Saudi Tour 2022 (February 1st - 5th)

[Tim Cahill]

Look at Santiago Padun there covering moves on his own on the flat.

 

[tobydawq]

Look at Santiago Padun there covering moves on his own on the flat.

Yeah, in the head wind, what a massively insane thing to be able to do.

 

[tobydawq]

Terpstra with a late attack like in the good old Milram days.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Groenewegen almost messed that up after a perfect leadout. Ewan as fast as ever but the Lotto train still not the most consistent.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lotto definitely didn't get it right today, though Ewan shouldn't have been positioned much better to have given Groenewegen a run for his money.

 

[tobydawq]

Groenewegen almost messed that up after a perfect leadout. Ewan as fast as ever but the Lotto train still not the most consistent.

Messed it up? In what way?

 

[Bolder]

Groenewegen almost messed that up after a perfect leadout. Ewan as fast as ever but the Lotto train still not the most consistent.

15 more meters and Ewan would have won. He was in good position with about 800 meters to go but wound up having to come from too far behind with not enough road...

 

[DaLong]

Looks like Ewan got boxed in and lost position. Still managed third. Nice win for DG. Would be nice to have more than 1 or 2 elite sprinters this year.

 

[sir fly]

Strong sprinting from Groenewegen.

 

[Samamba]

LTS messed up a bit there with Ewan being that fast, but they did only have Kluge and De Buyst left there with Selig crashing out and Drizners having to do a lot of work today.

Good win for Groenewegen, but defnitely didn't look that impressive to me.

 

[Samamba]

Quick Step doing it again. Noone is on their level echelon wise.

Buitrago 2nd group, Charmig 3rd group.
Maxim Van Gils first group.

EDIT: Costa also 2nd group, but looks like 2nd and 3rd group are coming together. 30 seconds to first group. Could def still close that gap cause 2nd group is big.

 

[Earns1985]

Interesting situation here:
Right now I would say: Stage win Bagioli, but GC? Totally open, Maxim Van Gils has the best cards right now, I would say..

 

[Mayomaniac]

Interesting situation here:
Right now I would say: Stage win Bagioli, but GC? Totally open, Maxim Van Gils has the best cards right now, I would say..

Rui Costa is also in a really nice position, gc wise.

 

[Roku]

Yeah, Van Gils should be main favourite. Barthe and De Clercq two main outsiders.

 

[Earns1985]

Rui Costa is also in a really nice position, gc wise.

Costa isn´t in the front group, or is he?

 

[Roku]

Costa is in the second group (with Buitrago, Charmig...)

Renard is another rider to watch in the first group.

 

[Faserr]

Thats a really hard climb. The last 8km will be interesting with the wind.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

There's something heroic about two bandaged riders looking very human as they battle it out up some brutal gradients.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Tim Declercq is a madman.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

But why isn't Bagioli waiting for Declercq???

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Imagine opening PCS without having seen the race and trying to figure out what on earth happened for that top-10 to happen. That was a very good stage.

 

[Faserr]

Yes. Really nice stage. Lotto is really doing well in the first races.

 

[Anderis]

A pretty peculiar top3. A promising young climber, an experienced sprinter and an eternal flat terrain domestique who's got his first top10 outside of classics since 2019.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Daniel oss wasted his career a bit. Very strong guy.

I think this would be a good training race

 

[Wvv]

Strong ride by Van Gils! What a start of the season Lotto is having.