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Lesser known races 2024 edition

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If it's Thursday, it is time for the 72 nd Coppa Sabatini (1.pro) 197.6 km
From Peccioli to Peccioli start at 10.30 CET TV from 14.30 CET

Startlist at https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/gp-citta-di-peccioli/2024/startlist
Last year's winner Hirschi is back so the usual favourite.

roadbook at http://www.girodellatoscana.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/road-book-Coppa-Sabatini-2024.pdf
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Lots of laps and ups and downs and an uphill finish -

From https://www.oasport.it/2024/09/copp...n-tracciato-scoppiettante-e-con-tante-salite/
The start will start from the Peccioli stadium and then there will be a very hard stretch of 37 kilometers with the climbs of Legoli, Montefoscoli, Terricciola. There will then be a new return to Peccioli, with a passage on the Muro di Greta and return to Piazza del Carmine.
From that moment on, a double circuit begins: the first of 24.4 kilometers to be repeated five times and where there will again be the climbs of Montefoscoli, Terricciola and the Muro di Greta. The second circuit, to be covered twice, will have only one real climb, but the very hard one towards the finish line in Via Mazzini in Peccioli.
 
Bit of an odd race today. Christen crashed out at the foot of the final climb, so UAE was left with one bullet only, and Ulissi somehow ended up working in a chase group for like 90% of the final 30k.

Pozzovivo was setting the pace in front, but unable to follow the acceleration when Champoussin and Storer attacked, never to be seen again. Brenner etc. then left Ulissi behind again in the end.
 
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Hirschi is good, by far the best in this race, but given there's a cross headwind here and that there is still a big group behind him this seems like a suicide effort.

A whole ass peloton is like 25 seconds behind him, he should've went slower on the hill and tried to get a few riders with him.

EDIT: alright I might be underestimating him or overestimating the willingness to work together in the group behind.
 
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