Lesser Known Race Results 2016

[TMP402]

Mancebo wins the final stage of Alberta!

 

[Jancouver]

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Mancebo wins the final stage of Alberta!

Paco! Awesome classy win! What a LEGEND!

 

[TMP402]

and in tour of alberta Mollema wins the time trial. Field is really weak though.

Oh boy, that field . In an alternate universe, there is a low(er) budget team (but with talented riders) who manage to win the team victory rankings every year with a calendar consists of:

-Amissa Bongo
-Tour de San Luis
-Herald Sun Tour
-Tour de Langkawi
-Tour de Taiwan
-Coppi e Bartali
-Critérium International
-Tro-Bro Léon
-Tour of Croatia
-Presidential Tour of Turkey
-Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
-Volta Internacional Cova da Beira
-Tour of California
-Velothon Wales
-Tour of Estonia
-Tour of Japan
-Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
-Philadelphia International Championship
-Tour de Korea
-Tour of Slovenia
-Österreich Rundfahrt
-Sibiu Cycling Tour
-Tour of Qinghai Lake
-Tour of Utah
-Czech Cycling Tour
-Tour of Alberta
-Tour of China I & II
-Tour of Almaty
-Tour de l'Eurométropole

 

[Echoes]

Haha yes, well I must say I enjoyed it, typical Belgium weather.

Really? It was hot & sunny in Brussels that day.

Outsprinting Degenkolb?! He shouldn't have ended his career so soon!

I did not say he outsprinted Degenkolb, but he "outsprinted" Degenkolb. My point was not to claim Cancellara won a big race but to show how much he's been respected in Belgium throughout his career. He's got a fan-club here and Golazo is organising a farewell event like they did for Nys. It's alread been talked about I think.

I'm in favour of those criteriums though. They are a good way for anonymous riders to earn their bread and good races for cyclocrossers to buid-up for winter.

 

[RedheadDane]

You're saying hot an sunny isn't typical Belgium weather?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Well it was cloudy, windy and with an occasional (small) rain shower

 

[valentius borealis]

and in tour of alberta Mollema wins the time trial. Field is really weak though.

Oh boy, that field . In an alternate universe, there is a low(er) budget team (but with talented riders) who manage to win the team victory rankings every year with a calendar consists of:

-Amissa Bongo
-Tour de San Luis
-Herald Sun Tour
-Tour de Langkawi
-Tour de Taiwan
-Coppi e Bartali
-Critérium International
-Tro-Bro Léon
-Tour of Croatia
-Presidential Tour of Turkey
-Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
-Volta Internacional Cova da Beira
-Tour of California
-Velothon Wales
-Tour of Estonia
-Tour of Japan
-Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
-Philadelphia International Championship
-Tour de Korea
-Tour of Slovenia
-Österreich Rundfahrt
-Sibiu Cycling Tour
-Tour of Qinghai Lake
-Tour of Utah
-Czech Cycling Tour
-Tour of Alberta
-Tour of China I & II
-Tour of Almaty
-Tour de l'Eurométropole

Surely they'd participate in the Tour of Hainan and/or the Tour of Taihu Lake.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R La Mondiale) wins Tour du Doubs (1.1) ahead of Baptiste Planckaert (Wallonie-Bruxelles) and Thibault Ferasse (Armée de Terre).

He's en route to a third Coupe de France.

 

[Alexandre B.]

To add some odd thing : Pozzovivo was his lead-out man.

 

[RedheadDane]

Tiniest sprint-train ever? :lol:

 

[Scarponi]

Nice win by Timothy DuPont beating Gaviria. You guys love Gaviria but easily beaten

 

[Vroome.exe]

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Nice win by Timothy DuPont beating Gaviria. You guys love Gaviria but easily beaten

Thats because Gaviria attacked like 100 times and was always in the wind. Etixx should never bring kittel and gaviria to the same race.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Dupont is just incredible. That's his 18th win of the season.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Nice win by Timothy DuPont beating Gaviria. You guys love Gaviria but easily beaten

Thats because Gaviria attacked like 100 times and was always in the wind. Etixx should never bring kittel and gaviria to the same race.

Well, if Kittel hadn't been forced to abandon things might've gone differently. Gaviria attacking to tire out the others, then Kittel sprinting.

 

[carton]

Initially thought Gaviria had a problem with the gears but the overhead showed he just didn't have it. Maybe he needs a little more race fitness. Maybe he wore himself out before the sprint. But after the Olympics it could just as well be that he peaked too soon this season.

In any case, 260km in Qatar is going to be a big ask. On the flip side, he's going to have seven guys working for him (and Esteban Chaves for the pep talk) on a team with no expectations to do any actual work, so that helps.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Dupont is just incredible. That's his 18th win of the season.

Only 3 pro wins though.

 

[Vroome.exe]

Initially thought Gaviria had a problem with the gears but the overhead showed he just didn't have it. Maybe he needs a little more race fitness. Maybe he wore himself out before the sprint. But after the Olympics it could just as well be that he peaked too soon this season.

In any case, 260km in Qatar is going to be a big ask. On the flip side, he's going to have seven guys working for him (and Esteban Chaves for the pep talk) on a team with no expectations to do any actual work, so that helps.

I actually think he has some decent shape right now, he was very good in the race overall just paid for his efforts in the sprint. Distance shouldn't be a problem for him in Qatar.

 

[Billie]

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Nice win by Timothy DuPont beating Gaviria. You guys love Gaviria but easily beaten

Thats because Gaviria attacked like 100 times and was always in the wind. Etixx should never bring kittel and gaviria to the same race.

Lefevere's schedule planning has been disastrous

 

[Samamba]

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Dupont is just incredible. That's his 18th win of the season.

Half of his wins are against u23 guys though.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

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Only 3 pro wins though.

5, if you include the two pro kermesses he won in Heusden and s'Gravenzeel.

Half of his wins are against u23 guys though.

Maybe, but the consistency is still remarkable:

UCI Racing days: 65
UCI Top10: 47
UCI Top3: 28
UCI Wins: 16

A win is a win is a win, and I rate the value of all those Belgian 1.2 race wins combined higher then a bunch of Guardini-like HC stage wins in Qinghai or Hainan.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

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Nice win by Timothy DuPont beating Gaviria. You guys love Gaviria but easily beaten

He wants that WC ticket!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hard to gauge with these Belgian lower tier sprinters. THey are close to 1000 cq points, then they go to a WT team and are really average (Van Asbroeck for instance).

 

[Thepirateisgood]

Just saw the last 30k on eurosport. Gaviria was in like 10 breaks, kittel didn't pull out until 20k so this sprint means nothing.

Korsaeth was amazing today, in all the breaks like gaviria, solo from 7- 8k or so and held off the bunch chasing the sprint until 150meter. Strongest by far in this race.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Just because Gaviria did some attacks the final sprint "means nothing"? That's ridicilous. McLay, Dehaes, Boeckmans, Jans, Kreder - there were some other well-known sprinters in here without a chance against Dupont.

 

[Thepirateisgood]

I meant Gaviria-wise, I didn't mean to take away anything else, poor choice of words.