Lesser known races 2023 edition

[Samamba]

Astana making the race, in what year are we?

 

[DNP-Old]

John Ayuso DNF

 

[Filippo_3467]

where's Vlasov? did he crash

 

[Samamba]

Lutsenko solo

Astana 1 2 might be incoming. Are we living in an alternative reality.

 

[Samamba]

And then Lutsenko went the wrong way...

EDIT: might still win, no one can close the last few meters.

Yeah think he's gone again. Got some help from the moto's there.

 

[RedheadDane]

That's a small gap to allow the Astana car to get behind Lutsenko...

 

[Nick2413]

Motos helped but after the wrong turn it’s hard to feel bad about it. Lutsenko was strongest by far.

 

[IndurainsTdF1994]

the event is listed the UEC page so I'd be upset if I won and did not get the jersey

UEC- Article

European Cycling Union (UEC) member of the International Cycling Union (UCI)

www.uec.ch

the start list is not much to write about though

https://www.uec.ch/resources/2023%20Events/grimpeurs/UEC%20CHAMPIONNATS%20D'EUROPE%20DES%20GRIMPEURS%202023-%20TREMOLA%20(SUI)%20-%20Start%20list.pdf

What is Grosschartner doing there? Weird.

 

[RedheadDane]

What is Grosschartner doing there? Weird.

Winning.

 

[SafeBet]

Mattia Gaffuri, who finished second behind Grossschartner, is Vergallito's podcast partner and another Italian young rider who's now training alone and pushing a lot more watts than a couple years ago when he was riding for an u23 team.
He's planning to compete in the Zwift Academy later this year.

 

[search]

10k to go in Tour de l'Ain. Should normally be a sprint, but there are plenty of attacks now. EF and Ag2R most active.

 

[SafeBet]

Jake Stewart making a habit of winning the first stage in Tour de l'Ain.

 

[tobydawq]

Astana have López, Aguilera and Vinokourov in this race.

While it's not Miguel Ángel or Christina, it is indeed Alexander!

 

[search]

Tour de l'Ain is approaching the final climb of the day. EF has been pulling at the front for most of the stage so far, apparently for Cepeda.

I struggle to see him winning on this downhill finish, but who knows...

 

[Earns1985]

Attack by Storer now..

 

[search]

Vuillermoz crashed into a barb wire fence.

 

[search]

now Carthy is down as well. Was looking forward to see a sprint between him, Cepeda and Storer (+ preferably Elissonde). It doesn't get much less explosive than that, I guess

edit: the remaining two crash into each other on the finish line...

 

[tobydawq]

That was some finish.

 

[Samamba]

Storer lmao

 

[tobydawq]

Cepeda continues his feud with Groupama. But this wasn't his fault.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Everyone thought that finish was a who's who of people with no sprint, but in reality it was a who's who of people with no bike-handling ability. Madness.

 

[Potomac]

I only caught the last 11 km, very exciting.

 

[search]

Storer lmao

I just listened to a podcast with Walscheid the other day, and he talked about Storer as a team mate a bit, and how he mistakenly took Fröhlinger's bike to start the ITT in his first ever Vuelta.

As a result, he had to wait for two minutes to switch bikes, and almost missed the time cut. Somehow this just came back to mind...

 

[roundabout]

I just listened to a podcast with Walscheid the other day, and he talked about Storer as a team mate a bit, and how he mistakenly took Fröhlinger's bike to start the ITT in his first ever Vuelta.

As a result, he had to wait for two minutes to switch bikes, and almost missed the time cut. Somehow this just came back to mind...

Considering that Storer only lost 59 seconds to the winner in that TT some parts of the story may have been made up for extra effect.

 

[DNP-Old]

Considering that Storer only lost 59 seconds to the winner in that TT some parts of the story may have been made up for extra effect.

He was dead last.

2018 Vuelta a España

The 16th Stage of 2018 Vuelta a España was won by Rohan Dennis of BMC Racing Team.

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