Lesser known races thread 2021

[RedheadDane]

And the Greatest won!

01	Christophe Laporte		Cofidis	​	14​
02	Dorian Godon		AG2R Citroën Team	​	5​
03	Tom Paquot		Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB	​	3​

Though, Lars Van Den Berg didn't fare too well in completing the Van Den Berg hattrick...

DNF

Lars Van Den Berg

Groupama-FDJ

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[Samu Cuenca]

After a battle between FdJ and Cofidis, it seems the final selection has been made now with Reichenbach, Godon, Bonnamour, Barguil, Périchon and Urko Berrade from Equipo Kern in the leading group. 3 km remaining.

2 km now, and they have a minute to the Laporte and Pinot group.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Godon wins the sprint in front of Barguil and Bonnamour!

Cosnefroy Duval came in about 36 seconds behind, but he celebrated the team's win on the finale meters, and the rest of the group lost 44 seconds.

 

[tobydawq]

Pff, how annoying. Incredibly stupid tactics by Cofidis and AG2R.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Périchon's already lost one important sprint to Godon this year, so there was no reason for him to lead Godon out here, unless he just wanted to make sure he would be the team leader from now on.

01	Dorian Godon		AG2R Citroën Team	04:13:02​	14​
02	Warren Barguil		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	5​
03	Franck Bonnamour		B&B Hotels p/b KTM	+ 00​	3​
04	Sebastien Reichenbach		Groupama-FDJ	+ 00​	​
05	Urko Berrade		Kern Pharma	+ 00​	​
06	Pierre-Luc Périchon		Cofidis	+ 00​	​
07	Julien Duval		AG2R Citroën Team	+ 37​	​
08	Roger Adriá		Kern Pharma	+ 40​	​
09	Filippo Fiorelli		Bardiani CSF Faizanè	+ 45​	​
10	Anthony Perez		Cofidis	+ 45​

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So who likes sterrato? Anybody like sterrato?

The Baltic Chain Tour is offering this on stage 2 on Saturday. Somebody somewhere must be broadcasting this, pretty please?

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, over in France:

Tour du Limousin - Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 3 results (procyclingstats.com)

 

[Pinot's goat]

Meanwhile, over in France:

Tour du Limousin - Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 3 results (procyclingstats.com)

Pinot leads KOM, I think he did a lot of attacking before TV images began.

 

[Nirvana]

Anyone knows what's happening to van Avermaet? Lately he fell of a cliff even bigger than Nibali, already the spring was worrying even if he somehow managed to hang on for dear life and snatch a Ronde podium that masked it a bit but the summer is totally a disaster, nowhere to be seen at the Tour with the highlight of saving himself from the time cut for five seconds in Tignes and now shipping dozens of minutes in a race with a percours that should suit him very well and even a pretty poor field.

 

[Pinot's goat]

Anyone knows what's happening to van Avermaet? Lately he fell of a cliff even bigger than Nibali, already the spring was worrying even if he somehow managed to hang on for dear life and snatch a Ronde podium that masked it a bit but the summer is totally a disaster, nowhere to be seen at the Tour with the highlight of saving himself from the time cut for five seconds in Tignes and now shipping dozens of minutes in a race with a percours that should suit him very well and even a pretty poor field.

His classics season was actually quite respectable imo but ever since Ronde he has been awful, maybe he keeps getting a new dose of the vaccine every couple of weeks.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ok, we laughed a little when he won a Belgian one-day race against some third tier riders earlier in the season, but the GP Marcel Kint is definitely a bit better. Forget about Cav and Jakobsen; this one is the real comeback story of the year!

01	Alvaro Hodeg		Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:23:39​	125​
02	Tim Merlier		Alpecin-Fenix	+ 00​	85​
03	Danny van Poppel		Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	+ 00​	70​
04	Bram Welten		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	60​
05	Jens Reynders		Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	+ 00​	50​
06	Luca Mozzato		B&B Hotels p/b KTM	+ 00​	40​
07	Jules Hesters		BEAT Cycling	+ 00​	35​
08	Jordi Warlop		Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	+ 00​	30​
09	Shane Archbold		Deceuninck-Quick Step	+ 00​	25​
10	Marius Mayrhofer		Development Team DSM	+ 00​	20​

 

[BlueRoads]

Really close against Merlier; a crash in the final kms took out many riders.
Declercq did a lot of hard work, then they run a bit out of helpers and Alvaro had to start his sprint very early again, but in the end it all worked out...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Godon collapsed on the last stage. Fetter and Albanese made it an EOLO 1-2, and Barguil secured the overall win.

