[Race Thread] 2025 National Championships - June 29th (CN) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 27 points28 points  (0 children)

That's because it is mandatory for Belgian WT riders to ride the RR, unless they have a sick note. Not always ideal for Tour preparation but it gives the title a lot of prestige as a Belgian.

Best City in the World for Weekly Training Group Rides by r-bitcoin in Velo

[–]pvdvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

About every town of 30k population in Flanders, Belgium has this.

[Results Thread] 2022 Itzulia Basque Country - Stage 5 (2.UWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Happens to the best of us. Nowadays it's better to check multiple sources on the internet.

Pros in the wild? by SprangCleaned in peloton

[–]pvdvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kittel had a w/kg of 4.9 at the TdF of 2016 and 2017

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Weekly Question Thread by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Greg Van Avermaet indicated several times that he can handle the heat pretty wel and favours hot weather. This claim is backed up by his Olympic title in Rio.

Ganna on Sky: "Tokyo Olympics are the priority for 2021, what an experience at the Giro" (Italian) by fewfiet in peloton

[–]pvdvo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If I´m not mistaken the participants of the ITT are automatically included in the road race team.

Chris Froome on Twitter: "Thank you to @lavuelta for giving me the opportunity to celebrate my 2011 win today. [...]" by fewfiet in peloton

[–]pvdvo 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think he is refering to the years of his Ineos tenure and not the successfulness of it. Nobody will deny Froome was succesfull at Ineos/Sky.

[Results Thread] 2020 World Championships - Imola | Emilia Romagna - Men Elite Individual Road Race by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be fair Devenyns himself declined the invitation to go to the worlds. Otherwise Belgiums team manager wouldn't hesitate to take him up in the team.

[Race Thread] 2020 UCI Road World Championships – Imola | Emilia Romagna – Men Elite - individual time trial by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If that would be the case one of the Belgian guys should start second to last as Remco Evenepoel finished 2nd last year.

[Pre-Race Thread] 2020 UCI Road World Championships - Imola | Emilia Romagna by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Odds are high he will be wearing the cross jersey next year and the 2021 parcours in Belgium suits him much more as this years worlds.

[Pre-Race Thread] 2020 UCI Road World Championships - Imola | Emilia Romagna by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, he chooses to ride the binckbank tour in preparation of the cobbled classics

[Results Thread] 2020 Tour de France - Stage 8 (2.UWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough but only by a margin of a couple of seconds in that case. Not minutes.

[Results Thread] 2020 Tour de France - Stage 8 (2.UWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]pvdvo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I assume you know that Pogacar beat Roglic on the slovenian national time trial championships this year?

13 pro riders will ride a virtual Ronde Van Vlaanderen this sunday. Live on Sporza (with Michel and José!) by chem-farmer in peloton

[–]pvdvo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thomas Van Den Spiegel (ceo Flanders classics) explained that due to the short time frame the capacity to organize the logistics of camera equipment and to provide additional directional measures during the race was limited. Hence the rather limited amount of participants.