The Moment Milan-Sanremo Was Won
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by The Inner Ring
3d ago
Jasper Philipsen sprints down the left side of the Via Roma to pass Michael Matthews and win by centimetres. There’s talk of moving Sanremo to Rimini, the big resort on the Adriatic coast. Haven’t you heard? Relax, it’s the music festival and not the race. The show is a big deal in Italy, public broadcaster RAI often gets its peak ratings for the year and the singing contest is outgrowing Sanremo and its Ariston theatre. Yet we’ll always have Sanremo as a bike race. They can uproot the start to Pavia but it still remains a 290km ride to Sanremo with the Turchino, Cipressa and Poggio. It took ..read more
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Milan-Sanremo Preview
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by The Inner Ring
4d ago
The longest race of the year that builds to some of the most thrilling moments of the season, Milan-Sanremo is open to all, from sprinters to grand tour winners. Mathieu van der Poel starts his season hoping for a repeat win, Tadej Pogačar wants his first win and many others will hope to seize the day. The Course So long Milan, excuses about a calendar clash with the Milan marathon were a polite cover for divorce between the race and the business capital. So we get a start in Pavia, it’s just outside Milan, on the same railway line that follows the route and makes no difference to the sport ..read more
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Thursday Shorts
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by The Inner Ring
5d ago
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Of course it does. But when it comes to the media things can be different. If a story breaks behind a paywall will it make a noise? News needs to be paid for so paywalls are a good solution, just imperfect at times. So when a cycling story appears behind one it may not be seen by many nor can it be shared easily. Take Patrick Lefevere’s now infamous Humo interview. The blasting of Julian Alaphilippe went around the world, in part because other sections of the Belgian media lifted it and put the quotes online fre ..read more
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RSS Feed Subscribers – Housekeeping Note
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by The Inner Ring
5d ago
Like a good feed? Well if you are a subscriber to this site’s RSS feed, some admin to take note of. If not, normal blogging with a “shorts” post about the reason behind Evenepoel’s Vuelta GC implosion, One Cycling, Jayco and more tomorrow. The RSS feed here has been handled by a company called Feedburner, it used to offer a service where readers could subscribe by email, RSS and other means. But Feedburner got bought by Google and the service has been reduced, it’s ancient now… a bit like this blog. It’s time to do some spring cleaning here with the software that runs the site and Feedburner ..read more
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The Moment Paris-Nice Was Won
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
Remco Evenepoel attacks on the climb to Peille during the final stage. Matteo Jorgenson follows when everyone else, including the race leader Brandon McNulty, cannot. This was the moment the race was won but it occurred thanks to the accumulation of efforts throughout the week. Remember the opening stage to Les Mureaux? It wasn’t determinant for the final result in Nice but it did tell us plenty. All week the intermediate sprints were placed at tactical points and the opener at Montainville was atop a sharp climb. Remco Evenepoel surged, Primož Roglič was behind and unable to respond and at ..read more
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Paris-Nice Stage 8 Preview
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
The final stage in the hills behind Nice and traditionally the hardest of the race because it can be very hard to control. There’s just four seconds between first and second place on GC. Here’s hoping for another wild ride. Utelle me: Who is going to win Paris-Nice? Brandon McNulty leads, but now by just four seconds. He was valiant on the final climb yesterday but dropped all the same so today’s stage with its tricky final climb is going to be very difficult for him to stay in contact. Matteo Jorgenson “only” needs four seconds to be tied on time but win thanks to countback. But Jorgenson ca ..read more
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Paris-Nice Stage 7 Preview
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
The summit finish stage… but with a last minute change of summit. If you plan to watch, don’t miss the early finish time. Danish pasting: if sport is an exercise in hierarchy and a stage race is an iterative process where the contenders emerge and an order takes shape… well Paris-Nice is different. This week’s expected duel between Primož Roglič and Remco Evenepoel isn’t happening and the race is all the better for it as moves fly and teams take risks with tactics. Brandon McNulty is the new leader, the challenge will be to stay there. This time Roglič did attack and forced a selection in t ..read more
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Paris-Nice Stage 6 Preview
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
Last year’s stage to La Colle-sur-Loup had to be abandoned because a storm made it too windy to race. This time the race goes back and should make it but it’ll be windy along the way. Stage 5 Review: a fast stage, the race arrived well ahead of schedule thanks to a strong breakaway and a powerful chase, the ideal scenario for several teams as the high pace proved ruinous for some sprinters, Arvid de Kleijn and Fabio Jakobsen were out of the race, Gerben Thijssen got dropped and more were left tired. Having crossed the finish line to start the loop around Sisteron we saw some attacks on the ri ..read more
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Paris-Nice Stage 5 Preview
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
A sprint stage but over 2,000m of climbing and some long mountain passes but they’re gradual so plenty of sprinters will hope to hang on as this is their last chance. Nouveau in the Beaujolais: it’s just Paris-Nice and it was just one day but it was still instructive that neither Bora nor Quickstep could keep a lid on the race. Luke Plapp surged on the Col du Fût d’Avenas with Louis Vervaeke but the Belgian seemed to be recalled to help his leader Evenepoel. Santiago Buitrago jumped across to Plapp the pair took 30 seconds on the way to the foot of Mont Brouilly which was a good cushion. Buit ..read more
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Paris-Nice Stage 4 Preview
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by The Inner Ring
1w ago
A mountain stage of sorts, today’s route has some unexpected surprises in store. Les beaux temps et la pluie: the win for UAE which put Brandon McNulty in yellow and Jay Vine, Finn Fisher-Black and João Almeida at the top of the GC, 15 seconds ahead of Jayco’s Chris Harper and Luke Plapp, 18 seconds ahead of Remco Evenepoel, 20 on Egan Bernal. Losers of the day were Bora-hansgrohe, 54 seconds down, a lot in a race often decided by small margins. Lidl-Trek also had a bad day at work, 17th at 1m15s. It was instructive as a lesson in team cohesion and form but the results were affected by a sudd ..read more
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