Tour of Colombia SPOILER

[weisan]

Final stage.
Complete pandemonium last 5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55laxi1R4s4

Yesterday stage (5) - also quite exciting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKPWPBAo6f4

[GonaSovereign]

I don't know what's in the water there. Complete insanity. I love it!

(Except for the jack-asses on the side of the road.)

[mastaliu]

What a finish! Colombia should have a longer tour in the calendar - wonderful country, fantastic people, totally in love with cycling. I've been there to ride five times over the last 10 years and would move there if I could. One of these guys must win the tour at some stage. It's also nice to see these riders so good at young ages - Bernal, Sosa, Lopez, Martinez. No more of this pack fodder domestiques turned into tour contenders overnight....that has always been too close to the 90s for me.

Bocadillo de Guayaba!

[GonaSovereign]

This race and the ones related to it are always like knife fights.

Colombia has long been a secret training for Europeans. Jalabert, Virenque and that crew used to go there for these races (I guess tipped off by Rincon and crew), would race like crazy and would come back to Tour of Med and Paris-Nice with real fitness.

[mastaliu]

https://youtu.be/MYNYo3fnO1g

1995 World Championship in Colombia!

[shoota]

Holy crap that was exciting!

[Clean39T]

That was awesome - thanks for sharing!

[Heisenberg]

had the chance to be a couple hundred meters below the summit of stage 6.

this race had larger crowds than the tour. the future of road racing lies in colombia's hands.

https://i.imgur.com/TkCm6mk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EtsyDau.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zyctSpx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hjRkj7H.jpg

[Rafa]

That was awesome. Stage 5 was quite exciting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKPWPBAo6f4&app=desktop

[Rafa]

Those are some great images. You can feel the energy.

had the chance to be a couple hundred meters below the summit of stage 6.

this race had larger crowds than the tour. the future of road racing lies in colombia's hands.

https://i.imgur.com/TkCm6mk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EtsyDau.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zyctSpx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hjRkj7H.jpg

[AngryScientist]

Those are some great images. You can feel the energy.

yes, i was thinking the same thing. very cool stuff here. cycling is alive and well!

[weisan]

https://youtu.be/MYNYo3fnO1g

1995 World Championship in Colombia!

Awesome clip too!

Loves the steel bikes, Olano's rear flat tubular, Pantani vs Indurain etc

[GonaSovereign]

https://youtu.be/MYNYo3fnO1g

1995 World Championship in Colombia!

One of the best WCs. I wore out a VHS tape of the final five hours of that race.

[weisan]

One of the best WCs. I wore out a VHS tape of the final five hours of that race.

I have "digitized" it.

[charliedid]

That was fun to watch but the spectators still piss me off and stress me out and I'm sitting on my couch. I'll never understand the appeal or the tolerance of it.

[cmg]

thanks for the suggestion. Love'd the announcers enthusiasm over "Superman Lopez" antics. myth building at it's best. Who is he?

[nooneline]

thanks for the suggestion. Love'd the announcers enthusiasm over "Superman Lopez" antics. myth building at it's best. Who is he?

that's Miguel Angel Lopez, he's won the young rider competition at the Vuelta and the Giro, and was on the podium of both last year too. he also won the Tour de Suisse a few years ago. Big talent with growing palmares.

[jemdet]

thanks for the suggestion. Love'd the announcers enthusiasm over "Superman Lopez" antics. myth building at it's best. Who is he?

Third in the Giro and Vuelta last year... Although I mostly remember his Giro as a mission to keep his young rider's jersey / podium spot. Safe racing, not working on the front of chases, that sort of deal. He's purely tactical. Gluing himself to Sosa while Nairo went up the road is a good example.

Lopez is a wonderfully talented climber who unfortunately TTs about as well as Rigo and Nairo. He'll need the right grand tour or a lot of luck to make it work.

[weisan]

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