Lesser known races 2026 edition

[Didinho]

Leitaooo!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Leitão trying to gain a lap as usual.

But he failed.

 

[Didinho]

Greenways timed perfectly.

 

[Samamba]

What an ugly win

 

[Salvarani]

Groenewegen came through right at the end!

 

[RedheadDane]

Pheuow... that was intense.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Dylan!!!!!!!!!

 

[Didinho]

Sentjens was dead 100m too early. Otherwise Dehairs wins.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not enough Alpecin in Dehairs.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

3rd win this year for Dylan. Rockets seems to get a nice return on the "gamble".

 

[Sciatic]

Almost worked out for Ackermann, if the break had just a little more juice left in the last kilometer . . .

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Loks like Malecki got 3rd. Nice.

 

[Samamba]

Sentjens was dead 100m too early. Otherwise Dehairs wins.

He shouldve still ridden, he basically stopped when he got caught. Honestly even the attack was stupid probabaly.

 

[yaco]

Almost worked out for Ackermann, if the break had just a little more juice left in the last kilometer . . .

My preference was for Ackernann to stay in the bunch and sprint.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Loks like Malecki got 3rd. Nice.

First top 3 for him outside of Poland in six years, and his first ever in a pro one-day race.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Here is the top 10:

1	Groenewegen Dylan	Unibet Rose Rockets	125	75	4:09:36
2	Dehairs Simon	Alpecin-Premier Tech	85	55	,,
3	Małecki Kamil	Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	70	40	,,
4	Dupont Timothy	Tarteletto - Isorex	60	32	,,
5	Aniołkowski Stanisław	Cofidis	50	28	,,
6	Eržen Žak	Bahrain - Victorious	40	24	,,
7	Thijssen Gerben	Alpecin-Premier Tech	35	20	,,
8	Kogut Oded	NSN Development Team	30	18	,,
9	Capiot Amaury	Team Jayco AlUla	25	16	,,
10	Reinders Elmar	Unibet Rose Rockets	20	14	,,

 

[QueenStagiaire]

No horsing around today in the end. Merlier 19th

 

[RedheadDane]

Huh? Based on the result sheet on PCS, the 3 km ruled was applied?
Surely, that's not strictly speaking necessary - or even a thing - in a one-day race.

 

[search]

Huh? Based on the result sheet on PCS, the 3 km ruled was applied?
Surely, that's not strictly speaking necessary - or even a thing - in a one-day race.

looks more likely to be a mistake, I guess - although it's the same in the official result.

The 3k rule is a rule for stage races only ("In the case of a duly noted incident in the last three kilometres of a road race stage [...]"), there's nothing about it in the GP Monseré race regulations, and it's also rather unlikely that those guys crashed and then still made it back to finish in the middle of the +10s group.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

looks more likely to be a mistake, I guess - although it's the same in the official result.

The 3k rule is a rule for stage races only ("In the case of a duly noted incident in the last three kilometres of a road race stage [...]"), there's nothing about it in the GP Monseré race regulations, and it's also rather unlikely that those guys crashed and then still made it back to finish in the middle of the +10s group.

Odd, but also irrelevant, because the 3 km rule doesn't alter one's recorded position. So even if it had been a group of say 10 that the incident occurred in, those caught up in it would not get a top ten finish. And time gaps in a one day race have no lasting consequence, so irrelevant what time they are credited with.

But if the organisers don't understand that rule, how many others do they not know?

 

[search]

But if the organisers don't understand that rule, how many others do they not know?

I think it's more likely the timing provider that made a mistake, and the jury signed the results without properly checking any details.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I think it's more likely the timing provider that made a mistake, and the jury signed the results without properly checking any details.

Could be. Should it be the timings providers that are making the call as to which riders genuinely deserve consideration under the three km rule though?

 

[search]

Could be. Should it be the timings providers that are making the call as to which riders genuinely deserve consideration under the three km rule though?

the commissaires normally report it to the timing guys, who send out a result which then needs to be signed by the head commissaire.

But as mentioned above, in this case I doubt that there was an incident at all. All three riders finished as normal in the middle of the bunch, and there's also nothing unusual visible on their Strava files.

 

[Tim Cahill]

What the *** is Gaviria doing, I assume some kind of botched leadout for Hodeg?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035783920210341911

 

[Devil's Elbow]

What the *** is Gaviria doing, I assume some kind of botched leadout for Hodeg?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035783920210341911

Pretty impressive for Gaviria of all people to botch a leadout, all he has to do is launch when he normally does.