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Lesser known races 2024 edition

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Meanwhile I just have been mindblown a bit there was a stage race going on in Tibet. There's something really funny to me about flat stages at 4000m altitude.
Selection race for joining Astana ... :)
Huh, looks like I was right!:)
The current New Zealand Road Race Champion, Oceania Time Trial Champion and defending World Champion in Points Race on Track, Aaron Gate, has signed a one-year contract with the World Tour team Astana Qazaqstan Team for the 2025 season.

The 33-year-old New Zealander comes over after a year in the Burgos-BH jersey for whom he has recently won the GC in two Chinese stage races, the 2.2 Trans-Himalaya Tour (a race at 3500m altitude!) and 2.Pro Tour of Hainan, finishing five times on a podium in the process and taking two stage wins at the later race.
 
Provisional start list for Tour of Britain

Apparently, British Cycling don't want to include the final start list on the website. The closest thing - that I could find - being this.


Good thing we have PCS!


Looks like someone got inspired by his little brother's exploits in Spain!
 
Talking about podiums, this might be the tiniest podium I've ever seen:

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Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.
 
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Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.
Fully agree. Strange.
 
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Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.
UAE and Torres were pacing hard on Passo del Pura, it would seem he was very much backing himself. Nordhagen ultimately was just better and was comfortably the strongest in the race. His lighter schedule probably being a reason for it, but with no clear goals in mind his form also remains questionable.
 
Pellizzari really tried today at least. When Nordhagen got dropped in the final big climb I thought it was over but today it was Pellizzari who went first and ended up getting caught in the final 1 km climb.

Very nice punch at the end by Nordhagen as well.
 
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Albert Withen Philipsen is more of a classics type or is he also someone who will compete in the climbs at some level?
Albert destroyed Seixas, and everyone else (Pericas, Finn, Omrzel e.g.) on just about every climb in Valromey a few weeks ago, with a godawful team as well. Though it was a very weak parcours compared to what it normally serves.

He also was very close to breaking Rates KoM, before Oxenberg did.
 
Albert Withen Philipsen is more of a classics type or is he also someone who will compete in the climbs at some level?
Hopefully he will be a bit of a WVA type instead. Hype in Denmark will be aboslutely immense which prolly will kill my interest in him, that chauvnistic agenda from commentators and experts always manage to kill it for me. Wonder how people from other countries are dealing with that, I see lots of Belgians etc. strictly rooting for their own countrymen. I find that completely impossible here and usually gravitate away from Danish riders them because I get so annoyed of the hype and focus on them.
 
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