55th Tour de l'Avenir, 17/8 - 26/8 (2.Ncup)

[DNP-Old]

17/08 - Et. 1 : Grand-Champ - Elven (138,2 km)

18/08 - Et. 2 : Drefféac - Châteaubriant (144,2 km)

19/08 - Et. 3 : Le Lude - Châteaudun (171,2 km)

20/08 - Et. 4 : Contre-la-montre par équipes à Orléans (20,2 km)

21/08 - Et. 5 : Beaugency - Levroux (145,8 km)

22/08 - Et. 6 : Le Blanc - Cérilly (181,1 km)

23/08 - Et. 7 : Moutiers - Méribel (35,4 km)

24/08 - Et. 8 : La Bathie - Crest-Voland Cohennoz (81,1 km)

25/08 - Et. 9 : Séez - Val d'Isère (83 km)

26/08 - Et. 10 : Val d'Isère - Saint-Colomban-des-Villards Col du Glandon (149,7 km)

Colombie
Javier Montoya
Cristian Muñoz
Daniel Muñoz
Alejandro Osorio
Iván Sosa
Harold Tejada

Allemagne
Max Kanter
Christian Koch
Jonas Rutsch
Johannes Schinnagel
Florian Stork
Georg Zimmerman

Australie
Kaden Groves
Sam Jenner
Callum Scotson
Robert Stannard
Dylan Sunderland
James Whelan

Autriche
Benjamin Brkic
Felix Gall
Patrick Gamper
Florian Kierner
Marcel Neuhauser
Markus Wildauer

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Léo Boilleau
Emile Brenans
Clément Didier
Florian Dufour
Romain Guillot
Rémy Rochas

Belgique
Julian Mertens
Gerben Thijssen
Harm Vanhoucke
Brent Van Moer
Thomas Vereecken
Viktor Verschaeve

Centre du Mondial
Zahiri Abderrahim
Franklin Archibold
Antonijo Barac
Tegshbayar Batsaikhan
Barnabás Peak
Hafetab Weldu

Danemark
Mikkel Bjerg
Niklas Larsen
Andreas Stkokbro Nielsen
Mikkel Frolich Honoré
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen
Jonas Gregaard Wilsly

Equateur
Jefferson Cepeda Hernandez
Joel Fuertes Casanova
Wilson Haro Criollo
Jimmy Montenegro
Alexis Quinteros
Esteban Villareal

Espagne
Ibai Azurmendi Sagastibeltza
Fernando Barcelo Aragon
Jaime Castrillo Zapater
Xuban Errazkin Perez
Juan Pedro Lopez Perez
Gotzon Martin Sanz

Etats-Unis
Cameron Beard
Ian Garrison
Brandon McNulty
Ezekiel Mostov
Conor Schunk
Tyler Stites

France
Clément Champoussin
Marlon Gaillard
Simon Guglielmi
Pierre Idjouadiene
Alan Riou
Damien Touzé

Grande-Bretagne
Mark Donovan
Matthew Gibson
Jake Stewart
Joe Nally
Daniel Tulett
Stephane Williams

Irlande
Mark Downey
Eddie Dunbar
Daire Feeley
Michael O'Loughlin
Darragh O'Mahony
Matthew Teggart

Italie
Edoardo Affini
Andrea Bagioli
Samuele Battistella
Alessandro Covi
Alberto Dainese
Christian Scaroni

Japon
Masahiro Ishigami
Sho Matsuda
Kento Omachi
Kakeru Omae
Masaki Yamamoto
Ayumu Watanabe

Luxembourg
Kevin Geniets
Colin Heiderscheid
Pit Leyder
Jan Petelin
Michel Ries
Luc Wirtgen

Norvège
Hakon Aalrust
Tobias Foss
Andreas Leknessund
Torjus Sleen
Rasmus Tiller
Syver Waersted

Pays de la Loire
Enzo Bernard
Valentin Bricaud
Thomas Champion
Thomas Denis
Emilien Jeannière
Théo Menant

Pays-Bas
Thymen Arensman
Sven Burger
Kevin Inkelaar
Jarno Mobach
Ide Schelling
Jens van den Dool

Pologne
Alan Banaszek
Filip Maciejuk
Kamil Małecki
Piotr Pekala
Szymon Sajnok
Szymon Tracz

Portugal
João Almeida
Tiago Antunes
Ivo Oliveira
Rui Oliveira
André Ramalho
Marcelo Salvador

Russie
Nikolai Cherkasov
Stefan Kurianov
Deni Nekrasov
Nikita Razumov
Petr Rikunov
Alexandr Vlasov

Rwanda
Joseph Areruya
Samuel Hakiruwizeye
Eric Manizabayo
Samuel Mugisha
Didier Munyaneza
Jean-Paul René Ukiniwabo

Slovénie
Nik Cemazar
Ziga Horvat
Ziga Jerman
Izidor Penko
Tadej Pogacar
Jaka Primozic

Suisse
Gordian Banzer
Dimtri Bussard
Marc Hirschi
Gino Mäder
Reto Müller
Joab Schneiter

 

[alexix7]

Sosa vs. everyone else. Pogačar, Hirschi, Vlasov, Almeida and Mcnulty are the ones who could be dangerous.

