Lesser Known Race Results 2020

[tobydawq]

So, today, Arnaud Démare won the second stage in the Tour Poitou-Charentes after having won the first stage yesterday. Two years ago he won the race and all five stages. It would be pretty crazy if he repeated that feat, and I think it will be hard for him to win the 23 km ITT tomorrow again, because the opposition seems to be a little bit stiffer this time around. He is absolutely flying at the moment, though.

 

[Leinster]

Demarre really should be at the Tour. The way he’s riding, he’d probably be a better mountain Domestique than Reichenbach!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Trofeo Matteotti

1. Valerio CONTI (Uae-Emirates);
2. Diego Rubio (BURGOS BH);
3. Daniel Savini (Bardiani-Csf-Faizanè);
4. Velasco.

Trofeo Matteotti, torna a vincere Valerio Conti

A Pescara si impone per distacco il romano che fu maglia rosa al Giro 2019. Domenica Memorial Pantani a Cesenatico

www.gazzetta.it

 

[SafeBet]

Senechal wins Druivenkoers - Overijse in front of De Bondt and MVdP.

 

[Ricco']

So, today, Arnaud Démare won the second stage in the Tour Poitou-Charentes after having won the first stage yesterday. Two years ago he won the race and all five stages. It would be pretty crazy if he repeated that feat, and I think it will be hard for him to win the 23 km ITT tomorrow again, because the opposition seems to be a little bit stiffer this time around. He is absolutely flying at the moment, though.

Démare doesn't win the ITT but hangs on in the fight for the overall, after being 3rd today. Only 1 second away from Josef Cerny (ITT's winner) on the GC.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay... correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Memorial Marco Pantani shown on Eurosport last year? Then why isn't it this year? They think we're some noobs who can only watch one race at a time?

I'm pretty sure I also recall watching Tour de Hongrie...

 

[Wvv]

Belgian champ Merlier gets the Brussels Cycling Classic in strong fashion. Ballerini and Bouhanni on the podium but fell right after the finish line due to the wet roads and a very dangerous curve. Ackermann and certainly Gaviria came up too short. Very nice 4th place for neo Florian Vermeersch.

 

[SafeBet]

Belgian champ Merlier gets the Brussels Cycling Classic in strong fashion. Ballerini and Bouhanni on the podium but fell right after the finish line due to the wet roads and a very dangerous curve. Ackermann and certainly Gaviria came up too short. Very nice 4th place for neo Florian Vermeersch.

Any info about Ballerini and Bouhanni injuries?

 

[Wvv]

Any info about Ballerini and Bouhanni injuries?

Ballerini will be fine I think, he crashed into the barriers but in a rather 'clean way'. Bouhanni seems to have more pain and might've taken a hit on the collarbone.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Couldn't they have placed the finish 100 meters back instead of at the start of a curve?

 

[SafeBet]

Démare doesn't win the ITT but hangs on in the fight for the overall, after being 3rd today. Only 1 second away from Josef Cerny (ITT's winner) on the GC.

Demare wins the final stage and the overall thanks to bonus seconds.

He's got 8 wins in the last 2 weeks of racing. Last time he was out of the top10 in a race was Milano Sanremo on 8th of August.

 

[RedheadDane]

Felline wins Memorial Marco Pantani.

 

[SafeBet]

Bit of a historical moment in the second stage of Tour de Hongrie.
First European win for Kuba Mareczko in 4 years. Second of his career (out of 41!).

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

According to GCN, Fabio Jakobsen was sprinting in the Brussels Cycling Classic.
Obviously a slip of the tongue, but they didn't (try to) correct it. It did leave me with a strange feeling.

 

[RedheadDane]

Wishful thinking?

 

[dick the quick]

Bit of a historical moment in the second stage of Tour de Hongrie.
First European win for Kuba Mareczko in 4 years. Second of his career (out of 41!).

And he won again

 

[SafeBet]

And he won again

Petition to randomly assign Hungary to the Asian continent?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Wishful thinking?

On their part? I don't know. On my part, i think it was more of a guilty feeling. There is a fraction of a second that you say, "huh, is Jakobsen there?", like a millisecond. And then you realize that he can't be there and that you actually forgot about him in the rush about the TDF and other things.

 

[Vesica]

18 year old Olav Kooij wins stage 1a in Coppi e Bartali beating Hayter and Bauhaus in a sprint. Impressive.

 

[dick the quick]

Petition to randomly assign Hungary to the Asian continent?

Yup. He did it once again, three stage wins in a row.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yup. He did it once again, three stage wins in a row.

The guy is on fire!

Btw, @*** the quick , I'm rather amused by the fact that the first part of your username gets censored away.

 

[dick the quick]

Btw, @*** the quick , I'm rather amused by the fact that the first part of your username gets censored away.

Yes, I found it even more funny when I realized that the "***" appears instead of "d i c k" in the posted text only, but not in my username and user statistics presented on the left side of each post

 

[RedheadDane]

Bagioli wins in Settimana and takes the jersey.

DQS won the TTT yesterday, putting Honoré into the jersey qua his placement on the first half-stage yesterday.

 

[dick the quick]

Attila Valter (CCC) wins the final MTF stage and the GC in Hungary.

 

[SafeBet]

Attila Valter (CCC) wins the final MTF stage and the GC in Hungary.

Quinn Simmons second, beating some competent climber.
Very interesting result.