The CLOSEST Finish in Cycling HISTORY?! | Amstel Gold Race 2021 

Life of a domestique

Loved his fighting spirit, what a worker and talent! New fan here

My guy

Brave soldier

That poor bastard. He just kept on coming back. I liked that the cameras picked him up. Some minor reward for all his efforts.

Just wait till you see LRCP + LRCP clips

*bois

@@Chrissummerill u right u right

aka Sean Kelly

FACTS when i so the title i also tought about that finish

fun fact: 4/1000ths of a second is around 6 centimeters at 60k/hr. So make that 4/10000ths (four / ten thousands) of a second (equivalent to 6mms, which is far more likely).

@@l.d.t.6327 quick maths....krakakaaa ratatata

@@Stefan_W. bruh not in a cycling race they both wouldnt enyoy their victory

@@Stefan_W. Why would the one who finishes first not be first even when it's so close? First is first.

If two riders are inseparable at the line the win goes to the one pulling a wheelie? I’m ok with that.

@@mynewcolour that probably won him the race frankly

Mauri Vansevenant...true fighter! Regards from Brazil.

i wish they showed us some side of the road footage of riders whizzing past in the broadcast to remind us just how fast the peleton is. the motorcycle and helicopter footage is obviously important to follow the race, but as a viewer i get complacent and need a visual dramatic reminder of just how fast the elites are.

@@johnnysecular they're absolutely crazy, i think first 4 or 5 laps was 42km/h average

@@kyanclaessens4777 crazy

Lol it's because the berg in iceberg has the same (Dutch?) origin. It literally means mountain. The meaning of Cau I don't know

Really xD

In a car? Cmon - ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike :-)

@@chrisko6439 I'm not the one in the car I'm the one on my bike behind it lol

@@chrisko6439 usually i go down the road the agr went down but I was just a bit too late to go down there

@@kyanclaessens4777 Very good.

Pidcock is the real winner - the finish line should be decisive and not something else that riders and spectators cannot see

First season? Crazy. But happy wout won. Another 2nd finish would have been sour.

If he races the tour wearing that he’ll win every stage

You said what we were all thinking.

Dumoulin

Doimalin huh?

Yeah, the rules state that the very first part of the bike (always a wheel normally ofcourse) that crosses the line wins no matter the height. Best is to imagine a thin wall going straight up on the line and the one first touching it wins.

@@MDP1702 Makes sense. I am imagining that it would have been better if the pressure point (the portion where the tire contacts with the ground) as the "crossing", but the rules have to be drawn somewhere and current "air" point looks good from TV point of view as reference.

@@sred5856 The problem with the pressure point on the ground is 1. what if the first tire is in the air due to a last push (like sunday) and 2. it can be much more difficult to get a good view of this pressure point, than just the first point of the wheel

It was just lemonade tho 0% alcohol

@@ah8372 he boasted about it too! The fraud!

@@roxochri5 :D

@@nathan558 That's a great shout. If it was between those two rather than Pidcock and WVA they would have declared it a tie.

tbf valverde kicked from like 300 m n it was pretty close between those two

According to the UCI regs, the finish line is the white-to-black transition. The reality is that the photo finish camera works better with a light colored background so it is pointed slightly ahead of that theoretical line.

Wait you're right ! Is this an easter egg we don't know about?

@@spicypretzel7616 Haha yeah honestly. Might just be his recipe about the videos and he manages to get it right on time🤷🏻‍♂️

Dude... He waited 5 sec before he started pulling after that Pidcock attack (which is understandable) and from then on all three did their turns. Get your facts straight.

​@@devidiathe dude probably based his thoughts from just highlights😂

I thought the jacket was smooooth

@@kelldub78 very smoove

I agree. In that one, the photo showed them as absolutely even. I have no idea how they determined a winner. Can’t recall another one that close.

No, he just wasn't good enough this spring. There really is no reason for him to not be good now if he could be. Moreover what about other tour contenders that are good now (like Roglic)? I actually don't see how Alaphilippe can win the tour or another grand tour, he couldn't even follow on the climb in tirreno-adriatico and he is more of a puncher than a real climber imo. If I am proven wrong, awesome, but I don't think so. The best place he ever had in a grand tour was 5th and for the rest he didn't break into the top 30. His goal for the tour is maybe take the yellow early on and win a few stages, as well as prepare for the olympic. Btw in earlier interviews springraces were a goal for him.

