CRO Race 2024 (Oct.1-Oct.6)

[Tricycle Rider]

Brilliant leadout from Uno-X, completely bossing it the last 4 km.
DSM spent their bullets on the last intermediate.

They finished already? Dang, I could have watched the CRO race because at the dell'Emilia they still have 66km to go!

I go kick myself in the arse.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I didn't see it live, but congrats to old man Kristoff on another win!

Rnk.	Rider	Team	Time
1	KRISTOFF Alexander	Uno-X Mobility	2:12:24
2	KOGUT Oded	Israel - Premier Tech	0:00
3	LONARDI Giovanni	Team Polti Kometa	0:00
4	ANDRESEN Tobias Lund	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	0:00
5	TURNER Ben	INEOS Grenadiers	0:00
6	GUDMESTAD Tord	Uno-X Mobility	0:00
7	MAESTRI Mirco	Team Polti Kometa	0:00
8	WELSFORD Sam	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	0:00
9	STEWART Campbell	Team Jayco AlUla	0:00
10	BRUTTOMESSO Alberto	Bahrain - Victorious	0:00

 

[tobydawq]

They finished already? Dang, I could have watched the CRO race because at the dell'Emilia they still have 66km to go!

I go kick myself in the arse.

How would you do that?

 

[Netserk]

How would you do that?

With the heel.

 

[tobydawq]

With the heel.

Not the toughest punishment then.

 

[RedheadDane]

Headups, everyone.
The race is finishing early today as well. You can watch this, then go watch the Gravel World Championships*, Paris-Tours, and Agostoni.
No need to kick yourself in the arse, or any body parts.



*Coverage starts a bit before this race finishes, so you'll need two screens.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Headups, everyone.
The race is finishing early today as well. You can watch this, then go watch the Gravel World Championships*, Paris-Tours, and Agostoni.
No need to kick yourself in the arse, or any body parts.



*Coverage starts a bit before this race finishes, so you'll need two screens.

Indeed, it's barely 4:30am where I live and I haven't had my coffee yet, but I'm awake for the final stage of the CRO race and later I'll be watching the Paris-Tours!

While it's a bit early I love waking up to a morning full of cycling.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Okay, final stage of the CRO race right now, looks like they're riding through farming country today. Think that might be some kind of wheat fields they're riding past... not many spectators, but the scenery, while pretty flat, is actually kinda nice. Love seeing the old world buildings and architecture, we really don't have architecture like that here in the States.

Anyhoo, 5 riders in the break (I'm not familiar with any of them), peloton about 1:55 behind, 58km to go.

On a side note I have to mention I really enjoyed the race commentary - I'm watching the Aussie SBS stream and it's just been one lady commentator all week. I haven't been able to catch her name but, she's very calm, knowledgeable, and does very well all on her own! Not that I mind the usual Bob Roll and Christian Vande Velde, but it's really refreshing to hear a different voice.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Apparently there's a headwind...

I have to say for such a small race it's been very well staffed, they've ridden past at least two fire trucks on a daily basis and there are plenty of staff on the road giving direction and keeping riders out of trouble, and I already mentioned upthread the camera work has been just fantastic!

Speaking of fire trucks today's Croatian word to learn is vatrogasci, it's written on the fire trucks and it means fire department. (In Czech we say hasiči, so it's very different from the Croatian vatrogasci. Some of our words are similar or the same, others are quite different, but generally speaking as Slavs we should have little trouble communicating. Same goes for the Slovenians - good to know a little Slovenian in cycling these days. )

Anyhoo, about 26km left to go.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

12km to go and teams getting organized for the final sprint...

Can Kristoff do it again or will Fred Wright finally get a bit of the spotlight?

 

[RedheadDane]

This could come down to the wire for the GC.
All dependant on whether Lund can take the stage.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Lund taking some bonus points for the intermediate sprint - and Fred Wright gets 1 point also!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Final sprint coming up in just a bit

 

[RedheadDane]

Kogut takes the stage.
McNulty wins the GC.
Lund was too far back to mixed it up in the sprint.

 

[KZD]

Kogut wins the sprint ahead of Kristoff, McNulty takes the overall.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Close, but no hat trick for Kristoff...

Congrats to Kogut on the stage win, and McNulty on the GC win!

