Lesser known races thread 2022

[Samu Cuenca]

Both Van der Poel and Thomas are dropped.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ardila has 10 seconds inside the last kilometer.

 

[SafeBet]

Hayter wins in front of Sobrero.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hayter wins again!

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In diretta da Longiano l'arrivo della seconda tappa della #CoppieBartali Live from Longiano, finish line of the 2nd stage of #CoppieBartali...

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[Mayomaniac]

Hayter wins in front of Sobrero.

And signs of life from Ardila.

 

[SafeBet]

Hayter
Sobrero
Tulett
Conci
Tesfazion

 

[Mayomaniac]

Since when is Sobrero this good on such a steep, punchy uphill finish?
He did well on that brutal Murito in Slovenia last year, but this one looks like a more explosive effort.

 

[AlfaLum]

Hayter is an quite the climber/puncheur.

when he is allowed to ride for Ethan Hayter.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Hayter is an quite the climber/puncheur.

when he is allowed to ride for Ethan Hayter.

If he continues to develop like this Ineos might see him as the next British rider to put on a weight loss programm.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Someone should be snapping up Tesfatsion for next year

 

[Devil's Elbow]

An hour after the race has finished, still no results beyond the top-10 of the stage...

 

[DaLong]

An hour after the race has finished, still no results beyond the top-10 of the stage...

Feels like the olden days...waiting for the newspaper to be printed or the ilk.

 

[SafeBet]

Feels like the olden days...waiting for the newspaper to be printed or the ilk.

Feels like today in Italy...

 

[SafeBet]

Watching the highlights. Ineos was mighty strong on the final climb with 3 of the top6/7 riders. UAE had nobody in the selected group but they all bridged back in the descent.
Uijtdebroeks also looked great, he climbed with the best and then closed down many attacks in the descent / flat section.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Hightlights on the RAI here https://www.raiplay.it/video/2022/0...022-ad7ab4c9-4c1f-4500-91de-0bfe9dd63195.html

 

[yaco]

Since when is Sobrero this good on such a steep, punchy uphill finish?
He did well on that brutal Murito in Slovenia last year, but this one looks like a more explosive effort.

BEX recruited Sobrero to ride for GC in one week stage races - He's seems to have recovered from injuries.crashes in earlier races.

 

[CHGJ2000]

Hayter is an quite the climber/puncheur.

when he is allowed to ride for Ethan Hayter.

Hayter is allowed to ride for himself often, the problem is that he seems to have been afflicted with a bad case of peloton yips. Pretty much every race day this year, he's just refused to be anywhere but the back of the peloton for the vast majority of the race and has completely thrown away results that he could have achieved if in good position. Certainly had the form to make the front group in MSR, did a very strong sprint in PN, problem was he started sprinting at 500m to go while 50m behind the front of the peloton so only ended up 9th but was faster than everyone else in that final stretch. Sat out of position in stage 1 and 2 of Tour of Provence, both stages he could have easily won, got dropped when the crosswinds split the group on stage 1, on 2 sat at the back of the group on the decisive climb the entire time but never dropped with many riders dropping around him, then got caught behind a split on the descent.

If he can get over whatever is stopping him mentally from being in the peloton he'll be a beast, if he can't he'll probably have to specialize as a TT and breakaway specialist at WT races, and do GC in some smaller ones where it's much easier to stay towards the front.

 

[SafeBet]

Mattia Cattaneo has dropped all of his fellow break companions and now has over 5 minutes on the peloton.
Around 45 km to go. Ineos pulling behind.

Garosio, Nibali (the attacking one), Riesebeek, Gallopin were also in the break.

 

[topcat]

Oasport.it
for amusingly bad coverage of the race.

 

[SafeBet]

No glory for the break today. Gruppo compatto with 10 km to go.

 

[SafeBet]

Tulett wins alone.
Then Dunbar, Hirschi, Carr and Tiberi.

 

[RunningRouleur]

Wow, Ineos is absolutely dominating this race. Polar opposite to their experience in Catalunya.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Dunbar is somehow going to manage to come second in just about every stage and the GC without actually getting a win

 

[SafeBet]

Dunbar is somehow going to manage to come second in just about every stage and the GC without actually getting a win

Ineos is so strong here that they might find a way to get Dunbar a stage win, but his lack of sprint / punch clearly limits him.

 

[HelloDolly]

Nice though to see the slow burn that is Eddie Dunbar start to shine