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[RedheadDane]

Just to let everyone know, you can watch the Torquay 1.1 race live here.

Unfortunately, you have to sign up...

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Unfortunately, you have to sign up...

Think you can just enter some bogus name and email address, and you're on

 

[search]

the signup-form just leads to a Youtube link anyway:

View: https://youtu.be/M9mYL1eYN7o

 

[fauniera]

Bennett wins ahead of Nizzolo and Dainese.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Looked easy in the end. When did Caleb get dropped?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Nizzolo is having a nice start to the season.

 

[yaco]

Good to see Dainese and Groves finish 3rd and 4th coming up from the under 23's - They'll battle again next week in the Sun Tour.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Good to see Dainese and Groves finish 3rd and 4th coming up from the under 23's - They'll battle again next week in the Sun Tour.

They showed pretty decent durability to be in position to contest the sprint. A lot of much bigger names got dropped or were clinging to the back of the front group. Who are they up against in the Herald Sun Tour? No Bennett or Ewan, obviously, which makes the sprints a lot more open.

 

[yaco]

They showed pretty decent durability to be in position to contest the sprint. A lot of much bigger names got dropped or were clinging to the back of the front group. Who are they up against in the Herald Sun Tour? No Bennett or Ewan, obviously, which makes the sprints a lot more open.

Will be 4 WT teams - Mitchelton Scott, Sunweb, Trek and EF.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's actually raining in Australia.

 

[42x16ss]

Strong winds too.

The weather is messing with the broadcast helicopters.

 

[42x16ss]

McEwen is filming the break from the moto using Skype lol

 

[RedheadDane]

Lippert wins solo (but with a close gap)
Sierra second ahead of Spratt.

 

[42x16ss]

Apparently it was a strong move on the steepest part of the climb, riding the likes of Spratt and Wiles straight off the wheel.

Lippert looked great coming into the finish.

 

[RedheadDane]

Top 10:

1	Liane Lippert (Ger) Team Sunweb Women	3:17:46
2	Arlenis Sierra (Cub) Astana Women's Team	0:00:15
3	Amanda Spratt (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott Women
4	Tayler Wiles (USA) Trek-Segafredo Women
5	Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team Sunweb Women	0:00:21
6	Chloe Hosking (Aus) Rally Cycling
7	Lauren Stephens (USA) Tibco-SVB
8	Ruth Winder (USA) Trek-Segafredo Women
9	Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon-Sram
10	Brodie Chapman (Aus) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope

 

[yaco]

A crash with 25kms to go wiped out half the field - MS and Rally were left with one rider - In saying that thought Lippert was a big favorite for the race.

 

[tobydawq]

Interesting situation in CEGORR. Mitchelton forced quite a selection the penultimate time up the hill, and Ewan is isolated but there, while Viviani surprisingly also made the cut (and has Haas) while Bennett didn't. Our World Champion is also there in the 17-man group.

But if Yates smashes it up next time, it will be chaos.

 

[tobydawq]

Ugh, Deceuninck had one rider in the 17-man group, and still won... What does it take?

But congrats to Devenyns. His first victory on the WorldTour.

 

[RedheadDane]

What's wrong with DQ winning?
Devenyns was one of the non-winners on the team, wasn't he? Nevermind, he wasn't.

 

[Screecher]

Ugh, Deceuninck had one rider in the 17-man group, and still won... What does it take?

But congrats to Devenyns. His first victory on the WorldTour.

Impey was really strong but unfortunately received the Sagan treatment. Sivakov and Devenyns took advantage of that.

 

[RedheadDane]

Impey was really strong but unfortunately received the Sagan treatment. Sivakov and Devenyns took advantage of that.

And Devenyns took advantage of Sivakov being as willing to work as he was.

 

[Captain Serious]

Is the Sun Tour not gunna be on telly?

 

[42x16ss]

Devenyns should thank McCarthy and Keukeleire for being chicken.

 

[The Hegelian]

Excellent race today - best edition so far. I thought it was Van Baarle's to lose, but everyone in the chase group except for Impey were pinned.

 

[42x16ss]

Ugh, Deceuninck had one rider in the 17-man group, and still won... What does it take?

But congrats to Devenyns. His first victory on the WorldTour.

Devenyns was lucky Keukeleire and McCarthy wouldn't work with Impey to pull it back. This is becoming a worrying theme with McCarthy.