“Should people have earmarked certain stages for Wout Van Aert to win, he could have been considered a strong favorite for about 15 of the 21, and this Double Ventoux stage was definitely one of the 6 he was unsuited for. But we are in the Second Golden Age of cycling because the generational stars, the top showmen of the sport like this Wout Van Aert still surprise us. “
Tag Archives: Eddy Merckx
2021 TDF Stage 10: Nostalgia and Fence Sitting
“After his second stage win this Tour, I had declared that we were all back on Record Watch. Even more so today, the Cannibal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour stages is no longer at all safe. So let us have a conversation that was probably taking place a decade ago in 2011, finally now is the appropriate time to rehash it.”
2021 TDF Stage 6: Record Watch
“It is clear to all: we are witnessing legendary events. Mark Cavendish the Manx Missile has just won his 32nd Tour de France stage. The nostalgia for the HTC days of a bygone era have not yet and will not ever dissolve for the remainder of this Tour—especially not here where Cav took his first Tour stage 13 years ago. But with this win, sound the alarms, be on your guard. For the entire next fortnight with the intensity of a wartime coast guard, we are now on watch. Not for enemy fleets, submarines, or armadas of fighter jets and bombers; no, the entirety of the cycling world is now on Record Watch.”
A TALE OF TWO COLOMBIANS
TDF 2020, Stage 13 Chatel-Guyon – Pas de Peyrol (Le Puy Mary) 191.5 km. Steep Puy Mary sees intense breakaway duel for stage honors, and catches out some GC favorites behind.
A CHANGING OF THE GUARD ON ORCIERES-MERLETTE?
As in 1971 on the same climb, a giant was upset. Is this the first lethal blow dealt or is it too early to proclaim a changing of the guard?
Cycling Odysseys 