Lesser Known Race Results 2016

[Valv.Piti]

Betancur still in the lead, but will probably hand it over to Valverde tomorrow. Only 3 secs

 

[CheckMyPecs]

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Betancur still in the lead, but will probably hand it over to Valverde tomorrow. Only 3 secs

As long as it keeps him motivated to continue riding hard...

 

[ice&fire]

Bananito still leads GC

 

[BalearicBeats]

Must say I am extremely happy for Baptiste and hope this leads to him getting a PCT contract at least, as he should be a wanted man at a team that likes the French smaller races! I think Delko should really try getting him for example as they haven't gotten much results yet!

 

[TMP402]

And Castilla y Leon must be one of the few .1 Spanish races Valverde hasn't yet won.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

So... no B. Planckaert thread yet? Dissapointed

 

[BalearicBeats]

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So... no B. Planckaert thread yet? Dissapointed

I haven't found a suitable name for the x in "Baptiste Planckaert is the new x thread"

 

[BigMac]

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So... no B. Planckaert thread yet? Dissapointed

I haven't found a suitable name for the x in "Baptiste Planckaert is the new x thread"

Baptiste Planckaert is the new Jef Planckaert thread.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

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So... no B. Planckaert thread yet? Dissapointed

I haven't found a suitable name for the x in "Baptiste Planckaert is the new x thread"

Baptiste Planckaert is the new Bjorn Leukemans thread

 

[TMP402]

Valverde wins Stage 3 and the overall of Castilla y Leon.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

3ª etapa
1º Valverde
2º Joni Silva Brandao a 1"
3º David Arooryo a 3"
4º Pello Bilbao a 8"
5º Jaime Rosón a 16"
6º Frederico Figueiredo a 20"
7º Henrique Casimiro a 22"
8º Rinaldo Nocentini a 28"
9º Heiner Parra a a 30"
10º Rafael Reis a 32"

General final
1º Alejandro Valverde 13:04:55
2º Bilbao a 30"
3º Joni Silba Brabdao a 1:06
4º David Arroyo a 1:10
5º Jaime Rosón a 1:32
6º Winner Anacona a 1:43
7º Rafael Reis m.t.
8º Garikoitz Bravo a 2:23
9º Carlos Betancur a 2:51
10º Linus Gerdeman m.t.

Strong result for the Portuguese riders.

 

[BigMac]

Brandão, my man! Showing again he can contend outside the Volta. If Costa didn't have to wear the hideous Lampre colours I'd root for Brandão at the Nationals.

Edit: and Fred Figueiredo! trevim must be happy.

 

[Scarponi]

Where did Valverde attack from?

 

[Brullnux]

Nice stuff from baby Jaime.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

He may not have done. Yesterday he attacked at the bottom of the Fermoselle climb and once Betancur was dropped he was in the best GC position against three Caja Rural riders, so he may well have done the traditional sprint-at-the-hilltop to secure the win and the GC.

Good race by Jaime Rosón as well. Caja Rural are doing pretty well with their young riders at the moment, Carthy and Rosón are the best of them but Benito and Sáez are decent as well, and Jonathan Lastra has some potential. Barbero's hardly old either.

 

[trevim]

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Brandão, my man! Showing again he can contend outside the Volta. If Costa didn't have to wear the hideous Lampre colours I'd root for Brandão at the Nationals.

Edit: and Fred Figueiredo! trevim must be happy.

I hope Joni can contend from the inside, it's about time to have a young rider winning instead of Rui Sousa trying and a Veloso, Marque or some other old rider taking it.

Regarding Figueiredo it's a good result. I wonder if he was one of the guys caught out on the crosswinds yesterday; it really messed up his GC. Hopefully he'll be riding Route du Sud again because the typical portuguese calendar is bad for him, except the supercharged Volta.

Rafael Reis has climbed really well in this race as well. If he can put that together with his good TT skills we may have another young contender in August.

Also very good results yesterday in U23 Liége with Ruben Guerreiro 3rd and Nuno Bico 7th. Really promising

 

[DFA123]

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Valverde wins Stage 3 and the overall of Castilla y Leon.

Wow, didn't see that result coming.

 

[TMP402]

A couple of results:

Samuel du Moulin won La Roue Tourangelle Région Centre Val de Loire - Trophée Harmonie Mutuelle (1.1). Planckaert 5th.
"Big" Conor Dunne won the Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic (1.2)

 

[TMP402]

I'd also like to recognise Al Nasr Pro Cycling Team's utter dominance of the Africa Tour. They have won the Circuit d'Alger, Tour d'Oranie, GP de la Ville d'Oran, Tour de Blida, Tour de Setif, Critérium International de Sétif, Tour d'Annaba and the Tour de Constantine - all in Algeria. I also notice Stefan Schumacher won the Tour du Maroc.

