Lesser known races thread 2021

[Mayomaniac]

The fact that the Italian NT with all the guys who'll ride the Olympics bar Nibali (and Caruso, but he rides this race for Bahrain) still ride this race despite it having 5 stages and only starting today is mindblowing.
What a nice way to ruin your potential advantage of tavelling to Tokyo earlier so that you have more time to deal with the jetlag and to acclimatise. Talk about ruining your chances yourself...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The fact that the Italian NT with all the guys who'll ride the Olympics bar Nibali (and Caruso, but he rides this race for Bahrain) still ride this race despite it having 5 stages and only starting today is mindblowing.
What a nice way to ruin your potential advantage of tavelling to Tokyo earlier so that you have more time to deal with the jetlag and to acclimatise. Talk about ruining your chances yourself...

At least Ganna, Scartezzini and Viviani especially have more time to prepare.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Ulissi won the first stage in front of Bettiol and Aleotti.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Those of you who can VPN into Italy
The 48 mins of highlights are here: https://www.raisport.rai.it/video/2...ppa-2c21e4c8-2cf5-47d9-8691-88c840305ce7.html

I put the final kms here

View: https://youtu.be/Ctctf-3ujMA

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Barnabás's Peák is still lower than Ackermann's

01	Pascal Ackermann		BORA-hansgrohe	04:26:40​	14​
02	Barnabas Peak		Team BikeExchange	+ 00​	5​
03	Sep Vanmarcke		Israel Start-Up Nation	+ 00​	3​
04	Enrico Battaglin		Bardiani CSF Faizanè	+ 00​	​
05	Alberto Bettiol		Italy	+ 00​	​
06	Maxime Bouet		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	​
07	Diego Ulissi		UAE Team Emirates	+ 00​	​
08	Matis Louvel		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	​
09	Felix Großschartner		BORA-hansgrohe	+ 00​	​
10	Giacomo Garavaglia		Work Service Dynatek Vega	+ 00​

 

[Bonimenier]

Ackermann trying to confuse us with all these wins during the TdF.

 

[Mayomaniac]

So according to Cassani the Italian NT will pull out after stage 3, so that they can get to Tokyo earlier than the Tour guys and have 1-2 extra days to deal with the jetlag and everything.
Source:https://www.tuttobiciweb.it/article/2021/07/15/1626339523/cassani-olimpiadi-allenamento-nazionale

 

[yaco]

Barnabas Peak's second place in a sprint finish is one of the more bizarre results in 2021 - He's struggled in his two years in the WT. He's shown little form , while struggling in his natural terrain as a punchy type rider.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Original here Settimana Ciclistica Sardegna - 2ª Tappa - Ciclismo - Rai Sport

Last few kms here:

View: https://youtu.be/zpVyXV6uDmI

 

[SafeBet]

Another win for Ackermann in stage 3.
The youngster Jonathan Milan was second, Rudy Barbier third.

 

[BlueRoads]

Another win for Ackermann in stage 3.
The youngster Jonathan Milan was second, Rudy Barbier third.

Finally the Bahrain flight has taken Milan on board! Good for my cq-points...

 

[Mayomaniac]

That was close.
Milan is a good TTer who packs a good sprint. In the u23 ranks he was able to go toe to toe with Jordi Meeus and Jake Steward. Since the cobbled classics he has pretty much only done track specific work for the Olympics.
He could become a guy for the cobbled classics.

 

[Bonimenier]

Ackermann has as many wins as Cavendish during the TdF.

 

[Screecher]

Ackermann has as many wins as Cavendish during the TdF.

Yeah, except they're all in 2.1 rated races so they're almost worthless, especially to a rider like Ackermann. Good for his confidence though.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

What's going to happen about the Limburg Classic
with all the floods?

 

[Bonimenier]

What's going to happen about the Limburg Classic
with all the floods?

It's cancelled.

 

[RedheadDane]

Here's Ag2R's lineup for Wallonie.
Take a good look at the names listed, and then the guys in the photo; something doesn't quite add up...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1416292081266421760

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Meanwhile, in Tour of Kosovo, Simone Innocenti has won stage 2. If this guy is ever accused of anything, he can always that he is innocent.

 

[SafeBet]

Meanwhile, in Tour of Kosovo, Simone Innocenti has won stage 2. If this guy is ever accused of anything, he can always that he is innocent.

Didn't work out for a rider who shares the same family name, Andrea.

 

[Nirvana]

Barnabas Peak's second place in a sprint finish is one of the more bizarre results in 2021 - He's struggled in his two years in the WT. He's shown little form , while struggling in his natural terrain as a punchy type rider.

If you exclude Ackermann, in that top 10 only Vanmarcke has some previous top 10 in mass sprint stages.

 

[Nirvana]

Finally the Bahrain flight has taken Milan on board! Good for my cq-points...

That's good also for the team pursuit competition at the Olympics that otherwise for Italy would have been Ganna riding an individual pursuit while carrying three useless wagons.

 

[Mayomaniac]

That's good also for the team pursuit competition at the Olympics that otherwise for Italy would have been Ganna riding an individual pursuit while carrying three useless wagons.

Not really, Lamon is really explosive (3rd place in the 1km at the EC without being a pure specialist), so they already have one guy who is great for the start, Ganna's biggest weakness. Milan himself is also an impressive IP rider for his age.
It's not that Italy is weak, it's just that the competition in the TP is that good (the Danes, NZ, Australia and the UK)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hattrackermann!

 

[Nirvana]

Not really, Lamon is really explosive (3rd place in the 1km at the EC without being a pure specialist), so they already have one guy who is great for the start, Ganna's biggest weakness. Milan himself is also an impressive IP rider for his age.
It's not that Italy is weak, it's just that the competition in the TP is that good (the Danes, NZ, Australia and the UK)

The better execution is steadily rising the pace, an explosive start just kill the legs to the others.

 

[RedheadDane]

So... am I right that there will be no coverage of Wallonie?
Don't they realise they have a public service duty to help us deal with our withdrawal issues?