I always root for the breakaway. Its the only true underdog story in sports

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

@Michael00000001

Ай бұрын

Well said. And history is full of epic moments, e.g. one LBL (?) where Austrian Georg Totschnig went solo at km 1, then the weather turned, nobody wanted to chase or to join, the poor guy didn't want to go solo any longer but forced by the DS to keep on going - I think it needed another 100k they had mercy and catched him. 😂

In Valgreen's post-race interview he mentions that Thomas recruited him for that break. Good idea to get riders you know will contribute and be serious. So I'm glad Thomas and Valgreen went one-two.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Always good to have so willing helpers 👊🦋💪

I'm glad the guy who sat on, did not win!

@alpsalish

Ай бұрын

Do you know why?

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Exactly 👍 🦋

@alpsalish

Ай бұрын

I actually had no problem with it given the rider.

@333wheeler

Ай бұрын

Team orders prob. He knew it was his only chance and he only started missing when the gap was secure.

@USUG0

Ай бұрын

after the race he said he just didn't have the legs to do much more than hanging in there. And his failed attempt, despite creating a good gap initially, kind of showed it. He was also the only rider of a non world tour team. That is, the underdog among the four underdogs.

Brought back the memories of Stages 18 and 19 of the 2023 Tour, when the breakaway held off the sprinters led by Jasper Philipsen, resulting in wins for Kaspar Asgreen and Matej Mohoric respectively.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

Thank you, Chris! Your re-cap saves me hours of being a chesterfield potato and analysis from being a sucka! :). 🤙

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

I got ya 👊🦋

Always happy to see Cofidis win!!

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

When watching it live, I know strategy is an important part of winning, but when Pietrobon was sitting on the four man breakaway I couldn't help thinking oh man this is a cheap move, and when he faded and the race was on I was cheering for any/all of the other three.

@oscarw1060

Ай бұрын

Yeah. Huge respect to Paleni for sacrificing himself just to give the other two a chance and prevent Pietrobon from winning.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

We all were 😂🦋👊

@williamblackburn3572

Ай бұрын

@@oscarw1060 and come in 4th... how is that great? Sounds like there's a knucklehead tag missing here called Paleni.

The Break really deserved that . Like one of them said after . They realised the gap was holding with the help of a nice tail wind and as long as they kept pounding away at those kinda speeds it was going to take something special to close the gap in the remaining distance.

Thanks for everything Chris.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

As a Dane it is great to see Valgreen back after his horror crash in June 2022. Well done Michael to be up there again where the fun is🎉

Damm, I jusdt can't wait for you recaps. Makes my day.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

@Moishe555

Ай бұрын

me too

Ewan did this in his last team… at some point I would think this would make him undesirable. All the wining needs to stop. Between the riders and their families on social media.

@EMC2Scotia

Ай бұрын

Remember Taylor Phinney talking about the effects of the media training a young athlete does at the beginning of their careers, during the second Thereabouts documentary? I think at times it’s as much if not more so the audience that does the whining; it’s not all about winning, which is hard enough as Chris touches on for any rider, Ewan included. Let them be real, and know sitting on the Chesterfield means what we think we know is often miles away from what is going on in the races and on the team bus.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Drama never stops. 🦋💥👊

Love how Chris narrates and explain the whole stage without saying beforehand how the stage finish. No GC results, not the stage winner 👌🏻👌🏻

Masterful commentary Way to go Chris!

Brilliant as always Chris!!

Was absolutely stunned to see that breakaway win! What were the sprinters’ teams thinking? Poor riding by Lidl-Trek, just letting the other teams burn their trains and then falling back.

Another Knucklehead day 😂

@RaymondOlgado0

Ай бұрын

😂 😂 😂

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Sometimes we have to look hard for Knuckleheads and sometimes, they are right out in the open. 😂👊🦋🏆 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

@robbchastain3036

Ай бұрын

We gotta have knuckleheads on sprint stages because a sprint is not enough entertainment. 😀

Another enjoyable aside by Chris! This one on head bleeding of all things.

This grand tour has been thus far one of the most interesting I've ever watched! Every day something happening.

Off topic but at some point can you talk about what rider needs to go through mentally and physically to get back to the top after a big crash? We saw that Froomey never got there, you had trouble, Bernal is trying hard and now Vingegaard will give it a go. Remco fell in a ditch few years ago but was able to shake it off with some big one day and Vuelta wins.