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To think that this camera wasn't checked to be in the proper place before is either stupid or naive. Maybe this might not be the case in smaller races, but in a world tour race? Come on, don't be silly. Why wouldn't they put the finish camera not on the right place? It seems btw that the red line in the picture of the finish used to claim it was not set up right, veeres more to the back when going to the other side, appearing it to be corresponding to the red add. Moreover the picture used comes from a tv camera that wasn't placed to be perfectly positioned, it might just be giving a wrong impression. We'd have to have a photo from directly on that side of the line to be certain it isn't just a deception on the eyes. It isn't even certain the enclosure with the adds are fully perpendicular with the finishline, completely changing all the facts used to say it was placed wrong. It is much more likely that these nadars weren't precisely placed then the camera. There just are so many possible factors that we can't say anything about it based on this single camera angle.

@@MDP1702 The technology does not allow a black line to be used as a finishing line for a photo finish. So they always use the white line. So I agree with Honkler that as this is known they should simply swap the colours of the lines around to make a white line the middle race winning line so that the camera can be set up exactly on the marked line.

@@Flakey101 Thing is, the riders also know where photofinishcamera is/should be, after all if we know it, so should they. There are actually finishes with one white line, in this case the camera is focused right at the front of this white line, with a double white line (like sunday) they put it at the end of the first big with line, right before the black finishing line. Eitherway we are talking about maybe a few mm difference at most, with whatever setup you'll have a problem with human precision. There just will be no way to be exactly precise on the finishing line, unless that finishing line is the same width of the camera slit, something like a mm or so, completely invisible for the riders and thus useless anyway and practically impossible to focus the camera on this small line across several meter. The only reason people are now making a problem of it and not sooner is because their prefered rider didn't win, but you'll never satisfy everyone, the current rules are more than clear enough. If my favorite rider loses like Pidcock, I'll be bummed, but I will be able to accept it and not start making excuses. And to close, it is unlikely any rider will be able to time it perfectly to the mm or even the cm, in the end it is just going as fast as possible, jumping right before the finishline (at several m from the finishline the 5mm or so isn't going to matter in their calculation for when to place their jump) and either getting lucky or unlucky if you weren't able to create a clear difference.

My maths get me at 1 thousands of a second for 1,7 cm at 60km/h. But the margin between WvA and TP was much less than that, so I guess it must have been something like 1 or 2 mm. That’s would make a time difference of about 0,1 thousands of a second. (after a >200km ride 😁)

Are you dense mate? It's because his chain is off so there's no resistance against the pedals

@@itzStrFtw Yes I am 😂 I thought that he had put on the chain again in this clip because it looked a bit like the back wheel was spinning when he turned the pedals. But I admit he probably did not had his chain on when he took his hands of the pedals.

We were able to blame Durianrider😂😂😂😂😂 He made a video on this topic

In your dreams pirate.

Every rider looks squatched, this is because the focus of the picture is in the tires, not the riders.

it would be the opposite. his wheely raises his wheel's leading edge so the leading edge of his wheel would cross later. Apparently the distortion has to do with frame rate. most photofinishes are squished or stretched because the framerates are chosen based on predicted speed. If they had gone much slower than the predicted speed, the photofinish would be stretched. as they would be in the finish cams view for longer and so they would take up more frames.

Being born in England my Scottish dad never told me that one 😂.

He did, the official photo of the finish showed it, he isn't contesting it either, so I don't understand how people still can't just accept he narrowly lost this race.

@@MDP1702 nationalism

@@MDP1702 ... No he did not ... he won ... There was a time when photos never lied ... but we are in the big tech era and that can no longer be said ... so i trust my eyes and my eyes tell me he won ... great win Tom, Great win

@@jeanlawley6483 Your eyes can easily be deceived by a picture taken with a lens that is meant to show as much as possible, possibly placed on a slight angle and not on the exact right position, exactly the kind of camera used by the tv in this setup. These kind of line camera's will btw always be in favor of the riders closest to it. Anyway in the end it is always the photofinishcamera that decides who wins and all riders know this.

@@imjstcl no, I am not from England and I think that Pidcock is the real winner - the finish line should be decisive and not something else that riders and spectators cannot see!