Lesser known races thread 2021

[wirral]

Dog in the final in Slovakia.

 

[Netserk]

Sagan winning the GC in as impressive a fashion as Nibali in Croatia.

 

[BlueRoads]

A Unicorn win!

Helped by some kind of dog.

 

[RedheadDane]

Einhorn.

 

[tobydawq]

Einhorn, lol. Nice GC win for Sagan in his home race even if it was a bit disappointing that he couldn't win a stage.

 

[Keram]

And Steimle is all alone in the group.

How did Bora even pull this off? Looking at the profile it seemed extraordinarily flat for such a development to come to pass.

It is quite windy and also start was bumpy.

 

[Keram]

Steimle quite led out Sagan. Bit dissapointimg he didnt win any stage but he won overall and three jerseys ( if best slovakian is jersey) so it is good. He was active all stages so well deserved.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Slovakia

 

[RedheadDane]

And here's the GC - readable for people without a magnifying glass - for good meassure:

 

[Pinot's goat]

Froome masterclass.

 

[RedheadDane]

He did it! Trentin is back!

01	Matteo Trentin		UAE Team Emirates	4:40:15​	125​
02	Jhonatan Restrepo		Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	+ 21​	85​
03	Valentin Ferron		Team TotalEnergies	+ 21​	70​
04	Davide Villella		Movistar Team	+ 51​	60​
05	Matevz Govekar		Tirol KTM Cycling Team	+ 55​	50​
06	Samuele Battistella		Italy	+ 55​	40​
07	Samuele Zoccarato		Bardiani CSF Faizanè	+ 55​	35​
08	Samuele Rivi		EOLO-KOMETA	+ 2:59​	30​
09	Mattia Bais		Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	+ 2:59​	25​
10	Felix Engelhardt		Tirol KTM Cycling Team	+ 2:59​	20​

And I just noticed that Battistella won the Battle of the Samueles. Of course, Rivi was hardly in the mix.

Meanwhile, over in - another part of - Belgium:

01	Fabio Jakobsen		Deceuninck-Quick Step	​	125​
02	Danny van Poppel		Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	​	85​
03	Jordi Meeus		BORA-hansgrohe	​	70​
04	Arne Marit		Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	​	60​
05	Hugo Hofstetter		Israel Start-Up Nation	​	50​
06	Rudy Barbier		Israel Start-Up Nation	​	40​
07	Tom Van Asbroeck		Israel Start-Up Nation	​	35​
08	Lionel Taminiaux		Alpecin-Fenix	​	30​
09	Bas Van Der Kooij		VolkerWessels Cycling Team	​	25​
10	Kristian Aasvold		Team Coop	​	20​

And in France:

01	Elia Viviani		Cofidis	4:26:51​	125​
02	Tim Merlier		Alpecin-Fenix	+ 00​	85​
03	Alberto Dainese		Team DSM	+ 00​	70​
04	Bram Welten		Arkéa-Samsic	+ 00​	60​
05	Arnaud Démare		Groupama-FDJ	+ 00​	50​
06	Jérémy Lecroq		B&B Hotels p/b KTM	+ 00​	40​
07	Romain Cardis		St Michel-Auber 93	+ 00​	35​
08	Lawrence Naesen		AG2R Citroën Team	+ 00​	30​
09	Riccardo Minali		Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	+ 00​	25​
10	Giacomo Nizzolo		Team Qhubeka NextHash	+ 00​	20​

 

[postmanhat]

Viviani's had an incredible turn of form recently. Didn't expect him to be beating Tim Merlier, unless he was wearing QS colours again

Also, does anyone know why Demare has been so poor this season? Injury?

 

[roundabout]

Poor Trentin has to win solo now.

And great to see Viviani going well

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Matteo Trentin missed out on winning both the Trofeo Matteotti and the EC in Trento in the span of a week, what a shame!

 

[Anderis]

Today we've had 5 different races with men's WT teams + men's WC ITT, so 6 races where big name male riders were present on the same day- what is the record?

 

[Netserk]

Today we've had 5 different races with men's WT teams + men's WC ITT, so 6 races where big name male riders were present on the same day- what is the record?

Technically, I'd say the weekend with national championships, but I take it you mean outside of that.

 

[MrTea1976]

GP Denain is serving up some cobbles for our delight.

 

[SafeBet]

GP Denain is serving up some cobbles for our delight.

And surprise surprise Sep Vanmarcke had a flat tire while in what could be the winning move.

 

[tobydawq]

Israel and Arkea served the race on a platter for Philipsen.

 

[Wvv]

Philipsen really in a dominant phase. He's getting closer to the top tier of sprinters, if not already there.

 

[limak_]

Israel and Arkea served the race on a platter for Philipsen.

Alpecin did some work earlier as well.

Aaand Kwiato looking sharp before Sunday.

 

[tobydawq]

Alpecin did some work earlier as well.

Aaand Kwiato looking sharp before Sunday.

Yeah but Arkea didn't get a guy in the top ten, yet they went with a full train the last two kilometers to reel in the break. Pretty embarrassing behaviour.

 

[BlueRoads]

And so annoying... Kwiatkowski was so close.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Really great sprint by Arnaud Demare

 

[RedheadDane]

It's Taco Tuesday Thursday!

Omloop van het Houtland Middelkerke-Lichtervelde 2021 One day race results (procyclingstats.com)