IDK sorry but I have a hard time imagining Sepp’s nationality was a mystery for many fans of the sport. You’re pretty constantly shown the origins of riders when watching cycling and he’s a big name.
You don’t have to imagine it: it happened to me!
I guess it depends on one defines ‘fans of the sport.’ Do you like bikes? do you like knowing who won stages? You still may not know him.
If you watch any big mountain stages when Jumbo is tracking like whoa, well, you must be asleep not to see him or hear him referred to as being from Durango, CO enough.
Australian commentators tho… We know exactly which club and suburb all the AU riders are from, but never once heard the word Durango til this year’s Vuelta.
But yeah, US-ian commentary would obviously be different.
In the coverage i was watching i noticed a distinct change in tack. The nationality of the riders was being dropped in references to them and was replaced by their team. It could just be the commentator, but could also be a sponsor driven thing. I dont like it as i dont follow close enough to know the teams or nationalities. Unless they won the national champs of their country you have no idea where they are from. Sepp Kuss sounds like an Austrian to me!
All I’m saying is that I think you would be an outlier.
FTR I watch everything on Eurosport, not US coverage. There are little flags next to everybody’s name! Maybe that’s not the case down south.
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Yeah, we can only watch Eurosport for anything resembling decent coverage sans commercials. Fucka nbccycling/peacock or whatever has most of the tours now.
Primoz leaving JV adds a new twist. Was he told to wait? Did he disobey and Jonas went with him to say “if Sep doesn’t win, you won’t either”?
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Yeah it’s an interesting plot twist!
I’m going with this ^^^^
With the merger news, next year’s tour could be fun with Jonas vs. Tadej vs. Roglic vs. Remco
That would be pretty wild. Hope they’ve got some good faithful domestiques.
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how is this even possible? dude sprinted the tire liners out of his tires? the chain drop i can understand but how do you put enough force on a road tire in a sprint to do this?
I think maybe we can assume that some serious shit happened right before this was taken and that him being upright and pointed forward at the time of the picture was just a coincidence.
Also, those could be latex tubes instead of liners.
What’s this from?
Did you see De Lie winning a sprint with one leg the other day? Man is annihilating his bikes.
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i didn’t realize anyone rode tire liners on road bikes, but I guess vittoria makes them and they do sponsor lotto-dstny.
i imagine sudden lateral movement is what caused this to happen, unseated his tire and the explosion of pressure lost popped the liner out.
As I understand it the use of liners is extremely common by the pros regardless of tire sponsor.
As most teams move to tubeless it’s a pretty serious safety consideration.
Yeah, the ability to continue riding a flat tire is massive
Looks like big 'ol skid patches on the side of that tire in spots where the liner is out.
Where’s the pic of the tour of colombia like 1994 with the guy riding on a flat rear and killing it
Jumbo Quickstep merger is off, apparently, Roglic signs with Bora. Jumbo-Visma still looking for a big enough sponsor to fill the jumbo hole in their budget
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Slow clap
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