Pro cycling thread
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17 Jun
12:15pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Cheg
Boardman 3 stages of the Tour de France, World time trial champion, Olympic gold medallist and hour world record holder. If that's not bad, give me double portions of that.
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17 Jun
12:23pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Nellers
"Not bad" in the understated English sense, Cheg, in the same way that when I finished my first marathon I said I was "a bit tired". 
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17 Jun
12:28pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Reiver
Don't get me wrong, I thought he was absolutely great, and he was a big fish in the UK road racing pond. I've even bought one of his bikes
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17 Jun
12:35pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Nellers
Totally get you, Reiver, and yes, naïvely a lot of us thought he was going to conquer the world at the time. Horses for courses, though, I think. He was absolutely world class at a fairly narrow range of cycling activity.
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17 Jun
12:51pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Cheg
In the same way that Ruud van Nistelrooy had a very limited range of footballing skills, but banging them in from 6 yards is quite lucrative.
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17 Jun
1:13pm, 17 Jun 2025
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SPR
Not everyone needs to be a GT GC rider, I just didn't know the difference back then. Funny to hear Boardman said that @Reiver, I'm assuming it was tongue in cheek though. |
17 Jun
1:42pm, 17 Jun 2025
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larkim
Dauphine has been renamed. Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from next year, presumably allows a slightly wider geographical reach for the race to cover?
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17 Jun
2:33pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Nellers
I might be getting confused but didn't it used to be called the Dauphine Libere? Or was that a different race? And there was a separate Criterium International as well. I can't help thinking that the "Dauphine" name has some status because of the history the race has, although I guess things change and this might be the same in time. Seems a bit unwieldy though? |
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17 Jun
3:29pm, 17 Jun 2025
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larkim
I guess the Dauphine name gives it a geographical restriction that it wants to outgrown. French authorities are very keen about promoting localities through event sponsorship I think too.
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17 Jun
3:43pm, 17 Jun 2025
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Nellers
I'll be honest that I'd never thought about the Dauphine being a geographical thing. It's a TdF prep race and the French crown prince used to be referred to as the Dauphin. I assumed it was some sort of a "crowning the next champion" origin to the name.
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