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Smirr posted:At some point, I'm gonna need an explainer on why Sweden, Greece and Finland are such non-entities in road cycling. I guess the Greeks can't afford bikes and the Finns are busy driving rally cars into trees, but what's Sweden's excuse? Especially relative to Denmark and Norway (who have (had) a bunch of famous riders to drive youth recruitment, I guess, but that would also have been an option for Sweden). I'll have you know Gösta Petterson won the Giro in 71. Also yeah no one cares about the sport so the talented kids go for skiing or orienteering I guess.
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There's not much of a cycling culture in Finland to start with. As an example there's not a single indoor velodrome in the country and no interest in building one. Also the season for road cycling is something like 5-6 months. Maybe with Lotta Lepistö's success people will get more into it.
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Kwiatkowski's gonna win the Vuelta.
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Aug 25, 2018 19:23
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Maybe, but he certainly won't win this stage. drat, Dennis 
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serious gaylord posted:Kwiatkowski's gonna win the Vuelta. Unless moviestar actually pick a leader then yep
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Andy Dufresne posted:It looks like a group photo of the UFC flyweight division Listed heights/weights: Bauke Mollema - 181cm / 64kg Fabio Aru - 183cm / 66kg Alejandro Valverde - 178cm / 61kg Vincenzo Nibali - 181cm / 65kg Nairo Quintana - 167cm / 59kg David de la Cruz - 182cm / 66kg Rigoberto Uran - 173cm / 63kg Healthy weights, even if you subtract 1-2kg from each of the, and especially if you consider their lean muscle. Valverde looks over his listed weight. Aru and Uran look much shorter than their listed heights. For comparison, here's me (in the white/red) at 178cm / 63kg. I've been down to 59kg. 
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Aug 25, 2018 21:49
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I'm 69kg and I work very loving hard at that.
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Aug 25, 2018 21:56
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serious gaylord posted:I'm 69kg and I work very loving hard at that. nice. I've been down to 69 kg before but bulked my way back up to Rohan Dennis proportions (1.82 m, 71 kg), so in my mind I could probably win a GT ITT if I wanted to. That's how it works.
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Aug 25, 2018 22:04
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TobinHatesYou posted:Listed heights/weights: I'd fit right in the middle of that table as well when I'm at competition weight as a marathoner. It wasn't really meant as a dig, just a comment that the sport selects for smaller sized humans.
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Aug 25, 2018 23:15
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Andy Dufresne posted:I'd fit right in the middle of that table as well when I'm at competition weight as a marathoner. It wasn't really meant as a dig, just a comment that the sport selects for smaller sized humans. I'd say most true GC contenders are ~182cm these days, which is a couple cm above average height. Quintana and Uran are anomalous. Weight, I mean yeah, endurance sports do a good job of reducing your BF% to the high single digits. That's not unhealthy (as someone else put it) ...it's very healthy. 
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Aug 25, 2018 23:22
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No one cares how much you weigh or how short you all are. Which one of these freaks will win the Vuelta a España? For me, it will be one of the three mutants that kept their distorted vein-riddled legs hidden under long pants in that photo (hopefully Nibali).
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TobinHatesYou posted:Listed heights/weights: The pros look like meth users on the verge of death, and they starve themselves and have to take sleeping pills so they can go to bed on an empty stomach. When they train for a peak they dont do it in a healthy way. You only have to go back to the 90s when cyclists looked a lot more normal physique wise. You look fine in that pic btw so its nothing personal.
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Aug 26, 2018 04:26
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At the Tour of Germany, Tom Dumoulin just blew a tactical advantage because he didn't want to take any turns  a pattern is beginning to emergee: yay Politt finally won something
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Aug 26, 2018 15:58
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most of the Vuelta break is caught and Movistar/Sky train starts riding. finish looks like a Valverde special
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Aug 26, 2018 16:32
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Nibali’s crashed / dropped already lmao
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Aug 26, 2018 16:43
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Valverde's gonna lead out Kwiatkowski he did, but still won 
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Aug 26, 2018 16:51
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Didn't think he still had it in him That's kwiat in red then
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Aug 26, 2018 16:52
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serious gaylord posted:Kwiatkowski's gonna win the Vuelta.
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Aug 26, 2018 18:29
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wtf happened today? I thought this was meant to be a lumpy stage that Sagan might win, but I just looked and half the GC contenders got blown out the race?
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Aug 26, 2018 21:36
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Nothing happened til 25k to go then it was fast/curvy/hilly and I guess some people weren’t up to speed yet.
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Aug 26, 2018 21:41
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I like the Vuelta because the terrain, vegetation, and weather is exactly like what I ride on at home (SoCal) but with cool narrow European roads, instead of the 4+ lane engineered monstrosities we have.
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Aug 27, 2018 00:53
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Alejandro Valverde 0:14 Bauke Mollema 0:33 Fabio Aru 0:47 Nairo Quintana 0:33 Rigoberto Uran 0:48 Vincenzo Nibali 4:44 Ritchie Porte 15:22 
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Aug 27, 2018 00:57
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Why did Porte even start the race
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peanut- posted:wtf happened today? I thought this was meant to be a lumpy stage that Sagan might win, but I just looked and half the GC contenders got blown out the race? Movistar and Sky decided to gently caress with everyone.
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Aug 27, 2018 01:50
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paddyboat posted:Alejandro Valverde 0:14 That’s so bad and embarrassing.
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Aug 27, 2018 01:59
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I looked and couldn’t find out what happened to Porte. Was he just out of it, or had a crash / run over by moto?
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Aug 27, 2018 02:05
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No crash. Looks like Porte 1) melted in the heat and 2) still has lingering illness issues.
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Aug 27, 2018 02:23
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Same for Nibali really. Both of them shouldn't be racing but its not like their teams have anyone else.
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serious gaylord posted:Same for Nibali really. Both of them shouldn't be racing but its not like their teams have anyone else. or they're getting in training with an eye towards worlds...
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Aug 27, 2018 03:44
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Aqua Blue sport are folding at the end of the season.
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Aug 27, 2018 09:25
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It’s goin to be great when more World Tour teams fail (not just Pro Conti) and Rally brings their DiamondBacks to the TdF.
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Aug 27, 2018 10:01
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Is the Anglo cycling boom over for good now
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Aug 27, 2018 20:39
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And just as 3T sorted them out a not revolutionary 2x I liked their kit colours 
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African AIDS cum posted:Is the Anglo cycling boom over for good now Your favorite Anglos will still be in service of sheikhs and perhaps Chinese businessmen in the foreseeable future. HTH.
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What's a good feed for the Vuelta? The stupid NBC Olympic channel doesn't start showing it until 10am.
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Aug 28, 2018 13:26
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Komet posted:What's a good feed for the Vuelta? The stupid NBC Olympic channel doesn't start showing it until 10am. considering the stage only starts at 1pm that's quite early no?
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10am Eastern Standard Time. We are halfway into the first big climb and NBC doesn't begin showing the Vuelta until an hour from now. I just paid $50 for an annual subscription to their cycling streams, and it still doesn't get me a live feed.
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Aug 28, 2018 14:01
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It did full stage ad free streams for the Tour but not the Vuelta. Kinda sucks.
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Aug 28, 2018 14:07
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It blows cause local legend Ben King is in the breakaway on the climb and I can't even watch 
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Steephill.tv for a stream?
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