I Belong To Glasgow: Pro Cycling 2023

[ursus arctos]

The Bahrain rider (Maciejuk) has been DQ'd. Wellens has abandoned.

[longeared]

Huge attack from Pog on the Kwaremont, he's distanced the other big two and is off in pursuit of the break that's a couple of minutes up the road. Kirby missed it obvs, probably too busy still laughing at his appalling comments about the women's race a bit earlier.

[longeared]

Now Carlton misuses Latin in the finest Rees-Mogg style by telling us that Trentin's alma mater for the day is working for Pog. Now Pog attacks again on the Koppenberg and here we go, here we fucking go, the big three are away together.

[ursus arctos]

I will forever be amazed by his continued employment

[Mumpo]

Well that was exciting, for a while

[longeared]

Pog goes solo up the Kwaremont again, right now can he hold them off into the headwind on the run in?

[longeared]

Actual lolz at Kirby obsessing over one second fluctuations in the time gap from Pog to MVdP.

[Mumpo]

Commentator's job to introduce some degree of uncertainty, however risibly

[longeared]

Pog stays away for the win, tremendous stuff. Can't get beaten in a sprint if you don't have a sprint.

That's three of the Monuments he's won now. Go on Tadej, have a punt at Roubaix next weekend, if only to learn about the course.

[ursus arctos]

Before today, only Merckx had won three different monuments before the age of 25

[longeared]

Would be excellent if we could have Vollering and Kopecky coming to the finish together again, though admittedly I'm struggling to see how exactly this might happen in the current race situation.

Henderson has just got back on to the second group. Go Anna!

[Sits]

Great pair of races, with the men’s a mini-epic - horrendous crashes excepted. Even with that jersey on it’s hard to begrudge Pog a win like that, he really is the deal. And he wasn’t just cruising along to stay ahead of MvdP, he really bust a gut.

Restoration of harmony appears genuine at SD Worx. Two big wins each will do that. Vollering will want Liege though.

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[Sits]

With Monday being a holiday and our clocks having gone back last week, I’m hoping to catch a lot of live Roubaix action over the weekend.

Still can’t see Wout winning the men’s.

[ursus arctos]

Remarkable women's race with a popular winner

[Sits]

Remarkable women's race with a popular winner

Fantastic. Something of a slow burner but from Carrefour de l’Arbre (sp.) it’s edge of the seat stuff. And a quite emotional finish.

[longeared]

Laporte's puncture was bad luck but, even so, this is quite funny for Jumbo.

This race has a regular feature of Roubaix taking place - one break all day that adds and subtracts riders as they bridge up and get dropped.

[ursus arctos]

Some spectacular wheel collapses today.

We are watching on Peacock to have a stable stream. Liggett and Roll are not as bad as usual, and NBC haven't done all the distances in miles, (an annual annoyance from their TdF coverage).

[longeared]

I find it a toss up between this and Liege as to which is the worst race of the year for streaming.

That latest MvdP acceleration has had the unfortunate consequence of dropping Walscheid and ends my dream of a Cofidis win.

[Sits]

GCN is steady and true with Rob Hatch ensuring Kirby is nowhere to be seen.

Very hard to call this one 28km out.

[ursus arctos]

GCN don't have the North Anerican rights, alas

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Woah

[Sits]

Damn. What a time for a flat

[longeared]

I take it we're not going to see a series of articles wanking themselves off over Jumbo's tyres this week.

On seeing the replay that crash was van der Poel's fault.

[Sits]

Yes it was