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01	Erik Fetter		EOLO-KOMETA	04:07:14​	14​
02	Vincenzo Albanese		EOLO-KOMETA	+ 00​	5​
03	Valentin Madouas		Groupama-FDJ	+ 00​	3​
04	Petr Vakoc		Alpecin-Fenix	+ 00​	​
05	Lorrenzo Manzin		Team TotalEnergies	+ 00​	​
06	Anthony Perez		Cofidis	+ 00​	​
07	Roger Adriá		Kern Pharma	+ 00​	​
08	Remy Mertz		Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB	+ 00​	​
09	Flavien Maurelet		St Michel-Auber 93	+ 00​	​
10	Mathieu Burgaudeau		Team TotalEnergies	+ 00​	​
11	Alexandre Delettre		Delko	+ 00​	​
12	Sebastien Reichenbach		Groupama-FDJ	+ 00​

01	Warren Barguil		Arkéa-Samsic	17:35:00​	125​
02	Franck Bonnamour		B&B Hotels p/b KTM	+ 00​	85​
03	Pierre-Luc Périchon		Cofidis	+ 06​	70​
04	Sebastien Reichenbach		Groupama-FDJ	+ 06​	60​
05	Urko Berrade		Kern Pharma	+ 06​	50​
06	Simone Velasco		Gazprom-RusVelo	+ 16​	40​
07	Davide Gabburo		Bardiani CSF Faizanè	+ 36​	35​
08	Antonio Angulo		Euskaltel-Euskadi	+ 37​	30​
09	Jose Manuel Diaz		Delko	+ 38​	25​
10	Vincenzo Albanese		EOLO-KOMETA	+ 45​	20​
11	Roger Adriá		Kern Pharma	+ 46​	15​
12	Valentin Madouas		Groupama-FDJ	+ 47​	10​

 

[Akuryo]

Ok, we laughed a little when he won a Belgian one-day race against some third tier riders earlier in the season, but the GP Marcel Kint is definitely a bit better. Forget about Cav and Jakobsen; this one is the real comeback story of the year!

01	Alvaro Hodeg		Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:23:39​	125​
02	Tim Merlier		Alpecin-Fenix	+ 00​	85​
03	Danny van Poppel		Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	+ 00​	70​
04	Bram Welten		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	60​
05	Jens Reynders		Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	+ 00​	50​
06	Luca Mozzato		B&B Hotels p/b KTM	+ 00​	40​
07	Jules Hesters		BEAT Cycling	+ 00​	35​
08	Jordi Warlop		Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	+ 00​	30​
09	Shane Archbold		Deceuninck-Quick Step	+ 00​	25​
10	Marius Mayrhofer		Development Team DSM	+ 00​	20​

Damn, Hodeg winning sprints against Tour stage winners now?! Stonks rising!

 

[roundabout]

So who likes sterrato? Anybody like sterrato?

The Baltic Chain Tour is offering this on stage 2 on Saturday. Somebody somewhere must be broadcasting this, pretty please?

Coverage here

https://sport.delfi.ee/artikkel/94361335/otsepilt-delfi-tv-s-ja-fotod-balti-keti-velotuur-jatkub-tartumaal-soidetava-159-km-pikkuse-etapiga

Edit: don't know if geo-blocked or not

Edit 2: youtube as well

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uN49BDsghA

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Räim looked to be in prime position, but he couldn't match Karl Patrick Lauk's speed at all. Laurence Pithie leads the race by one second to Lauk. I didn't expect 31+ riders to be in the leading group at the end with all those gravel sections.

