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Poll
What was the 2021 Men’s Road Race of the Year?
This poll is closed
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3%
Olympic Road Race: Golden Carapaz
(5 votes) -
16%
World Championships: Ala Repeats
(21 votes) -
33%
Paris-Roubaix: Drama in the Mud
(43 votes) -
2%
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Pogacar Sprints
(3 votes) -
7%
Tirreno Stage 5: van der Poel Goes Long
(10 votes) -
1%
Milano Sanremo: Stuyven’s Big Day
(2 votes) -
12%
Strade Bianche: van der Poel Powerful Finale
(16 votes) -
4%
Tour de France St. 4: Cav is Back!
(6 votes) -
2%
Tour St. 8: Teuns Wins, Pogs Takes Control
(3 votes) -
3%
Tour St. 11: What the Wout??
(5 votes) -
3%
Tour St. 13: Cav Ties Merckx
(4 votes) -
0%
Giro Stage 9: Bernal is Back too!
(1 vote) -
3%
Ronde van Vlaanderen: Asgreen Shocker
(4 votes) -
1%
European Champs: Colbrelli outlasts Evenepoel
(2 votes) -
3%
Another Day
(5 votes)
Some quick recaps...
Olympic RR: Richard Carapaz shreds the elite field and soloes to golden glory
World Championships: Classics racing in Belgium, but it’s the French defending winner (from a Belgian trade team) who outfoxes the home team and an elite field in a chess match of a race.
Paris-Roubaix: A rollercoaster of a race, with Moscon taking but then losing control, and an Italian winner, Colbrelli, snatching the sprint from upstart Vermeersch and heavyweight van der Poel.
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: The reigning Tour de France champ becomes a man for the Classics too, outsprinting the fast-finishing world champion in the process.
Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 5: What his dad called Mathieu van der Poel’s greatest race day, a 50km attack on a hilly circuit on a foul weather day.
Milano-Sanremo: Stuyven shocks the heavyweights with an escape coming off the Poggio.
Strade Bianche: A beautiful event punctuated by a devastating van der Poel attack for the win.
The Tour de France Stages:
- 4 — Cavendish announces his return with a sprint win
- 8 — Alps stage to Le Grand Bornand sees Pogacar dominate his rivals and Teuns stay away for the stage win
- 11 — the Double Ventoux Stage! And it’s a cyclocross guy who takes it!
- 13 — the day Cavendish wrote his name in the record books next to Merckx
Giro stage 9: Bernal breaks the race open in Abruzzo
Ronde van Vlaanderen: Exciting race comes down to a two-man break where the guy you assumed would win the sprint... did not win the sprint. Kind of a theme for the season.
European Championships: Exciting finale with Colbrelli besting Evenepoel
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