Lesser known races 2023 edition

[RedheadDane]

In order to surpass Superman in the wins tally (20), Philipsen has to win tomorrow's stage + GC and then quickly make his way to Chrono des Nations and win that one as well.

Philipsen already surpassed Pogacar for most wins.

 

[DNP-Old]

Philipsen already surpassed Pogacar for most wins.

Pogacar is hardly the equivalent of Barnacle Boy from Spongebob, let alone Superman.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

This is so backwards. It's the Greek who needs a good talking to. Putting your hands on someone at 60 km/h in full prep towards a sprint is much more dangerous than a slap to the head. I don't condone of the slap, but all fingers of blame should be pointed towards someone, and it ain't Van Gils.

Ah, OK, I didn’t know that the Greek man did something like that… That’s bad, and even illegal, because he mustn’t endanger others, with his hands off the handlebar.

I hope all involved will visit the after race/after season party, and become friends again.

 

[Sciatic]

Latest news: no head injury but he suffered a collapsed lung which apparently doesn't allow him to fly back home. A doctor will get there from Italy and figure out what to do.

He wasn't even supposed to ride this race. We had lunch together before Giro dell'Emilia and he thought his season was over. Then the Bardiani DS spotted him in the crowd of San Luca and told him from the team car he'd be leaving for Turkey in a few days...

Truly a nice guy. I hope he can recover fully and find a contract for next year.

Ugh, if I were him I’d be pissed off about how that unfolded—or I would after I could breath comfortably.

 

[RedheadDane]

Martin, Costa, and Engelhardt on the attack in Japan.
Around 20 Ks to go.

(I literally don't understand anything... )

 

[RedheadDane]

Actually just around 5.
PCS has frozen at 23, and I can't exactly read the on-screen graphics.

 

[SafeBet]

I struggled to understand anything happening but in the end Rui Costa won pretty convincingly.

 

[Rob5091]

Rui Costa won in Japan Cup - nice end for his time at ICW. Now at the sprightly age of 37,he's got at least 5 good years in Portugal if he wants.

 

[RedheadDane]

1	COSTA Rui	Intermarché - Circus - Wanty	200	125	3:38:22
2	ENGELHARDT Felix	Team Jayco AlUla	150	85	,,
3	MARTIN Guillaume	Cofidis	125	60	0:02
4	VAN GILS Maxim	Lotto Dstny	100	50	0:27
5	ZIMMERMANN Georg	Intermarché - Circus - Wanty	85	45	1:34
6	SHEEHAN Riley	Israel - Premier Tech	70	40	1:35
7	ZINGLE Axel	Cofidis	60	35	,,
8	ROTA Lorenzo	Intermarché - Circus - Wanty	50	30	1:36
9	VALGREN Michael	EF Education-EasyPost	40	26	,,
10	BERNARD Julien	Lidl - Trek	35	22	1:39

 

[RedheadDane]

And over in China, De Bondt is not on the attack!

Break:

1		15	PLOWRIGHT Jensen	0:50
2		73	JOHANSEN Julius	0:49
3		127	ŠTYBAR Zdeněk	5:22
4		146	REYNDERS Jens	1:43
5		175	SUN Changsheng	10:41

Peloton just over a minute
55ish Ks to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

M. Van den Berg and Onley on the attack.
3 Ks to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

Vader takes the win ahead of Rochas and Carthy.

 

[Rob5091]

Milan Vader - just rode away from everyone - easy peasy! chapeau!

 

[Samamba]

High level WT race won by Milan Vader ahead of Remi Rochas

 

[RedheadDane]

Quite nice to see Vader get a win, after what happened last year.

 

[tobydawq]

I couldn't bring myself to get up at 5 am so I just watched the final hour of the Japan Cup now. I never watched the race before. They seemed quite unlucky with the weather. It was good to see Valgren looking good but I guess he wasn't really on top of his game and it was the three strongest that made it to the end. Sheehan backing his PT performance up was also interesting to see. I wish that Alaphilippe next year will ride like a rider who believes he can win instead of going solo basically from lap 1 in a race like this.

And Costa, what a season. Today, nobody can fault him for playing games.

 

[theyoungest]

Wow, Milan Vader. That's a bit unexpected, but very deserved. I actually didn't expect we'd see him back at this level, let alone winning a WT race.

 

[Red Rick]

So happy for Vader. Madlad has more WT wins than Kelderman now

 

[RedheadDane]

105 Ks to go in Turkey. Vine, Murias, and Verwilt on the attack.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Wow, Milan Vader. That's a bit unexpected, but very deserved. I actually didn't expect we'd see him back at this level, let alone winning a WT race.

So, who's going to be doing 'Milan Vader is the next Darth Vader' thread?

 

[tobydawq]

WHY do the not show the kilometres to go live in Tour of Turkey? That should absolutely be mandatory.

 

[RedheadDane]

WHY do the not show the kilometres to go live in Tour of Turkey? That should absolutely be mandatory.

They did briefly show it... and switched right back to the useless "How long have they been riding for?" graphics...

Any graphics team who opts for that nonsense should be forced to do the Cinnamon Challenge!

 

[theyoungest]

So, who's going to be doing 'Milan Vader is the next Darth Vader' thread?

Actually it's the other way around: the name Darth Vader is based on the Dutch word (although as always with Anglophones, it's mispronounced. It's "vahder", not "vayder")

 

[RedheadDane]

You know who won.

 

[DNP-Old]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4B9jhfVfVc


Juniors just finished. Finlay Tarling, Josh' little brother, got beaten by Donati by a single second.