...and they also are evidently incapable of publishing the full results within an hour and 40 minutes (and counting) of the finish. That might be the slowest of this season so far.
Too much beer maybe. It is a Wednesday after all.
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...and they also are evidently incapable of publishing the full results within an hour and 40 minutes (and counting) of the finish. That might be the slowest of this season so far.
Euskaltel also rode the smaller Belgian races last weekend. They're obviously not going to win, but a top 20 is not impossible, and that is also worth some UCI points.
Wanting it to be more of a warm-up for MSR?
Would also explain the change in time.
Oh no, you're spot on when it comes to them wanting to have a warm-up race for MSR. It's just the execution that's really poor...
And voilà, they were 14th, 15th and 16th. A performance of sorts...
That’s just criminal how they ruined Milano-Torino. If they wanted a sprint friendly race in the week of MSR create a new race instead of butchering a once very fine one day classic with a star studded winners list.Milano-Torino: Cancellara happy
(thanks RedHeadDane for the thread advice!)
And voilà, they were 14th, 15th and 16th. A performance of sorts...
That's a genius move actually. Make a warm up race (for a monument) which is not raced by any of the top favorites for that monument.
While at the same time you kill a perfectly fine warm-up race for a different monument.
i thought it was not held last year due to Tirreno changing dates but is now held in the end of march.
To make it work without shorting the events you need to move Strade and Paris Nice a week earlier.I think the calendar will actually look much worse if the UCI really pushes through the "no WT races at the same time" idea. I really struggle to see that can work out without shortening races like Paris-Nice, Tirreno or Catalunya to ~5 days, at least.
To make it work without shorting the events you need to move Strade and Paris Nice a week earlier.
Given K-B-K is not WT it’s possible to have Omloop at the standard Saturday, Strade the Sunday and then start a 7 stage Paris-Nice on Monday. Then start a 7 stage Tirreno the following Monday. Then San Remo Saturday and a 6 stage Catalunya Monday as this year leaving the Sunday for Gent-Wevelgem.
Kooij was struggling on every cobbled sector so far. Don't think he is even in the chase group anymoreVan Dijke pulling in the front group with Molano when Jumbo have Kooij in the peloton...
Kooij was struggling on every cobbled sector so far. Don't think he is even in the chase group anymore
it's not him, and he must have had a load of mechanicals thenHe is, and he wasn't struggling, je just had mechanicals (or crashed) twice. No teammates there for him anyways.
If Boasson Hagen can pull this off, he will be both the second-youngest and second-oldest winner in the history of this race.