"I threw all my cards on the table, but Jay was also strong" - Simon Yates on his second place finish in the Tour Down Under stage 3
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Simon Yates ended up in second place in the third stage of the Tour Down Under, with Pello Bilbao coming out victorious. His hard work has paid off, as he now holds the third position in the overall classification.
He had hoped to come out victorious, but the final climb and Bilbao scuppered his chances. "I'm really disappointed by that," he said in the post-race interview.
He further added, "I threw all my cards on the table, but Jay was also strong. As a result, there was little room to launch another attack. We worked well together until the line, but I knew Bilbao was fast. I still tried to go around him in the sprint, and it was very close. I really wanted to win the stage."
Michael Matthews is no longer a top choice, leaving Yates as the only team member who can aid in achieving their GC ambition. "Vine looked really strong today, as did his team.If you don't try, you won't know. So we will look at the situation as it stands. There are two more important days coming up, so it's not finished yet," concluded Yates.
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- He is boring
leedorney08-11-2026 - To Twoje przemyślenia te bla, bla :)
Dariusz08-11-2026 - Uwielbiam patrzeć, jak wyjeżdża na czoło peletonu i zaczyna się rzeź...Dariusz08-11-2026
- Yeah, unreal.
parisbound0008-11-2026 - there needs to be space in life for pointless comments!Ketterechts08-11-2026
- That is a very lazy way of putting it but so far on this website it seems like everyone is happy to look at everything lazily, even things that annoy them intensely. All they want to do is state their feeling and position but ask most to analyse a problem or come up with solutions or improvements and you’re stunned by silence. Nobody even really knows how this all happens. It’s very simple and quick to just say the UCI did it but I bet you they didn’t, I bet you not more than 2 people were involved, more likely just 1. The UCI may be ultimately responsible but it is not their decision, this is about hierarchy, power and delegation. The fact that protest is possible also means it isn’t over and that MORE people could get involved for a thorough review which could throw up anything. It is highly likely it was a sole commissar who decided and has that power in a first round. Therein might lie the problem the UCI has to consider, is it acceptable to give so much authority to one single person when it is quite possible for them to have a natural bias or be too easily susceptible to imposed bias. Who is to say an individual in this position isn’t susceptible to collaboration with outside players with interests in the results, nations, families, teams, betting companies, etc. On the one hand we have sports where these problems have been worked on way more to reduce such problems, on the other hand we have sports with far stricter and more draconian rules not even concerning safety or obstruction that nobody really questions like false starts or stepping out of lane or zones in athletics. If cycling hastowork on itself, it would be good if protagonists (all kinds) would start doing a little more than just moaning over outcomes.Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- Yes, so why not make comments less pointless?Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
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Rafionain-Glas08-11-2026 - There really was nothing in it. Schreiber was so much faster, and Brand was fighting to stay in the wheel in the sprint. Schreiber did move a bit, but to say she closed the door doesn't make sense because Brand couldn't enter it anyway, abd she wasn't impeded.Rafionain-Glas08-11-2026
- He should have been allowed to go to Movistar. Right now both arent a good fit for each other and are just wasting each other's time and effortabstractengineer08-11-2026
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📰 RACE RECAP📰 "I knew Bilbao was fast, I tried to come around him and in the end in was pretty close, so I am a bit disappointed really. I obviously wanted the stage win, but that is how it goes." - Yates 🎙 #TourDownUnder 🇦🇺 greenedgecycling.com/2023/01/20/bou…
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