Challenge Mallorca 2023 (January 25-29)

[Salvarani]

No, only some minor bruises/abrasions apparently. He'll be able to race again in the coming days.

Thats good news!

 

[Faserr]

That's pretty normal for a one day race.

I think a lot of riders just rode back to their hotels after the Coll de Soller.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

I think a lot of riders just rode back to their hotels after the Coll de Soller.

Masnada rode to his after the first sprint.

 

[yaco]

QS needed two riders to attack from the break and then play the numbers game - You reduce your chances by only having one rider.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Masnada rode to his after the first sprint.

Masnada finished in the first 40 after working for his teammates the whole race. He is a top professional

 

[Squire]

Reduced sprint tomorrow. Girmay vs the Quicksteppers vs Trentin for the win. Van den Berg seems to be in good shape too, and maybe Kanter can survive. Will be interesting to see how Bouhanni goes in his comeback.

 

[Roku]

Reduced sprint tomorrow. Girmay vs the Quicksteppers vs Trentin for the win. Van den Berg seems to be in good shape too, and maybe Kanter can survive. Will be interesting to see how Bouhanni goes in his comeback.

Don't think Trentin will start today. He was taken to hospital for X-rays after a heavy crash. Fortunately, no broken bones for him.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Reduced sprint tomorrow. Girmay vs the Quicksteppers vs Trentin for the win. Van den Berg seems to be in good shape too, and maybe Kanter can survive. Will be interesting to see how Bouhanni goes in his comeback.

Ah, I am not so sure about Girmay. I suppose his eyesight is worse than before the Giro incident, so his performances have deteriorated after the incident.

Fingers crossed that he‘s good, though.

 

[RedheadDane]

Ah, I am not so sure about Girmay. I suppose his eyesight is worse than before the Giro incident, so his performances have deteriorated after the incident.

I have seen absolutely no evidence that the incident has permanently damaged his eyesight. And even if it had, I'm sure there are ways to solve that.

 

[pablohidalgo7]

I want to see if Dekker can survive this (but maybe he is a leadout man for Bouhanni). He is always in perfect shape only in his first race of the season but last year he has that crash in Valencia wich was the beginning of a horrible year. He is putting some monster numbers in Strava every day, his power output for 1s to 30s is similar to De Lie, even better if we only look the 5s max or 10s.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

I have seen absolutely no evidence that the incident has permanently damaged his eyesight. And even if it had, I'm sure there are ways to solve that.

I hope you‘re right… Fingers crossed.

 

[Roku]

Ah, I am not so sure about Girmay. I suppose his eyesight is worse than before the Giro incident, so his performances have deteriorated after the incident.

Fingers crossed that he‘s good, though.

An injury like that is dicotomic, either you lose sight or you recover well. If he had any lingering effect or heavy damage he wouldn't have scored a bunch of placings in august / september, probably wouldn't have ridden at all. Remember what happened to Marcel Wüst.

 

[search]

I want to see if Dekker can survive this (but maybe he is a leadout man for Bouhanni).

can't really see Bouhanni being a factor already - but even if Dekker makes it, I'd think he would need to work for McLay.

 

[Landeirovic]

Molano have big chance for win this race

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bouhanni dropped.

 

[Potomac]

doesn't look like the break is going make it

 

[Devil's Elbow]

This is definitely being raced harder than last year.

 

[Potomac]

The normal pattern for team and rider numbers seems to not exist for these races.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The normal pattern for team and rider numbers seems to not exist for these races.

They keep the same numbers for all five races independent of whether they start or not. So a preselection of 12 riders gets 12 numbers, of which only 7 are used on each day.

 

[Potomac]

EF seems very aggressive today

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Nice gap for Politt, will be hard to hold off the peloton once the descent ends though.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

A little over 20 seconds between Politt and a peloton of maybe 40 riders. 16k to go.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

EF and Euskaltel driving the chase for their non-existent sprinters with Intermarché, which should doom Politt.

 

[Potomac]

EF and Euskaltel driving the chase for their non-existent sprinters with Intermarché, which should doom Politt.

I was trying to figure out why Hugh Carthy of all people was pulling.

 

[BR2]

An injury like that is dicotomic, either you lose sight or you recover well. If he had any lingering effect or heavy damage he wouldn't have scored a bunch of placings in august / september, probably wouldn't have ridden at all. Remember what happened to Marcel Wüst.

But it's possible to only lose a percentage of your sight, which will still allow you to ride but affect your 3D vision and make racing, especially sprinting in a bunch, harder.
I hope it's all fine, but we really don't know I think.