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Thornley is such a strange rider. Can't think of many people who would finish fourth on both the sprint stage and this MTF.

Fiorelli used to. But Thornley may also be able to add the ITT to that list.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Fiorelli used to. But Thornley may also be able to add the ITT to that list.

Fiorelli and also Gibbons in Langkawi years ago.
Fiorelli is one of those guys I'd like to see on a bigger team to see his full potential.

 

[Potomac]

Final time trial is only 3.3 km ? ? ?
With a lead of 1'06" I think Riccitello should be able to hang on for the GC win.

 

[RedheadDane]

Final time trial is only 3.3 km ? ? ?

Like, an epilogue?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Final time trial is only 3.3 km ? ? ?
With a lead of 1'06" I think Riccitello should be able to hang on for the GC win.

Why even bother. As a rider not in the top 10, I would DNS the stuff.

 

[aruipksni]

Sibiu stage 4 - time trial (last stage)

 

[RedheadDane]

Manuel Peñalver was magnificent in Qinghai Lake.

 

[Tim Cahill]

One of my favourite genres of cyclist is relative or friend of big star.

Attilio Viviani 6th in Qinghai!!!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage two in China ongoing.

https://live.douyin.com/99416125677...9ACEE1C1&search_result_id=7523820605298887971

Astana pulling on the last climb with a shallow, stretched descent coming before the line.

37kms to go

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Good win by Silva from Caja Rural who managed to get a gap together with Caicedo on the descent and hold ( barely) all the way to the line.

 

[stefank]

I didn't think Silva and Caicedo would hang on, but they did. A reasonable number of spectators, but an overabundance of crowd control!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I didn't think Silva and Caicedo would hang on, but they did. A reasonable number of spectators, but an overabundance of crowd control!

Not sure about all spectators being entirely voluntary. I can easily see an employer encouaring everybody to go out at 4:30pm and get a bit of exercise.

If we assume the profiles being metric, all of the stages operate above 2000 meters. A couple of climbs tops close to 4000m. Thin air all the way.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

China: Stage 3

Two rider in front with about 1 min to peloton. Two other riders inbetween. Probably a bunch sprint coming up, but its been about 3000m of climbing and the stage is 220km, so anything can happen.

微博直播

30km to go.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Bunchsprint. Salby takes it from a long sprint without train.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm actually pleasantly surprised Salby made it over the climbs.
I thought he had a reputation of being a bit of a, well, Danish Mareczko.
Including with his climbing skills... or lack of same.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Alexander Salby sort of like the Pogacar of any race where the categorisation starts with “2”

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Alexander Salby sort of like the Pogacar of any race where the categorisation starts with “2”

So the Tour aswell?

 

[Potomac]

Tour of Austria starts on Wednesday.
UAE is in it to win it, looking at the start list.

Top competitors​

Competitors sorted by their position in the PCS ranking.

Pos.	Rider	Team	Points	#
1	DEL TORO Isaac	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	1059	27
2	GROßSCHARTNER Felix	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	530	105
3	BARONCINI Filippo	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	495	116
4	COVI Alessandro	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	449	139
5	VERMEERSCH Florian	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	398	161
6	BUDZIŃSKI Marcin	ATT Investments	350	188
7	KONRAD Patrick	Lidl - Trek	341	193
8	RYAN Archie	EF Education - EasyPost	264	249
9	MAJKA Rafał	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	230	290
10	CHARMIG Anthon	XDS Astana Team	204	315
11	STEINHAUSER Georg	EF Education - EasyPost	198	325
12	LANGELLOTTI Victor	INEOS Grenadiers	197	326
13	ENGELHARDT Felix	Team Jayco AlUla	195	334
14	PLOWRIGHT Jensen	Alpecin - Deceuninck	189	346

 

[Pozzovivo]

What's the story behind Martin Pedersen (27!) riding for Lild-Trek dev team? Starts in Tour of Austria tomorrow.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

What's the story behind Martin Pedersen (27!) riding for Lild-Trek dev team? Starts in Tour of Austria tomorrow.

He‘s Mads Pedersen‘s brother. Not much more to it

 

[RedheadDane]

He‘s Mads Pedersen‘s brother. Not much more to it

In other words; he's Mads' Lidl brother.

Coop will be wearing numbers 172-178 in Austria. 171 is for Drege.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What's the story behind Martin Pedersen (27!) riding for Lild-Trek dev team? Starts in Tour of Austria tomorrow.

He stopped riding for a while and then started back up again at the team that Mads owns and then ended up getting a contract with the team that owns Mads.

 

[Mayomaniac]

In other words; he's Mads' Lidl brother.

Coop will be wearing numbers 172-178 in Austria. 171 is for Drege.

No really windy downhills this year, but I hope that they will now longer give really deep wheels that are vulnerable to gusts of wind to their riders on mountain stages.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so another pedersen, well thats just great.
In Austria, hopefully Kemna will continue his progress.

 

[RedheadDane]

so another pedersen, well thats just great.

3 Pedersens isn't too bad.