Junior racing - The stars of the future

[RedheadDane]

Just in case you didn't feel like there are enough races today:

 

[MLKarlos]

Lidl will launch a Junior team. Maybe some competition for Grenke

 

[RedheadDane]

Just around 20 km to go.
Mark Ketteringham doing a very long prologue.

I think he was caught...

 

[RedheadDane]

Paolo Marangon.

And over in Zuid Limburg we have riders with such amazing names as Child, Home - unfortunately, didn't make it... err... home on the first stage - and Speak.

 

[RedheadDane]

Finn Tanghe won the final stage in Zuid Limburg
The guy with the most French name ever - Simon Defrance - won the GC.

 

[RedheadDane]

Anyone know where the combined U23 and Junior P-R YouTube stream can be found?

 

[Netserk]

View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLjzUhAt0XM

 

[RedheadDane]

View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLjzUhAt0XM

I love you!

No I don't.

 

[Netserk]

 

[RedheadDane]

Who's the kid co-commentating?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Crash looked like rider error honestly, Wooley the only one not taking any chances in the gutter.

 

[RedheadDane]

Looks like Winters is gonna solo to the win.

 

[RedheadDane]

He was caught.
Wiersma won, ahead of Herzog and Picard.
Birkedal 4th.
Winters 5th.
Hincapie 6th.

 

[RedheadDane]

The Cannibals were victorious in the race with the most amazing name:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/penn-ar-bed-pays-d-iroise/2026/stage-1

 

[Alexandre B.]

The Cannibals were victorious in the race with the most amazing name:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/penn-ar-bed-pays-d-iroise/2026/stage-1

Dammit, Mimosa’s son is here.

I’m ooold.

 

[the asian]

Seff Van Kerckhove is back racing after his accident and has won the Volta Castello !

That's good news. I thought he would be out for much longer.

 

[RedheadDane]

Dammit, Mimosa’s son is here.

I’m ooold.

I'm guessing you're talking about Maxence Chavanel; the son of Sylvain (and nephew of Sébastien).

Naah, don't worry. I remember them too.

 

[Onizuka999]

The italian Patrik Pezzo Rosola wins the third stage of Course of Paix in a sprint against the Swedish Wandel. The peloton composed by around thirty riders with the former leader Risbjerg and the favourite Van Kerckhove arrived 5" late. Pezzo Rosola +5" Risbjerg + 7" Birkedal +9" Wandel. Tomorrow the last stage Terezin-Terezin

 

[the asian]

Van Kerckhove seems more a high mountain and a long TT man. Never gets it right in the short 8.8 KM Peace Race TT despite probably being the best TT of his age.

Meanwhile in LBL Juniors 17 year old belgian star Vic De Smet wins, albeit in a weaker field because the Junior Peace race is going on at the same time.

 

[Onizuka999]

Yes I agree.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Interesting, just saw the article on sporza about Vic De Smet. seems like talent according to pcs. but is he a GT talent or more a hilly classics talent?
I also checked out seff van kerckhove, and he just seems a tad too tall.
But then again so is seixas and del toro. Van keckhove is even taller though.
I dunno, maybe you can be tall and be a good GT guy these days. Arensman ain't shabby.

What a great thread. Some legends picked on early, and some talents that seemingly never broke through in the big leagues.
Also saw that some children of former stars are trying to to make it in cycling.

With riders seemingly turning pro earlier. this thread will only become more relevant methinks.

 

[the asian]

Interesting, just saw the article on sporza about Vic De Smet. seems like talent according to pcs. but is he a GT talent or more a hilly classics talent?
I also checked out seff van kerckhove, and he just seems a tad too tall.
But then again so is seixas and del toro. Van keckhove is even taller though.
I dunno, maybe you can be tall and be a good GT guy these days. Arensman ain't shabby.

What a great thread. Some legends picked on early, and some talents that seemingly never broke through in the big leagues.
Also saw that some children of former stars are trying to to make it in cycling.

With riders seemingly turning pro earlier. this thread will only become more relevant methinks.

VaN Kerckhove is 1.90 M De Smet will be a Flanders /AGR and perhaps LBL guy. He;s still a 1st year junior and hasn't ridden the big junior stage races yet, but i highly doubt he will be a GC guy.

 

[RedheadDane]

One thing I like to do is going back to old Junior World Championship results (10+ years ago) to see how those who were good then did later on.
For example, this is the 2013 Junior WC RR:

Rnk	Rider	Team	Pnt	Time
1	van der Poel Mathieu	Netherlands	150	3:33:14
2	Pedersen Mads	Denmark	110	0:03
3	Nika Iltjan	Albania	90	,,
4	Owen Logan	United States	80	,,
5	Rota Lorenzo	Italy	70	,,
6	Eriksson Lucas	Sweden	60	,,
7	Davies Scott	Great Britain	55	,,
8	Nych Artem	Russia	50	,,
9	Shemyakin Sergey	Kazakhstan	45	,,
10	Brkic Benjamin	Austria	40	,,

The first two; quite good.
The guy in third; who?

Of course, it works both ways. Vingegaard seems to have been fairly average as a Junior; well, as a second year Junior. As first year Junior he seems to have been just... bad...
Roglic, of course, was never a Junior. Well, he was a Junior, but in ski jumping, and somehow I don't think anyone could have predicted that "This guys is quite good at hurling himself of mountain slopes. He's gonna win the Vuelta a Espana four times!"

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The guy in third; who?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1921119279098843269

View: https://x.com/faustocoppi60/status/1921119279098843269


Apparently Tour de la Provence stage 3

 

[RedheadDane]

@Armchair Cyclist... the suspense... it's killing me...

Aww... that sucks!
The crashing part.
Not the pizzaria part.