Lesser known races thread 2022

[Samamba]

Hahaha I just saw it, wth is this? Are we going to relegate 10 riders every sprint now? This happens in every single sprint. Ewan won't win anything in his career anymore. You literally can't win without deviating to get around riders if you're not getting a perfect leadout.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Why though? He deviates a bit when following the Ineos guy and gets in the way of Kooij's leadout, but Kooij's was already out of the slipstream.

He then swerves to take the inside of the turn but that is what organizers are asking for when they put not so subtle bends on the last hundred meters of sprint stages.

They already had a stupid finish yesterday, this race is really worthless...

 

[tobydawq]

They already had a stupid finish yesterday, this race is really worthless...

As advertised.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

So in Austria right now is the Oberösterreichrundfahrt and the past few editions have started with a prologue in Linz. CX rider Daran Soete won it and he also won it last year. His teammate Lander Loockx finished 2nd after also finishing 2nd last year! They did go slightly slower though with Soete 1s slower and Loockx 2s slower despite PCS does give a difference in course length of 0.65km compared to the whopping great big distance of 0.7km in 2021.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So in Austria right now is the Oberösterreichrundfahrt and the past few editions have started with a prologue in Linz. CX rider Daran Soete won it and he also won it last year. His teammate Lander Loockx finished 2nd after also finishing 2nd last year! They did go slightly slower though with Soete 1s slower and Loockx 2s slower despite PCS does give a difference in course length of 0.65km compared to the whopping great big distance of 0.7km in 2021.

I'm pretty sure it was the exact same route as last year.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Meanwhile in Colombia the 21 year Mexican Edgar Cadena didn't feel the chain (pun intendet) won the big Alto del Vino MTF (40.8km at 5%).
The guy raced a bit for a Spanish team in 2019 and was supposed to do the same in 2020, but then 2020 happenend...
Last year he raced for a Mexican team with a license from San Marino, but didn't get any decent results in the Italian u23 race.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Duarte's only a minute and a half down now...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Duarte's only a minute and a half down now...

Looking at Strava Duarte and Duban went flying on the final climb, but still only 1:30 faster than Cadena, whho had been in the breakaway all day long, on an almost 100min climb.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And Mr. Canebridge won in Austria.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Another bunch sprint coming up in the five-day version of Scheldeprijs shortly.

 

[RedheadDane]

Dunno why I deleted that... I thought I'd posted in the CdD thread, and panicked...

Anyway: Pellaud in the front just crossed the line with three laps to go, so we might get gaps now:

De Gendt still chasing. About a minute, to the peloton, I think...

 

[SafeBet]

Try relegate him today.

 

[RedheadDane]

Mareczko!

(In the Netherlands.)

 

[Samamba]

Mareczko, or atleast if they don't find a reason to gift Kooij another stage somewhere.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Well, we all know we can't trust that result to stand...

Viviani lost to Danish CT guy Salby who hadn't scored a top-3 in any professional race before, ouch.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Also, how depressing is it that Mareczko of all people won the 'queen' stage?

 

[postmanhat]

Well, we all know we can't trust that result to stand...

Viviani lost to Danish CT guy Salby who hadn't scored a top-3 in any professional race before, ouch.

Nice one Marezcko. Viviani is so bad at taking corners. Completely lost Ben Turner's wheel even in these gentle bends.

 

[RedheadDane]

Champoussin is alone in the front with less than 20 Ks to go.
Around 30 seconds.

 

[postmanhat]

Really nice group of 7 coming to the finish. Kron, Zimmerman, Champoussin there as their reward for being the most aggresive in the race.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hirschi wins, ahead of Schachmann and Kron.

 

[postmanhat]

Hirschi wins! Hope that's a sign he's got his finishing legs back, which seem to have been missing a bit since his comeback,

 

[Samamba]

Actually an awesome race. Helps that there were a lot of good names on the startlist.

 

[yaco]

Interesting that BEX are last minute additions to Elfstedenronde Brugge and Dwars De Het Hageland - They must have convinced the organisers !

 

[Samamba]

Interesting that BEX are last minute additions to Elfstedenronde Brugge and Dwars De Het Hageland - They must have convinced the organisers !

So that's why Matthews and Groves dissapeared of the Argau startlist?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Also, how depressing is it that Mareczko of all people won the 'queen' stage?

For him that's actually a hard earned win, he probably had to dig deep not to get dropped. At least this time they didn't gift the win to a Dutch rider afterwards...