@ShawnStradamus520

Ай бұрын

Of the examples that you mentioned, Froomey was already washed up before his terrible crash while the others were young enough at the time of their injuries to recover and get back to their best. It also has to do with what the specific injuries are…

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Some crashes like mine you can’t come back from. The lungs never recovered or were the same. But I like that topic. 🥲🦋👍

@AKG77

Ай бұрын

​@ShawnStradamus520 Froome was the defending tdf winner before the crash right. How was he already a wash up back then?

@ShawnStradamus520

Ай бұрын

@@AKG77 no, Froome’s last TDF GC win was 2017, which he won without winning a single stage. Then he was supplanted by G Thomas (‘18) on Team Sky (now Ineos) before his crash at Dauphine in spring 2019. But my point was that by then he had already really lost the ability to win road race stages, relying more on consistency and the strength of Team Sky (not to mention his generous inhaler use) to win on GC. His world tour swan song was winning the Giro (‘18) the year before his crash when he pulled a “Landis” out of his hat in a now legendary mountain raid on the penultimate stage after really having ridden notably subpar for the first 19 stages. He never won another world tour race after that…he’ll be 39 on May 20.

Great recap/analysis as always!

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

How about one day after the season a show & tell about your favorite jerseys?

Ok, if viewed from the start this normally boring to last minute exciting sprint finish was just stunning in coastal views in perfect weather. Not the point of the butterfly effect, but does make one wonder about future ride possibilities…

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Everyone loves the coast rides. 🌊🐳🦋👊

Love your rational, real world expertise and insights and the way you “tell the story” of a race, Chris. One suggestion: I like your the Headlines for your Butterfly Effect pieces but it would be really helpful if you could include the race, year, and stage so that it’s easy to tell right away what the topic of the video is.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

The Butterfly effect is always today’s race covered right after it finishes.👊🦋🙏

Caleb Ewan's crashes are, surely, a function of his riding style - extreme Cavendish with head over the front wheel. Therefore weight over the front wheel. Hence steering instability. While Cav should have retired last year after the crash after the chain jumped off what would have been his record-setting stage win, he ended up outlasting Ewan's generation of sprinters and surviving into the current era (in short, Cav saw about 5 generations of sprinters from the one's he displaced through his generation (Farrar), the next lot (Kittel)... Ewan.

Thanks

Glad the Polti rider didn't win.

@gusbus1973

Ай бұрын

You the biggest hater there is. You do not want to see smaller riders win races

@alpsalish

Ай бұрын

Gary the asshole. Unless this is a sick joke.

@rafalpruszynski1707

Ай бұрын

​@@gusbus1973wheel suckers shouldn't win

@garysladek9110

Ай бұрын

@@gusbus1973 Who won?

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Right. Wheel sucker. He sat on so much. 🛞😗🦋👊

Yes, I just never had much sympathy for dropped sprinters. As always great commentary.👍🏼

Caleb has a point as the team has very few options in getting a win except for him, so it makes logical sense... Looks like the team is not working for their sprint leader...

What happened with Cristoph LaPorte's crash? That must have been one helluva road hole and maybe deserving of a special marker to warn riders.

@janefreeman995

Ай бұрын

I saw an interview with Tadej and a team member hit a rut at 300 meters to go. It was a bit of a complaint about road conditions.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

He relaxed at the wrong moment and got very unlucky. 🤔😱🦋

Caleb Ewan doesn't have it anymore....the days of sprint trains are over

14:15.. lol love it

Caleb Ewan wines too much and doesn't win enough to justify it

@DDai-qd8uk

Ай бұрын

He is a big drinker

@chrisralston2654

Ай бұрын

He wines, then whines

@rfinnegan7106

Ай бұрын

Whines about wine as well, then.

@diawestTV

Ай бұрын

and he did crash sagan out of the win at tour ... did sagan ever blamed him, he didn't did he

@swisstopia

Ай бұрын

Australian wines are getting better.

Hey Chris what about closing each video with a sentance or two about the next day stay...even if it just...look to tomorrow for the clinbers to come out or should be another sprinter stage...etc...thanks

So Chris, how much talking do the sprinters do to themselves on the bus? We see them here fussing with their teammates outside the bus, but do they continue the drama inside? Something like, "I know I could've won, I know I could've won yesterday, I know I could've won the day before. 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. But I am surrounded by people who do not care about me. They must be jealous, all I can figure. They'd rather see me finish with them than win the stage and pop open the bubbly in front of my adoring fans." 😀

