What was Soler saying on his radio in the last kilometer?

"Should I wait for Alejandro, or do you want me to keep going?"

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

With Valverde in there it's always touch-and-go.

Not sure what he was saying, but would hope in his earpiece they were yelling, "Keep pedaling! You're giving back seconds you just killed yourself to get on the way to the win". I know he isn't their main card for GC, but the guy is now around a minute off the lead in the top 10. Those seconds lost for not pedaling to the line cost him 1-2 places (10th instead of 8th) at this point. Brilliant ride and fight, but just finish those last 100 yds before celebrating like the group of other contenders behind you sprinting for seconds.

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"It's good enough for who it's for" - Grandpa Wayne

Guess Ineos left the "pretend to give a shit" clause out of Froomie's contract.

Just catching up on day.

El Tractor 2nd at DB De Panne today!!!


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And Kwiato gives Caleb Ewan a lift.

Holy s***, a literal “pick me up”. Plopped Ewan on the handlebar. Must made steering a bit odd, even more so given the horrendously windy condition.

Also, MvdP crashed into a ditch at 3 days De Panne.

Wilco just blew an amp.
Fly Hindley needs to smash it now.

Check that, great fight back by Wilco. Thought he was crushed.
Sunweb is a tight squad.

So who picked Hindley, TGH and Bilbao to be fighting for the Giro podium? What an oddball race.

Meanwhile: over in Spain Movistar tries to split peloton in crosswinds. DQS crash into each other laughing hard.

DAN MARTIN!!!!!!!!!!

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"one eye doubles my eyesight, so things don't look half bad" John Hiatt

Great to see. That final ramp suited him perfectly.

What? He wasn't in that front group.
Wait, wrong grand tour.

He was looking great yesterday.

Danny Boy!!!

Lad's still got it!

That dude is harder than woodpecker lips. How many crashes and injuries can you accumulate in a few seasons and keep coming back and fighting for it?

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I have to admit and for no apparent rational reason, I was totally gutted when he hit the tarmac on that last corner at L-B-L in 2014....dude is a hard man.

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"one eye doubles my eyesight, so things don't look half bad" John Hiatt

he was giving one today doing a solid couple K of work at the base of the last climb

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"It's good enough for who it's for" - Grandpa Wayne

Double letter doping strikes again!

Matteo Spreafico caught with ostarine. I wonder if he will blame it on a tainted salt supplement.

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Saw that. Better than nothing but didn’t seem like the big turn the announcers made it out to be.

Dan Martin was emotional pre race. “Been a long time since I’ve won a race.” Good on him. Tough guy.

Yeah, I thought he went about 10 seconds too early *again*, but he just wasn't going to let anyone by him this time.

Only then to crash out in the first stage of that year's Giro

I was really glad for him when he won Lombardia that year. Gutsy performance.

Was even more thrilled when he shed Valverde to win LBL in 2013.

Frankly, any time Valverde loses, it's a win for cycling.

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"one eye doubles my eyesight, so things don't look half bad" John Hiatt

Don't forget, Martin also escaped the clutches of the rare and deadly Panda of Wallonia that day.



and I always link to this video when appropriate

Awesome!

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"one eye doubles my eyesight, so things don't look half bad" John Hiatt

Who picked Sunweb in 2020? They Ubiquitous.

and Dennis has shown impressive team tactics, got to hand it to him