 

[Tim Booth]

Re:

Sosa vs. everyone else. Pogačar, Hirschi, Vlasov, Almeida and Mcnulty are the ones who could be dangerous.

Third time lucky for Sosa ?

 

[Gigs_98]

Hey you, super short stages, f*ck yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I know U23 races always have way shorter stages but a 35 km mountain stage is just ridiculous

 

[Anderis]

Hey you, super short stages, f*ck yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I know U23 races always have way shorter stages but a 35 km mountain stage is just ridiculous

Maybe not so much if it is a 10 day race without a rest day.

 

[DNP-Old]

Re:

Sosa vs. everyone else. Pogačar, Hirschi, Vlasov, Almeida and Mcnulty are the ones who could be dangerous.

Xuban will be up there, and Vanhoucke, despite just returning, is a very good wildcard. Bagioli, Williams, Vingegaard, Stannard deserve mentions as well.

 

[Laplaz]

Barring crashes or mechanicals Sosa will win this by a countrymile

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Three mountain stages, combining for a total distance under 200km.

Kill it with fire.

 

[Tim Booth]

Re: Re:

Xuban will be up there, and Vanhoucke, despite just returning, is a very good wildcard. Bagioli, Williams, Vingegaard, Stannard deserve mentions as well.

seems that Xuban DNS

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Three mountain stages, combining for a total distance under 200km.

Kill it with fire.

When your training rides are harder than most of the mountain stages of the 55th Tour de l'Avenir...

 

[Valv.Piti]

Damn, thats some short and pretty overall lame mountain stages. Don't like the course, but Im not really watching the race normally anyways. However, I had looked forward to see that guy Xuban in action, so thats another bummer.

 

[Orodreth]

Re:

Damn, thats some short and pretty overall lame mountain stages. Don't like the course, but Im not really watching the race normally anyways. However, I had looked forward to see that guy Xuban in action, so thats another bummer.

Errazkin will not be present.

Spain : Fernando Barceló (Euskadi Murias), Jaime Castrillo (Movistar Team), Juan Pedro López (Polartec-Kometa), Gotzon Martín, Ibai Azurmendi (Fundación Euskadi) & David González (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)

 

[Sestriere]

McNulty should be the biggest challenger of Sosa. However, I've no idea how the teams will do in the TTT so I'll just hope for Colombia to lose a lot of time to make it more interesting.
Personally, I'm interested in the Africans Weldu, Areruya and Mugisha.

 

[DNP-Old]

Jaramillo is bringing Tejada and Montoya for the TTT. Osorio has a huge engine as well, so losses should be limited. Luckily for Sosa it's a TTT, because individually he makes Purito look like the reincarnation of Indurain.

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Xuban will be up there, and Vanhoucke, despite just returning, is a very good wildcard. Bagioli, Williams, Vingegaard, Stannard deserve mentions as well.

seems that Xuban DNS

That's a really weird one. He had quite the decline in the last days of the Volta, maybe the race has claimed another victim. Barcelo is alright, but Xuban would have done a lot better me thinks. What makes it even more baffling is that Xuban was responsible for a lot of Nation Cup points for Spain which they needed to get an invite to l'Avenir in the first place.

Not a good look for Momparler.

 

[Tim Booth]

Re: Re:

What makes it even more baffling is that Xuban was responsible for a lot of Nation Cup points for Spain which they needed to get an invite to l'Avenir in the first place.

Thank you Xuban, but now that you have got us there, we will select David González Lopez, presently riding for Caja Rural amateur team.
All rounder, born 21/02/1996 in Fontiveros (Ávila), height: 179cm, weight: 68kg, finished 10th in this years National Championships (Spain) U23 - Road Race.

 

[42x16ss]

Stages 1,2,3 are not bad. I don’t know about the finishing loops on 1 and 2 though. I actually thought that the 35 km stage was a MTT for a minute...

Iseran stage is backwards too.

 

[rghysens]

Re:

Stages 1,2,3 are not bad. I don’t know about the finishing loops on 1 and 2 though. I actually thought that the 35 km stage was a MTT for a minute...

Iseran stage is backwards too.

Stages 1, 2 and 3 are basically pan-flat. Don't let the profiles misguide you. A 900m at 1.8% false flat is categorised as a 4th category "climb". Furthermore we have another false flat (a bit longer and more false than the previous) classified as a 3rd cat climb. I mean, a well trained amateur will barely notice that. In addition to that, we have a stage that's shorter than some espoirs ITTs.
This needs for a well placed Eloi, Eloi, lemma sabakhtani!

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re: Re:

Xuban will be up there, and Vanhoucke, despite just returning, is a very good wildcard. Bagioli, Williams, Vingegaard, Stannard deserve mentions as well.

seems that Xuban DNS

That's a really weird one. He had quite the decline in the last days of the Volta, maybe the race has claimed another victim. Barcelo is alright, but Xuban would have done a lot better me thinks. What makes it even more baffling is that Xuban was responsible for a lot of Nation Cup points for Spain which they needed to get an invite to l'Avenir in the first place.

