Lesser known races thread 2021

[SafeBet]

Which means there are no first year pros to score three wins this year.

Well well, now there's one!
Alan Boileau with the hat-trick in Rwanda.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Valentin Ferron, who won yesterday, is technically still in his first year as a pro after joining TDE in August of last year.

 

[tobydawq]

Valentin Ferron, who won yesterday, is technically still in his first year as a pro after joining TDE in August of last year.

Lame-o!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lame-o!

K

 

[SafeBet]

Pierre Rolland wins the sixth stage. He was in the breakaway and went solo with like 50 km to go. Peloton was far behind.

 

[RedheadDane]

Restrepo wins the ITT in Rwanda.

Tour du Rwanda 2021 Stage 7 (ITT) results (procyclingstats.com)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The second Rwanda ITT win in a row for him.

 

[tobydawq]

What's up with all three stages today being ITT's?

 

[RedheadDane]

Cristián Rodríguez wins the final stage - and secures the overall - in Rwanda.

 

[SafeBet]

Cristián Rodríguez wins the final stage - and secures the overall - in Rwanda.

his first (and second) career pro wins!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And Piccoli has now finished at least second in stage races on three different continents.

 

[SafeBet]

Nahom Zerai was probably the surprise of the race. Born in 2002, had never ridden against the pros, he rode a very solid race overall and was third today in the queen stage!

 

[RedheadDane]

Bauhaus wins in Hungary.

1	BAUHAUS Phil	Bahrain - Victorious	14	20	3:54:22
2	MARECZKO Jakub	Vini Zabù	5	12	,,
3	MEEUS Jordi	BORA - hansgrohe	3	7	,,
4	BARBIER Rudy	Israel Start-Up Nation		5	,,
5	DUPONT Timothy	Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB		4	,,
6	GROVES Kaden	Team BikeExchange		3	,,
7	KOOIJ Olav	Team Jumbo-Visma		2	,,
8	LARSEN Niklas	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team		1	,,
9	BLIKRA Erlend	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team			,,
10	DAINESE Alberto	Team DSM			,,

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Bauhaus: Wenn's gut werden muss!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Bauhaus winning in the homeland of Bela Lugosi.

This is the most goth-friendly cycling result ever.

 

[Bonimenier]

Laporte wins circuit de Wallonie in front of Sarreau.

Meeus wins in Hungary.

And Gibbons won a sprint with 2 in Trofeo Calvia.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

This thread got ignored today...

Laporte just won GP Wallonie. Sarreau had a perfect leadout, then got smoked in the sprint.

Meeus beat Dainese in the sprint in Hungary, meanwhile Gibbons took GP Calvia in a sprint-à-deux with Delaplace (been a while since he did anything, thought he'd retired!)

 

[titan31]

Big crash in Hungary there. Ended up with a finish of about 10 people cos of it

 

[RedheadDane]

Jesus Herrada won on Mallorca.
Bauhaus won in Hungary.

 

[Bonimenier]

Jesus Herrada won on Mallorca.
Teunissen won in Hungary, after Bahrain tried the "let the lead-out go" trick.

Seems like Bauhaus overtook him on the line.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Jesus Herrada won on Mallorca.
Teunissen won in Hungary, after Bahrain tried the "let the lead-out go" trick.

So we actually did have a rider celebrating too early today, but just in a different country.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seems like Bauhaus overtook him on the line.

Edited to reflect that.
Also... was it just me, or did it look like one of the Bora riders was giving Meeus a quick concussion test? Having him take his sunglasses off, and then move a finger in front of his face.

 

[WKA311]

Edited to reflect that.
Also... was it just me, or did it look like one of the Bora riders was giving Meeus a quick concussion test? Having him take his sunglasses off, and then move a finger in front of his face.

Yeah, that was Rudi Selig. Remember he had a serious concussion after the Lake Garda training accident earlier in the year.

 

[kingjr]

Monster leadout by Haussler

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

So we actually did have a rider celebrating too early today, but just in a different country.

Not really, he celebrated after the finish, he just didn't cross the line first.