Lesser Known Race Results 2020

[roundabout]

Re:

Tour of Norway is such a joke, honestly. The only one week stagerace where sprinters rule the top 5 in general classification. Note to self: ignore this trash next year.

Affini is more of roleur though

And the profiles have been out for a while, so something like this was a likely outcome

But it is probably going to be more of the same next year considering the rider profiles of biggest name Norwegian riders

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re: Re:

Tour of Norway is such a joke, honestly. The only one week stagerace where sprinters rule the top 5 in general classification. Note to self: ignore this trash next year.

Affini is more of roleur though

And the profiles have been out for a while, so something like this was a likely outcome

But it is probably going to be more of the same next year considering the rider profiles of biggest name Norwegian riders

I know Affini is a rouleur/TT'er, but he is 4th in a top 5 filled with sprinters. If they can't find any hills or mountains, at least add a 16k ITT or something. But maybe they like Kristoffs chances to win next year as well. Anyway, next time I'm out.

 

[Jagartrott]

Re:

Tour of Norway is such a joke, honestly. The only one week stagerace where sprinters rule the top 5 in general classification. Note to self: ignore this trash next year.

All stages but one (and then only just) ended in a mass sprint. Bleh.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Hyper-domination from AG2R La Mondiale on the Boucles de l'Aulne.

Alexis Gougeard wins solo with more than a minute on his teammate Quentin Jauregui, winner of the sprint for second. Young Paret-Peintre 4th.

 

[Tonton]

Re:

Hyper-domination from AG2R La Mondiale on the Boucles de l'Aulne.

Alexis Gougeard wins solo with more than a minute on his teammate Quentin Jauregui, winner of the sprint for second. Young Paret-Peintre 4th.

Benoit, Alexis, Quentin, all in my CQ team .

 

[Robert5091]

2019 Tour de Luxembourg June 5-9
Official website https://www.skodatour.lu/

Startlist at https://www.skodatour.lu/equipes - Terpstra, Direct Energie, Cofidis, Wanty G, Euskadi plus the usual suspects plus W52 and Big Raul.

Parcours at https://www.skodatour.lu/parcours

Opening prologue is a "brief" 2.1 km long! (Is this a record?) Thats two point one kilometers not twenty one. It does include the Breedewee which is a 350m long section which has an average 15% gradient. Watch the fun from 19.00 CET

 

[Dazed and Confused]

2019 Tour de Luxembourg - prologue

live here now: https://www.skodatour.lu/live

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Has José Been been axed at Eurosport? It's been a while since i heard her do commentating, and now she's doing Tour de Luxembourg and Hammer series etc.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm just glad she's speaking English, because that means I actually understand what's going on.
Not that I would be too bothered if she was speaking Dutch.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Christophe Laporte does not demonstrate his generosity and wins the prologue.

 

[Robert5091]

3 mins and 13 seconds of cycling gives Laporte the "yellow jersey", but Wanty don't get 5 of their 7 riders in the top 7 - misleading photo!

(Kreiger is German not French ... forget you even saw this photo!)

 

[tobydawq]

3 mins and 13 seconds of cycling gives Laporte the "yellow jersey", but Wanty don't get 5 of their 7 riders in the top 7 - misleading photo!

I didn't watch much of the stage. I did see Meisen and while he was riding, I thought he for sure would win as he looked to be really, really fast on the cobbled hill. Impressive by Laporte to beat that performance by five seconds.

 

[Squire]

That was a really nice route for the prologue.

 

[Robert5091]

But do we have a winner for the shortest ever prologue? 2.1 km must be a record.

 

[roundabout]

Re:

But do we have a winner for the shortest ever prologue? 2.1 km must be a record.

https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=29950

Edit: and officially, I think it was actually 0,6 km, not 0,7

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

But do we have a winner for the shortest ever prologue? 2.1 km must be a record.

In 2005, the Giro began with a 1.15 km long prologue

 

[RedheadDane]

Also, very important; Edward won the first round of the Battle of the Planckaerts.

 

[tobydawq]

And also, the Tour of Luxembourg seems to use some sort of variation of this parcours for its prologue, but the distance seems to vary between 2.1 and 2.8 km.

 

[Robert5091]

Re: Re:

But do we have a winner for the shortest ever prologue? 2.1 km must be a record.

In 2005, the Giro began with a 1.15 km long prologue

That was just nuts! ... and the top 134 riders finished less then 10 seconds apart .... that's just about long enough to get up to top speed! :lol:

 

[Robert5091]

Re: Re:

But do we have a winner for the shortest ever prologue? 2.1 km must be a record.

https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=29950

Edit: and officially, I think it was actually 0,6 km, not 0,7

Since it was a MTT - all uphill according to the profile, I think that gets a mention but with an *

Seems just as nuts though - 600 meters?! Geezus! :lol:

 

[tobydawq]

The Austrian one was 10 seconds faster than the Giro TT.

But I can go even better. Just last week, there was a (presumably) flat 0.7 km prologue in the Japanese 2.2 race, Tour de Kumano.

Winning time: 49 seconds.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-kumano/2019/prologue

 

[RedheadDane]

:lol:
That's just showing off how accurate their time-measuring equipment is!
And couldn't help but notice that Blake wasn't quite quick enough.

 

[Anderis]

I wonder how it's possible to lose over a minute on a 0.7km flat prologue...

Over such a short distance, I could average far more than 21km/h on my $500 bike despite never doing any serious training in any sports discipline and barely excercising at all during last few months. :lol:

 

[RedheadDane]

Being late to the start...

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

I wonder how it's possible to lose over a minute on a 0.7km flat prologue...

Over such a short distance, I could average far more than 21km/h on my $500 bike despite never doing any serious training in any sports discipline and barely excercising at all during last few months. :lol:

Perhaps doing a Michael Rasmussen. A couple of crashes, and a few more bike changes?