That’s enough time to watch US sitcom Friends 8.22 times over.” And some are sobering: that certain Mr. For example, for Stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia on May 11, it is written: “In his ninth Grand Tour-after 728 hours of racing–Joe Dombrowski finally claimed a stage win. But some of the short items under “Trivia” are the best.
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Although we should not be surprised if he does.įor those who have watched the races, the brief description is often full of little surprises (see Dante, above) but most of the text is simply the list of top finishers, who got what jersey, a profile of the stage or overall race, the weather and, where there was a breakaway who was in that. In spite of putting on a wonderful show for the World Championships in Flanders, there was some heartbreak for the Belgians there but Wout van Aert cannot win everything.
I always think that, no matter how you prepare it, you always forget to thank somebody, but I did my best to speak from the heart.” You can actually imagine him writing this kind of thing.įar more analytical is the lengthier essay by editor Ned Boulting, a masterful summary of a season that began a bit bleakly with cancellations of the Tour Down Under and minor French races but went on to reward us with some great racing and standout performances not only by the new Young Guns of 2020, but also saw some ancient riders (Damiano Caruso, Alejandro Valverde, Romain Bardet, and, most brilliantly, Mark Cavendish) get the spotlight. Pogačar, the now two-time winner of the Tour de France provides a modest commentary on his win: “Standing on the podium in Paris is really beautiful. In addition to all of this exhaustive detail, the book also offers some excellent essays by participants. Pogačar and it was a sunny day of 15C with wind from the South at 7 kmh), it is all here. How appropriate.” If you need a useful fact, such as who won Stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico and what was the weather like (a certain T. There is a lot of very small print here through the nearly 800 pages and it is fun to just open it and random and rediscover moments, like Mathieu van der Poel’s Strade Bianche win: “The Flying Dutchman went into warp drive to win Dante’s race ( The Divine Comedy mentions villages, battlefields, and rivers on the stage route) on Michelangelo’s birthday. Every race gets its own page, with stage races getting pages for every individual stage. The core of “The Road Book” is the massively detailed coverage of many, many races. Wiebes, the trivia section notes, won 13 races in 2021, but all three of her WorldTour wins came in October.
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“The Road Book” is an extraordinary effort covering the whole pro season, this year going from January’s GP Cycliste de Marseillaise (won by Aurélien Paret-Peintre of AGR Citröen, of course) to the late October Ronde van Drenthe, the final race of the Women’s WorldTour, won by hard-charging Lorena Wiebes.