Lesser Known Race Results 2016

[trevim]

Matteo Trentin wins the 1st stage of Tour de l'Ain.

1 - TRENTIN Matteo Etixx - Quick Step
2 - BARBIER Rudy Roubaix Lille Métropole
3 - BAUHAUS Phil Bora-Argon

 

[Anderis]

Holy crap, Cannondale have won a TTT! :surprised:

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Czech_Cycling_Tour_2016_Stage_1

It would look bad if they wouldn't with this roster against this opposition, although it wouldn't be totally unexpected if they were beaten by a couple of continental teams based on their TTT results in the last 2-3 years.

 

[classicomano]

Sam Oomen wins the MTF in de Tour de l'Ain in front of Latour. Thats another great performance for him!

 

[vredeling]

Beautiful result after his Criterium International and great 1st LBL. I expect great things of this big Dutch talent!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

And DvPoppel beats Degenkolb and Hofland in Norway. Pretty decent field there actually with also Nizzolo, Demare, Kristoff, Guardini and Gatto in the top 10.

 

[Brullnux]

Yes! The Oomen domination begins now!

 

[vredeling]

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/omen

Just saying, you can see it coming

 

[classicomano]

Witness the next Dutch talent we as a country will bombard to be our next TDF winner.

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

Witness the next Dutch talent we as a country will bombard to be our next TDF winner.

Ow Vino no. I'm starting to think we need to breed our cycling champions in secret, away from the public eye

 

[vredeling]

Just the Tour? Joop did better then that.

 

[swissfr]

Generally the Dutch are very bad descender so tomorrow is a good test for Oomen against the french.

 

[vredeling]

Well, that's not really true. But I get why you have that impression.

Remember, we did have Rini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rini_Wagtmans

 

[vredeling]

Oomen is isolated from the group of favorites at the moment. Nice opportunity to see what his descend skills are..

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Geniez wins final stage. Oomen wins GC. Survived the attacks

 

[vredeling]

Good results from this lad, seems to progress harder then even most optimistic people would expect.

 

[BalearicBeats]

Ulissi wins the Czech Cycling Tour, Planckaert wins the last stage! Wippert just can't win...

 

[Kazistuta]

Finally Robert Power seems back from his strange injury - he's on the provisional startlist for Arnhem - Veenendaal Classic the 19th.

Glad to see him return, the kid got prospects.

 

[Jagartrott]

Another Dutch cyclist who is extremely promising early on, only to then fade away (Gesink, Kelderman) or is it different this time?

 

[vredeling]

You never know Jagartrott. Don't forget Kelderman is still young too.. and had leaders jersey in a few WT-races this year.. not bad I think.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re:

You never know Jagartrott. Don't forget Kelderman is still young too.. and had leaders jersey in a few WT-races this year.. not bad I think.

Kelderman doesn't seem to have improved one bit since 2012/2013 though.

 

[Samamba]

Oomen certainly has talent (a lot!), but it's not like he dominated the Tour de l'Ain. Friday he got dropped by De Clercq and Saturday he couldn't follow the same De Clercq, Latour and the only 19y old Gaudu the Grand Colombier. He got a bit lucky.

 

[vredeling]

I certainly agree Hugo Koblet,

But he is believable though.Too much youngsters in cycling these days that don't seem to have weak moments, or a weak period. Give him some time. I don't even think Wilco is a 100% GC man because of his so so climb skills. More a TT specialist who can climb then the other way around.

 

[TMP402]

Groenewegen easily wins a crash-filled Arnhem-Veenendaal Classic. He also won last year.

 

[Ricco']

Joey Rosskopf won the Tour du Limousin after maintaining the lead achieved in a break on stage 1.

Sonny Colbrelli was 2nd on the GC, 1'' behind the american, despite winning the last two stages of the race and being second on another.

 

[TMP402]

Bouhanni wins Vattenfall. But will he be DQ?