With Molano I'm just not sure why UAE brought him, with some scenarios being possible in my head: - Their points and victory greadiness made them want to be able to compete for every stage? (Them over estimating Molano's potential Giro form and abilities against this field of opponents ) - They promised him he'd go and sticked with that promise. - Their arrogance thinking they wouldn't need him at all. - Them thinking Molano can do more for Pogačar than we've seen thus far. You know that with the Slovenian wonderkid you're likely going to ride in pink early, which comes with responsibilities. While also teams are going to put everything on you because you got the #1 favourite. In that scenario I just can't wrap my head around the UAE technical staff not choosing for the safe option of bringing an extra climber. If Bjerg or Majka falls, this team is seriously hurt. Probably if Majka drops out Pogačar will have to do a hell of a lot more and earlier. And for what? Molano is a capable sprinter, who's able to win against the lesser gods of the peleton. Or surprise them from a far, if other teams make a miscalculation. Yet this season Molano hadn't shown prior to the Giro that he was in top form or could contest with the best sprinters. Now you got Molano there that isn't likely to get even constistently top 5 placings. Maybe I'm not seeing another reason. He's on a contract until 2026 for some reason, so using him makes sense. But not if you got GC ambition in a grand tour which UAE always will have. Plenty of other opportunities.

Chris would make a great DS. There must be a Us Pro or Continental team that could use this common sense?!?!

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

Can't see ewan winning another Grand Tour stage again

Im surprised caleb ewan found a WT team

Someone is pissing somebody else off because, unlike Tim Merlier, whom Soudal (I think almost the whole team) went back to pace, Ewen was left solo! I would have taken a right and gone to the beach in Portofino!

The bill has come due for Whatever deal with the Devil Jumbo Visma made to win all the GTs last year... Zero luck in the big races this year and everything that can go wrong did go wrong (except Jorgenson) for their GT team... Good to see that Pogi rode smart today...Alpecin? Not so much...

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👹🦋🤔🍀

@ivanj86

Ай бұрын

Yeah what i was thinking too, last year they conquered pretty much everything but this year their luck is not so good

I'm an Aussie and find it hard to root for Ewan. At least we also have Groves

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Groves’ was good yesterday. The team started all the chaos today. But certainly made the stage exciting. 🦋👊

@chrisko6439

Ай бұрын

You'll always have Robbie, who is doing an excellent job. So glad Australian TV sacked him, now the international audience can enjoy.

Ipt's rider, Reisbetg (good kid), broke his hand, and wont start today😢

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Ouch. That’s bad news. 🥲🦋

Mr butterfly effect! How do we get a live stream with you narrating it!

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

That would be hard to do. I would need all kinds of help to make that possible. Right now while I’m watching the race I’m making breakfast sandwiches or egg burritos every morning while I watch it live. I would at least need a chief to make breakfast so I don’t starve. 😂🍳👊🦋

Dr Horner will see you for your head injury now. 😂

I am just baffled that the peloton didn't take extra measures for a break that got away with only 75k to go. As if that didn't get the alarmbells ringing, there was a tailwind and it was two worldclass riders up there, along with an admirable Paleni, thanks for your sacrifice 🙏 Another lesson I guess.

Hi Chris, I will be in Bend in 2 weeks for a cycling week with some buddies! Is there any way we can meet up for a short ride or coffee chat while we are there? If so, please let me know the best way to contact you!

Come on man, it's FABIO Jakobsen

Great analysis Chris, but could you please just slow down, the commentary is just too fast to follow properly - cheers 👍

How were those Lemond bikes back in the day? Looks like you used them on both teams

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Some broke. Some didn’t. The ones that didn’t road nice. The half Ti and half Carbon😱🦋

Michael Woods is definitely not a big time favorit to win a stage in any race. He's on the Premier Tech retirement home.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Ouch. Didn’t help his cause with the crash today. Hopefully the guy isn’t to badly hurt. 😬🦋

@simoncbr900rr

Ай бұрын

Premier Tech retirement home 😂😂😂that's gold

Reap what you sow !

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

🦋👊

The Butterfly Effect is alive and well, here in Switzerland. Thanks, Chris and Garrett! 🦋👍👊

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

thanks you chris! can't always watch races because I am busy. you rock!

The issue is not that Caleb does not have support. The issue is that Caleb has also been sucking as of late in light of the general lack of support.

