Most Controversial Cycling Moments 2021 | Lanterne Rouge 

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"Lopez on the wife to his phone" is a legit Freudian slip.

If Mader and Roglic had ridden together for 10km and held off the group, Mader has a beef, but Roglic was putting time into his rivals without any assistance from Mader, he owes him nothing.

A couple of things to add as controversial. 1. UCI banning supertuck! 2. Michael Schär Bidon Disqualification at Ronde van Vlaanderen... That brought the bidon discardment issue to the surface again... 3. The dutch womens tactics(or lack off) at the Olympics 4. If track is included - Frederik Rodenberg Madsen crashing into Charlie Tanfield at the Olympics in the semi's, and he whole debacle afterwards. 5. Remco's WC roadrace escapades - Or well just Remco being Remco in 2021

What about the Dutch women at the Olympics thinking they'd won, then blaming the absense of race radio.

What a year it was.....only conclusion I make is....can't wait for the 2022 season to start!!!!!

Primoz “No Mercy” Roglic. I didn’t mind him taking the win personally.

I love alaphalippe but he definitely gets away with way too many sprint deviations that nobody ever talks about.

About roglic taking the 30 meter win: you gotta realise, when there are sponsors supporting you to win and represent the company, you should be winning. Secondly, I think it's poor sportsmanship to allow anything less than a natural result - that is, it's an insult to your opponents ability to let them win. By getting beaten, the rider will strive to get better; that's how sports work.

I don't have a strong view on the Rog one but I do think that if you get beaten fairly by a person and think that's outrageous (a la Mader) then you need to reassess yourself.

Great that you did not miss the Amstel Gold controversy, that was my most controversial moment of the year. Totally agree on your view.

I'd give an honorable mention to the Cavendish temper tantrum at Stage 19 of the Tour. He lost so much goodwill there it seemed most cycling fans were totally pleased with WVA's win on the Champs Elysees.

Nothing makes me click quicker on a video than when it's a 20 minute LR one

As always, a great video to watch. Thanks so much.

You missed the Sam Bennett and Patrick Lefevere feud. Great video though.

Great content once again, too bad Benchi didn't participate on this one. Lefevere comments on 2021 were also very controversial and deserved a mention, a career prize for controversial. Can't wait for the next team analysis or this kind of videos. Cheers!

Great recap! Anyway, I got some points to add ;) The most controversial moments/affairs in cycling in 2021 for me were... 1) The UCI banning the supertuck and other "non standard" cycling positions for reasons of safety concern and harshly punishing riders (like phenomenal Richard Carapaz). Many people (including top cyclists and sports commentators) called out the double standards to hold individual riders responsible for everything and punishing them for every little transgress while the race organisers still were poorly controled and the set ups of many races (lacking barriers, wrong barriers, downhill too fast spints, cars and people coming too close) are still inadequate and dangerous. 2) During the ITT olympic race the German national trainer was filmed by a camera (and seen on live TV) screaming racist comments and insulting cyclists of colour. This resulted in a huge shit storm with many trainers, commentators and cyclists speaking against it, but the national cycling federation at first didn't take any actions. Many fans felt like they tried to wriggle out of the affair without addressing the racism problem cycling in fact has and that sparked even more controversy. At the end he was suspended, but there were still voices defending him. 3) The belgians dissapointing in the world championships althought they were considered favourites. But in my opinion it wasn't the race itself which was a disgrace but the blame game afterwards, which was constantly kept alive by both the riders and the teams as well as the fans. 4) Michi Schär being disqualified for "littering" during the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Almost all fans and fellow riders deemed this to be wrong and he gained much support, and I don't think the UCI rulemakers did come out well out of that. 5) Of course we can't miss the Dutch women's humiliation in the olympic road race! Again, it was not so much them not winning that caused controvery but how unbelieving and unprepared they reacted to their defeat, thinking they had won first. Additionally they did not display the respect toward the winner that Kiesenhofer inarguably had deserved and blamed the lack of radio communication, which in the eyes of many fans showed their hubris and lack of fair sportsmanship.

Great recap video buddy 😍

I thought the no team radio snafus, especially at the olympics, would have been worthy of a mention here. Nice job as always!

Can’t believe only 45% of viewers has subscribed. Get it together people!

Most exelent re-cap and great l’interdiction of caustic commentary. Love it 👌🍀

The deadpan jokes snuck into the commentary are gold as usual. Keep up the good stuff!

I think Remco and Joao Almeida at Giro could have been a topic in this video...a lot happened internal and there were a lot of rumours about it too

Great video, very interesting, a lot better than GCN showing you how to put mudguards on your 10,000€ road bike!!!

Amazing stuff mate. I like the way you rate these performances.

Great analysis and commentary.

Great content as always

Didn't Mohoric top off his Lance Armstrong impression by accidentally channeling Marco Pantani in the post race interview too? To be fair, he probably doesn't know who that is.

ive been waiting for this one

These top lists are great. 2021 wasn't as controversial as I expected which is good.

