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Lesser Known Race Results 2020

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Yes, but... why? It doesn't make sense.
Especially considering that riders are still riding for their 2018 teams, and it's the 2018 edition of the race, because it's 2018.

Despite officially kicking off the 2019 season, this is still the 2018 edition of the Tour of Hainan, and riders will remain with their 2018 teams until the end of the calendar year.
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PGA Golf Tour does the same with a wrap-around from October to October.
 
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RedheadDane said:
Yes, but... why? It doesn't make sense.
Especially considering that riders are still riding for their 2018 teams, and it's the 2018 edition of the race, because it's 2018.

Despite officially kicking off the 2019 season, this is still the 2018 edition of the Tour of Hainan, and riders will remain with their 2018 teams until the end of the calendar year.
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This is basically the same as football, where transfers can still be completed a month into the new season. And there, more and more people are realizing that this is not sustainable. The biggest league in Europe has stopped accepting transfers once the season has started since last year.

Obviously cycling isn't the same as football, where the competitions run throughout the length of the season, where as cycling has comparatively short competitions one after another. But there are also seasonal rankings in cycling. So indeed, it doesn't make sense but on the other hand, it won't really matter quite as much probably.
 
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Max Rockatansky said:
Alan Marangoni (Nippo - Vini Fantini) won Tour de Okinawa today. It was the first pro victory of his career in the last race of his career. :cool:
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Does it even count as a pro victory? It was a 1.2 race. And he had a stage win in 2.2 race before: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-della-regione-friuli-venezia-giulia/2008/stage-5
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technically both are pro wins I'd say, as both are UCI class 2 races. In 2008 he was still under contract with an U23 team (Coppi-Gazzera Videa) though, so the victory in Okinawa is his only one as a professional cyclist.
 
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UCI 2.1 race The Tropicale Amissa Bongo (website at https://www.tropicaleamissabongo.com/en#) or Tour of Gabon starts Jan 21st.

Saw that the US has sent 80 troops to the Gabon yesterday - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/us-troops-gabon/index.html
to potentially assist US citizens, personnel and diplomatic facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo if violent protests over elections threaten their security, President Donald Trump told Congress in a letter Friday.
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Hopefully the absence of President Ali Bongo (who's seriously ill - see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46170730) will not lead to unrest in Gabon as well.
 
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Well my hope of there being no unrest in Gabon was quickly dashed! Military coup in Gabon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-in-apparent-coup-attempt?srnd=premium-europe
Military officers seized Gabon’s state broadcaster to announce plans to “save a democracy in danger” in what appeared to be a coup against ailing President Ali Bongo, as gunfire rang out across the capital, Libreville.

Young army officers are disappointed with a speech by Bongo on Dec. 31 that he broadcast from Morocco, according to Ondo Obiang Kelly, a lieutenant who read the statement on state TV Monday and identified himself as a member of the Republic Guard. Bongo has been convalescing in Morocco for more than two months after suffering a stroke.
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Helicopters were circling overheard in the capital and gunfire started early in the morning, prompting most residents to stay indoors.

“I am locked up in my house like many others, but information I have is that fighting is going on” around the offices of the state broadcaster RTG, former Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima said by phone from Libreville. “Things are still very confused, hence I can’t say for sure whether it is a coup d’etat or a mutiny of the rank and file of the army.”
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Don't these people know there's a cycling race on the 21st?! Have not read anything about the US troops sent there.
 
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Well it looks like The Tropicale Amissa Bongo will go ahead as planned on the 21st (unless there's more "unrest")
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46779854
The political situation in Gabon is "under control" following an attempted military coup, a spokesman for the government has said.

All five of the rebels who tried to take charge have now been arrested by the authorities. One of the rebels was on the run for a brief period, before being found hiding under a bed.
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