:) looooong turn 1

nice for HAM being ahead LEC, as for ALB, STR,... BEA

TSU sends kudos to Mr. Marko.

That car has to have some very weird requirements from the driver. It's not that everybody is slower than VER (expected), but nobody seems able to extract performance. Mr Marko, Give Yuki a chance! :D

I would love to see Mads Pedersen win. Such a good rider and always ready for a fight. I don't give MVDP such a favourite status as innerring. Yes, such a rider, but I can see Pidcock, Tadej on par in the hills and Pedersen et al. for the sprint. «Boring and longer than needed» race but what a thrill!

Those final 40km are scary watching them at full speed fighting for position and then boom uphill. UAE will make it even harder (I presume) so Tadej would benefit and go solo in the Poggio. Will he make it? Lets see!

Philipsen has travel to race, after last year's victory I think it gives hope to many other riders that know they can not follow Tadej (et al.) on Poggio but it is tactically opened.

yes, I hope Pedersen has a chance and wins. Will weather benefit him? I think so.

All in all I hope there's no injuries, but it will be hard in such conditions and full speed regardless of weather.

UAE train for the last 40km to give Tadej the chance of getting 10" at the top of the Poggio.

Maybe Mohoric has rain danced XD

contrary to LEC who after the race said those changes where positive and felt he could push (listened in interview)

LAW 🤦

well, 55km to go: one single group ahead (strong riders) but Q365 full team working in the peloton @ 45".

Not sure they will get them, I'll watch at night! Bye now!

one to remember

official web page and live tracking

https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/en/

Stage 1

edit: please excuse me if I'm not replying using the right controls here in lemmy. I had never been a readit user, my background is old forums and still trying to set UI to my liking (like forums ☺ ) Thank you and please keep commenting.

IDK if it's allowed to post links here, sure enough you can search «tiz cycling» tho 😄

I'm not in the USA so little help from me, excuse me. We have max/discovery here in europe and public tv broadcast many races too

I will wait untill my user experience is not degraded by not subscribing to this new features.

Stage 4

another 3000m EG stage and almost 200Km. with a harder finish climb than yesterday's

it seems almost imposible being just a few seconds ahead for so long! Kudos to Theuns and lidl/trek but all them worked like hell behind (q365,...). I don't fully understand uno-x's plan in the peloton though.

Congrats to all riders in the breakaway and nice to watch

Stage 2

early breakaway to keep high tempo and then…

Stage 3

first mountain stage, usually not big time gaps, but starting to add fatigue.

Stage 5

maybe a big breakaway group could spoil a bunch sprint. Or maybe wind could!

it's the nature of the sport (give it all to win) but it's also hard to watch all those riders injured and in pain every day

(I've watched it now while on rollers)

this is another consecuence of (lack) of environmental care of new USA administration

I take it as a fact automotive industry see this as a new oportunity to keep profiting from an old technology. Not a political commentary, just stating the facts, and FIA president lobbying for their root family interests in the matter. The wind of change.

hasn't Roglic been in altitude training lately? His natural characteristics may suit well for this kind of races with very few seconds in between riders.

I wish Bernal is recovered from injury and had been training and building form.

yes, Ayuso has said this year he has taken «two steps» in training (focused on Giro) and feels confident on himself.

groups 1 and 2 will join, commentators presume and nobody would be interested in the hunt from peloton (smaller teams)

I'm not sure about it tho, jayco and q365 are working hard