Gnash Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 26 minutes ago, kiddy said: 7 hours ago, peasy23 said: Are we claiming it as a Scottish Grand Tour win? https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/scottish-cyclist-tao-geoghegan-hart-wins-giro-ditalia-3014574 Eh, no. Tenuous links like that are embarrassing, unless he had ridden for Scotland before. As much as claiming Froome & Wiggo are British. Yates & TGH are English, Thomas is Welsh. Wiggins as British is hardly a tenuous link, given he spent almost his entire childhood in the UK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Wiggins as British is hardly a tenuous link, given he spent almost his entire childhood in the UK.Wiggins is Belgian, with an Australian father. Froome's worse having been born in Kenya & lived years in SA! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 8 hours ago, kiddy said: 12 hours ago, Gnash said: Wiggins as British is hardly a tenuous link, given he spent almost his entire childhood in the UK. Wiggins is Belgian, with an Australian father. But he's not though. He happened to be born there, otherwise has very little connection to the country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Wiggins and Froome are perfectly entitled to be referred to as British. Froome's parents were British and that is every bit as strong a claim as being born in the country. Not sure whether Geoghan Hart sees himself as British, Scottish or English, but he can call himself any or all of these IMO. It's up to him. I found the Scotsman article a bit embarrassing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Sam Bennett takes the sprint finish, but relegated for an irregular sprint, fined & deducted points.He had been leaning into somebody a couple if times in the last km or so, but seemed a good way out from the line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Good win for Carthy on top of the vuelta's most iconic climb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 38 minutes ago, jaggyness said: Good win for Carthy on top of the vuelta's most iconic climb. Tremendous effort. Chapeau Hugh! Roglic was lucky he had Sepp Kuss with him right to the end, otherwise he would likely have lost a lot more time. What brutal climb! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 The next Tour Down Under has been officially cancelled. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-02/tour-down-under-cycling-race-cancelled/12837486 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 ITT today, with a 2km climb, at gradients reputed to be up to 30%, to finish with!Will Roglic bottle it again &, more importantly, JV not manage to make another right hash of a bike change? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Realistically, this is the last really tough day. I know stage 17 is tough but the distance between the two hardest climbs makes it unlikely Roglic will be massively gapped. I would say, to have any chance of overall victory, Carapaz or anyone else would need to be within 40 seconds of Roglic after today's stage. And given Roglic is amongst the top time triallists in the world, I think that's unlikely with the pan flat nature before the climb today. Id be surprised if he wasn't the best part of 90seconds ahead of the other GC contenders at the foot of the climb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Noticed Froome didn't change bike. Finished miles down, but I'd imagine Ineos were looking at time saving possibilities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 looks like a 3 man race so far Carthy taking seconds off Roglic & Carapaz. but all three within 10 of each other. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Edit 14 to Carapaz & 7 to Roglic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Mas & Martin losing more time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Can't understand why they change bikes on the climb, surely it would be better do it on the flat a couple of hundred metres before it so they are up to speed when they hit the incline?Valverde struggled to get moving there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Carthy & Roglic on same time Carapaz at 19 secs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Thought there was a designated pit stop? Mas just changed 50 metres further on! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Great bike change by Carthy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Roglic up by about 15 on Carthy at the bike change, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 & about same to Carapaz. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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