Lesser known races thread 2021

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Mar 19, 2009
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Vendée ending was super dramatic. Balmer went solo with 18k to go after being in the early break only to be caught with about 20m to go.
 
Mar 19, 2009
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But surely, not that long ago Sweden wouldn't exactly have been considered "minor country".
Of course, I frequently make fun about the amount of Swedish pro rider these days.
I can't remember any time when Sweden wouldn't be considered a minor cycling country. Even at their best there were only 2-3 guys that were just pretty good and then a bunch of no-names.

Kessiakoff, Larsson, Lofkvist, and Backstedt have really been the only riders of note in this century and it's not like any of them were all that noteworthy.
 
Feb 16, 2010
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Coppa Agostini now live

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The boss wants to go out with a bang
 
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Sep 20, 2017
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And then Covi wins the sprint for third. UAE went for the wrong rider in the end, Trentin does not have a good track record in this kind of sprint anymore.
 
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I think people forget that Lutsenko is fast, i mean he beat Coquard for the U23 World Championship in a bunch sprint (70-80 riders). Also Trentin spent a lot of energy briding up to the break then attacking
 
Apr 10, 2019
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trentin still hasn't recovered from that loss to Pedersen.
Jokes aside, Trentin can be really fast in a bunch sprint, but he has never been that great after a hard race, I remember Politt beating him in E3 back in 2019.
 
Nov 16, 2013
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Lutsenko has the weirdest idiosyncrasy; every time he sits down after having been out of the saddle he has a short moment where he stops pedalling before he continues. I have never seen other riders do that and I noticed it first time in the 2013 Tour with him, and he's still doing it...
 
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