Lesser known races 2023 edition

[DNP-Old]

Corbin!

 

[Salvarani]

Go Izagirre!

 

[Samamba]

Aha Izagirre being in top form around Itzulia, what a surprise. Impressive win tho.

 

[Salvarani]

Great win for him!

 

[Red Rick]

Forget banning supertuck.

How about we ban descending on the hoods instead? It's not safe for the viewers.

 

[postmanhat]

Corbin!

Fantastic performance given the course and competition. He should be good at Amstel!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Forget banning supertuck.

How about we ban descending on the hoods instead? It's not safe for the viewers.

It's clearly the worse option, I often wonder why coaches don't work more on the technical flaws in the junior ranks.

 

[yaco]

Groves wanted more opportunities to ride one day races in which he showed some potential - He still has issues with positioning in large bunch sprints.

 

[Samamba]

Corbin and Groves at Amstel pls. They are getting really good really fast.

 

[Lequack]

Aha Izagirre being in top form around Itzulia, what a surprise. Impressive win tho.

I was rooting for him, really great to see him win after that horrible crash in the Gran Camino race.

I think this even calls for Aukera berriak

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggxfZlheUHU

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Aha Izagirre being in top form around Itzulia, what a surprise. Impressive win tho.

 

[yaco]

Strong may survive at Amstel, but I doubt Groves will survive - I'd like to see Groves at PR.

 

[Samamba]

Skjelmose is such a consistent rider. If he doesn't crash he's good.

Not really sure what EF was doing all day tho. It's not like they had the favorites on this parcours.
UAE also did so much work for absolutely nothing.

 

[Red Rick]

It's clearly the worse option, I often wonder why coaches don't work more on the technical flaws in the junior ranks.

I wonder about that in tennis a lot more than in cycling.

 

[Ricco']

Morgado 13th in Volta Limburg.

Even more impressive given that he wasn't a part of the groups that formed first and arrived 8 minutes before the bunch.

And he said he has been sick after Rhodes and today would be riding in support of another rider.

 

[Samamba]

Morgado 13th in Volta Limburg.

Even more impressive given that he wasn't a part of the groups that formed first and arrived 8 minutes before the bunch.

And he said he has been sick after Rhodes and today would be riding in support of another rider.

Given that the peloton finished on 14 minutes I don't think they tried anymore. Morgado finished together with Van der Meulen, also a big talent, but I think they just were the only ones from the peloton still interested in going full the last 20km.

Great result for someone his age obviously, but I don't think this was super special either.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I wonder about that in tennis a lot more than in cycling.

Yeah, but with cyclists having to worry about way less technical aspects one would think that they'd work on the few things that are important. Otherwise you have guys like Ulissi who trained like the pros in the junior ranks (motopaced training session even in the off season around chrismas) but never work on their bad descending skills.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Morgado 13th in Volta Limburg.

Even more impressive given that he wasn't a part of the groups that formed first and arrived 8 minutes before the bunch.

And he said he has been sick after Rhodes and today would be riding in support of another rider.

Who is Murgado ? Don't know him

 

[DNP-Old]

Who is Murgado ? Don't know him

He is the Portuguese prodigy, The Flying Moustache, who dominated the Iberian scenes in laughable fashion not seen since ... Valverde? He won about 60 races in two years, and that could have been even more if not for some covid cancellations and gifting a win here and there to Tavares or other Bairrada teammates. He just for some odd reason never could get the big one on the international scene. Always someone just a little faster, always someone just a little stronger. Then, when it was finally his time, after attacking all day, he had the gold medal in Wollongong in his grasp but got taken over by Herzog and lost the sprint with about 5 mm.

His only international win was the GC in Lunigiana, which he won after coming 2nd almost every day, lol.

 

[RedheadDane]

I hope Strong wins. Just so I can truthfully claim that he was the strongest of the day.

He was not.

 

[tobydawq]

He was not.

Izagirre was the Strongest.

Not all truths fit for a pun.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Strong may survive at Amstel, but I doubt Groves will survive - I'd like to see Groves at PR.

He said today he is racing PR.

 

[yaco]

He said today he is racing PR.

Groves would have been riding similar races if he stayed at Jayco, would have had more leadership in classic type races, however, he was a very good contract by Alpecin.

 

[RedheadDane]

Coquard won the first stage of the Region Pays de la Loire Tour (the renamed Circuit Cycliste Sarthe).

BTW; is there some kind of rule about how many times 'Loire' has to appear in the name of races? Three one-day races - and one of them has it twice - and then this race.

 

[Samamba]

Can't have a stage in a small French stage race without a mass crash ofcourse.

Like seriously, last year was bad, this year is even worse it seems.

UNO-X with a 1 and 2.