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

[Valv.Piti]

So, what can you actually do on the the climb? This just looks like such a meh race. I dno how you make 3 this bad stages in a row, IN THE ALPS.

I think Sosa's only chance is Chaussy.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Say what you will, but it's a pretty good race right now

 

[DNP-Old]

McNulty dropped.

 

[Rollthedice]

Pogacar going loco with 20km to go.

 

[DNP-Old]

I don't think Sosa is in that 3rd group.

 

[Flamin]

Pogačar on his way to lock up the overall. Already a minute ahead of most of the favourites atm.

 

[SafeBet]

Barcelo with an impressive ride.

 

[DNP-Old]

So instead of having Muñoz work with Hirschi to close the gap to Pogacar, they chose to let the gap grow and when said gap is 1:30, Muñoz is working for Sosa and takes like 30 seconds off the lead in an instant. Great tactics.

 

[RedheadDane]

You know what, camera people? Sometimes it's more important to show other riders finishing, than showing the stage winner drinking from a bottle…

 

[Alexandre B.]

Non-official top 20.

1. Fernando BARCELO ARAGON (Espagne)
2. Michel RIES (Luxembourg)
3. Tadej POGAČAR (Slovénie)
4. Robert STANNARD (Australie)
5. Félix GALL (Autriche)
6 Jonas GREGAARD WILSLY (Danemark)
7 Gino MÄDER (Suisse)
8 Clément CHAMPOUSSIN (France)
9 Aleksandr VLASOV (Russie)
10 Tobias S. FOSS (Norvège)
11 João ALMEIDA (Portugal)
12 Mark DONOVAN (Grande-Bretagne)
13 Andrea BAGIOLI (Italie)
14 Thymen ARENSMAN (Pays-Bas)
15 Ivan Ramiro SOSA (Colombie)
16 Cristian Camilo MUNOZ LANCHEROS (Colombie)
17 Mikkel BJERG (Danemark)
18 Franklin ARCHIBOLD (Centre Mondial du Cyclisme)
19 Alessandro MONACO (Italie)
20 Torjus SLEEN (Norvège)

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Sosa what are you doing

 

[Baldinger]

Did Sosa finnish with the group?

Bjerg showing some uphill potential. Could be interesting.

 

[RedheadDane]

Re:

Did Sosa finnish with the group?

Bjerg showing some uphill potential. Could be interesting.

With that name…

 

[Valv.Piti]

Sosa peaking a bit too soon, worn down by the flat stages, having a bad day, being a bad tactician...?

 

[SafeBet]

Hard to believe it's a matter of tactics.
The yellow jersey attacks, you have legs to follow but you choose not to? That wouldn't make any sense.

 

[janraaskalt]

Re:

Sosa peaking a bit too soon, worn down by the flat stages, having a bad day, being a bad tactician...?

Yesterday he said that he had some stomach problems and didn't feel good.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

1 POGACAR Tadej Slovenia 23:34:34
2 RIES Michel Luxembourg 1:07
3 ARENSMAN Thymen Netherlands 1:17
4 BARCELO Fernando Spain 1:23
5 MADER Gino Switzerland 1:35
6 VLASOV Aleksandr Russia 1:36
7 GREGAARD WILSLY Jonas Denmark 1:45
8 CHAMPOUSSIN Clement France 1:56
9 ALMEIDA João Portugal 2:07
10 SOSA Ivan Ramiro Colombia 2:16
11 FOSS Tobias Norway 2:17
12 BAGIOLI Andrea Italy 2:24
13 GALL Felix Austria 2:31
14 STANNARD Robert Australia 2:35
15 DONOVAN Mark Great Britain 2:43
16 DUNBAR Edward Ireland 2:47
17 ARCHIBOLD Franklin UCI WCC Mens team 3:26
18 SLEEN Torjus Norway 4:20
19 BJERG Mikkel Denmark 4:21
20 ZIMMERMANN Georg Germany 4:45

Really looking forward to this one. A lot of things can happen with those two final climbs. And it gives me some little hopes, that Iseran might return to Le Tour soon.

 

[Escarabajo]

I didn't watch but wtf happened with Sosa?
He can drop pros but cannot handle youngsters??

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

the level is just that high of the youngsters

 

[DNP-Old]

Re:

I didn't watch but wtf happened with Sosa?
He can drop pros but cannot handle youngsters??

« C'était une étape un peu difficile, surtout que j'avais des douleurs à l'estomac mais finalement ça a été dans la montée finale.

 

[RedheadDane]

Google translave of the above:

It was a bit difficult, especially since I had stomach pains but eventually it was in the final climb

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

the level is just that high of the youngsters

And it's probably not the main target of his season, still, the level is impressive.
That said, I think having a TTT in a race like this one with national teams in the u23 ranks is a bad idea, just change it to an ITT. Guys like Stannard, Almeida and Gall (he's pretty much a local guy, he lives near Lienz) would be higher up on the gc if it was an ITT.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Re: Re:

Did Sosa finnish with the group?

Bjerg showing some uphill potential. Could be interesting.

With that name…

Then let's hope we won't get a climber called "Dal".

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re: Re:

Did Sosa finnish with the group?

Bjerg showing some uphill potential. Could be interesting.

With that name…

Then let's hope we won't get a climber called "Dal".

He would be a crazy descender.

 

[Valv.Piti]

No Iseran, completing the pretty laugable route...