Men's U23 races and talents

[Red Rick]

No, definitely not, but worth remembering that Nordhagen came 13th in Romandie too, and he looked worse than his age group rivals both at the Giro and Avenir.

I don't think Seixas was at his best during l'Avenir, but it is only natural that a pro goes better than riders who are taking a slower or more gradual route to the WT, for whatever reason. That's why I'm not sure he's 'miles ahead', rather than just... ahead. As an example, I don't think he'd have come within 30s of Soderqvist yesterday.

I also don't think it's fair to right off the rest before they even turn pro. We have seen Ayuso plateau at an early age and others like Almeida grow year on year.

Agree on all counts. Seixas could probably have done better in his TT because I don't think he prepared very specificially for it, but I think Söderqvist straight up gets 3rd if he races the ME TT.

The step from top 10 in Dauphine to GT winner is definitely the biggest one. And I'm slightly sceptical about guys with a physical build like Seixas, i.e. tall and super thin.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I think Söderqvist straight up gets 3rd if he races the ME TT.

Highly debatable. He weighs 83kg and the section of the parcours that was cut out for U23 was 8km with the 2km climb at 6.6%. That would definitely have impacted the pacing plan for the rest of the course and severely impacted his average speed due to the climb itself.

The step from top 10 in Dauphine to GT winner is definitely the biggest one. And I'm slightly sceptical about guys with a physical build like Seixas, i.e. tall and super thin.

Yeah, that's a fair point. It remains to be seen. In his defense i would say that usually those super skinny tall climbers suck at TT'ing and he doesn't.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

And I'm slightly sceptical about guys with a physical build like Seixas, i.e. tall and super thin.

 

[Red Rick]

Still haunts me to this day

 

[Samamba]

No more nations cup at u23 level. We could possibly still see pros at the Tour de l'Avenir next year then, which is fine to me. On the other hand I did like the occasional race between countries instead of teams because teams are now just all development teams of World or top Pro Teams anyways.

 

[ingsve]

No more nations cup at u23 level. We could possibly still see pros at the Tour de l'Avenir next year then, which is fine to me. On the other hand I did like the occasional race between countries instead of teams because teams are now just all development teams of World or top Pro Teams anyways.

Could Tour de l'Avenir go back to even being a U-25 race then.

 

[RedheadDane]

Spare a thought for Tobias Svarre...

Program​

• 04.10 European Continental Championships MU - Road Race
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• 04.10 Il Lombardia Under 23
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[Logic-is-your-friend]

Widar takes gold in the ECC U23 RR.

 

[Onizuka999]

Decomble 2nd Alvarez 3rd Gualdi 4th. The world champ Finn 10th.

 

[Onizuka999]

Finn wins the San Daniele Cup in Friuli 2nd Iacomoni +22" 3rd Rowe and 4th Putz +27". The race in the final kms included the double climb of Mount Ragogna

 

[RedheadDane]

Arthur Blaised through the course to win Chrono des Nations.

1			Blaise Arthur	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team	30​	00:31:18​
2			Geeraerts Ferre	DL Chemicals - Experza Cycling Team	25​	+ 33​
3			Taillieu Aldo	Lotto Development Team	20​	+ 36​

 

[RedheadDane]

Here's a pretty crazy story about Noah Lindholm (well, he's a U23 rider now, even if he wasn't when the issue happened...)

Dansk supertalent med lovende meldinger efter mystisk skade

Til Feltet fortæller nu 19-årige Noah Lindholm, hvordan det står til, efter at han i december blev opereret

www.feltet.dk

Basically, he woke up one morning back in November with one knee being triple-sized, and it turned out he had a long tear on his meniscus.
How did he get it? Well, it seems that at some point a year ago, or even earlier, he made a turn on his knee which cause something to happen, and that something just slow got worse over time.
Quite lucky it only became an issue in November, and didn't bother him over the course of the season.

At least... it doesn't appear to have been bothering him.