Lesser known races thread 2022

[Samamba]

Beautiful win for Covi

UAE is obviously the strongest team here by far, but still, really well played.

 

[SafeBet]

So happy for him. Great great rider with a lot of top10s early in his career. Now his first pro win.

 

[Salvarani]

Masterclass from UAE tbh.

They had the best team and riders for this race.

 

[postmanhat]

Fantastic camera shot of the three UAE riders as well, 100 metres apart, all arms aloft in victory

 

[tobydawq]

A little daft that nobody thought to cover him, when they caught McNulty. It got close in the end but nice for him to get his first win.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

McNulty going to finish another solo like in Mallorca if he keeps going like this in Murcia. Not really that surprising obviously as this field is even weaker than Mallorca.

Not a great field, no, but there won't be many stronger breakaways than McNulty, Goossens, Barguil and Pollitt this year.

 

[Samamba]

I'm looking at the parcours of that new Strade Bianche copy (Jaen Paraiso Interior), oh my it's beautiful and incredibly hard.

The last 70+ kms in and around Ubeda have around 22 kms of gravel roads, all of them uphill. According to the profile those uphill stretches are 7.5km at 4.5% (section done 3 times towards the finish line) and 5.5km at 5% (section done 1 time) but there's some seriously steep ramps. For example the last 1.5km of the section towards the finish line is at almost 10%.

Just like in Strade Bianche the fun doesn't end after the last gravel section. You can definitely make the difference on the last steep part of it already but you need to hold on for a little under a kilometer, parts of it on cobblestones and at 10%.

It's also almost 200 kilometers long so there definitely trying to make this a futur classic. I can't wait already.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

I'm looking at the parcours of that new Strade Bianche copy (Jaen Paraiso Interior), oh my it's beautiful and incredibly hard.

The last 70+ kms in and around Ubeda have around 22 kms of gravel roads, all of them uphill. According to the profile those uphill stretches are 7.5km at 4.5% (section done 3 times towards the finish line) and 5.5km at 5% (section done 1 time) but there's some seriously steep ramps. For example the last 1.5km of the section towards the finish line is at almost 10%.

Just like in Strade Bianche the fun doesn't end after the last gravel section. You can definitely make the difference on the last steep part of it already but you need to hold on for a little under a kilometer, parts of it on cobblestones and at 10%.

It's also almost 200 kilometers long so there definitely trying to make this a futur classic. I can't wait already.

Sounds awesome! Will it be televised anywhere?

 

[Samamba]

Sounds awesome! Will it be televised anywhere?

I thought it was going to be on GCN/Eurosport but now I don't see it. Would be a real bummer if they don't televise it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I thought it was going to be on GCN/Eurosport but now I don't see it. Would be a real bummer if they don't televise it.

It will be broadcast from 16:00-17:30 CET according to my GCN schedule.

 

[Samamba]

It will be broadcast from 16:00-17:30 CET according to my GCN schedule.

Awesome, I looked at the UK one on the GCN site and didn't see anything. Also not on Dutch Eurosport.

Btw, it might rain.. This could be epic.
Startlist without Valverde obviously but with Lopez, Lutsenko, Wellens, Kron, Buchmann, Hindley, Aleotti, Kamna and Ghirmay,

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Awesome, I looked at the UK one on the GCN site and didn't see anything. Also not on Dutch Eurosport.

Btw, it might rain.. This could be epic.
Startlist without Valverde obviously but with Lopez, Lutsenko, Wellens, Kron, Buchmann, Hindley, Aleotti, Kamna and Ghirmay,

I see it on the Eurosport schedules as well, so I assume the GCN ones simply haven't been updated.

 

[Wvv]

Awesome, I looked at the UK one on the GCN site and didn't see anything. Also not on Dutch Eurosport.

Btw, it might rain.. This could be epic.
Startlist without Valverde obviously but with Lopez, Lutsenko, Wellens, Kron, Buchmann, Hindley, Aleotti, Kamna and Ghirmay,

Lutsenko win incoming.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, in Antalya, they had the pre-stage interviews in an aquarium. Underwater!



(One of those "glass tunnel under the water" thingies.)

 

[Nirvana]

Meanwhile, in Antalya, they had the pre-stage interviews in an aquarium. Underwater!



(One of those "glass tunnel under the water" thingies.)

One of those "I would never enter inside" things...

 

[RedheadDane]

Mareczko takes the stage.

 

[Wvv]

Mareczko takes the stage.

Kuba delivers Alpecin-Fenix' first win of this season.

 

[SafeBet]

45th win of Kuba's career.
39 of them have occurred on Asian soil.

 

[RedheadDane]

45th win of Kuba's career.
39 of them have occurred on Asian soil.

Was this on Asian soil?

 

[Ricco']

Was this on Asian soil?

Yes, as only a small part of Turkey, northwest of the Bosphorus Strait, is a part of Europe.

Even the Tour of Turkey have very few stages on that part of the country (saying few just because I'm lazy and I don't want to check if my feeling that there wasn't any there is correct).

 

[RedheadDane]

Even the Tour of Turkey have very few stages on that part of the country (saying few just because I'm lazy and I don't want to check if my feeling that there wasn't any there is correct).

I think there has definitely been some racing in the European part. Vaguely remembers some hype about "The only bike race on two continents!"

 

[Netserk]

I think there has definitely been some racing in the European part. Vaguely remembers some hype about "The only bike race on two continents!"

You're sure no bike race in Kazakhstan are on two? (And the Giro has been in Asia as well)

 

[RedheadDane]

You're sure no bike race in Kazakhstan are on two? (And the Giro has been in Asia as well)

Just reporting from my admittedly very vague memory, and they might have been over-hyping it. It was probably the word "stage" they used, though.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, in Almeria, Declercq is declercqing. But it's not the Declercq we're used to.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Meanwhile, in Almeria, Declercq is declercqing. But it's not the Declercq we're used to.

Well he has launched a challenge

https://twitter.com/x/status/1489959295286493184

View: https://twitter.com/declercqben/status/1489959295286493184