Riders STOP During Race in Freezing Conditions | La Flèche Wallonne 2024
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He's Welsh - this is good weather for him.
LOL. I said the same thing right before I read your comment.
And he dressed appropriately
@@jtmuso I noticed that as well. One of the few with leg warmers & shoe covers in winter temperatures.
Those Scandi UnoX boys were positively sweating!
Rain/hail hits in cold conditions; All southern Europeans:
Bye have a great time
Spain : 18 DNF out of 20 riders
Italy : 17 DNF out of 20 riders
Norway : 0 DNF out of 8 riders
@@doctorevil7740Those Norwegian probability complained about the hot conditions.
Weather is awful in the UK and the EU , max is around 10 degrees ???? Should be 20 now ? Looks like no summer again like last year unless in France but it was almost 40 last year there ...OMG.....
All the Scandinavians: "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing."
Also Norwegian men cross country skiing team at the WOG 2022 Beijing : Please, reduce the 50km race, because -15°C is too cold for us...
Thanks for not spoiling in the thumbnail. Was working all day and avoiding social media for this highlight moment. Great stuff, as always.
UAE smashing it and then all 7 DNF :))
just the warm up for sunday 😉
@@andre_bastos
Nice shot of Tihange Nuclear Power Station at the end. Cranking out glorious watts per kilo numbers
Thermo-biblical Watts/kg
@@janiser4711 lol you’re on a roll 😂
It is still slower than me with 100Watts :P
Epic race.....only 44 riders finishing....most of these top riders stopped for the greater goal next sunday....although the prediction is that the Weather won't be all that great on Sunday as well!!!
yep :-)
My god I am doing the 255 liege bastogne liege sportive on saturday and yeah, weather forecast looks like shit. I see fleche wallone footage and it looks like a horror movie I have to affront
@@javier019 huge respect for you Javier!!!!
@@javier019 you animal! best of luck!
@@javier019good luck!
Crazy race. Even though it didn't work out, nice showing from Søren Kragh
Last man standing kind of race. Love to see it.
dude i'd be pissed if my team didn't do their homework
Yeah, huge teams not knowing what's going on weather wise, insane
@@123oner2Don’t blame the teams, it’s the riders being extremely low weight nowadays. They just don’t have any reserves and depend solely on quick energies gels. But the body can only use those at the speed the digestion and other functions are able to distribute the energy. A bit of fat and muscle mass will enabled you to withstanding hard conditions, if you’re build like a skeleton you will suffer.
@@angrydoggy9170 errrr, no. It's the team's job to know about the weather and ensure the riders are best equipped to succeed in the race. Also, the riders training programmes are created by the team, vis a vis, their bodies are like they are due to the team.
@@123oner2 Their bodies are like that because they have to be to win races. Their equipment isn’t suited for harsh conditions because it has to be extremely lightweight. Riders can opt out, they can choose not to work under these conditions.
@@angrydoggy9170 Mate it's the state of bike racing. If some teams had made better clothing choices they'd have had a better chance of being competitive in the race. Bye
I think a lot of us must be flying desks at their office job considering how many views Lanterne Rouge videos get within the first 10 minutes lol
you mean how few, considering how tightly it is packed with quality content?
ah, look, a default country citizen
Timezones are a thing dude 😅
@@xAudiolith americans are americans
I was watching round about midnight. Great race, but I couldn't remember who had won once I woke up.
I don't understand how teams like UAE Trek and Ineos didn't anticipate the change in weather but supposedly inferior teams like Arkéa and Uno X prepared their races really well, I don't know if they should let it go or a lack of skill in certain teams but observing the evolution of the weather is still the basis of cycling.
Stevie Williams ‘ I kinda like racing in these conditions’ 😂 only a Welshman could say that
Really, the teams that did best were the ones who prepared their teams best and rugged up their riders soonest for the cold, wet weather. 👍🏻
The strongest rider doesn't always win the race, but today Stevie Williams did it, and did it with style! Only the strong survive.
A Welshman should be able to brave these conditions.
Not without gloves, and it’s not worth the price in terms of energy & flu risk compared to future races
Compared to LBL 1980 today was a nice spring day.
i looked it up and damn. 21 riders finished due to a snowstorm, hinault won by nearly 10 minutes but suffered frostbite on two fingers which took weeks to heal and caused him pain for years
Ah, the infamous "Neige - Bastogne - Neige" 😈
Perfect weather. Hoping for more of the same on sunday!
