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Lesser known races results 2013

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What's most interesting is that back in 2010-11 guys like Pourseyedi and Emami were on Azad University and getting spanked to all parts by Ghader Mizbani, Hossein Askari and Mahdi Sohrabi on Tabriz. A bunch of the Azad guys then got busted for doping, returned in July and were immediately way better than the same guys that were smashing them all over the place... when the former Azad guys were on EPO. Now admittedly Mizbani and Askari are now pretty old (38 each), but three years ago Pourseyedi was riding for Tabriz and domestiquing for those three, as well as Tobias Erler, Andrey Mizourov and the very talented and far younger Hossein Alizadeh, who promptly broke out in 2012 and has now gone off the boil, racing for Amore e Vita and struggling to assert himself in Europe.

But, like di Luca, there were literally no racing days needed for Pourseyedi and Emami to be back up to pace. Pourseyedi's ban ended on June 29th, making June 30th his first day of eligibility. On July 1st his contract with Tabriz began, and on July 9th he won stage 3 of Qinghai Lake and held on to the lead in the face of attacks for over a week. Emami took a bit longer; like Pourseyedi his first day of eligibility was June 30th, and his contract with RTS began on July 1st. He took until stage 7 of Qinghai to hit his stride, being 3rd on the big MTF (finishing with Pourseyedi, his former Azad teammate). In his favour is that his good finish in Langkawi in 2011 meant he was at least on a similar level prior to his doping ban, whereas Pourseyedi is quite demonstrably a superior rider now to the one he was when he was banned.
 
Libertine Seguros said:
What's most interesting is that back in 2010-11 guys like Pourseyedi and Emami were on Azad University and getting spanked to all parts by Ghader Mizbani, Hossein Askari and Mahdi Sohrabi on Tabriz. A bunch of the Azad guys then got busted for doping, returned in July and were immediately way better than the same guys that were smashing them all over the place... when the former Azad guys were on EPO. Now admittedly Mizbani and Askari are now pretty old (38 each), but three years ago Pourseyedi was riding for Tabriz and domestiquing for those three, as well as Tobias Erler, Andrey Mizourov and the very talented and far younger Hossein Alizadeh, who promptly broke out in 2012 and has now gone off the boil, racing for Amore e Vita and struggling to assert himself in Europe.

But, like di Luca, there were literally no racing days needed for Pourseyedi and Emami to be back up to pace. Pourseyedi's ban ended on June 29th, making June 30th his first day of eligibility. On July 1st his contract with Tabriz began, and on July 9th he won stage 3 of Qinghai Lake and held on to the lead in the face of attacks for over a week. Emami took a bit longer; like Pourseyedi his first day of eligibility was June 30th, and his contract with RTS began on July 1st. He took until stage 7 of Qinghai to hit his stride, being 3rd on the big MTF (finishing with Pourseyedi, his former Azad teammate). In his favour is that his good finish in Langkawi in 2011 meant he was at least on a similar level prior to his doping ban, whereas Pourseyedi is quite demonstrably a superior rider now to the one he was when he was banned.

Thanks for that.

Pity that these guys hurts the reputation of the TKC. Think its a great "off season" race. Unique on a island with lots of fans.
 
5th Tour of Rwanda (2.2)

Prologue, 3,5km flat at altitude. Result.

1 HADI Janvier [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Rwanda Karisimbi 8 5 04:05 51.429
2 LEFRANCOIS Nicolas Team Novo Nordisk Development 5 2 0:03 50.806
3 MEINTJES Louis Team MTN Qhubeka 2 1 ,, ,,
4 VAN ZYL Johann Team MTN Qhubeka 0:04 50.602
5 GIRDLESTONE Dylan [www.procyclingstats.com] South Africa 0:05 50.400
6 DEBRABANDERE Thomas Avia Crabbe Team 0:06 50.199
7 PLANET Charles Team Novo Nordisk Development 0:07 50.000
8 THOMSON Jay Robert Team MTN Qhubeka 0:08 49.802
9 IHLENFELDT Stefan South Africa ,, ,,
10 JIM Songezo [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 0:10 49.412

Next on the menu:

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Looks raceable as does the rest of the parcours (7 stages in addition to the prologue).

procyclingstats.com got the startlist.
 
