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Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more

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Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + moreRichard Carapaz with the Giro d'Italia trophy in Verona (picture RCS Sport, LaPresse)
02 September 2019, 17:02
Team Ineos sign Giro champion Richard Carapaz

Giro d'Italia champion Richard Carapaz is moving from Movistar to Team Ineos on a three-year deal, confirming the Ecuadorian's widely expected switch.

The 26-year-old said: "I am very excited about joining the team. I feel this is a great opportunity for me to continue my development and growth as a rider, working with a team that continues to go from strength-to-strength, year after year.

“I already know a lot of the riders on the team and I am really looking forward to working everyone at Team Ineos from next season.

“I believe I will fit into this group well and race to my full potential over the coming years. I want to achieve some great triumphs for Team Ineos.”

Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford, welcomed the news of Carapaz’s arrival, commenting: “We are very pleased to have signed Richard from the start of the 2020 season. We have been long time admirers of his talents as a bike rider and have followed his development closely over a number of years, as we have always marked him out as a potential member of our team.

“He is obviously a fantastic climber but also has great versatility as he showed at the Giro earlier this year. He is still relatively young and I have no doubt he can develop and improve even further at Team Ineos.”

02 September 2019, 15:04
This is a bonkers course for the Prologue at the Boels Ladies' Tour in the Netherlands
02 September 2019, 14:28
One of the weirder transfer announcements we've seen

Here's how the French team Arkea-Samsic announced its signing from Movistar of Nairo Quintana, currently leading the Vuelta. It's up there with some of the weirder ones we've seen ...

02 September 2019, 12:15
Vuelta neutral service moto caused Roglic to crash, footage shows

Ahead of yesterday's final climb at the Vuelta, a hailstorm caused the TV relay to fail with viewers left looking at images from the finish line camera.

Now, images have emerged of one dramatic event that everyone missed at the time - Jumbo-Visma's Primoz Roglic crashing on the penultimate descent as he came round a bend and found a neutral service moto in his path ....

02 September 2019, 11:11
It was a long. cold wait for the cable car down to the team buses at the Vuelta yesterday

We imagine some riders didn't want to move from under the duvet on today's rest day

02 September 2019, 09:04
Best press clipping ever
02 September 2019, 08:51
Slam dunk! Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout
02 September 2019, 08:51
Shred it like Sagan ...
Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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brooksby | 5 years ago
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I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I'd seen toss it...

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LastBoyScout replied to brooksby | 5 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I'd seen toss it...

I'd love to chuck fag butts back into the driver's lap, too - preferably while still smouldering.

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JMcL_Ireland replied to LastBoyScout | 5 years ago
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LastBoyScout wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I'd seen toss it...

I'd love to chuck fag butts back into the driver's lap, too - preferably while still smouldering.

A mate did exactly that some years back. Chucked the still lit fag end back through the window onto its erstwhile owners lap and said "Sorry you dropped something"

Then again he is 6' 4" and when he wants to has a look that you don't want to mess with him - I would never have gotten away with that

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brooksby replied to LastBoyScout | 5 years ago
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LastBoyScout wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I'd seen toss it...

I'd love to chuck fag butts back into the driver's lap, too - preferably while still smouldering.

I remember a few years back, being the front seat passenger in a car.  My friend who was driving went to toss her cigarette butt out of the window but the wind blew it back in and onto the back seat.  Now that was a fun few minutes, trying to find it before we relived that scene in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"... 

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ktache | 5 years ago
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Sagan has to be Sagan.

It is the absolute joy of Sagan.

Thank you for the Lamborghini video.

As if the pollution wasn't bad enough.

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AlsoSomniloquism | 5 years ago
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Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it more down to the treachorous conditions that happened to be next to the bike? All seem to be past it and then the bike has to brake as he was down. It does look like Valverde(?) and then Roglic pass the bike with plenty of room first. 

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kil0ran | 5 years ago
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Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?

Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like

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LastBoyScout replied to kil0ran | 5 years ago
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kil0ran wrote:

Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?

Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like

It's perfectly ok - he had a helmet on...

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Organon replied to kil0ran | 5 years ago
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kil0ran wrote:

Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?

Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like

If he couldn't do this he wouldn't be Sagan, 1. you need the omni-biker-skills to be that good on the road and be World Champ 3 times, 2. Sagan the name, the brand is all about this stuff and that is worth millions. How many people will be buying Sagan bikes in 2024? [Hoy who?]

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kil0ran | 5 years ago
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Good to see that even back then such posts were useless without pictures.

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