Lesser known races results 2015

[rote_laterne]

Final results GC Tour of Gila (first 39 places):
https://twitter.com/TouroftheGila/status/594980646629478400/photo/1

 

[burgyv]

Roglic takes it all in the 2nd stage of Azerbijan.

1. Roglic
2. Mugerli a 34 s
3. Horner
4. Ockeloen

The rest almost lost 4 minutes.

Roglic is quite impressive this year, anyone who knows about his future road ambitions? (because he also is a ski jumper??)

 

[fauniera]

Roglic is not competing in ski jumping any more, as far as i know. He certainly has a lot of talent, we should see him in a bigger team soon.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Ye Roglic quit ski jumping, now his only sportive ambitions are in cycling.

 

[johnymax]

This was Roglic's second win (.1 or higher) as a pro. His 1st win was a year ago on exactly the same stage at the tour d' Azerbaidjan. This year he has good chance to hold onto the lead till the end. By the way, last year's winner of the race was some guy named Ilnur.

 

[Velolover2]

Horner is alive again. Does he has a chance of winning the queen stage today?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Clasificación élite:
1 Carlos Ivan OYARZUN GUINEZ CHI 51:56:00
2 Manuel RODAS OCHOA GUA 45
3 Alejandro Antonio DURAN ARG +1:12
4 Pedro Autran Dourado Dutra NICACIO BRA +1:42
5 Magno Prado NAZARET BRA +1:59
6 José RUJANO GUILLEN VEN +2:30
7 Segundo NAVARRETE ECU +2:36
8 Josué GONZÁLEZ CRC +2:47
9 Brayan RÍOS GUA +4:06
10 Carlos GALVIZ VEN +4:07

Clasificación sub23:
1 Ignacio PRADO MEX 35:06:00
2 Sebastian Martin Junior TRILLINI ARG 14
3 Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ CHI 16
4 Endrigo DA ROSA BRA 57
5 Jonathan RESTREPO COL +1:16
6 Richard CARAPAZ ECU +1:23
7 Adam DE VOS CAN +1:26
8 Emiliano CONTRERAS ARG +1:36
9 Alexander CATAFORD CAN +2:12
10 José SANTOYO MEX +2:12

pan american itt championships. interesting to see rujano there. hope he is still motivated to do the vuelta colombia

 

[May0maniac]

Clasificación élite:
1 Carlos Ivan OYARZUN GUINEZ CHI 51:56:00
2 Manuel RODAS OCHOA GUA 45
3 Alejandro Antonio DURAN ARG +1:12
4 Pedro Autran Dourado Dutra NICACIO BRA +1:42
5 Magno Prado NAZARET BRA +1:59
6 José RUJANO GUILLEN VEN +2:30
7 Segundo NAVARRETE ECU +2:36
8 Josué GONZÁLEZ CRC +2:47
9 Brayan RÍOS GUA +4:06
10 Carlos GALVIZ VEN +4:07

Clasificación sub23:
1 Ignacio PRADO MEX 35:06:00
2 Sebastian Martin Junior TRILLINI ARG 14
3 Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ CHI 16
4 Endrigo DA ROSA BRA 57
5 Jonathan RESTREPO COL +1:16
6 Richard CARAPAZ ECU +1:23
7 Adam DE VOS CAN +1:26
8 Emiliano CONTRERAS ARG +1:36
9 Alexander CATAFORD CAN +2:12
10 José SANTOYO MEX +2:12

pan american itt championships. interesting to see rujano there. hope he is still motivated to do the vuelta colombia

Gálviz over 1:30 behind Rujano , I'm not an expert but I've always thought that Gálviz was pretty decent in ITTs.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

this year he's terribly abused at androni for venezuelan fed not paying savio. same for other venezuelans and the venezuelan season itself only started 1 week ago

 

[del1962]

Nice win for Josh Edmondson

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I never thought I'd be saying this, but the tour d'Ararbaijan was a very fun race.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Controversy at the most important bike race of the international season, the An Post Ras. Yesterday, the first stage was won by ex OPQS rider Francesco Reda (Team Idea 2010 ASD), who is returning from a ban. He won from a two man attack in a superb ride. Today, he got himself disqualified, apparently for persistently holding on to his team car. Twitter reports suggest he was first warned to cut it out.

As a result, the other man in yesterday's attack, Lukas Postleberger (Tirol Cycling Team) inherits the yellow jersey. Today's stage was won by Aaron Gate, a young New Zealand rider with An Post Chain Reaction.