I think the dumbest part was holding the initial break so tightly and then catching them far too early 🤦 - no way that original break would have made it to the line, but was great to watch the second break doing a smooth ‘team’ time trial whilst the sprinter teams squabbled over who would ride…

@philipkoop9411

Ай бұрын

Catching the break half way through the stage is one of those "but it might work for us" meme things.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

I couldn’t believe it when Lidl stopped working. I mean I get that they were upset but when you have Milan wearing the sprint jersey you got to expect to ride more then half your team. 😱🦋💥🤷🏼‍♂️

What a shame For Michael Valgren! So happy he's back real nasty Crash In June 22! Knucklehead for a Organisation to Start a race on A Mountain top🙄 one meter From a 100m fall😱☠️ Cycle riders are Special Though Humans👍💪! Thanks to CH for the channel👍 Jay Nerds Like Me love it🤣🤣🤣🤣😜 Believe in Schachmann to day 🔝❤️

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

👊🦋

Ewan reminds me of Cadel Evans, he blamed his team mates from Lotto at the time instead of himself.

The Epogen effect?

Was Nick Schultz one of the IPT riders who crashed today? I think Schultz and Hermans could be contenders for tomorrow's stage.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Lots went down. Hopefully all are ok. 😬🦋🤞

In his interview after the race, Benjamin Thomas said they knew already with 10km to go that they can make it: It was all downhill, and they had a tailwind.

Did you just say Jimmie Johnson races bikes now? Sheesh. Long way from nascar.

@bobfoster687

Ай бұрын

Or the Cowboys!

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Yes I did. I love to call him Jimmy Johnson because NASCAR was always on when I was kid getting ready to leave for the weekend races in SoCal. The only thing on tv in the mornings on the west coast that you have playing in the background while I got ready. 😂🦋👊

Johnny Milano 😅😅😅

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

🇮🇹🦋💪

Robbie McEwen had very little team support over his career, but have a look at his palmare. Caleb hasn’t fulfilled the expectations people had of him.

@RaymondOlgado0

Ай бұрын

As if he was like his fellow Aussie, Cadel Evans.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

He’s had some hard crashes. I will give him a free card for now still. 😬🦋👊

I believe it was Foss that crashed. Given his record, surprised G didn't crash😂.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Yep Foss went down and got stuck under some bikes 😱🦋😬

6th at least in top 10. Laporte was penalized 20s and is -2 pts for the climbers jersey. What do riders do to earn that? I am surprised the break held on. I really didn't expect that.

@ellen5165

Ай бұрын

Laporte and Bert Van Lerberghe were both fined and penalized for riding on the sidewalk in stage 3.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

The break slipped away from some knuckleheads playing games behind. It’s always a knucklehead that helps the break stay way unless it was Jen’s up the road. Cause Jen’s just smashed everyone. 💪😂🦋👍

@philipkoop9411

Ай бұрын

@@ChrisHornerCycling Every now and then I re-watch LBL 2005 because it's just freakin unbelievable.

@ellen5165

Ай бұрын

@@ChrisHornerCycling I've loved watching Thomas De Gendt in a breakaway. He didn't always succeed but fun to watch him try. Especially enjoyed him Stage 8 2019 TDF when he held off the charging French guys, Alaphilippe and Pinot, to take the win.

@cuebj

Ай бұрын

No-one expects the break to stay away, least of all the folk in the break. Get in twenty, maybe one stays away and you have a chance to win. For the diesel engines with no sprint and too heavy to do well in the mountains. Get lucky with fellow riders of similar type and all on a good day, timing, wind direction, energy in the main bunch, and your CV and contract for next season is sorted

Caleb ( don't wanna) Ewan surprised His ewen has a employer this season!🤮 Did work dineal last year.

Ewen for some reason has been a complainer in recent years. Yes, Lotto did him a bit dirty last year and since his crash with Sagan in the Tour he's been hurt a lot, but it's a tough business for sprinters, and always has been. One second you're up, the next you can't win anything. Ewen could be a little more humble sometimes, but he may have had a point yesterday.

Chris

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

❤️🦋👊

Wait, didn't I see Ewan get dropped on a climb today?? If so, how is that on his team?

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

He did get dropped with Fabio and Gaviria near the summit. No teammates with him. 😬🦋

@cuebj

Ай бұрын

That's what happens with sprinters: dense bones and muscle suited to high lactic efforts. If a team is riding for a sprinter, they expect to go back with him and escort them back to the bunch. In getting back, sprinters often do the fastest descents in mountains stages (as in the year Tom Pidcock won Alpe d'Huez due to his descent at front of the race but he wasn't fastest descender). There is a case for saying that sprinters have it hardest: they have to go flat out in stages they're expected to win and they have to bust a gut to make the qualification time in mountain stages; climbers just sit in with slipstreaming and benefit from the modern light bikes with 24 + gear ratios on the days they're not expected to contend

Visma is crashing a lot this year.