Great list tio. Would add Remco and Almeida's Giro escapades in there as well for good measure.

I caught the Women's Amstel Gold debacle from your earlier highlights (nicely covered, BTW), and I'm still seething at ELB. (see 17:30 )

You should really make more of these Top something stuff and TB even for old races you had the rights to. Really good video after 2 years

Awesome example of gifting stages.....some nostalgia:)....that fuente de stage was amazing to watch, one the best GT's I have ever seen. He was so crafty got some similar help on motirolo I think in 2015 Giro after fighting back from a puncture, I think primoz learned because he worked great with Gaudu on penultimate stage to win Basque Country and handled that Vuelta stage with Bernal to perfection I thought. He got every ounce of effort and help before taking that incredible stage. I honestly don't think Primoz would do that in 2022 if in same circumstance genuinely. Awesome throwback example of gifting stage,, a grand tour stage to non GC threat was all it cost to set up a Grand Tour heist and win for Contador. Gracias enjoyed it all!!!!

It seems absolutely ludicrous to me that the Amstel Gold finish line we were looking at on screen wasn't the actual finish line! What a complete waste of time and energy showing a multitude of irrelevant close ups after the event - I feel more cheated than Pidcock must have! 👿

Most hilarious moment was Women’s Street Olympic Race, leaving dutch super stars so confused on where the lead actually is (congrats to Felix Austria)

Gino Mäder won Giro d'italia stage 6 and Tour de Suisse stage 8. He even won the white jersey at the Vuelta. He is still on contract with the Bahrain team.

Dutch women's embarassing Olympic moment. Beaten by a solo nerdy privateer.

Love your videos!!!!

Great. Thanks 🙏

Loved the video man. What's up with the audio? It's difficult to understand the words clearly although there is not much reverb. Microphone issues maybe?

Van Art vs Pidcock - two 1st. places should be awarded

great work, as uge. the one that's missing here for me is the women's road race at the olympics.

Totally agree with your #1. It almost feels like that was not this year because it seems like such a fable how could it be the present?

I think one of the big ones was in the Tour De France that the finish areas at one of the stages was way too tight with a major crash finish and they had on an open flat day the next day everyone ride slow to protest, slow enough the Scooters/Mopeds could barely keep upright. Yes, that was big one to the point they had to at the last minute at another stage change the finishing route for the riders in a town not made to handle the Tour De France as the second route was tight but not super tight. Town was also so small most of the teams had riders sleep on the bus.

Missed the Impey foul on Stannard on the last stage of Ruta Del Sol - This is by far the worst sprintng violation of 2021.

7:59 "On the wife, to his phone".... sorry, you've been relegated for changing your line.

As LR stated, Mader didn't win anything after the Paris-Nice incident. I think he won a stage in Giro and Tour de Suisse.

Good watch!

I just saw a clip of a race in norway on facebook, where 4 cyclist made a break away from the pelaton, only to get stopped with 5k to go by a bridge opening.... needless to say, the pelaton caught up within seconds. MIND BOGGELING

7:58 “on the wife to his phone” 😂. what a great slip up

That was great. Thanks :-)

Nice contend bro I’m big fan from srilanka 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰

Thank you.......Peace

Padun not getting into TDF team was missed.

Merry Xmas LR. Are you going back Brissy for Xmas or in the snow

Continually amazed that people aren't subscribed to top drawer channels like this. I'm not even a cycling fan, other than once yearly and you know what that means. It's free. I'm pretty sure it's free.

I can’t find your reaction in any video of that omni opponent sign. Could you direct me to your video with the reaction of the court sentence you are referring to in this video

A You've Been Framed (funny moments) video would be good for 2021 moments.

That women's Amstel Gold race always triggers me to the max

What an awesome year we had. Great Video!

Honestly the Roglic one wasn't that controversial imo. And to be fair, Mader had no one to blame but himself there for that stage. If I remember correctly it was Powless & Elisonde with him at there were long stretches on that climb where none of them seemed to be wanting to take turns and just putting each other to sleep. If he wouldn't have allowed the pace to drop up that climb for such long stretches the favorites would've never been even in the mix for the stage win... having already won 2 stages, Roglic could've given out a present there but you can't blame him for not doing so imho. In the end it all worked out & Mader won 2 fantastic stages in other races.

Would add the Dutch melt-down/screw-up at the Olympic women's road race. Extraordinary hubris is action. Very funny too.

Great vid! I still think it was a huge (and terrible) call by DQS to throw all their eggs into the Remco basket and let Almeida lose a bunch of time in that freezing cold stage of the Giro

Hey which game theory video did you watch on the amstel gold womens race? Because I always wondered how a game theoretic analysis of cycling would look like.

Roglic is a grand tour rider for a reason. He races... like Pogi

P-N, stage 3 - every person in that race should be riding for first individually or first as a team. Of course it's necessary for Primose to ride hard for first.

