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« Reply #475 on: February 28, 2025, 05:37:23 pm »
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« Reply #477 on: March 01, 2025, 05:23:49 pm »
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any rumors where the stages will be?

Too soon to call - this is just the preliminary 'you get the Depart' agreement.
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« Reply #478 on: March 03, 2025, 10:58:29 am »
I drove along some of the roads in the Yorkshire Dales that were part of the course last go around...there's pretty much zero flat and even less straight  :shock:

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« Reply #479 on: March 19, 2025, 05:53:44 pm »
Edinburgh to stage the Grand Depart, in the 2027 Tour. No more stage details, as yet.
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« Reply #480 on: March 19, 2025, 08:08:23 pm »
By the way, strong showing for Americans in Paris Nice. Or should I say Nice showing?
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« Reply #481 on: March 20, 2025, 03:00:41 am »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 19, 2025, 08:08:23 pm
By the way, strong showing for Americans in Paris Nice. Or should I say Nice showing?

That takes the biscuit...   :D  ;)
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« Reply #482 on: March 20, 2025, 08:48:46 am »
That was a proper Paris-Nice.  But those guys had better be careful, speaking foreign languages and being mindful of local sensibilities can get one in trouble.
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By the way, strong showing for Americans in Paris Nice. Or should I say Nice showing?
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« Reply #483 on: March 20, 2025, 10:59:10 am »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on March 20, 2025, 08:48:46 am
That was a proper Paris-Nice.  But those guys had better be careful, speaking foreign languages and being mindful of local sensibilities can get one in trouble.
except for the whole "race to the Sun" aspect. More like "race through a typical New England coastal storm."

Has there ever been as many high quality Americans in the pro peleton at once? Certainly not as many on different teams. You have Americans as key riders on Visma (Kuss and Jorgenson), UAE (McNulty), EF (Powless), plus emerging guys like Sheffield on Ineos, several regular domestiques and some others that coming out of u-23 and juniors.
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« Reply #484 on: March 21, 2025, 09:39:11 am »
The Lance Armstrong effect?  He may be persona non grata now but US Cycling boomed during his reign.
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Has there ever been as many high quality Americans in the pro peleton at once? Certainly not as many on different teams. You have Americans as key riders on Visma (Kuss and Jorgenson), UAE (McNulty), EF (Powless), plus emerging guys like Sheffield on Ineos, several regular domestiques and some others that coming out of u-23 and juniors.
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« Reply #485 on: March 21, 2025, 10:59:53 am »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on March 21, 2025, 09:39:11 am
The Lance Armstrong effect?  He may be persona non grata now but US Cycling boomed during his reign.
possibly, but Sepp Kuss was 10 when Armstrong wore yellow in Paris the last time in 2005. Jorgensen was 5.
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