L'Avenir 2024 U23s 18 to 24 August

[Tim Cahill]

Favourites group ended 1.44 behind, assume they will be ST given how they were riding

 

[ppanther92]

Remind me again on the rules:

U23 (what day is the cutoff?)?
No WT riders?

Anything else?

 

[Ricco']

Remind me again on the rules:

U23 (what day is the cutoff?)?
No WT riders?

Anything else?

Born in or after 01.01.2002, WT riders allowed.

 

[Samamba]

And here I was wondering what happened to the newest Belgian wonderimp.

They all came in chilling, also others like August, Marti or Morgado. No one even trying so I'm just assuming these times will be corrected.

EDIT: already corrected it seems.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Very disappointed considering the jersey being worn in Spain/Portugal, that the Belgian guy who came 3rd , T Rex, is not signed to Soudal.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Who the hell is Henrik Pedersen? I feel like I should know, but never heard about the guy.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ok, a true Dane, very white skin and red haired. Big guy. Time trialist and good rouleur

 

[RedheadDane]

Who the hell is Henrik Pedersen? I feel like I should know, but never heard about the guy.

U23 European Champion.
Won the Juniorendriedaagse back in 2022.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Anyone seen betting odds for l'avenir?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Good try from Nortoft I think, gap was bridgeable and they didn't want to just drag Brennan to the finish for nothing.

 

[Samamba]

José Been is the worst commentator on planet earth. It's somewhat doable when there's a co-commentator but when she's alone there's just no way to watch the race without muting. It hurts my ears.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Theiler attacking this like there's nobody on his wheel

 

[Samamba]

Theiler attacking this like there's nobody on his wheel

Is he just gifting it to Crescioli or what am I watching lmao.

Or is he just that confident

 

[Faserr]

That was strange. After the attack of the italien guy after sucking wheel for 5km I wouldn't ride anymore. But perhaps Theiler wanted a result and show that he is strong.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

baffling by Theiler

 

[Samamba]

Great win for Crescioli, but Theiler has an IQ of minus 50 or something. I know he's young but what was this??

 

[Tim Cahill]

Is he just gifting it to Crescioli or what am I watching lmao.

Or is he just that confident

Hopefully he got a decent price for it, other than that he looked behind several times to see nobody coming and just carried on riding, bizarre.

 

[RedheadDane]

Congratulations to Crescioli.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Wow wheelsuucker wins

 

[Tim Cahill]

Brennan could have 2 stages if he had a team dedicated to him, just the nature of national/U23 racing I suppose. He won't mind too much, feel comfortable saying that his time will come on the bigger stage in the near future.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Evidently Theiler thinks that a second place in an Avenir stage, no matter how he achieved it, is going to land him a contract somewhere even though he's a last-year U23 with zero non-NC top-10s in the past 2 seasons.

 

[Samamba]

Evidently Theiler thinks that a second place in an Avenir stage, no matter how he achieved it, is going to land him a contract somewhere even though he's a last-year U23 with zero non-NC top-10s in the past 2 seasons.

I get that, but then at least stop riding like that in the last km or so, it was pretty obvious peloton wasn't coming back. Or at least ask Crescioli to take over once earlier and see what he does. It looked like he just kept riding without even looking at Crescioli (who even attacked him before).

Don't think a 2nd place here will land him a pro contract anyways.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Don't think a 2nd place here will land him a pro contract anyways.

That was my point. Don't see what he gets from finishing second here.

 

[Samamba]

Well Morgado lost 8 minutes, no idea what he's even doing there if he's this bad. Stage like this should be a possible win for him.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Well Morgado lost 8 minutes, no idea what he's even doing there if he's this bad. Stage like this should be a possible win for him.

Guessing he's sick, even in bad form he should be doing much better.