froome got thrown out of the giro for doing this

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




Holy poo poo the way the car just floors it off screen is hilarious

I was expecting just a steady speed but held way too long

e: and that Martinelli quote:
'I know we were cheating, I was there! Whats the problem?'

Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Aug 23, 2015

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
Those quotes from Martinelli, lmao

Xabi
Jan 21, 2006

Inventor of the Marmite pasty
This is the best thing I've seen since the spring classics.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
That's a hell of a way to say "I don't want to race this tour any more".

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

The director of one of the sport's most successful teams posted:

Try to find me an honest person in the peloton.

Ironically, that's refreshingly honest

poty fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Aug 23, 2015

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

poty posted:

Ironically, that's refreshingly honest

He's got a point in that every team car would draft their leader back up and give sticky bottles and mechanicals. They're just not normally that obvious

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
That video was great. They were so congratulatory during the race about him getting back on.

I don't know who Esteban Chaves is but that was good fun today.

Watching the U.S. Pro Challenge, another mountain climb with a crit at the end smh.

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
*in Dave Towle voice*

ONE TO GOOOOO!!!!!

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
Nibali was disqualified. :stare:

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me
Lol Rohan Dennis goes for it with 1k to go.

They're setting it up for Phinney ( who got second ultimately)

Gibbo
Sep 13, 2008

"yes James. Remove that from my presence. It... Offends me" *sips overpriced wine*

Paddyb posted:

Nibali was disqualified. :stare:

Well DUH it's the USA PRO challenge. He's italian.


Seriously though, what happened?

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

He took a really blatant taxi ride with the team car.(The team car and its driver are banned as well :) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQW8OX8VqA

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004
I saw a few guys getting team car tows up Lookout today

ok_dirdel
Apr 27, 2003

I am eternally grateful to Nibali for bringing us that video. I wonder what was going through the minds of those he left behind.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

AppleCider posted:

I am eternally grateful to Nibali for bringing us that video. I wonder what was going through the minds of those he left behind.

The body language of the guy who was on his wheel says enough.

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me


ahhh yes

paddyboat fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Aug 24, 2015

clean ayers act
Aug 13, 2007

How do I shot puck!?
iWhat a disastrous season for Nibali... Funny thing is Astana hardly seems to care based on their comments to the press

wide stance
Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.

serious gaylord posted:

The body language of the guy who was on his wheel says enough.

Head slumped and coasting.

Sticky bottles always make me chuckle and this was so over the top.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

cebrail posted:

He took a really blatant taxi ride with the team car.(The team car and its driver are banned as well :) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQW8OX8VqA

My post was better <:mad:>

Iron Beagle
Apr 27, 2007
It felt kind of crazy that I noticed Nibali getting a tow, yet the British Eurosport fellows didn't seem to. Also probably purposefully gone uncommented: topless chick running alongside riders at the US Pro Challenge on Saturday.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Iron Beagle posted:

It felt kind of crazy that I noticed Nibali getting a tow, yet the British Eurosport fellows didn't seem to. Also probably purposefully gone uncommented: topless chick running alongside riders at the US Pro Challenge on Saturday.

I must have missed that if it was in live coverage, they did mention him drafting in the cars and wonder how much of a fine he'd pick up.

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Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Oh yeah, he also has to pay 100 Swiss francs because a punishment that isn't laughable in some way won't fly in the world of professional cycling.

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