Cro Race, Croatia 27.09-02.10

[Red Rick]

Vingegaard and 30 second sprints on steep finishes.

 

[sir fly]

Pretty exciting.
Maybe the front duo should've taken off earlier.
We'll find out tomorrow.

 

[Red Rick]

"What color jersey tomorrow?"

~Vingegaard, probably

 

[JosefK]

Onley is only ... 19.

 

[King Of The Wolds]

Should be a good day's racing again tomorrow. Onley is crazy strong for a 19 year old development team rider.

 

[sir fly]

Onley is only ... 19.

Not for a long though.

 

[Salvarani]

I hope for DSM that they already have him under a real contract or there's going to be some big teams offering him contracts.

I dont know how accurate PCS is... but it says he is in the development team for 2023 as well.

His performance here might change that though.

 

[Red Rick]

Milan lost 10 minutes in the end.

 

[Samamba]

I dont know how accurate PCS is... but it says he is in the development team for 2023 as well.

His performance here might change that though.

You can leave an conti team whenever you want. Development team is conti.

 

[Salvarani]

You can leave an conti team whenever you want. Development team is conti.

Yeah, you are right. Had forgotten about that.

Depends on what he wants but DSM have developed plenty of young riders with pretty good results for some time now. Arensman being the latest good example of that. Their set up seems to be working great for a lot of riders and others not so much. They seem to have trouble keeping them once they made some strong results or had fallouts with some riders for different reasons. Strange team, in that regard.

Signing a 2 year contract at this stage of his career, if he is happy with the team, seems like a good idea for both though.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Even 2 seconds is a big draft

It is! But it seems the current average is below that.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So Vinge wins but barely. Onley was super strong and did more work before the final jump. Will Mohoric and Onley try sth tomorrow with just 8 second to get? Obviously it was possible only because the monstrous Milan had a day-off, otherwise he would stomp Vinge there.

 

[Lequack]

Good racing today, will be hard for Mohoric to get 8 seconds, but at least there is a chance.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Viviani takes the stage, Mohorič the overall

 

[RedheadDane]

Viviani wins the stage.
Mohoric wins the overall.

 

[KZD]

Great work from Milan again, Mohorič gets second and wins the overall, Viviani gets the stage

 

[Didinho]

Ineos sprint train. But they always swerve on the front, crashes about to happen like this.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bloody Slovenian! Not caring one bit about my deal with the Norwegians...

 

[sir fly]

Well, kind of expected after the intermediate bonis.

Management of the race is the best part of it.
Great field they've attracted and kept open till the last pedal stroke.
Too bad the cycling is still at the underground level there.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I've never seen a proper stage race decided literally in the last second (!), like today.
Also I've never seen a sprinter fist-pumping when clearly losing a sprint to a non-teammate.
Kudos to Mohoric, he absolutely crushed the Fisherman in the GC (by about one second).

 

[Netserk]

I've never seen a proper stage race decided literally in the last second (!), like today.
Also I've never seen a sprinter fist-pumping when clearly losing a sprint to a non-teammate.
Kudos to Mohoric, he absolutely crushed the Fisherman in the GC (by about one second).

Does this count? It's difficult to tell when exactly it was decided.

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[Krzysztof_O]

Does this count? It's difficult to tell when exactly it was decided.

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Maybe it does (but I didn't watch it so my point stands). Not sure at which moment Contador gained the decisive second though - in case on Mohoric it was clearly in the last few dozens of meters.

 

[tobydawq]

Does this count? It's difficult to tell when exactly it was decided.

CQ Ranking - Vuelta a Burgos, Stage 5 : Caleruega - Lagunas de Neila

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There's also the Tour of California 2015.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Well, kind of expected after the intermediate bonis.

Management of the race is the best part of it.
Great field they've attracted and kept open till the last pedal stroke.
Too bad the cycling is still at the underground level there.

I'm not sure that we can call the race management great if a large proportion of the peloton goes the wrong way with 1.5 to go. A bunch of riders must have thought they suddenly had a much better chance for the stage win.

 

[Netserk]

So Mohoric made Bahrain win the race by sprinting to 3rd on stage 4.