Étoile de Bessèges 2021 (February 3-7)

[Broccolidwarf]

Nibs pulling the Trek train now, with 20 to go.

Trek is all in for Mads P today

 

[Broccolidwarf]

- And Bernal pulling the Ineos train.

The GC riders are getting their Ks in the wind in

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[RedheadDane]

Aaah... that was nasty!

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Complete chaos

 

[Escarabajo]

Too many crashes for a small race!

 

[RedheadDane]

Dupont, possibly. Bingoal anyway.

 

[tobydawq]

Stupid round-about.

Incredible luck for Mads Pedersen there. What an insane non-crash.

 

[Escarabajo]

Did I see a barricade 10 meters from the finish?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

That had to be a headwind sprint the way that everyone who hit the front was immediately overtaken

 

[Earns1985]

Did I see a barricade 10 meters from the finish?

I also saw that, 10 meters after the finish line.

 

[RedheadDane]

And Pierre won the Battle of the Barbiers.

 

[SafeBet]

Dupont
Pierre Barbier
Nizzolo
Rudy Barbier
Laporte
Bouhanni
Sarreau
Thijssen
Dillier
Theuns

 

[armchairclimber]

That crash was nuts. I hope all came away unscathed. It didn't look great.

 

[repre]

Who else crashed besides of Van Poppel?

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Love it that this year's edition has one of the biggest start lists ever and now a guy from one of the smallest teams gets a stage win.

 

[gerundium]

Belgian commentators mentioning that Dupont has been second here a lot of times in the last 5 or 6 years. Nice to see him get it, despite the circumstances with that nasty crash (2x) in the final.

 

[Alexandre B.]

The bunch is really nervous in this year's edition.

 

[tobydawq]

Who else crashed besides of Van Poppel?

I believe at least EBH and Ackermann.

 

[RedheadDane]

I believe at least EBH and Ackermann.

It was Ackermann the Bora rider in the earlier crash?

 

[tobydawq]

Also a rider from AG2R (not Sarreau) and one from Bingoal.

 

[tobydawq]

It was Ackermann the Bora rider in the earlier crash?

Ah, I didn't realise that, then it must have been Meeus in the late crash.

 

[Remy55]

Meeus from Bora crashed

 

[RedheadDane]

Ah, I didn't realise that, then it must have been Meeus in the late crash.

No, it was a question, just with an unusual word-ordering. Was it Ackermann in the earlier crash? Guess you answered that... Or maybe you didn't.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

The first crash (at the roadside ditch) war Großschartner again, I think. The second one at the roundabout I'm not too sure. It was a rider in the regular Bora jersey going down and Meeus should have been in the young rider's jersey.