Lesser known races thread 2022

[DJ Sprtsch]

Looking good for a 1-2 for Israel Premier Tech.
edit: As was just mentioned....

 

[Samamba]

210 UCI points for Israel coming up, definitely not dead yet. With both Fuglsang and Woods in good form they can have a really good month.

 

[perico]

I love 1 day races like this that have legit climbs at the end.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

It's taken 5 months into the season but looks like we finally got a good IsraelPT tactic, well done Woods and Birdsong.

 

[Bolder]

Looks like FDJ burned their matches a little too early.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Froome 11th.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Froome 11th.

11	Froome Chris		Israel-Premier Tech	​	​ ​
12	Muhlberger Gregor		Movistar Team	​	​ ​
13	Bouchard Geoffrey		AG2R Citroën Team	​	​ ​
14	Schönberger Sebastian		B&B Hotels-KTM	​	​ ​
15	Parra José Félix		Equipo Kern Pharma	​	​ ​

 

[Tonton]

Did Guimard get hired as GFC's DS? That was awful team tactics and no Bardet to get the silver...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The first part of the race was more interesting last year where the weather made it less predictable, but here there was still some excitement after Fulgsang's attack unlike last year, where it was a race for second from the moment Martin got away.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Israel Premier Tech putting up a fight? They grab 210 UCI points.

 

[RedheadDane]

"Birdsong" and "Woods", could you have a better combo?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Israel Premier Tech putting up a fight? They grab 210 UCI points.

+15 from Froome!

 

[Bonimenier]

+15 from Froome!

Only the 10 highest scoring riders of a team count. Froome isn't so close to the top 10 of IST.

 

[Pinot's goat]

Only the 10 highest scoring riders of a team count. Froome isn't so close to the top 10 of IST.

He is only 30 points away from being top 10, that is how little depth IPT have.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Only the 10 highest scoring riders of a team count. Froome isn't so close to the top 10 of IST.

Jenthe Biermans is 10th with 40 points, so he's not that far away now.

The ranking I looked at hadn't taken Berwick's points from the Alpes Isère Tour into account.

 

[virenque216]

https://www.cycling-info.sk/10045-

Super excited that this year route Tour of Slovakia will pass my home region of Gemer with most amazing scennery will be passed by riders 60km from finish in stage 3. Among starting teams will be Quick Step,Jumbo Visma,Bahrain Merida or Astana. Dates are the same as before - 1 week before worlds.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

We currently also have the ultra-mythical Tour of Albania going on at the moment, a 5-stage race through the Balkan Adriatic nation. How ultra-mythical? Well... PCS lists this as the 77th Tour of Albania, the Albanian federation's social media lists LAST year's as the 78th, and their website is filled with details of the 75th Tour of Albania which took place in 2019.

So it's either the 77th, 78th or 79th Tour of Albania depending on which source you take.

Although the startlists rose a bit when Eugert Zhupa and Redi Halilaj were racing in Italy, at the moment the highest profile Albanian rider is Ylber Sefa, who has been riding for Tarteletto-Isorex and is now on an Elite-2 team in Belgium; as a result there are fewer guest teams from Italy coming over and more small teams from the Balkans (and Meridiana-Kamen), although the Steaua Bucharest team has Daniel Crista, Criștian Raileanu and Serguei Țvetcov moonlighting in it and Elchin Asadov is in the Azerbaijani national team.

In the first stage, from Tirana to Korçë via the shores of Lake Ohrid, Sefa took the stage win and the opening leader's jersey from a group of 4 in which much younger Albanian national team colleague Mikel Demiri (just 21) helped them build up a two and a half minute advantage over the bunch. In the end Sefa outsprinted Raileanu and Demiri with British elite amateur rider Archie Cross bringing up the rear.

 

[SafeBet]

Break of 8 riders in Giro dell'Appennino... one of them is Riccardo Ricci.

Don't know if geo restricted or even if it will actually work but they say there will be a live streaming here from 3pm: https://player.pulsemediatv.com/VideoManager/?vid=dbaecd65-d9b2-4ad5-8815-f761d037be49

 

[Mayomaniac]

Break of 8 riders in Giro dell'Appennino... one of them is Riccardo Ricci.

Don't know if geo restricted or even if it will actually work but they say there will be a live streaming here from 3pm: https://player.pulsemediatv.com/VideoManager/?vid=dbaecd65-d9b2-4ad5-8815-f761d037be49

Sadly Ricci got dropped from the break pretty early...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Attack Lorenzo Rota!!!

Actually is Louis Mentjes. I couldn't believe my eyes. He is away with Reis (Arkea)

 

[SafeBet]

Front of the race: Meintjes, Zimmerman, Verre, Ries, Tesfatsion.

 

[Samamba]

Verre showing some of his talent finally

Btw, who is Paul Double lol never heard of him before

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Verre showing some of his talent finally

Btw, who is Paul Double lol never heard of him before

Doubl has good results, 15th in Giro di Sicilia, 6th in Tour of Hellas, 7th in Settimana Italiana last year.

 

[SafeBet]

Verre vs Meintjes.

Edit: Tesfatsion and Ries come back at the top.