Great highlights. Benoot with no gloves on in the early snow, what a wild man :)
impressive early pick by guest commentator Luke Rowe
Perfect race for Mads Pedersen…🥶
Even here in Denmark the Weather was better.
belgium weather....
@@etiennebaree6176 You still have the best Pommes Frites.
10c in the wet you will be hypothermic within an hour. Wind chill is no joke.
Put on better clothing
@@MeesterJ Well too easy to say from home eh, only 44 riders finished...
@@Queen-be6mdNah, he’s right. You can easily ride at way colder temperatures with the right clothing. The main problem of course is to put on that clothing during the race.
@@MeesterJ easy if you're not actively trying to win a race
Nah, I had the same conditions on my ride today, only I started with gloves and a vest... 90 minutes was fine.
Rode a Gran Fondo in similar conditions this past weekend so I fully understand some of the rider's decision to pull out. 10 degrees with rain is COLD, especially while descending
I’m shocked how i’ll prepared so many of the big teams were completely unprepared for the weather. It was in the forecast none of this was a surprise.
THIS! How come Uno X were excited for the bad weather the day before (right expecting that they would do well with it) and others were completely caught out? The commentators mentioned how difficult it was to get back to the cars due to the small, winding roads. But if you are expecting basically the apocalypse, surely you also plan for that. Uno X obviously did.
Reminds me of when Yuki Kawauchi won the 2018 Boston marathon.
Quick question, why are long aero socks are not accepted as UCI rules, but Long Bibs are?
Because someone at the UCI doesn't like the look of long socks. I don't think you have to think about a more complex reason. It's the same with the s-works helmet sock. The UCI bans things on aesthetic grounds alone from time to time.
The UCI sock rule is that they can only come halfway up the calf muscle. I do t know what the aero advantage is with long bibs, but I’d imagine that in conditions like those, preserving body warmth trumps aero gains.
because the UCI are braindeaf
I was cold just watching them. That was one brutal race. I'm surprised that many finished in the lead bunch. They were still shaking on the podium. Uno X finishing with 6 riders was awesome, but they planned ahead. I was why didn't other teams do the samething, but what an epic race.
What a great result! Him and Kasia both! This is a great one!
This race left me with a big ol’ smile. 😍
Disappointed the saga of Jimmy Whelan's rain jacket didn't make the video!
crazy race, good recap!!
Of course the British guy wins in the rain 😂
brrrr, I still remember last year checking out the region over there. A promising spring afternoon changed into a thunder with lightning filled sky and heavy Belgian rain. Climbing mur de Huy and La Redoute like it is meant to be. Heroic conditions but thinking back to it I now feel sorry for the guys today...
I went in mid-October to ride solo LBL challenge 155km route, cold and wet but still way better conditions than today! But the weather was tricky, just a day before was short-short.
Great vid
Thanks
but is 6th and 13th enough for having the whole UNO-X Team in Group 1 ?
The bib tights made a difference. Kept the legs warm enough that blood flow wasn't restricted when it was time to go full gas.
thanks for making this video, i enjoyed it.
you don't get enough credit for the sheer lack of "like & subscribe" begging - liked and subscribed haha
Amazing to see Søren Kragh Andersen attempt to go for the stage win like that. He's been a rider on my watch-list after seeing his two TDF stage wins.
Quite interesting to see the color diversity in these conditions compared to the usual all-black jackets teams love to employ.
Uno-X, how many UCI points did they get out of this race with all of their riders finishing?
They got 220 points, 140 of them from Johannessen’s 6th place.
People always confuse hail with graupel. Hail rarely occurs in a cold temperature storm as it requires intense ground warmth to lift it repeatedly up into tall thunderstorms. What occurred during this race was graupel, which is rime ice and is closer to snow.
This reminds me of a race I participated in as a teenager. One guy was caught off guard by the side wind and got blown into the trench. Temperature dropped by more than ten degrees. Going uphill, the water came pouring down the street. Going downhill, the brakes on my carbon wheels just said "no", more or less. Having lost the peloton a long time before, I abandoned after around 45 / 110 km, and of more then 100 riders, around 20 finished that thing.
15°C is the legwarmer limit for me. in shorts with this weather is crazy,
I felt cold just watching this. Brutal day in the saddle.
UAE smashing it in the hail and then all abandon was the cycling moment of the year.
Nice video, thanks :)
Steve Williams had double rain jackets I think ?
Benji shared scary fan vid of Skelmose hyper therm shaking… had to be carried over road . Really bad 😢
I've always referred to the classics as "races for the hard men, sunshine boys stay home". This was brutal.
