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Greetings, cycling 
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Last year the Velogames thing was pretty cool, with a surprise overall winner (Congrats sammy!). I thought that whole thing was pretty cool, so this year I'll pitch in a priceless (or, you know, definitely for sure will be one day) piece of cycling memorabilia to go to the winner. Three Grand Tours, one grand champion. Hopefully that will get some more folks to land in here for another season of cycling chaos. Prize to be announced at the proper time.
The season is starting up (though I mostly ignore the super early stuff) so I wanted to get this going. Looks like the Tour Down Under is close to starting. There are other smaller races for early season warmup - Tour of Oman being the best of them (that's in early Feb.). As always, it seems, the question is how to get this stuff on TV in the US. I found a couple good Google Sheets on that - here and here. Peacock coverage here. As with last year I personally carry Peacock for the year and will buy a month of Max to catch the Giro. The rest on tiz-cycling if I'm really jonesing for some race we don't get easily.
Early season it looks like all four big contenders will be at the TdF, which is awesome. We can just hope no crash like last year happens again. That leaves a hole at the Giro and there are rumors that Wout will go for the overall. He says hell no, but pffft who really believes that? That would be ridiculous, so am all for it. Of course, he has to recover still as that knee injury was nasty. And Remco is still recovering from getting doored.
So welcome all! Come on in. The chamois is just fine here.
Edit: Stage Race Championship Link for the Velogames 12 race contest. This isn't the big one (Grand Tours Championship) that has the special grand prize - I'll post that one closer to the Giro. Still fun, so if you want in pop into the thread!
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s!Last year the Velogames thing was pretty cool, with a surprise overall winner (Congrats sammy!). I thought that whole thing was pretty cool, so this year I'll pitch in a priceless (or, you know, definitely for sure will be one day) piece of cycling memorabilia to go to the winner. Three Grand Tours, one grand champion. Hopefully that will get some more folks to land in here for another season of cycling chaos. Prize to be announced at the proper time.
The season is starting up (though I mostly ignore the super early stuff) so I wanted to get this going. Looks like the Tour Down Under is close to starting. There are other smaller races for early season warmup - Tour of Oman being the best of them (that's in early Feb.). As always, it seems, the question is how to get this stuff on TV in the US. I found a couple good Google Sheets on that - here and here. Peacock coverage here. As with last year I personally carry Peacock for the year and will buy a month of Max to catch the Giro. The rest on tiz-cycling if I'm really jonesing for some race we don't get easily.
Early season it looks like all four big contenders will be at the TdF, which is awesome. We can just hope no crash like last year happens again. That leaves a hole at the Giro and there are rumors that Wout will go for the overall. He says hell no, but pffft who really believes that? That would be ridiculous, so am all for it. Of course, he has to recover still as that knee injury was nasty. And Remco is still recovering from getting doored.
So welcome all! Come on in. The chamois is just fine here.
Edit: Stage Race Championship Link for the Velogames 12 race contest. This isn't the big one (Grand Tours Championship) that has the special grand prize - I'll post that one closer to the Giro. Still fun, so if you want in pop into the thread!
FBG Stage Race Championship
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