Name the Location (Pro Cycling) New Challenge for Monday 1/30 on Page 11

[MattTuck]

I see you're sticking with the bridge theme for the other one.


Looks familiar, but can't place it. Need to think about it a bit.

[echappist]

Originally Posted by Hindmost

Lemond, Konychev, Kelly, Chambray 1989.

ding ding ding ding. we have a winner

incidentally, that's probably the sound of the alarm bell going off in Fignon's head when he saw Lemond bridging up

video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXSeWVUalBk

Originally Posted by MattTuck

I see you're sticking with the bridge theme for the other one.


Looks familiar, but can't place it. Need to think about it a bit.

it was unintentional. though i've just looked at the cache of upcoming entries, and a lot of them have bridges

[Hindmost]

Originally Posted by echappist

video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXSeWVUalBk

One of the best finales ever!

(Was it Bauer that stacked on the wet descent?)

[MattTuck]

Though we still have one challenge unresolved, I wanted to change it up for this week. Hopefully with an easy, medium and hard and one that is more relevant than ever.

Here's the one that is still open



For today, name the flag

Easy?


Medium?


Hard?


Relevant?

[echappist]

flag for the hard category is Sardinia

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by echappist

flag for the hard category is Sardinia

Correct.

[Hindmost]

For the image that is still open: are we in the Ardennes?

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by Hindmost

For the image that is still open: are we in the Ardennes?

My gut says that the trees have too many leaves for it to be in the spring. I think (for really no reason whatsoever) that this is the stage in last year's TDF that Cancellara was expected to win (sort of a steep climb near the finish), I forget who ended up winning, but it wasn't Canc. That is just a WAG. But sometimes those are the best.

I don't have enough confidence in that answer though to make it my 'final answer'

[echappist]

Originally Posted by Hindmost

For the image that is still open: are we in the Ardennes?

yes we are

Originally Posted by MattTuck

My gut says that the trees have too many leaves for it to be in the spring. I think (for really no reason whatsoever) that this is the stage in last year's TDF that Cancellara was expected to win (sort of a steep climb near the finish), I forget who ended up winning, but it wasn't Canc. That is just a WAG. But sometimes those are the best.

I don't have enough confidence in that answer though to make it my 'final answer'

gut reaction is correct. unfortunately not in TDF, though very close.

[azrider]

Easy flag: Lion of Flanders

[Hindmost]

I am getting a Majka or Alaphilippe vibe.

[choke]

Medium flag = Basque
Relevant flag = Colombia

[echappist]

Originally Posted by azrider

Easy flag: Lion of Flanders

not quite.

this is de Vlaamse Leeuw



what @MattTuck posted is the flag of the Flandrien separatist movement. To the separatists, the red claws completes the tricolor of the Belgian flag, and is thus eschewed.

Originally Posted by Hindmost

I am getting a Majka or Alaphilippe vibe.

what's the major river that courses through the Ardennes?

[MattTuck]

I'd have accepted a generic "flag of Flanders", as I did not realize the whole red claws thing. But makes sense. When I see it, I think I just identify the black/yellow lion as representing Flanders without appreciating the nuances of the political situation there.

Originally Posted by choke

Medium flag = Basque
Relevant flag = Colombia

Right, you are.

[sand fungus]

La Roche - first guess..

Thinking Liege Bastonge Liege