Yeah, good luck with that when that sunshine cranks up the temperature to 44 Celsius...
Crazy turn of events. Amazing to see teams so unprepared for Euro spring weather in this day and age of advanced technology. Weather radar anyone?
Both the men's and the women's winners; Andorran residents 💪🏼
"yeah, I do enjoy racing this kind of weather".
Benwaahhh 6:12 😂
This la Fleche Wallonne is like the cycling version of formula one. Usually a parade to the finishline, but this time cold as ice
I remember ditching Williams from my PCS team as soon as possible because his stats were shit and didn't seem to have potential either. As such I still scratch my head about his development. But that's just a much needed reminder that stats in games are just made up by random devs and say nothing about real riders and their potential years down the road.
I raced out of salt lake City Utah for a years and I'm pretty sure every bike race I know would have been ready for those conditions.
No word to skjelmose's race ending?
Now were just waiting for the "in my days" statement from lance armstrong
Wow. Misery.
44 rider has finish the race.
That was brutal
Was this the race where it was warm enough at this time of year for Valverde to get stung in the mouth by a bee or wasp?
Ha ha the 'ol Belgium sunshine!
A Welshman wins in cold wet and windy conditions. Makes sense 😅
I really thought Bayer was going to triumph over Glaxo/Welcome today:(
Katarzyna Niewiadoma won the Women edition - congratulations!
Thanks
Most clothing won. It was 4 degrees and raining during Søren Kragh Andersen's breakaway. The coldest classic ever?
Petition to have flèche rain and cold every year so it could be entertaining
When did Guillaume Martin get that extra surname (Guyonnet)?
Iditarod Invitational, Arrowhead 135, and Tuscobia 160 racers/watchers smirking right now😒😏
the weathergods heard LR trash la fleche wallone for years. made him work for this video. thanks to both.
Second. Grrr
Sean Yates would've loved this back in the day!
I keep hearing 'Murder Weed' lol
To finish. . . Was to have won!
It's cold and wet, and a Welshman wins ! 😅🏴🏴
Cheers to the finishers! That looks awful
Did anyone else notice the Arkea rider literally trying to take his gloves off halfway up the Mur in the final. Seriously, why try that late?
Stevie Williams is 27 going on 50.
It is interesting how so many people think the winner of the Amstel Gold race is the favorite for Fleche Wallone. Only 4 riders in the history of these tw races have done the double, those being David Rebellin, Danillo di Luca, Phillip Gilbert and Tadej Pogacar. The odds are low for a double, it seems like lazy picking Tom without considering that fact, I am specifically pointing out cycling news and velonews. BTW who would predict ineos would have zero finishers and Uno-x would have the full team finish.
I would love to see some slightly fleshy rider chase bad weather races.
honestly dont understand why you would dress in short sleeves and pants for this weather. Even if you are used to the cold, it will still affect your performance. Once you are cold it becomes almost impossible to ever get warm again, especially with the wet. In the end a rider dressed in all longs won..
Some of those guys will NEVER recover from what this has done to their hands. Ask me how I know. . .
Come on the Welsh!
wasn't it Flèche about 8 years ago that had riders being blown straight across the road into the ditch?
When riders abandon do they just literally say F**k this weather I'm out? How does it go down with the team car?
Norwegians used to bad weather lol
I don’t watch cycling much; can someone explain why riders, even from different teams, tend to ride in groups? Do they use each others’ slipstreams for better aerodynamics? Or is it something else?
Well, from the look of it it was no hail but graupel. Not that it makes things much more pleasant.
got hypothermia by watching the race at home.
Just shows a weakness of most pros - they go to hot climates every winter to keep training easy but you need to train in the cold to prepare for the bad days.
That’s what happens if you train to be extremely light and you fully depend on constant quick energy. Some belly fat would take you through these conditions without problems.
In the end a lot of cyclists dumped their rain jackets on the ground. Do spectators get to keep those? They cost a fortune on their online stores
lucky people
How hard is it for these teams to watch the +24hours of the weather radar?😂 Its not in perfect detail, but you can kinda guess that big storms will be coming
Clearly the french folks are good in cold and wet conditions, 5/10
Welsh Lion!
Was the biggest win in his career until LBL :-)
Kudos to Williams. Those shoes were white all race
Kudos for the winner. He didn't give a shit about the weather and also said in the interview he actually enjoyed it. Hell yeah!! That's the spirit, not like all the other pussies that quit 😂😂
Welsh summer perfect for the Welsh winner