Lesser known races 2023 edition

[Devil's Elbow]

Coppi e Bartali starts tomorrow with a beauty of a route, a travesty that it still doesn’t have a live broadcast - now that Challenge Mallorca has finally stepped it up, this has to be the race where it’s most sorely missed. Field isn’t the best the race has had but we’re still missing out on seeing Pozzovivo’s debut for Israel and a whole host of Jumbo climbing talent, amongst other things. Another thing to note is that Tiberi has been removed from the startlist in spite of his suspension by Trek officially having ended, so it seems like there’s truth to the rumours of him being let go.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Another thing to note is that Tiberi has been removed from the startlist in spite of his suspension by Trek officially having ended, so it seems like there’s truth to the rumours of him being let go.

Maybe they just want to keep him as far away from San Marino as possible for the time being, but let's see how things pan out.

 

[RedheadDane]

Maybe they just want to keep him as far away from San Marino as possible for the time being, but let's see how things pan out.

Dumping him into the ocean off the coast of New Zealand seems a bit extreme.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Dumping him into the ocean off the coast of New Zealand seems a bit extreme.

It's a Sammarinese message. It means Antonio Tiberi sleeps with the fishes

 

[tobydawq]

Dumping him into the ocean off the coast of New Zealand seems a bit extreme.

Send him to Pluto.

 

[RedheadDane]

Send him to Pluto.

As far away as possible!
If you want him to just get far away, they could just... yeet him out of the Solar System!
At least in the ocean, he could get a boat.

 

[DNP-Old]

Logan Currie to win the ITT.

 

[staubsauger]

According to the weather forecast the wind is turning down just tomorrow afternoon in De Panne. Dropping from 34 km/h to 24-29 km/h once they hit De Moeren. Uneventful sprint race, despite the rain?

 

[Samamba]

According to the weather forecast the wind is turning down just tomorrow afternoon in De Panne. Dropping from 34 km/h to 24-29 km/h once they hit De Moeren. Uneventful sprint race, despite the rain?

Should still be enoigh knowing it will rain all day and the wind will be in the right direction in the Moeren.

 

[SafeBet]

Maybe they just want to keep him as far away from San Marino as possible for the time being, but let's see how things pan out.

I reckon he still lives there.
But yeah it seems more and more likely Trek will fire him.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I reckon he still lives there.
But yeah it seems more and more likely Trek will fire him.

Not sure what's taking them so long, the current limbo helps neither the team nor the rider.

Aleotti apparently abandoned the race inside the first few kilometres.

 

[yaco]

The De Panne race has every leading sprinter, except for Merlier - Though the predicted weather conditions could break up the race.

 

[Salvarani]

Send him to Pluto.

The planet or the dog?

 

[SafeBet]

Not sure what's taking them so long, the current limbo helps neither the team nor the rider.

From my understanding the team management would probably give him a second chance but sponsors are pressing them to let him go.
I don't know if there's also a legal angle here, considering how difficult it is to fire workers in Italy (but it's an American company and he's a resident of San Marino so probably that doesn't matter).

 

[Squire]

Cavagna absolutely destroying the field if the procyclingstats.com live updates are to be believed.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Looks like Cavagna has it with the solo attack, huge GC favourite also given the final TT and his good climbing form.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Gap has approximately been halved to 47 seconds, but with only 5k to go the (reduced) bunch is going to run out of road to catch Cavagna. Climbers are going to have to make the next three days really hard with the TT in mind.

 

[SafeBet]

1-2 for QS with Schmid winning the sprint behind.

 

[F_Cance]

every other team already throwing GC on day 1. Great

 

[theyoungest]

every other team already throwing GC on day 1. Great

Cavagna is probably the strongest rider there, in a field of mostly U23 riders. I'm sure they didn't just let him go.

 

[Netserk]

From my understanding the team management would probably give him a second chance but sponsors are pressing them to let him go.
I don't know if there's also a legal angle here, considering how difficult it is to fire workers in Italy (but it's an American company and he's a resident of San Marino so probably that doesn't matter).

I assume the team already knew about it last year, but maybe the sponsors only knew it once it was in public.

 

[DNP-Old]

Lipowitz on his way to his first pro win? Can I still delete my post?

 

[SafeBet]

Lipowitz on his way to his first pro win? Can I still delete my post?

You're lucky he was caught but perhaps he still has a shot?

At some point we'll need to start talking about Walter Calzoni, very consistent this year.

I assume the team already knew about it last year, but maybe the sponsors only knew it once it was in public.

I also assumed Trek knew but they keep saying both Tiberi and his agent Johnny Carera never said anything about it until the trial ended.

 

[SafeBet]

Quinn
Schmid
Calzoni

Must've been a pretty entertaining stage (if only we could watch it).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Sean Quinn wins, while Philipp's still the only Lipowitz to have won something of note.