39th Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian (1.UWT)

[repre]

With Teuns driving his tractor into the heads Mark Padun will win this bike race

 

[Savant12]

Wasn't a lawnmower? Was hoping he would become the "Lawnmower" to Moscon's "Tractor".

 

[jaylew]

The field is looking pretty stellar right now

http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjkyNTg=

Valverde ftw

 

[The Hegelian]

I think S.Yates. Full of form and confidence.

 

[fauniera]

Landa and Bernal to drop everyone on the last climb, Landa to somehow win the sprint.

 

[del1962]

Mollema to outsprint S Yates in the final

 

[Velolover2]

I'm going with Bilbao.

It's in his region and he is both punchy and fast.

 

[Black Betsy]

Everything is set up for an Ángel Madrazo win.

 

[Blanco]

It will be Movistar vs Mitchelton. Alaphilippe is too tired I think, and there's a serious amount of climbing this year. Erlaitz is great addition and I think the race will explode on the Jaizkibel/Erlaitz combo. After that the numbers will be really important. The race could easily go in favor of attackers, but if favorites reach the bottom of the last wall together I think it will be between Valverde and the Yates bros.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

You can be certain of Mollema being in the top 10.

 

[Lequack]

 

[ppanther92]

I hope for a top10 for Mühlberger. Got stronger by the day at the end of the Tour.

 

[happytramp]

I wonder if UAE will have resolved whatever problem they had at the tour... I suspect a week isn't enough time to reverse the damage that was done (according to the riders)

 

[Leinster]

Re:

I wonder if UAE will have resolved whatever problem they had at the tour... I suspect a week isn't enough time to reverse the damage that was done (according to the riders)

Martin said after Val Thorens that he was happy to have his “best day of the Tour” that day (19th), so maybe the improvement already started.

On the other hand, he said in all the previous days he got tired as the stage wore on, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the shortest stage went well. And 19th was still well off the pace.

 

[fuiers]

I dont mean to be too excited, but finally a rider from Finland makes it into professional cycling scene. Since I have only been around for about 2 years now it is more than welcome that finally I get too root for a rider from my home country. I dont know much about him. Rides for AG2R.

 

[Gigs_98]

Kinda disappointing Nibali isn't riding this. I think he would have had a good shot and possibly had made things more interesting with a move from further out

 

[happytramp]

Re:

I dont mean to be too excited, but finally a rider from Finland makes it into professional cycling scene. Since I have only been around for about 2 years now it is more than welcome that finally I get too root for a rider from my home country. I dont know much about him. Rides for AG2R.

Was he riding the tour? They were talking about Finland a lot on 'the move' podcast.

 

[F_Cance]

No. This will be his first race for AG2R

 

[RedheadDane]

Kinda disappointing Nibali isn't riding this. I think he would have had a good shot and possibly had made things more interesting with a move from further out

What are you talking about? Nibali is riding!
Antonio.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re:

I dont mean to be too excited, but finally a rider from Finland makes it into professional cycling scene. Since I have only been around for about 2 years now it is more than welcome that finally I get too root for a rider from my home country. I dont know much about him. Rides for AG2R.

 

[roundabout]

Joona Laukka?

 

[Finn84]

Jaakko Hänninen it is. U23 bronze medalist from Innsbruck last year. Rode the race without team-mate help since Finland had only one spot there.

 

[Singularitarian]

Re:

Sporza said he injured his face with his lawnmower (no further description). But it turns out, it was a tractor, and he hit his head against the steering wheel.

His tractor: https://nbocdn.akamaized.net/Assets/Images_Upload/2019/07/31/74456928-b3c0-11e9-a980-0e646f26ec3f_web_scale_0.0771605_0.0771605__.jpg

quite some tractor power in the peloton... they could even clean the Tour roads themselves

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Jaakko Hänninen it is. U23 bronze medalist from Innsbruck last year. Rode the race without team-mate help since Finland had only one spot there.

He looked very strong in that race. I think he already has a win at 2.1 level, some small stage race in France he won last year despite not being a pro yet. A good prospect, although probably not ready to be very noticeable at a race of this caliber yet.

 

[jaylew]

Re:

I dont mean to be too excited, but finally a rider from Finland makes it into professional cycling scene. Since I have only been around for about 2 years now it is more than welcome that finally I get too root for a rider from my home country. I dont know much about him. Rides for AG2R.

Sounds like you missed them but Jussi Veikkanen and Kjell Carlstrom were around until a few years back and both rode for top level teams.