Tour de l'Avenir 2012

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Chernetskiy attacks just after the summit. That's one dangerous rider.

But it doesn't seem to last long.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

25 riders left for the stage win and the race overall. Lutsenko seems to be quite thirsty.

 

[janraaskalt]

Thanks for the updates!

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Théo Vimpère is pacing, Barguil sits on second position as usual. Then Wellens, Konrad, Olivier... 18 riders left.

 

[Mogwai_]

Wellens is doing great.

 

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Less than 10 km left. Lutsenko and Cattaneo at the back of the group...

 

[goggalor]

Hm, Contador didn't look great there. Couldn't launch off his team mate.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Sepulveda attacks!

 

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Boswell now at the front, but Barguil is always there. Maybe 4 km left.

 

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Everyone attacks Barguil, but no one gets away.

 

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Chernetsky wins the stage and celebrates.

Barguil gets second and celebrates as well.

The top favorite wins the race. He has been simply the best. So strong.

 

[janraaskalt]

Barguil gets second and celebrates as well.

The top favorite wins the race. He has been simply the best. So strong.

He is overrated

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

1-Pomoshnikov (Russie)
2-Barguil (France)
3-Konrad (Autriche)
4-Boswell (Etats-Unis)
5-Jungels (Luxembourg)

Pomoshnikov, not Chernetskiy.

 

[theyoungest]

Well done by Barguil. Taking that corner right on the first mountain stage won him the race, clever guy. Chamorro and Cattaneo appear to have been on the same level, or stronger, climbing-wise.

The two hardest stages on paper were 40 k and 80 k long, that's a bit disappointing.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Chamorro was nowhere to be seen today, especially at the final climb.

Barguil countered every single attack, including those of Cattaneo.

 

[theyoungest]

Chamorro was nowhere to be seen today, especially at the final climb.

Barguil countered every single attack, including those of Cattaneo.

Ah, I only watched the footage from the first mountain stage, where I wasn't impressed by Barguil at all.

 

[Mogwai_]

And Wellens?

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Wellens was outside the Top 10 today, but part of the leading group.

Barguil wins GC, KOM and points classification. Impressive.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Final GC:

1 Warren Barguil
2 Juan Chamorro
3 Mattia Cattaneo
4 Sergey Chernetskiy
5 Ian Boswell
6 Sergey Pomoshnikov
7 Gennady Tatarinov
8 Daan Olivier
9 Patrick Konrad
10 Tim Wellens

 

[Mogwai_]

Thanks, Bye Bye Cycling.

 

[Gloin22]

Haha, so we can LOL Ryo now ( Wellens ) and Dekker for underrating Barguil

However, with 2 queen stages being 40km and 80km in length It doesn't show biggest reflection imo - and that's those riders endurance on longer stages over 100km in mountains.

 

[janraaskalt]

wellens won't even top ten. so he's no gc guy in my book. we will see. if he does you can lol me.

Ryo Huzaki LOL

 

[Hugo Koblet]

wellens won't even top ten. so he's no gc guy in my book. we will see. if he does you can lol me.

lol 10 chars