Tour de Hongrie 2024-05-08 to 2024-05-12 ; 8th of May to 12th of May 2024

[RedheadDane]

Buchmann looked good enough, but the climbs in Hungary were too short.

Could you say he was "hung(a)ry for longer climbs"?






(I'll show myself out... for now!)

 

[Squire]

Brian Smith with world record attempt at cramming as many 'kinda' into the stage summary as possible.

 

[Red Rick]

Bet Trek are happy they had Skjelmose at Fleche...

 

[Rob5091]

Well chapeau young Nys (still not 22 years old) and ol' man Poels. van den Broeck who won GC in Turkey is still obviously in a decent shape too.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bet Trek are happy they had Skjelmose at Fleche...

I don't think anyone could have predicted his temporary career-change to icicle.

 

[jmdirt]

Congrats young Nys!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Bet Trek are happy they had Skjelmose at Fleche...

Not particularly a fan of Skjelmose, but what happened there was pretty hard to predict. Nys also took a lot of people by surprise, likely including Trek.

But the thought has crossed my mind, with the recent coming of age of Nys, that Skjelmose might have to share some of the pie at Trek in the near future. Nys will likely not be evolving into a WT GC guy but it might not take long before he turns into an equally interesting option for a lot of classics.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well chapeau young Nys (still not 22 years old) and ol' man Poels. van den Broeck who won GC in Turkey is still obviously in a decent shape too.

Van den Broek without a c mainly lost time in stage 3 because he steered into the side of the road with 3km to go. Broke his bike as well. So then it was over. He would've been much closer (probably top 5) without that. But ey. I noticed he is kinda nervous sometimes or not looking where he is going. Last stage as well he bumped into some other cyclists while looking the other way

 

[yaco]

The Tour of Turkey has hardly been a form race. Merhawi Kudus who came 2nd on CC couldn't even win the Tour of Kumano. Lets see what Metkel Eyob 4th on CG can do in the Tour of Algeria.

 

[StryderHells]

The Tour of Turkey has hardly been a form race. Merhawi Kudus who came 2nd on CC couldn't even win the Tour of Kumano. Lets see what Metkel Eyob 4th on CG can do in the Tour of Algeria.

To be fair to Kudus, Kumano wasn’t really suited to his strengths so his ride was quite good in the end.