Lesser known races results 2015

[Dazed and Confused]

Halle Ingooigem 2015 (1.1) will start tomorrow, 24/06-2015

Roll out 12:30 (CET) and scheduled to finish around 17:00

Race will be live via this link: http://www.focus-wtv.be/video/halle-ingooigem-live-op-focus-wtv#

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjYyOTI=

Official website: http://www.halle-ingooigem.be/nl/1/nieuws.aspx

Nacer to out muscle big Boonen.

edit: Direct Velo will offer a ticker: http://direct.directvelo.com/live-course/2440/halle-ingooigem-1-1.html

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What's obstacle #4 there? 1 is La Houppe, 2 is Kanarienberg, 3 is Kruisberg, 5 is Knokteberg, 6 is Hellestraat and 7 is Tiegemberg, but can't make out 4 as the shape of the route would seem to preclude Oude Kwaremont, Paterberg or Rampe.

 

[togo95]

Isn't it just top of Hotond after Kruisberg?

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Three Vantourenhout's/Vanournout's racing. Shame the two Svens for Crelan AA Drink aren't racing. It would be brilliant for the commentators as the names are pronounced the same way. Plus Sven, Micheal and Dieter are all related. Then Dieter, Micheal and Klaas are all on the same team.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Bouhanni has won the Halle Ingooigem

 

[Velolover2]

Wow, what an anticlimactic finish. Bouhanni (who was invisible for the entire race) wins Halle Ingooigem after the peloton caught the break (with the likes of Wallays, Vanmarcke, Terpstra) in the final K.

Smaller teams now!!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

There's a little video up of the Halle Ingooigem here:
http://www.steephill.tv/players/720/focus-wtv/?title=Highlights+from+Halle-Ingooigem&dashboard=2015/uci-world-calendar&id=42889&yr=2015

 

[May0maniac]

Was that Sep who crashed?

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Looks like it was van der Lijke

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Sibiu Cycling Tour 2015 (2.1) starts today.

Prologue on now with last rider expected at the line around 19:30 (CET)

2,4km flat.

Official website: http://www.ciclism.sibiu.ro/index2.php

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjY0OTc=

 

[Brullnux]

Plebani! 9th and he is only 18! In a sport like this that is exciting, even in a race like Sibiu... *books him for next year's young rider comp*

 

[VanBsr]

Great prolouge! I wonder what big guys could do here

 

[TheGame]

Sibiu Tour

Prologue report
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4cb1cf5ba16ca99ca389d1b67&id=0bf33b9c59

Stage 1 Preview
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4cb1cf5ba16ca99ca389d1b67&id=b80d1de0db

Theres live coverage on twitter @sibiutouren

and digisport if you can find it.

 

[DBotero]

3xGrosu

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Very nice some exposure for Grosu.

Stage 2 today:

Last 3kms:

Can the Romanian hold on in this field?


Stage will finish around 14:15 (CET).

 

[jens_attacks]

edy can't survive to paltinis
i think southeast will strike here. or davide

 

[DBotero]

M.Finetto won the stage and the yellow.Ponzi,Rebellin and Tvetcov arrived in the same time with him among others.

Full results:http://votrecourse.com/passage-live.html

Balea is coming
I hope Tvetcov will do it this time.

 

[TheGame]

Sibiu Tour

Stage 1 report
http://eepurl.com/bsccUz

Stage 2 preview (ok, bit late )
http://eepurl.com/bsbRr1

edy can't survive to paltinis
i think southeast will strike here. or davide

Rebellin said this morning today was just about time gaps, and ensuring he was with the leaders. Tomorrow the deciding day.

 

[TheGame]

Full race report from Sibiu

http://t.co/GNCzHMNSHw

 

[DBotero]

The podium of stage 3: Alessio Taliani, Antonio Parrinello, Serghei Tvetcov.

Full results:http://ciclism.sibiu.ro/rezultate/3- stage.pdf

Finetto and Rebellin at 0:04,Finetto hold on to the jersey.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Last stage (4) Sunday:

GC up for grabs.

 

[TheGame]

Full report from todays Sibiu Stage
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4cb1cf5ba16ca99ca389d1b67&id=d3ecd08f94

Photo: Dragos Dumitru

 

[TheGame]

Re:

Last stage (4) Sunday:

GC up for grabs.

GC should be done, dont think Rebellin will make the gap up. The opening circuits arent that tough and it will be a decent size bunch come the finish.

The finish isnt actually flat, its a 200m uphill cobbled hill, so theres a slim chance someone could pick up some seconds, but cant see it.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The world's most bonkers race, the Tour of Qinghai Lake, started today. This is always a surreal experience, featuring a mix of teams from the World Tour to tiny Asian Continental teams, many who sign experienced eastern European or South American riders specifically for the event, especially South Americans due to experience at racing at altitude, and quite often sees a pretty bizarre field as a result. Because it's a long race - 13 days, the longest race at the .HC level and in fact the longest UCI-categorized professional race outside of the Grand Tours (races like the Vuelta a Colombia, which can be up to 15 stages, are at the .2 level so include amateurs) - inexperienced guys can be sent here to build recovery, especially given that much of the race happens at quite extreme altitude - up to 3500m. Because of this, and the varying quality of the field, there's often some very short stages. Last year was won by now-disgraced Astana Continental breakout Ilya Davidenok, while the year before it was won by Mirsamad Pourseyedi, literally a week after his ban for EPO in 2011 ended. Its history is not all dubious though!

The first stage was won by Marko Kump, in a field that illustrates the usual madness of Qinghai Lake.

1 Marko Kump (Adria Mobil) SLO 2'29'03
2 Mattia Gavazzi (Amore e Vita) ITA +st
3 Marco Zanotti (Park Hotel Valkenburg Continental) ITA +st
4 Jakub Moreczko (Southeast) ITA +st
5 Ivan Savitsky (Rusvelo) RUS +st
6 Ioannis Tamouridis (Synergy Baku Cycling Project) GRE +st
7 Nicolas Marini (Team Nippo-Vini Fantini) ITA +st
8 Andriy Kulyk (Kolss) UKR +st
9 Liam Bertazzo (Southeast) ITA +st
10 Evan Murphy (Lupus Racing Team) USA +st

 

[TheGame]

Report/Roundup from the final stage in Sibiu

http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4cb1cf5ba16ca99ca389d1b67&id=fd13286aec

Photo: Focus Sibiu/Sebastian Marcovici