Dazed and Confused said:
Tomorrow this non UCI one day event will kick off. Essentially we are talking about a 100km uphill battle where the road ends at 3275m. Some pros will attend, but the race is largely open for amateurs. Here is the viddy from 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-Cg5ILtHU

Just plug in >Taiwan KOM Challenge< into a search engine and you will get the website for the race. Yep, I know its ridiculous cumbersome, but the censure on this site can't handle the site name in a link. Lol.

Race starts around 6:30am local.
Taiwan KOM Challenge is a great race, in a beautiful area. Shame that it's on at a time of the year when the pro's who attend only soft pedal. Simon Clarke was the biggest name there this year and came around 20th, would be interesting to see what a decent pro on form would do compared to the rest of the field.
 
greenedge said:
MTN should sweep the race presumably.

Who do you think can challenge/ win?

It would be even more guesswork than usual, but somebody from MTN who aspires to go to the Giro sounds about right. Result from stage 1:

1 THOMSON Jay Robert [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 8 5 3:12:02
2 EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 5 2 0:07
3 MEINTJES Louis Team MTN Qhubeka 2 1 ,,
4 NJOROGE John Kenya 0:09
5 GIRDLESTONE Dylan [www.procyclingstats.com] South Africa ,,
6 VAN ZWEEL Paul South Africa 0:23
7 DEBRETSION BARANCEAL Aron AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 1:39
8 HADI Janvier Team Rwanda Karisimbi ,,
9 NIYONSHUTI Adrien Team MTN Qhubeka ,,
10 BIZIYAREMYE Joseph [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Rwanda Akagera ,,

GC:
1 (8) THOMSON Jay Robert [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 4 3:16:15
2 (3) MEINTJES Louis Team MTN Qhubeka 0:02
3 (5) GIRDLESTONE Dylan South Africa 0:06
4 (14) EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 0:10
5 (23) NJOROGE John [www.procyclingstats.com] Kenya 0:17

Stage 2:
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Annihilation one way or the other....
 
Tour of Rwanda

Stage 2 result:

1 NDAYISENGA Valens [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Rwanda Akagera 8 5 4:06:44
2 RUHUMURIZA Abraham Team Rwanda Karisimbi 5 2 ,,
3 THOMSON Jay Robert Team MTN Qhubeka 2 1 0:14
4 EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 0:37
5 MEINTJES Louis [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka ,,
6 HADI Janvier Team Rwanda Karisimbi ,,
7 NSENGIYUMVA Jean Bosco Team Rwanda Karisimbi ,,
8 NJOROGE John Kenya 0:45

GC:
1 (1) THOMSON Jay Robert [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 4 7:23:13
2 (2) MEINTJES Louis Team MTN Qhubeka 0:25
3 (4) EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 0:33

Stage 3 profile:

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A sprint, uphill coming.
 
Rwanda

Stage 3 result:

1 MEINTJES Louis [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 8 5 1:52:54
2 EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 5 2 ,,
3 GIRDLESTONE Dylan South Africa 2 1 0:01
4 DEBRETSION BARANCEAL Aron AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 0:06
5 ATSBHA Getachew [www.procyclingstats.com] Ethiopia 0:11
6 YEMANE Merhawi Bereket AS.BE.CO Cycling Team ,,
7 BIRU Goton Mebrahtu Ethiopia ,,
8 NSENGIYUMVA Jean Bosco Team Rwanda Karisimbi 0:15

Meintjes, Africa's answer to J-Rod. Thomson, the leader of the race, DNF today due to sickness.

GC:
1 (2) MEINTJES Louis [www.procyclingstats.com] Team MTN Qhubeka 4 9:16:32
2 (3) EYOB Metkel AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 0:08
3 (4) GIRDLESTONE Dylan South Africa 0:16
4 (5) NJOROGE John Kenya 0:40
5 (9) DEBRETSION BARANCEAL Aron [www.procyclingstats.com] AS.BE.CO Cycling Team 2:06

Unlike some of the trash parcours in China, there are still opportunities ahead. Stage 4 profile:

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