Lesser known races thread 2022

[SafeBet]

Verre vs Meintjes.

Edit: Tesfatsion and Ries come back at the top.

 

[Samamba]

Intermarche kind of messed this up a bit. They were with 5 in a group of 14 earlier. Zimmermans mechanical didn't help obviously. I wonder how far behind the Clarke group is.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Intermarche kind of messed this up a bit. They were with 5 in a group of 14 earlier. Zimmermans mechanical didn't help obviously. I wonder how far behind the Clarke group is.

30 seconds?

 

[Samamba]

30 seconds?

40 apparently. Bit of an annoying situation for Intermarché, Meintjes can't win this. But bringing Clarke back is also really risky. Also no idea if Zimmerman is somewhere in between still.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Verre showing some of his talent finally

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

Verre was already 8th on the MTF in Etoile de Bessèges at the start of the season.

 

[Samamba]

Verre was already 8th on the MTF in Etoile de Bessèges at the start of the season.

Well yes but I expected more of him in smaller races this season, maybe I just expected to much.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I think Tetsfatsion would be the favourite in a sprint?

 

[SafeBet]

I think Tetsfatsion would be the favourite in a sprint?

100%, but Arkea has the numbers now.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Tesfatsion should be the fastest guy in the front group.

 

[Samamba]

Clarke back out of nowhere lol. Meintjes should definitely stop working.

 

[Samamba]

Tesfatsion is probably the fastest still but Clarke and ZImmerman aren't slow either out of a break.

 

[SafeBet]

Meintjes is gone!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

¡The man, the meme, the legend!

 

[Samamba]

Weird ending, just one attack and it's Meintjes. Great for the little guy tho!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Who needs Girmay when you have King Louis?
His first victory in seven years.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Paul Double should go for it now
Double or Quits?

 

[Samamba]

Wait 1'23? lol
Intermarché is cheating, they can even make Meintjes a winner

 

[SafeBet]

First win in more than 7 YEARS for Meintjes! It was Coppi e Bartali 2015.
Intermarche is having an incredible season.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The Wanty guy in the chase group needs to learn to sprint in a straight line and control his body

 

[SafeBet]

Rebellin 19th.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Second African one-two of the year in an European pro race. When this happened back in Mallorca it was concluded that it had only happened once before that and it's been different riders each time too, great to see the globalisation of the sport speed up in real time like this.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Rebellin 19th.

Rebellin, starting again at 50: "I won't necessarily stop after the Nationals"

Rebellin, ripartire a 50 anni: "Non è detto che dopo il Tricolore smetto"

Al Giro dell’Appennino ha chiuso al 19° posto e dal 4 giugno sarà in gara nell’Adriatica Ionica Race. Una corsa per preparare la gara che vale il titolo italiano

www.gazzetta.it

 

[RedheadDane]

Great news, everyone:
The Adriatica Ionica race will be live on YouTube!

It also has a Slovene-count of zero.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Scaroni wins from a small group, another former Gazprom rider taking a win.

 

[postmanhat]

Assuming the Brussels Classic doesn't get it's own thread, could be an interesting race tomorrow. Merlier, Kristoff, Vivanni and Ackermann are starting, but otherwise, lots of teams without a sprinter of note, so hopefully lots of attacking/small groups.