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2024 European Championships in Heusden-Zolder/Hasselt (September 11-15) Discussion Thread For All Races

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Tbf, already in 2022 Milesi was the only guy besides Wærenskjold to beat Segaert in an ITT during that season. The guy started cycling late after a football injury, but as a first year junior he was already 2nd in the Italian NC ITT, ahead of the one year older Tiberi, who would go on to win the MJ TT at the WC that year. He also did 2 decent TTs at the Giro this year and still has lot of room to improve, if you look at his postition and i don't know if Movistar's TT set-up is still good.
Yes tt aside the circumstances of his departure seemed a bit odd too. DSM have a good development record despite the rigidity, the young guys seem to leave due to structural/disciplinarian reasons but Milesi's seemed to be really amicable. You would expect if it's not a forced-move for him to go somewhere he can take the next step with a track record for tters so Movistar seemed completely random, average tt setup, not much development and notoriously a bit difficult for non-Hispanophone's to integrate.

Anyway let's see what benchmark these Women set for the Kosovan's.
 
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No Kosovans in the Elite Men's race.
I was just having a laugh with Slavique Nuke, who seems to have exactly the same complaint as a user at this race last year...

No Kosovan refugees, but there is a 'random Ukrainian draft dodger'

 
Yes tt aside the circumstances of his departure seemed a bit odd too. DSM have a good development record despite the rigidity, the young guys seem to leave due to structural/disciplinarian reasons but Milesi's seemed to be really amicable. You would expect if it's not a forced-move for him to go somewhere he can take the next step with a track record for tters so Movistar seemed completely random, average tt setup, not much development and notoriously a bit difficult for non-Hispanophone's to integrate.

Anyway let's see what benchmark these Women set for the Kosovan's.
Italians pick up Spanish pretty fast as it's rather similar. He also has Formolo, Cimolai and Moro as teammate + Sciandri in the teamcar, so there is a decent sized Italian group.

Yeah, their Canyon TT setup was good 10-8 years ago, when they had riders like Castroviejo, Malori and Nelson Oliveira, but a long time has passed since then...
 
Kung needs a 20s penalty for his number being on wrong

German ES claims it is constantly moving, so he probably has some kind of fairy or kobold on his back helping him with magic. That's at least a sound explanation how he finally won a GT stage. There is, afaik, also no rule against intervention by magic beings, or literal fairytale solutions.