 

[Inquitus]

Re:

Controversy at the most important bike race of the international season, the An Post Ras. Yesterday, the first stage was won by ex OPQS rider Francesco Reda (Team Idea 2010 ASD), who is returning from a ban. He won from a two man attack in a superb ride. Today, he got himself disqualified, apparently for persistently holding on to his team car. Twitter reports suggest he was first warned to cut it out.

As a result, the other man in yesterday's attack, Lukas Postleberger (Tirol Cycling Team) inherits the yellow jersey. Today's stage was won by Aaron Gate, a young New Zealand rider with An Post Chain Reaction.

Tis our Race Bull! no ways some jumped up Itie with doping previous was going to dishonour the jersey, he's no man of the Rás.........or something like that No press pics were doled out of him in yellow last night either.....FWIW

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

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Tis our Race Bull! no ways some jumped up Itie with doping previous was going to dishonour the jersey, he's no man of the Rás.........or something like that No press pics were doled out of him in yellow last night either.....FWIW

I was a bit surprised by the social media grumbling about Reda winning the stage. It's not as if Ras stages have never before been won before by riders who have had clinic issues. David McCann won one a few years ago and there have been numerous others. If you go back further McCann won the whole race just two years after his clinic incident. And it's also not as if the race organisers try to screw over foreign winners - there's been one Irish GC winner in a decade.

If it's accurate that he was warned to stop holding on to his team car and kept doing it then he has been very silly - he was well placed to win the race, which would be his biggest career win.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Reda's team are hopping mad, unsurprisingly. The Ras would be their biggest win too. They say they can't understand the reasons for the decision:
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/heres-what-the-team-of-disqualified-ras-yellow-jersey-is-saying-about-his-ejection-from-the-race/

Reda was even angrier. I've seen (an apparently now deleted) tweet referring to Irish sheep and the stench of sh.1t

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Re:

Reda's team are hopping mad, unsurprisingly. The Ras would be their biggest win too. They say they can't understand the reasons for the decision:
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/heres-what-the-team-of-disqualified-ras-yellow-jersey-is-saying-about-his-ejection-from-the-race/

They are pretty dumb then. Its against the UCI to hild onto to cars/motos.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

They are pretty dumb then. Its against the UCI to hild onto to cars/motos.

The whole thing is particularly bizarre because it's not as if they were going up Angliru. The stage ended in a mass sprint.

 

[Inquitus]

He doesn't seem a happy chappy!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re:

Postleberger, who inherited yellow, says he didn't see the pacing but did notice Reda arriving back from a puncture in the final 20 km very fast. He also says "It's his fault".

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/i-saw-the-yellow-jersey-come-back-i-thought-oh-thats-fast/

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

Apparently the team manager, Alberto Elli, himself a man with an interesting past, has now pulled the whole Team Idea squad out of the Ras.

As an aside, reading about the row on twitter led me to an article about the 1992 Ras. Apparently that edition saw large scale cross team collaboration by a number of domestic riders on the final stage to do over a visiting Italian national squad and help an Irish rider to win the GC. This wasn't collaboration of the doing a few pulls sort, but instead seems to have escalated from concerted blocking in of the Italians to actual assaults. A shameful episode I'd never heard of before.

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/IrishCycling/News_Events/Events/Two+iconic+races+with+a+shared+history.htm

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Now getting a bit heated between Irish and Italian cycling journalists on Twitter, with one or two of the Italians saying that Stickybottle and co mentioning clinic issues in their reports on Reda and Elli are engaged in tabloid behaviour, while some of the Irish ones are suggesting that their Italian colleagues are waving the national flag and acting as pr agents.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

It turns out that the rumour that Team IDEA 2010 ISD were all being pulled out of the Ras by team management is false. However, Alberto Elli himself, the team DS was ejected from the race last night after making what are described as "further heated protests" to race officials last.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/italian-manager-elli-removed-from-ras-after-late-night-protest-turns-heated/

So Team IDEA took part today, down to four riders, minus their race leader and their DS. And promptly won stage 3! Their young sprinter Matteo Malucelli won a bunch sprint in the town of Bearna, taking his first ever pro win.

 

[Taxus4a]

Happy to see "Rafita" wining in Japan. He is one of the most talented pro riders of the World.

It is a pity for these muslim people his problems of adaptation in Europe.

He is one of the more powerfull riders in numbers that were in the centre of suisse, as well Daniel Teklehaimanot and Crhis Froome.

 

[Arredondo]

Didier Chaparro 9th in stage 2 in the Tour of Japan yesterday. What do you think he can do the next years in the European peloton Ryo?

 

[jens_attacks]

excellent english by reda.