01	Karl Patrick Lauk		Estonia	03:41:21​	7​
02	Laurence Pithie		Groupama-FDJ Conti	+ 00​	3​
03	Evaldas Siskevicius		Lithuania	+ 00​	1​
04	Sakarias Koller Løland		Uno-X DARE DT	+ 00​	​
05	Antti-Jussi Juntunen		Ampler Development Team	+ 00​	​
06	Mihkel Räim		HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	+ 00​	​
07	Robin Juel Skivild		Uno-X DARE DT	+ 00​	​
08	Tomas Barta		Topforex - ATT Investments PCT	+ 00​	​
09	Siim Kiskonen		EC Saint-Etienne Loire	+ 00​	​
10	Hugo Page		Groupama-FDJ Conti	+ 00​

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, in France:

01	Elia Viviani		Cofidis	​	14​
02	Simone Consonni		Cofidis	​	5​
03	Marc Sarreau		AG2R Citroën Team	​	3​

 

[Pinot's goat]

Meanwhile, in France:

01	Elia Viviani		Cofidis	​	14​
02	Simone Consonni		Cofidis	​	5​
03	Marc Sarreau		AG2R Citroën Team	​	3​

There must have been a crash in this race as the stage was quite flat but not many in the front group.

 

[RedheadDane]

There must have been a crash in this race as the stage was quite flat but not many in the front group.

Saw a tweet from TotalEnergies. Crash in the last five Ks.

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Rather disappointing that Schachmann is riding around in Spain...

BORA - hansgrohe

• ACKERMANN Pascal
• BUCHMANN Emanuel
• POLITT Nils
• SCHILLINGER Andreas
• SCHWARZMANN Michael
• SELIG Rüdiger

 

[RedheadDane]

Bit of a surprise in France I'd say:

1	TESSON Jason	St Michel - Auber93	14	20	4:27:00
2	VIVIANI Elia	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	5	12	,,
3	DE BIE Sean	Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB	3	7	,,
4	TURGIS Anthony	Team TotalEnergies		5	,,
5	SARREAU Marc	AG2R Citroën Team		4	,,
6	JOYCE Colin	Rally Cycling		3	,,
7	RAJOVIĆ Dušan	DELKO		2	,,
8	BOUDAT Thomas	Team Arkéa Samsic		1	,,
9	BELLETTI Manuel	EOLO-Kometa			,,
10	SWIFT Connor	Team Arkéa Samsic			,,

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Bit of a surprise in France I'd say:

1	TESSON Jason	St Michel - Auber93	14	20	4:27:00
2	VIVIANI Elia	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	5	12	,,
3	DE BIE Sean	Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB	3	7	,,
4	TURGIS Anthony	Team TotalEnergies		5	,,
5	SARREAU Marc	AG2R Citroën Team		4	,,
6	JOYCE Colin	Rally Cycling		3	,,
7	RAJOVIĆ Dušan	DELKO		2	,,
8	BOUDAT Thomas	Team Arkéa Samsic		1	,,
9	BELLETTI Manuel	EOLO-Kometa			,,
10	SWIFT Connor	Team Arkéa Samsic			,,

Yeah I'd say so; Coquard didn't even finish the stage!

 

[Pinot's goat]

Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 2 results

Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 2 from Parthenay to Ruffec was won by Jason Tesson before Elia Viviani and Sean De Bie. Elia Viviani was leading the general classification.

www.procyclingstats.com

Is it crazy to say Pinot can win the 23.5km ITT? He is targeting the stage and has been training on the TT bike.

 

[RedheadDane]

Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 2 results

Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine 2021 Stage 2 from Parthenay to Ruffec was won by Jason Tesson before Elia Viviani and Sean De Bie. Elia Viviani was leading the general classification.

www.procyclingstats.com

Is it crazy to say Pinot can win the 23.5km ITT? He is targeting the stage and has been training on the TT bike.

Winning would probably be a tad optimistic. But I hope he can put in a good effort.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yeah I'd say so; Coquard didn't even finish the stage!

Nowadays Viviani can only win when he surprises his leadout man after giving him permission to sprint for himself...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Nowadays Viviani can only win when he surprises his leadout man after giving him permission to sprint for himself...

Perhaps Coquard can use Consonni the same way next year?