39th Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian (1.UWT)

[Jungle Cycle]

UAU

 

[WKA311]

Hirschi in 3rd also very impressive.

 

[shalgo]

First rider to win a WT one-day race after fetching bottles for the team?

 

[ppanther92]

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Smashed them all. Valverde was riding for second halfway up the climb, he wasn’t gonna chase

I mean, i am pretty sure Valverde and Konrad gave their everything on that ramp. But that wasn't enough.

 

[Billie]

the 3 world champions in the top 10. Surely that's the first time ever

 

[perico]

That kid is a freak. Great tactical race by DQS. Mas looked extremely strong covering those moves and finished 8th as well.

 

[yaco]

A strange race - Evanopoel dropped on the second last climb, then gets back on the descent, gives a bottle to Mas, then marks an attack from Skiujns with 18kms to go and then powers away from the peleton.

 

[hayneplane]

Phenomenal. It was mentioned by Magnus Backstedt in the last couple of kms that the last time a one day race of this stature had been won by a teenager was 1925. Almost a century ago and something not even Eddy the Great managed to do.

 

[Orbit501]

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I wonder how well Madouas will go. A good result here would give the team a much needed boost after sad ending to TdF.

Also curious about Evenepoel. Alaphillipe already out and there seems a bit of uncertainty over Mas at the moment. Must have been ill in early stages of TdF?

Curiosity answered I think.

What a win! Glad he managed to drop all his bottles off before attacking :lol:

We could be witnessing a memorable season for the birth of legends here. Three of them!

 

[rghysens]

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I wonder how well Madouas will go. A good result here would give the team a much needed boost after sad ending to TdF.

Also curious about Evenepoel. Alaphillipe already out and there seems a bit of uncertainty over Mas at the moment. Must have been ill in early stages of TdF?

Curiosity answered I think.

What a win! Glad he managed to drop all his bottles off before attacking :lol:

We could be witnessing a memorable season for the birth of legends here. Three of them!

5?

Bernal, Evenepoel, Pogacar, Van Aert, Van der Poel

 

[Orbit501]

Re: Re:

I wonder how well Madouas will go. A good result here would give the team a much needed boost after sad ending to TdF.

Also curious about Evenepoel. Alaphillipe already out and there seems a bit of uncertainty over Mas at the moment. Must have been ill in early stages of TdF?

Curiosity answered I think.

What a win! Glad he managed to drop all his bottles off before attacking :lol:

We could be witnessing a memorable season for the birth of legends here. Three of them!

5?

Bernal, Evenepoel, Pogacar, Van Aert, Van der Poel

I'll give you that. Apologies, I'm a little bit fixated on one day races

 

[zapata]

It was a pretty dull race for a "classic", though.

 

[F_Cance]

The kid was dropped 2 times before. I just don't get how he was able to win today

 

[h1ll]

Re: Re:

I wonder how well Madouas will go. A good result here would give the team a much needed boost after sad ending to TdF.

Also curious about Evenepoel. Alaphillipe already out and there seems a bit of uncertainty over Mas at the moment. Must have been ill in early stages of TdF?

Curiosity answered I think.

What a win! Glad he managed to drop all his bottles off before attacking :lol:

We could be witnessing a memorable season for the birth of legends here. Three of them!

5?

Bernal, Evenepoel, Pogacar, Van Aert, Van der Poel

I'll give you that. Apologies, I'm a little bit fixated on one day races

Also Hirschi was quite good this year and especially here.

 

[Wvv]

Greg second. Usually I'd be disappointed about the near miss, but I'm too much in awe for what Remco did here. So incredible.

As Billie said, all three reigning world champions in the top ten. Nice little fact.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

That made no sense. Dropped, attacked on the flat and then winning with a huge advantage (advantage usually is 20s in San Sebastian even with the best puncheurs getting away)..

His power on the flat parts in between climbs especially is what impressing me. On the climbs itself he's still not there, but who cares if you can destroy a chasing pack that way...

 

[DenisMenchov]

Amazing ride by Remco. What a year for young guns!

 

[del1962]

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That made no sense. Dropped, attacked on the flat and then winning with a huge advantage (advantage usually is 20s in San Sebastian even with the best puncheurs getting away)..

His power on the flat parts in between climbs especially is what impressing me. On the climbs itself he's still not there, but who cares if you can destroy a chasing pack that way...

He only lost about 10 seconds on the climb though

 

[Pantani_lives]

It was a typical DQSt moment to attack, between the last two climbs. However when he got away I thought Movistar and Astana were going to give him 10-20 seconds and take him back on the climb. They didn't think he would power through all the way to the finish.

A young generation is taking over swiftly and they're not afraid to attack. Good, because we've seen way too much passive racing in the past ten years. Let the young guns shoot!

 

[Nirvana]

If he continues to develop in this way he'll win GTs shipping minutes in the mountain and bringing them back soloing away from the peloton in sprint stages. On the flat/rolling he's something unbelievable.

 

[Wvv]

Apparently it wasn't a bad moment that made him drop on that penultimate climb, which of course makes sense if you know what happened later in the race.

Stating that he still isn't there on climbs after this final is quite nonsense of course. He powered up the Murgil in extraordinary fashion.

 

[Akuryo]

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Apparently it wasn't a bad moment that made him drop on that penultimate climb, which of course makes sense if you know what happened later in the race.

Stating that he still isn't there on climbs after this final is quite nonsense of course. He powered up the Murgil in extraordinary fashion.

Yeah, how could a rider of his talent not increase his lead on the climb. Pathetic. :lol:

 

[HelloDolly]

Valverde looked second rate after team rode all day for him

 

[Koronin]

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Valverde looked second rate after team rode all day for him

I'm still of the opinion that Valverde has lost a lot of the hunger and desire he had when he won the Worlds. He's admitted he's lost some of it as he said wearing that jersey he feels like he's already won the race before the race even starts and that he's much more relaxed.

 

[hayneplane]

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Valverde looked second rate after team rode all day for him

Whilst he was not able to make the difference you have to give him credit for being the only top ten GC finisher in the tour to come to San Seb and back up for another top 10. The others who rode like Landa, Alaphilippe and Bernal were not remotely a factor today.