You all do Caleb dirty. He basically says that the team chemistry is not there yet and they will further discuss this in the evening. I see nothing wrong there. Its not complaining, just stating the facts.

Caleb is so yesterday's man. Hasn't done anything for quite a long time. Younger guys are faster and stronger. Also Jayco just don't know what they want to focus on....GC or sprints??? - they are too weak overall to do both.

An out of the context comment. You really need to change the background color. White or something more refreshing would be much better for the viewer :D

Pietro Bon has ruined his chances for quite a while… the peloton will remember this cynical sitting on… 😮

Caleb Ewan is never NOT whining about something. Blah blah this blah blah that. Cry me a river. I honestly can't stand him. He'd blame anything that moves (or didnt) before blaming himself as he picks his crap up off the deck when he falls (and falls again). The most over-rated rider in the peloton with a completely over inflated sense of self-importance. Not even a close contender - pack fodder.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

He certainly has had some hard crashes the last two years. 😬🦋

Caleb Ewan ISN'T HAPPY with his Team --> what else do expect from a ‘B’ team?

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Yep. Sprinters always want the perfect lead out. 🦋💪

@nakawesiabia6311

Ай бұрын

He wasn’t happy with lotto dstny and now jayco he’s the problem

@cuebj

Ай бұрын

Could do like Cav did when he re-joined Quickstep on the B team, didn't expect any more but did his best and ended up on TdF team as personality issues worked in his favour. He took his chance big time such that the Belgians worked together to block him on Champs

Caleb Ewan seems to have this with all his teams, gives something to think

Caleb, quit crying.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

The team never left a rider with him when he dropped. Sure he had Q/S back there but ouch. 😬🦋

The only thing Caleb should be unhappy about is that no one watches sprint stages. Let's be honest, we are all waiting for the climbs.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

I love the climbing stages. ❤️😂🦋👊

@nakawesiabia6311

Ай бұрын

Can’t wait on Saturday stage

@cuebj

Ай бұрын

Sprint stages can be great to watch - the last 60km and to have some idea of how long it took to form the break. More like cinema wild west shootouts with a long build up

Caleb Ewan looks alot heavier nowadays just like his teammate Dylan Gronewegan, he can win races it just has to be right circumstances and if he goes to the Tour he'll need some big luck to beat clearly the best Sprinter of Jasper Phillipsen. Ewan gets beat around alot at the end of the sprints and the way I see Ewan winning Sprints again is a straight up flat stage with no hills he doesn't find good position at the end of these sprints and it's because all the other sprinters are way too aggressive and they race like Knuckleheads😂🦋🦋

@pingogpong

Ай бұрын

Ewan is a B tier sprinter now. If everyone has the same amount of luck he's never winning again

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Caleb has to win here cause Dylan is going to the TdF for JayCo. 🤔🦋👍

@cuebj

Ай бұрын

Just had this thought: Caleb Ewan being so small, he can't see ahead without poking his nose into the wind and that knocks him back a bit. I've said for years that his sprinting style as an extreme Cav - head below the bars almost on the front wheel has too much weight over the front wheel and leads to steering problems and crashes.

Caleb Ewan did not do anything at the Tour Down Under home race for him!! Dropped every other stage... Get Fabio off of theat Scott simple!!

Caleb is a has been.

ENOUGH with this NOBODY! This dude might be a great weekend club rider but is nothing in the peloton. I'm so sick of hearing his excuses -(ALL THE TIME!) and never liked him from day one! Buh-bye!

Groves is useless and washed. But his ego has grown.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Ego’s love to grow. 😂🦋👊

Last 10 minutes exciting but otherwise a sprint snooze fest

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

At least 36k to go is must watch. I enjoyed all of it though. 🤔🦋👊

Fabio is deadweight, a sprinter that can't even be in a sprint is useless

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Hard three stages so far for Fabio. Yikes 😬 🦋👍

Caleb whines about everything

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

His time at Lotto got ugly. 😱🦋

Sprinters are the lowest form of life in cycling to win. You need a team to lead you there ? There are always guys sprinting for the line,get a wheel man they don't have to be wearing the same kit you have

Not worth a penny this guy. Worst human in the sprinting cycle.

ride fast die last ! bravo thomas ,1st win for cofidis , top sprint . what is the word in english for baroudeur ? njoy !🐛🦋

@ellen5165

Ай бұрын

I think baroudeur, a breakaway specialist, loosely translates to adventurer or opportunist in English.

@ChrisHornerCycling

Ай бұрын

Traveler. Break away specialist. 👊🦋

@leduch

Ай бұрын

@@ChrisHornerCycling merci !