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Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
8h ago
This is going to be a crazy mountainous week in Catalunya with the big climbs starting on stage 2 (and st 1 isn’t that flat either) and then not really letting up much for the rest of the week. The teams have answered the call and with very few exceptions they are bringing some of their top climbers so it could be an explosive race.
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Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
8h ago
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Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca - Cittiglio 140.5 km
After Strade and Drenthe we now come to Binda, the grand old lady of the big women’s classics. Much like Sanremo a race with a course that offers a chance for every rider type to win. We can get a solo climber’s win, a small breakaway or a big group sprint, everything is on the table on this hilly course.
Expected finish time: 15:30-15:50 CET
Primaverist of the Day: Marlen Reusser
After a traumatic first few weeks of not winning absolutely everything and filling half the podiums, SD Worx have panicked and ..read more
Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
2d ago
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Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin Deceunink came past the biggest names in cycling in the final 50 meters of Milano-Sanremo to score a sprint victory of the very highest order in Italy today, a few tire widths ahead of Jayco-Alula’s Michael Matthews. The victory, third by a Belgian in the last five years, came thanks largely to some luxurious teamwork, with none other than World Champion Mathieu van der Poel holding things together for Philipsen to win from a group of a dozen riders.
And it came at the expense of another champion, Tadej Pogačar of UAE Emirates ..read more
Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
2d ago
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Just back home from a family ski holiday and wow! Look at all those urgent work emails! Sigh...
This leaves me a bit at a loss as to what to say in advance of Milano-Sanremo, which doesn’t change much and which is the playground of... whoever really wants it. Numerous past previews here talked about how the variety of potential winners is what makes it so unique, although you could also shrug that off and just put together a list of ace descenders who can sprint. Would a Pidcock win be even slightly out of place here? No, it would not.
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Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
2d ago
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Bredene - Koksijde 201.2 km
I got nostalgic for the time when this was the Hamsandwich Classic and christ almighty that was six years ago?! Well regardless, this is still a solid midweek classic for the gritty sprinters. And today potentially with some extra crosswind spice.
Expected finish times: 16:30-17:10 CET
Tram Conductor of the Day: Arvid De Kleijn
Can he keep the dream run going for Tudor?
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Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
4d ago
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Denain - Denain 196.2 km
Another mid-week potential killer race and another “little Roubaix” pretender.
Expected finish times: 15:45 CET
De Nain of the Day: Laurenz Rex
A list with lots of Pro Conti and some Sanremo-depleted rosters on the bigger teams. And the stars are preparing for a TdF gravel stage, not a cobbles stage this year. So a left field pick.
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Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
4d ago
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OK, hear me out. This is NOT my favorite couple weeks of cycling. I have always been a bit down on Paris-Nice, a frigid march across quiet areas of France with a lot of sprinting involved before the final weekend (which frequently ends up being thrilling, but still). Being in central Italy Tirreno-Adriatico would maybe interest me a bit more, but just a bit, except it tends to start and finish awfully early for someone in the Pacific time zone. I am content to monitor the results, ca ..read more
Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
6d ago
This year, I made it back to Tirreno-Adriatico for the first time in five years. They’ve changed it up a bit (but just a bit) by starting with an individual time trial instead of the old team time trial.
Jonas Vingegaard was the third rider off the start ramp, looking like an alien in Visma’s crazy new tt helmet.
Mark Cavendish:
John Degenkolb:
Stage winner Juan Ayuso:
Lawson Craddock:
Attila Valter at the finish, showing off the clear-visor, Hungarian national champion version of the new Visma lid:
Tom Pidcock:
Jonathan Milan, third on the stage:
Valentin Madouas in the finishing str ..read more
Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
1w ago
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Beilen - Vamberg 156.5 km
Women’s World Tour returns to a Drenthe with a slightly different, more VAMberg focused course. A total of 6 ascents of the old rubbish dump with the finish line at the top the last time. So we won’t get a flat group sprint but the basics are like the same as before, sprinters teams trying to get a sprint and others trying to break it up, potentially with the help of the wind.
Expected finish times: 17:40-17:55 CET
Rubbish Queen of the Day: Lorena Wiebes
I think she’s perfectly able to master the VAMberg and that her team absolutel ..read more
Podium Cafe, for Cycling fans
1w ago
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