Not a good look for Momparler.

It's explained now. Check Ricco's post in the clinic.

I guess this makes Castrillo and Barcelo the leaders then

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Xuban will be up there, and Vanhoucke, despite just returning, is a very good wildcard. Bagioli, Williams, Vingegaard, Stannard deserve mentions as well.

seems that Xuban DNS

That's a really weird one. He had quite the decline in the last days of the Volta, maybe the race has claimed another victim. Barcelo is alright, but Xuban would have done a lot better me thinks. What makes it even more baffling is that Xuban was responsible for a lot of Nation Cup points for Spain which they needed to get an invite to l'Avenir in the first place.

Not a good look for Momparler.

It's explained now. Check Ricco's post in the clinic.

I guess this makes Castrillo and Barcelo the leaders then

Just saw it. I take my words back, good decision from Momparler.

 

[WKA311]

I read some time ago that Schinnagel, leader of the german team, wants to go tor a Top 10. I can't really see it happening, but Bora seems to value him, giving him their only stagiaire spot. Could ofc be because of his background with their junior team but nontheless I keep an eye on him.

 

[Warhawk]

I started a custom team save in the new PCM a few weeks ago with a lot of young guys and I count five guys I included in the start list here.

Is it stupid to root for people based on PCM? Absolutely. It's also fun. So I'll enjoy seeing how McNulty, Garrison, Kanter, Bjerg, and Vanhoucke do.

EDIT: Make that six, I forgot Cherkasov.

 

[Beobachter]

Re:

I read some time ago that Schinnagel, leader of the german team, wants to go tor a Top 10. I can't really see it happening, but Bora seems to value him, giving him their only stagiaire spot. Could ofc be because of his background with their junior team but nontheless I keep an eye on him.

Bora's interest in him has many reasons. First of all, they need to have some German neopros. They didn't take one last year, and only Ackermann two years ago. That's not enough for a German team. Especially one that aims in finding the next German GT winner (or at least contender - which is what they are trying with Buchmann and which is why they want Schachmann in their team).
The problem is that currently no German U23 rider seems to be THE rider. But eventually you have to try to be sure (and anyways even if he's not that good, he'll still be a good teammate, doubt he can be worse than Herklotz who were yet considered as very much promising). That's what Bora does with Schinnagel, first trying him as an intern. And if he's convincing enough, as a neopro.

There were not so many possibilities for Bora anyways. Who else could have they picked up? Zimmermann is the only one of the profile I can think of. And he's too young for now.
If then you think that Schinnagel raced for Denk's youth team earlier (like Zimmermann btw) and he was racing for Tirol (a team (and region) which apparently Bora has some relationships with, at least indirectly for the time being), he was the most obvious choice for Bora.

 

[jfazendeiro]

The statistics show that those who competed in U23 stage races win the Tour de l'Avenir less often. In the last 5 years, the exception was D.Gaudu who competed in the Ronde de l'Isard, Course de la Paix and Tour de l'Ain.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

I read some time ago that Schinnagel, leader of the german team, wants to go tor a Top 10. I can't really see it happening, but Bora seems to value him, giving him their only stagiaire spot. Could ofc be because of his background with their junior team but nontheless I keep an eye on him.

Bora's interest in him has many reasons. First of all, they need to have some German neopros. They didn't take one last year, and only Ackermann two years ago. That's not enough for a German team. Especially one that aims in finding the next German GT winner (or at least contender - which is what they are trying with Buchmann and which is why they want Schachmann in their team).
The problem is that currently no German U23 rider seems to be THE rider. But eventually you have to try to be sure (and anyways even if he's not that good, he'll still be a good teammate, doubt he can be worse than Herklotz who were yet considered as very much promising). That's what Bora does with Schinnagel, first trying him as an intern. And if he's convincing enough, as a neopro.

There were not so many possibilities for Bora anyways. Who else could have they picked up? Zimmermann is the only one of the profile I can think of. And he's too young for now.
If then you think that Schinnagel raced for Denk's youth team earlier (like Zimmermann btw) and he was racing for Tirol (a team (and region) which apparently Bora has some relationships with, at least indirectly for the time being), he was the most obvious choice for Bora.

I tend to agree. Bora’s approach is pretty simple: they want all the best young German or Austrian talents and while they don’t get all of them, they do get most of them. In any given “mini generation” of espoirs they can’t control how good the potential intake is or what they specialize in. Some two or three year periods will see a bumper crop of talents, some not so much. Bora have a lot of good German speaking riders who are 25 or so. They don’t have anything really from the circa 22-23 year old cohort because there’s been less to sign. That means that they will have a good long look at less obvious guys, just in case there’s something there that hasn’t showed up as age group wins.

It’s a good time to be a germanophone cyclist. You won’t get the same opportunities to get a pro ride as a French kid or a Belgian, but there is at least one team that will pay very close attention if you show any potential at all. And they have a good development record.