Lesser known races 2026 edition

[RedheadDane]

Athit Poulard is the new Thai ME ITT Champion.

 

[Rob5091]

We're less then a week away from the start of the European season - yep, hard to believe but 23rd Jan is the
Classica Camp de Morvedre and it's a 1.1 race so expect the race for UCI points to begin.

 

[RedheadDane]

Athit Poulard is the new Thai ME ITT Champion.

And now RR Champion too.
A fitting pair of races to win for what I think are his first as Thai (yes, I know he's had dual citizenship the entire time.)

 

[CXXC]

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


TNT has scheduled Pune Grand Tour. Anyone know anything about this race or familiar with racing in India?

 

[search]

I missed it today, but seems like there indeed were two hours of live coverage of the prologue, won by Fergus Browning from Terengganu.

It's India's first ever UCI stage race, and to start with a Grand Tour directly, they obviously needed live tv.

 

[search]

here's what's coming up the next couple of days. Stage 2 should be decisive, I guess. According to la Flamme Rouge, the final climb is 1.8km at 8.7%

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Intrigued by the decision to rate no climbs above second category.

 

[Squire]

Four stages and a prologue? That is indeed a puny grand tour.

 

[RedheadDane]

Four stages and a prologue?

Not necessarily in that order.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bet you weren't expecting S. Bennett to have the KOM in a Grand Tour!

 

[Rockestar_33]

Classica Camp de Morvedre is on tonight (my time). Ivan Romeo, Michael Matthews, Clement Champoussin, Antonio Tiberi and Christian Scaroni probably the favourites.

 

[Netserk]

Classica Camp de Morvedre

Valencian one-day races 2026 (January 23-25)

I caved. I don't regret it. I guess my 'foreseeable future' lasts barely more than four months. Friday, January 23: Clàssica Camp de Morvedre (163.4k) After last year's edition as a 1.2, this year marks the return of the pros for the first time since 1989 (when Jalabert capped off a line of...

forum.cyclingnews.com

 

[Rockestar_33]

Valencian one-day races 2026 (January 23-25)

I caved. I don't regret it. I guess my 'foreseeable future' lasts barely more than four months. Friday, January 23: Clàssica Camp de Morvedre (163.4k) After last year's edition as a 1.2, this year marks the return of the pros for the first time since 1989 (when Jalabert capped off a line of...

forum.cyclingnews.com

Fair enough

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Exiting finish in Tour of Sharjah. Three riders from the break managed to stay ahead of the bunch (just).
Jens Reynders wins ahead of an UAE dev rider and Nespoli form MBH Bank finishes third.

 

[search]

meanwhile in India, Li Ning Star took all four stages and the GC.

Can they get to 100 wins before UAE does? Matxin must be starting to get worried.

 

[Netserk]

when you win all stages in a gt and the gc, shouldnt that count for 22 wins?

 

[search]

when you win all stages in a gt and the gc, shouldnt that count for 22 wins?

normally yes, but I guess this Grand Tour is more of a Tour of California type Grand Tour.

 

[search]

Sharjah Tour stage 2 finished with a convincing win for the Taaramachine today, a minute ahead of one of the Budzinkis and Adne van Engelen.

Grega Bole is around again as well for his usual appearance, but not as competitive as in his earlier post-retirement years anymore.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Rein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Is there a reason they don't use Al Suhub in the UAE Tour? With all these boring middle eastern profiles you see for the televised races it's sometimes easy to forget you have the terrain to hold actual Grand Tours in some of these countries.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Is there a reason they don't use Al Suhub in the UAE Tour? With all these boring middle eastern profiles you see for the televised races it's sometimes easy to forget you have the terrain to hold actual Grand Tours in some of these countries.

Iirc it has to do with inter-Emirati politics.