"She nearly Alaphilipped herself" lmao

You forgot about the war between Portugal and Belgium during the giro

7:58 "on the wife to his phone" 😅

When you I think 2020 was unexpectedly good, 2021 is way better!

lantern rouge … a masters class in pro peloton rider and stage name pronunciations

12:55 WVA throw on the line sends the front of his bike momentarily into the air that's how hard he pushed. Still think it was Pidcock's win.

I was there on the line in the amstel gold race and still think they did pidcock ,and it schould have been called a draw

Whats the point of racing if theres "gift wins"? Whats next participation trophies. Give me a break. Another great video from LR 👍

Olympic women’s road race too!

Nacer Bouhanni makes it known his hobby is boxing. So everyone thinks of him as a scrapper.

Biggest controversy is LR not wearing the bucket hat for this video!

Lopez did stop by himself and sat in the team car stating he wouldn’t continue. Stated in some podcasts & Twitter

This is the first time I've ever had to turn subtitles on an English speaker

Hey LR, is there sth wrong with the microphone settings? It sounds kinda suppressed/as if there some kind of noise reduction applied. Makes it sound a bit artificial. Maybe sth you'd want to change :)

Golden last kilometre. LR. Who gave you that idea. That would make cycling the greatest sport on the planet. Be like once in a season dead heat fun. Extra time. Like it

ELB should be the most hated person in all of cycling for her “tactical masterclass”

Am I the only sick one out here who thought "Allez Opi Omicron" this week?! LOL!

2:48 I think Gino is under contract until 2024 or something like that, they've extended a few months ago

Roglic did what he is meant to do: take wins. If it was a teammate sure let him win. But if it is from another team, no mercy. The only exception is if there is already a friendly relation between the riders or such. The response to Bouhanni was fine, the response to the later incidents was just lacking/non-existent. Honestly this is just a problem with the UCI, sometimes acting really harshly and other times just not. And especially with for example Alaphilippe I wouldn't be surprised they just don't want to do anything to the world champion unless it just can't be ignored. Lopez was at fault. It just makes sense to tell him to stop pacing. His pacing didn't achieve anthing but blowing himself up (he was still losing time, at best he kept the gap at the same time). He could better safe his legs a bit to protect his (lower) position in the GC the next day in the ITT and drop back to a teammate/a group where others ride with/for him. At Amstel it was to me quite clear in the end (when having looked into it). The finishline on the road likely hasn't been drawn fully perpendicular to the last stretch of road the riders need to take. The official finishphoto should be perpendicular otherwise you give riders at one end of the road an advantage. So what they do? They started at one side of the road right at the edge of the finishline (as should be done) and then just went perpendicular with the road (being maybe a few cm from the finishline at the other side of the road. Now this imo is exactly as should be done and it isn't like this 3-5cm is going to change how a rider sprints, at that speed it is just being lucky or unlucky period and this would always be the case in a photofinish. As for Wout being told so early, I believe the radio or something said he won and he got told then he won through his ear piece (possibly just based on the very first images we could see, likely live images of the sprint), not long after you see him not being sure he won, taking quite some time untill he was officially notified. On the finishing photo it was actually quite clear he won. When looking at the picture of the official finish photo, you can see he won by the naked eye (though you need to look really closely), so for a computer program that analyzes pixels, there is no contest. And finally the official finish photo is always final. Only when that photo isn't distinguisable enough or there is non present (like in lower races) there is a possibility for both riders to either redo the last km or to agree to both win (I believe that is a possibility at least).

omg check slowly at 11:50 Pidcock clearly won Amstil gold race 2021!

Was just thinking I want to watch some cycling content when this came out. Was trying to watch some 90s Flèche Wallone finishes, but the quality is just so bad

haven't seen anyone talk about this but Pidcock cant throw a bike at all. He basically went backwards.

Lanterne, whats beat from the intro ? Soundclound link?

Opi-Omi vs Omi-Opi is pretty controversial

good god that mohoric communication shows we are still right in the dark days of cycling. Omerta. No talking about drugs.

Was Primoz chasing Mader or dropping Schachmann? Can't blame him AT ALL for trying for seconds

It wasn't me!

What about Olympics women's road race?

"They announced that Bouhanni got a three month suspension" supported by your caption at 5:12 stating two months". come on mate.

Lanterne Rouge with the Blvck Ceiling intro

How about Patrick Lefebvre and his misogynistic comments regarding Bennett and also women's cycling in general? And Deceuninck's departure from Quick Step to Alpecin-Fenix as punishment (and Decueninck's desire to tap the women's cycling market).

Pedun dominating at the dophine and getting left off the tour squad. Only way that possibly makes sense is if they didn’t think he was clean.

@ 9:27 "Women...can't live with em can't shoot em"....Stephen Wright quote from his 1985 album "I Have a Pony."