Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

[Jeremy McCreary]

Glad to see Narvaez back in winning form after breaking several thoracic vertebrae in a nasty solo crash in the Tour Down Under just 4 months ago!

Say what you want about UAE, they're certainly adapting well to having so many top riders out on injuries. A deep bench indeed!

I like Eulalio and hope he gets to stay in pink a little while longer. But ultimately pulling for Jonas. The better he does in the Giro, the more confidence and fire he'll have for his battle with Pogi in the TdF.

 

[Rás Cnoic]

I dont really have a horse in the race. For sake of competition in the coming Tour I like to see Jonas do well. But Pog is remarkable not just his TdF victories but his old skool attacking in every and all races. From Armstrong onwards to the Sky years they all just focused on the TdF, it seemed the only race in town, whereas previous riders rode all the big classics and often 2 grand tours if not all three. Guess they needed the money back then! But you can find 80s TV footage of Greg LeMond at Paris Roubaix, Flanders etc as well as his 3 TdF victories. Pog has brought us back to that and the sport is more exciting for it. Here at the Giro I just want a fight to the final day, for what ever reason Jonas is being cautious and that leaves the chance someone can compete, like Gall and Pellizzari did in the first week. Good to see how relaxed Eulalio was post finish today. He has a top ten spot to aim for now, which is doable, and along with several days in the pink would be a fantastic result.