2023 National Championships

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Do the Belgian nats ever have a truly hard Ardennes like parcours or is it always this reduced sprinter stuff.
Not since 2013, when they had this route:
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Not since 2013, when they had this route:
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That looks decent.

I really dislike how we never get truly hard routes so you just get random winners because Jumbo's team strength when MvdP isn't riding. It used to be worse, but I've always been annoyed when we'd have C list sprinters or rouleurs win the nats because the routes were never hard enough for our best riders.
 
We've got a climbers race in Spain, with Movistar having big strength in numbers, but Enric Menos, who has just about as many pro wins in his life as me, decides not to show up. What a bozo.

Díaz Gallego, Carretero, Castrillo, Izagirre, Amezqueta and Lazkano on the counter attack.
 
We've got a climbers race in Spain, with Movistar having big strength in numbers, but Enric Menos, who has just about as many pro wins in his life as me, decides not to show up. What a bozo.

Either you have significantly more pro wins as I thought, and are indeed talking about Enric Mas.
Or there is indeed a rider called Enric Menos.

Things are looking pretty interesting in the UK.

Around 90 Ks to go.
 
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En tête : Bryan COQUARD (Cofidis), Bruno ARMIRAIL, Romain GRÉGOIRE, Thibaut PINOT, Rudy MOLARD, Quentin PACHER, David GAUDU, Valentin MADOUAS, Olivier LE GAC (Groupama-FDJ), Nicolas PRODHOMME, Alex BAUDIN (AG2R Citroën Team), Florian SÉNÉCHAL (Soudal Quick-Step), Pierre LATOUR (TotalEnergies), Anthony DELAPLACE, Laurent PICHON, Mathis LE BERRE, Clément CHAMPOUSSIN, Ewen COSTIOU, Elie GESBERT (Team Arkéa-Samsic), et Axel LAURANCE (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team)

A 18", Guillaume MARTIN (Cofidis), Aurélien PARET-PEINTRE (AG2R Citroën Team), et Julien BERNARD (Trek-Segafredo)

A 57", le peloton
 
En tête : Bryan COQUARD (Cofidis), Bruno ARMIRAIL, Romain GRÉGOIRE, Thibaut PINOT, Rudy MOLARD, Quentin PACHER, David GAUDU, Valentin MADOUAS, Olivier LE GAC (Groupama-FDJ), Nicolas PRODHOMME, Alex BAUDIN (AG2R Citroën Team), Florian SÉNÉCHAL (Soudal Quick-Step), Pierre LATOUR (TotalEnergies), Anthony DELAPLACE, Laurent PICHON, Mathis LE BERRE, Clément CHAMPOUSSIN, Ewen COSTIOU, Elie GESBERT (Team Arkéa-Samsic), et Axel LAURANCE (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team)

A 18", Guillaume MARTIN (Cofidis), Aurélien PARET-PEINTRE (AG2R Citroën Team), et Julien BERNARD (Trek-Segafredo)

A 57", le peloton
how did alaphilippe miss that? I suppose ag2r and maybe cofidis will be working though.