Queen of the U23 Classics, tomorrow. Not exactly the 45th though because it formerly was Paris-Roubaix amateur, of course.
Succession to His Twitterness.
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Riders of note:
Arnaud Demare,
Lawson Craddock (3rd in last year's junior race),
Jasper Stuyven (winner of last year's junior race and already 3rd of the Heistse Pijl behind Leukemans and Goris)
Dan Mc Lay (who was second back then)
Alphonse Vermote (5th in last year's U23 race)
And the WHOLE Rabobank team (including Jetse Bol, recent winner of the Olympia's)
Riders I'll watch out for, more closely:
The whole Sunweb team,
Emilien Viennet (Emi is barely 19, already 14th in Liège U23, former Junior Cyclocross Euro Champ.)
Mike Theunissen (2nd at the U23 Cross Worlds, last winter)
The race starts in Peronne (and not Compiègne, as for the Elite), is of course much shorter (180.7k) and as a bit less cobbled sections (24 of them).
If anyone has the detail of all the sections that are included in the route, I'm really open to it. I seem to think there's no Arenberg forest in it ???
Past winners
2001 Yaroslav Popovych
2002 Michail Timoschin
2003 Sergei Lagutin
2004 Koen De Kort
2005 Dimitri Kozontchuk
2006 Tom Veelers
2007 Damien Gaudin
2008 Coen Vermeltfoort
2009 Taylor Phinney
2010 Taylor Phinney
You realize that the winners of this race don't always become cobble specialists as pros (Popovych, Kozontchuk, ...)
This is also the case for some legends of the past like Ardennes specialist Georges Pintens (1967 winner) or Ardennes and GT specialist Stephen Roche (1980 winner).
Other legends are Fons De Wolf, Marc Madiot among others. And a present-day active pro rider like Thor Hushovd.
Succession to His Twitterness.
Provisional subscription list: http://www.velo-club.net/article.php?sid=62767
Riders of note:
Arnaud Demare,
Lawson Craddock (3rd in last year's junior race),
Jasper Stuyven (winner of last year's junior race and already 3rd of the Heistse Pijl behind Leukemans and Goris)
Dan Mc Lay (who was second back then)
Alphonse Vermote (5th in last year's U23 race)
And the WHOLE Rabobank team (including Jetse Bol, recent winner of the Olympia's)
Riders I'll watch out for, more closely:
The whole Sunweb team
,Emilien Viennet (Emi is barely 19, already 14th in Liège U23, former Junior Cyclocross Euro Champ.
)Mike Theunissen (2nd at the U23 Cross Worlds, last winter)
The race starts in Peronne (and not Compiègne, as for the Elite), is of course much shorter (180.7k) and as a bit less cobbled sections (24 of them).
If anyone has the detail of all the sections that are included in the route, I'm really open to it. I seem to think there's no Arenberg forest in it ???
Past winners
2001 Yaroslav Popovych
2002 Michail Timoschin
2003 Sergei Lagutin
2004 Koen De Kort
2005 Dimitri Kozontchuk
2006 Tom Veelers
2007 Damien Gaudin
2008 Coen Vermeltfoort
2009 Taylor Phinney
2010 Taylor Phinney
You realize that the winners of this race don't always become cobble specialists as pros (Popovych, Kozontchuk, ...)
This is also the case for some legends of the past like Ardennes specialist Georges Pintens (1967 winner) or Ardennes and GT specialist Stephen Roche (1980 winner).
Other legends are Fons De Wolf, Marc Madiot among others. And a present-day active pro rider like Thor Hushovd.
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