Paris - Tours 2022: Chartres > Tours 10/09/2022 - 213,5 km

[Hugo Koblet]

The only relevant attack have come just after 2 massive crashes. I wouldn't call that a great race.

I wasn't arguing that this particular race has been great (I used the word entertaining though), just that a race ending in a sprint doesn't automatically mean that is hasn't been entertaining.

 

[Red Rick]

This design was intended as ASO's answer to Strade Bianche, at the expense of the character of one of the oldest races. To see it blow up in their face in increasingly spectacular fashion each year gives me some schadenfreude.

What was the character of Paris Tours anyway? Some sort of fall Milan Sanremo?

I feel the character of Paris Tours was aging extremely poorly before the route changes.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

What was the character of Paris Tours anyway? Some sort of fall Milan Sanremo?

I feel the character of Paris Tours was aging extremely poorly before the route changes.

More or less.

It was better for the attackers than Sanremo was at the time, in any case. Didn't need to be changed imo, the only decline was from the race no longer being WT, not the finale failing.

 

[Samamba]

Bennett Still 2nd??

 

[RedheadDane]

Demare takes it.

 

[Salvarani]

Demare wins!

Küng, what a lead-out!

Coquard started his sprint way too early.

 

[Samamba]

Coquard started his sprint way too early.

Coquard was doing a leadout for Consonni

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

In the end a nice classic sprint finish.
But boy Abrahamsen* (sorry misspelled at first writing) deserved better

 

[Salvarani]

Bennett finished 3rd in the end? Probably shouldnt have attacked earlier.

 

[sir fly]

FDJ has broken the race's code... keep it steady and it'll come together.
There's a trait of the race connecting all its makeups, after all.

Would be a disliked race among the riders somewhere else in the calendar, I think.

 

[Salvarani]

Demare getting closer to 100 wins, might happen next year.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Scarponi]

Gilbert won both Paris - Tours and Lombardia in 2009... not many riders have done that, especially not in the same year.

Two very different races to win in the span of a week, like they were back then, and not the on the same weekend like now. He also won Gran Piemonte in between that week and Coppa Sabatini before Paris-Tours.

What a rider he has been over the years. Legend.

Really was a beast in his prime wow

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

FDJ has broken the race's code... keep it steady and it'll come together.

A lot easier when you cut off some 40-45km of the original 'monumental distance', normally taking it's toll in the peleton.

 

[sir fly]

A lot easier when you cut off some 40-45km of the original 'monumental distance', normally taking it's toll in the peleton.

Yes, the gravel just doesn't do it.
Though the monumental length (at this point in the season) doesn't fit in the modern trend of concern for the riders' well-being.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Can't see what's not to like about the race?
Any news about that poor EF rider who crashed with some 50k to go? Didn't look good.

 

[RedheadDane]

Any news about that poor EF rider who crashed with some 50k to go? Didn't look good.

Can't seem to find any...

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Yes, the gravel just doesn't do it.
Though the monumental length (at this point in the season) doesn't fit in the modern trend of concern for the riders' well-being.

Yes, max an hour of racing fits them better. Just look at Ganna.

 

[tobydawq]

Last rider to finish: Niki Terpstra.

Another mulitple monument winner who ends his career after this weekend. Going by today's result, he seems more ripe for retirement than Alejandro.

 

[yaco]

A perfectly executed race by FDJ - Arkea continue to make a mockery of the sport with their finish to races - It's a joke they will be in the WT.

 

[Samamba]

So the EF rider must've been either Wisniowski or Doull, pretty weird that we haven't heard anything yet.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

So the EF rider must've been either Wisniowski or Doull, pretty weird that we haven't heard anything yet.

It’s EF we are talking about, it’s not like they are very open anyways….

 

[RedheadDane]

It’s EF we are talking about, it’s not like they are very open anyways….

I really like to think that at this point it has moved from "There's no information available because they need to tell family members first" to "There's no information available because there's really no information beyond the fact that he crashed and had to abandon, nothing life-threatening".

 

[search]

Spaziociclismo has some info on Wisniowski, who was the EF rider that crashed. He suffered a concussion and felt unconscious because of it, but should otherwise be okay again soon

Parigi-Tours 2022, commozione cerebrale per Lukasz Wisniowski

Brutta giornata per Lukasz Wisniowski alla Parigi-Tours 2022. Il corridore della EF Education-EasyPost è caduto oggi nel corso della corsa francese vedendosi c

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[Mosul]

Last rider to finish: Niki Terpstra.

Another mulitple monument winner who ends his career after this weekend. Going by today's result, he seems more ripe for retirement than Alejandro.

With four podium finishes in the race, Terpstra will also be remembered as the greatest rider never to win Paris-Tours