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Kogut beat Kristoff. Looked like Gudmestad slightly blocked Kristoff from starting the sprint, otherwise it was another solid sprint lead out from UNO-X. I must say Sakarias Koller Løland have impressed me a lot this race, both in the leadouts and in the two harder stages.

 

[yaco]

Kogut is a big unit built like a weightleifter. I wonder if he's come from a track background.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Olga Korbut wins it for the proud nation of Belarus!

Please rise for the national anthem.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

According to PCS Kristoff has come in 2nd 60 times now - is Wout getting close yet?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Kogut is a big unit built like a weightleifter. I wonder if he's come from a track background.

I looked him up and apparently he's always been just a road sprinter. His listed height is 1.71m and he weighs 77kg, so he is kind of a big guy for his height.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Today's final sprint results (I like to list the top 20 because if it's only top 10 I wonder who came in 11th and so forth):

1	KOGUT Oded	Israel - Premier Tech	14	20	10″	3:16:07
2	KRISTOFF Alexander	Uno-X Mobility	5	12	6″	,,
3	GUDMESTAD Tord	Uno-X Mobility	3	7	4″	,,
4	TURNER Ben	INEOS Grenadiers		5		,,
5	BRUTTOMESSO Alberto	Bahrain - Victorious		4		,,
6	AULAR Orluis	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA		3		,,
7	KACZMAREK Jakub	Mazowsze Serce Polski		2		,,
8	MOLANO Juan Sebastián	UAE Team Emirates		1	2″	,,
9	WELSFORD Sam	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe				,,
10	FROIDEVAUX Robin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team				,,
11	PROĆ Bartłomiej	Santic - Wibatech				,,
12	STEWART Campbell	Team Jayco AlUla				,,
13	ANDRESEN Tobias Lund	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL			6″	,,
14	BARCELÓ Fernando	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA				,,
15	LONARDI Giovanni	Team Polti Kometa				,,
16	IBAÑEZ Javier	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA				,,
17	BUDZIŃSKI Tomasz	Mazowsze Serce Polski				,,
18	FINKŠT Tilen	Adria Mobil				,,
19	BOUTS Jordy	TDT - Unibet Cycling Team				,,
20	HABETS Jordan	Metec - SOLARWATT p/b Mantel				,,

 

[Tricycle Rider]

And the GC results:

1	1	-	MCNULTY Brandon	UAE Team Emirates	125	100	13″	17:23:53
2	2	-	ANDRESEN Tobias Lund	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	85	70	30″	0:08
3	4	▲1	WRIGHT Fred	Bahrain - Victorious	70	50	10″	0:27
4	3	▼1	ZAMBANINI Edoardo	Bahrain - Victorious	60	36	6″	0:28
5	6	▲1	CÔTÉ Pier-André	Israel - Premier Tech	50	28	3″	0:34
6	5	▼1	FOLDAGER Anders	Team Jayco AlUla	40	24	2″	0:35
7	7	-	CASTRILLO Pablo	Equipo Kern Pharma	35	20		0:37
8	8	-	BARGUIL Warren	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	30	18		,,
9	9	-	WANDAHL Frederik	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	25	16		,,
10	10	-	BAIS Mattia	Team Polti Kometa	20	14		0:41
11	11	-	BUDZIŃSKI Marcin	Mazowsze Serce Polski	15	12	2″	0:42
12	12	-	HEIDUK Kim	INEOS Grenadiers	10	10	2″	,,
13	13	-	FLYNN Sean	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	5	8		0:44
14	14	-	BARCELÓ Fernando	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	5	7		,,
15	15	-	DE LA CRUZ David	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	5	6		0:47
16	16	-	PARRA José Félix	Equipo Kern Pharma	3	5		0:53
17	18	▲1	LØLAND Sakarias Koller	Uno-X Mobility	3	4		1:05
18	19	▲1	JOHANNINK Jelle	TDT - Unibet Cycling Team	3	3		0:01
19	20	▲1	ARRIETA Igor	UAE Team Emirates	3	2	6″	1:07
20	21	▲1	FROIDEVAUX Robin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3	1		1:20

 

[RedheadDane]

Today's final sprint result (I like to do top 20 because if it's only top 10 I wonder who came in 11th and so forth):

Yeah, but now I wonder who came 21st and so forth.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Yeah, but now I wonder who came 21st and so forth.

Bah, if they come in 21st they're just going too slow. lol!