 

[yaco]

Niemiec wins Stage 1 of the Tour of Turkey after solo breakaway around 30kms from home.

 

[TMP402]

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Niemiec wins Stage 1 of the Tour of Turkey after solo breakaway around 30kms from home.

There is a Tour of Turkey thread.

 

[DNP-Old]

Adrien Costa won the 4th stage of Bretagne. This kid seems like the real deal.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The Vuelta a Asturias starts today. It has increased back up to 3 stages, and perhaps even more interestingly, it has restored the MTF at the Santuário del Acebo, although for strange reasons this takes place in the first stage, meaning that the winner of the climb will need to manage the race for two hillier days. The second stage is a hilly stage, although utilizing primarily short sharp ascents, including the brutal La Collá, although on the closing circuit they climb the easier side of the Alto del Carabanzo, not entirely sure why as the circuit would have been much more challenging in the opposite direction (the climb is now around 4km @ 4,5% as opposed to 2km @ 9%). It does show us however that Pola de Lena could be part of a great Ardennes-type hilly stage just as much as a monolithic high mountain festival. After the bizarre stage last year where they climbed Cobertoria from its hardest side, descended the traditional side then climbed the 20km @ 3% southern face of it before descending to the line, and the year before climbing Cuchu Puercu from Cordal north (!), they seem to be making a habit of climbing the easier side of climbs, which is bizarre. The final stage is like a shortened version of the traditional Subida al Naranco route with the hilly circuit around Pola de Siero (called the Circuito Chechu Rubiera, probably because it's not mountainous enough to merit the name of Fuente, the city's other famous cycling inhabitant), then circling Oviedo to climb over the 4km long super-steep El Violeo climb - but instead of then having a couple of downhill false flat kilometres and climbing to Monte Naranco they will descend into Oviedo to finish.

The mighty 39x28 Altimetrias site has produced some profiles because the official ones are rubbish.

The teams are as you might expect - Movistar, Caja Rural, the Spanish and Portuguese Continental péloton and teams with interest there, plus a few Italian Continental teams.

Movistar have both Dani and Javi Moreno as potential threats, along with José Herrada and THE MIGHTY BANANITO. Caja Rural may have some of their best on-form talents in Turkey right now but their squad, led by Hugh Carthy and Sergio Pardilla, is nothing to be sniffed at either. Obviously Euskadi-Murias and Burgos-BH will look to be combative (I'm hoping for Aitor González to be active) but don't really have too much in the way of GC threats; the Portuguese teams will be more interesting in that respect as they have historically gone well at this race even before the economic downturn, partly to do with more invites here linked to the RTL-Asturias coverage and sponsorship, and partly to do with its position post-Ardennes meaning many of the PT and ProConti racers targeting this kind of race are coming off a peak. For Radio Popular, the talented youngster Fred Figueiredo will be interesting to watch (no Rui Sousa...), W52 have attack king António Carvalho and Raúl Alarcón (no César...), and also of interest will be the Colombian teams, Boyacá and Manzana-Postobon - we have talents like Colombian U23 champ Roller Diagama, Heiner Parra and Bernardo Suaza among others, and so they could be an interesting wildcard too.

 

[BalearicBeats]

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Movistar have both Dani and Javi Moreno as potential threats, along with José Herrada and THE MIGHTY BANANITO. Caja Rural may have some of their best on-form talents in Turkey right now but their squad, led by Hugh Carthy and Sergio Pardilla, is nothing to be sniffed at either. Obviously Euskadi-Murias and Burgos-BH will look to be combative (I'm hoping for Aitor González to be active) but don't really have too much in the way of GC threats; the Portuguese teams will be more interesting in that respect as they have historically gone well at this race even before the economic downturn, partly to do with more invites here linked to the RTL-Asturias coverage and sponsorship, and partly to do with its position post-Ardennes meaning many of the PT and ProConti racers targeting this kind of race are coming off a peak. For Radio Popular, the talented youngster Fred Figueiredo will be interesting to watch (no Rui Sousa...), W52 have attack king António Carvalho and Raúl Alarcón (no César...), and also of interest will be the Colombian teams, Boyacá and Manzana-Postobon - we have talents like Colombian U23 champ Roller Diagama, Heiner Parra and Bernardo Suaza among others, and so they could be an interesting wildcard too.

I'd say Movistar go for Marc Soler although his season has been quite bad so far.

I expect Shilov to take a stage here as well.

 

[jens_attacks]

Remember when asturias was live and the ex-convicts and sputniks were battling out?
Good times