2nd Adriatica Ionica Race /// july 24th - 28th 2019

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Apparently the Remco crashed once again, Remco is the new Wilco.

Clearly not, since Wilco breaks something each time he falls.

 

[shalgo]

Re: Re:

Apparently the Remco crashed once again, Remco is the new Wilco.

Clearly not, since Wilco breaks something each time he falls.

Remco is lucky he still has the baby fat for padding.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Re: Re:

Apparently the Remco crashed once again, Remco is the new Wilco.

Clearly not, since Wilco breaks something each time he falls.

Remco is lucky he still has the baby fat for padding.

Jokes aside, it looks like the stage was brutal. From the gc guys only Hermans, Padun, Cattaneo, Knox & Conci finished s. t. as the winner (only 22 riders in the front group), most of the other guys finished in the same group as Remco.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Quickstep will ride for Knox tomorrow

 

[Mayomaniac]

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Quickstep will ride for Knox tomorrow

Over 1min ahead of Remco and he has outclimbed him in the UAE Tour and in Romandie, if he's healthy there's nothing strange about that.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Quickstep will ride for Knox tomorrow

Over 1min ahead of Remco and he has outclimbed him in the UAE Tour and in Romandie, if he's healthy there's nothing strange about that.

In Dutch there is a saying (or at least, in Flemish, i don't know if the Dutch use it as well): "verder kijken dan uw neus lang is". But if they think they can form Knox (class of De Plus, Mas...) into a top GC rider and/or value the result in the mighty Adriatica Ionica Race so much, then yes, i'm sure you are correct.

That, or they shouldn't have made Evenepoel the leader for AIRace.

 

[RedheadDane]

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PCS says Deceunick finished 1-2-3... sometimes you just can't make this stuff up.

Why would they be making it up?

 

[shalgo]

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PCS says Deceunick finished 1-2-3... sometimes you just can't make this stuff up.

Why would they be making it up?

I just watched the replay of the finish. They didn't do a conventional lead-out. All three of them sprinted for themselves. Very strange thing to see.

 

[jaylew]

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PCS says Deceunick finished 1-2-3... sometimes you just can't make this stuff up.

Why would they be making it up?

It's just an expression, RD.

 

[roundabout]

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Quickstep will ride for Knox tomorrow

Over 1min ahead of Remco and he has outclimbed him in the UAE Tour and in Romandie, if he's healthy there's nothing strange about that.

In Dutch there is a saying (or at least, in Flemish, i don't know if the Dutch use it as well): "verder kijken dan uw neus lang is". But if they think they can form Knox (class of De Plus, Mas...) into a top GC rider and/or value the result in the mighty Adriatica Ionica Race so much, then yes, i'm sure you are correct.

That, or they shouldn't have made Evenepoel the leader for AIRace.

When 5 teammates out of 6 finish ahead of the supposed leader in a stage, I am guessing everything is not as clear cut about the freedom to ride for own results.

 

[SafeBet]

Nice to see Padun in the first group. Hopefully this is his breakthrough after such an unlucky first half of the season.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

A group of 11 riders is in pursuit of Mattia Bais (Cycling Team Friuli), who dropped Edward Theuns on the Passo Pura.


Mark Padun (Bahrain-Merida)
Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck-Quick-Step)
James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step)
Jonathan Caicedo (EF)
Winner Anacona (Movistar)
Nicola Conci (Trek-Segafredo)
Jan Polanc (UAE-Emirates)
Daniel Muñonz (Androni-Sidermec)
Matteo Badilatti (Israel Cycling Academy)
Ben Hermans (Israel Cycling Academy)
Dayer Quintana (Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia-KTM)

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

front group:

Badilatti, Hermans, Knox, Munoz, Caicedo, Conci, Evenepoel, Padun, Polanc & Quintana

3 minutes on the first chasers with 30 k to go.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

These guys will start the final climb.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Rivera DNF according to a lost message on the interweb

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Evenepoel solo 8k

Attack of @EvenepoelRemco
at #AIR2019! Our neo-pro is alone in the lead on the final ascent of the stage.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

5k
3 leaders now: Hermans, Padun and Quintana

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Padun wins the sprint.

2 Quintana
3 Hermans
4 Caicedo
5 Knox
6 Badilatti
7 Conci

 

[repre]

Called it

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

1 Padun Mark 5:54:16
2 Quintana Dayer ,,
3 Hermans Ben ,,
4 Caicedo Jonathan ,,
5 Knox James +0:05
6 Badilatti Matteo +0:41
7 Conci Nicola +1:07
8 Polanc Jan +1:17
9 Evenepoel Remco +1:31
10 Muñoz Daniel +2:28

 

[SafeBet]

So happy for Padun!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Also in Adriatica Ionica, the weather was very bad:
https://twitter.com/NeriSelleItalia/status/1154777666232430592


CLASSIFICA GENERALE

1. Mark Padun (Bahrain Merida) in 10.04'04"
2. Ben Hermans (Israel Academy) a 6"
3. Jonathan Caicedo (EF Education First) a 10"
4. James Knox (Deceuninck Quick Step) a 15"
5. Nicola Conci (Trek Segafredo) a 1'17"
6. Quintana +1'32"
7. Polanc +2'55"
8. Evenepoel +3'09"
9. Munoz +4'06"
10. Honoré +5'20"

 

[Popchu]

Caicedo is alive!

 

[RedheadDane]

I know this has no bearing on the overall race (and I only notice because of my nationality) but what's with the Dane Gang?

11 Honoré Mikkel Frølich, Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:10
12 Eg Niklas, Trek - Segafredo ,,
13 Gregaard Jonas, Astana Pro Team,,

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Kevin Rivera obviously didn't quit, he finished 25th, nearly 15 minutes down.

I know this has no bearing on the overall race (and I only notice because of my nationality) but what's with the Dane Gang?

11 Honoré Mikkel Frølich, Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:10
12 Eg Niklas, Trek - Segafredo ,,
13 Gregaard Jonas, Astana Pro Team,,

Quite interested to see where Eg & Gregaard end up. Both seemed to be late bloomers in the U23's with some great results at 21 and 22. I guess Knox falls in the same category.