Lesser known races thread 2021

[RedheadDane]

I just hope someone put up the Flame Rouge 369 metres behind the startramp in Austria.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Alexis Guérin beat Riccardo Zoidl on the MTF in Oberösterreich Rundfahrt and won the race with one second ahead of the Austrian.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Cosmonaut Frolov has departed from the Five Rings of Moscow for the International Space Station.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Cosmonaut Frolov has departed from the Five Rings of Moscow for the International Space Station.

Send this guy to Portugal instead!

 

[Mayomaniac]

So, has anyone here seen the trainwreck that is the way the Adriatica Ionica race is being organized?
The route was only presented last week (a sprint stage, a Monte Grappa MTF from Semonzo and a flat sterrato/potentially windy stage) and with the race starting tomorrow we still don't know how many and which teams will actually ride the race.

Imagine you're sponsoring the race and then they do this kind of amateur hour stuff. If they did a virtual/online presentation of the route one month ago and uploaded the stages nobody would have had a problem, apparently many teams were not even sure that the race would take place (Androni had Pellaud drop out of the Tour de Suisse to ride this one, apparently he's not too happy about it). How the hell is anyone supposed to take your race serious if you do this kind of stuff.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Send this guy to Portugal instead!

Movistar, Team Medellín, a Russian national squad with Cosmonaut Frolov, whatever team elects to pick Davidenok and Fedosseyev now that they've been let go by Almaty (will probably be a Chinese team picking them up as mercenaries for Qinghai Lake, however), Salcano-Sakarya, Team Sapura with Celano, WorkService with Rebellin, and we'll be good to go.

David Belda, Andre Cardoso, Edward Díaz, Matija Kvasina and Fábio Montenegro are coming out of suspension too. Maybe somebody can take a flyer on young up-and-coming 43 year old Luís Fernando Camargo, his suspension is up on 31/7.

 

[RedheadDane]

Viviani - riding for the Italian National Team - won stage one in Adriatica Ionica.

Adriatica Ionica Race / Sulle Rotte della Serenissima 2021 Stage 1 results (procyclingstats.com)

 

[RedheadDane]

And Godon defended his title in the Great Amazing Cheese Race (Paris-Camembert).

Paris - Camembert 2021 One day race results (procyclingstats.com)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Fortunato adds Cima Grappa to his growing list of MTF wins.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Fortunato adds Cima Grappa to his growing list of MTF wins.

Papi Rebellin finished 10th.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Also, Sobrero DNS, he's probably preparing for the NC ITT (that takes place in 2 days, so he wouldn't have had any time to rest after this race).

 

[Taxus4a]

Papi Rebellin finished 10th.

He is going to be 50 years old in one month...he is close to the level to those good cyclist...I think that is the most remarcable issue in that results....even more than Fortunato wining, that is remarcable, but less.

 

[Mayomaniac]

He is going to be 50 years old in one month...he is close to the level to those good cyclist...I think that is the most remarcable issue in that results....even more than Fortunato wining, that is remarcable, but less.

The guy lives like a monk (kinda surprised he has a wife) and follows a gluten-free vegan diet.
Speaking of the race, Kudus blew it. Pronskiy was ahead and still had 5 seconds with only 500m to go when he attacked, he pretty much did a leadout for Fortunato and caught his teammate before getting beaten by Fortunato.

 

[SafeBet]

Viviani wins the final stage in Adriatica Ionica ahead of Kuba Mareczko.

 

[roundabout]

More wins riding 3 days for the national team than in 1 and a half (sorta) seasons for Cofidis.

 

[Mayomaniac]

More wins riding 3 days for the national team than in 1 and a half (sorta) seasons for Cofidis.

I mean, look at the competition in this race...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Looks like it was really close between Elia and Jakub.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1405536400598986756

Jakub isn't great at fighting for positions and dealing with multiple sprint trains and the chaos that comes with a stacked sprinters field, but if he only has to look out for a single sprinter and his train he can give anyone a good fight 1 on 1.

 

[roundabout]

I mean, look at the competition in this race...

Good point, I checked Viviani's program for 2020 and 2021 and the vast majority of the program were top level races.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Fortunato adds Cima Grappa to his growing list of MTF wins.

Watched this last night. This was prime time comedy material by Kudus. What a monumental fvck up of epic proportions. Lol.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Watched this last night. This was prime time comedy material by Kudus. What a monumental fvck up of epic proportions. Lol.

Pronskiy must be pissed, that was really bad.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Looks like Contador was really happy about Fortunato winning the gc, is Alberto moving to Bavaria?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Looks like Contador was really happy about Fortunato winning the gc, is Alberto moving to Bavaria?

Any news of him having his stomach pumped afterwards?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Any news of him having his stomach pumped afterwards?

No, but I guess the level of alcohol in his bloodstream wasn't exactly cero, cero, cero....

 

[BlueRoads]

Looks like Contador was really happy about Fortunato winning the gc, is Alberto moving to Bavaria?

I feel really thirsty now.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I feel really thirsty now.

We don't know if that even is beer. It could also be an out-of-competition test. That would aslo explain, why he looks so proud of himself.