Tour de l'Avenir 2016, August 20-27

[DNP-Old]

Bernal 49 seconds down to Costa in the GC. He held himself really well today. And with Rodriguez and Martinez also doing well in the CRI, Bernal doesn't just have help, but the team has multiple horses to bet on.

 

[Thepirateisgood]

As expected, but think it was a harder parcour than many thought. Finished in half an hour or so?
Costa is an amazing rider, what is he 19?

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

That's a fantastic bunch of ITT talents assembled there. Costa, Powless, Kämna, Würtz, Schachmann, Ganna - pick your Doha ITT podium among them.

 

[Thepirateisgood]

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Dibben could do well in the TT tomorrow.

Good call!

 

[May0maniac]

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Clearly the small hill at the start is having quite an effect, and it's quite rolling if Wurtz, Kamna and Ganna are getting beaten by Powless and Martinez.

Kämna is a light guy himself, 65kg heavy and 181cm tall, but yeah, you only have to look at the results list to realize that it wasn't a totally flat ITT.
The next few days should be interesting.

 

[Nick C.]

So Costa, who was a ball of fire at the Tour of Utah, seems to be a huge talent if he is winning the ITT. Am I jumping the gun here?

 

[classicomano]

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So Costa, who was a ball of fire at the Tour of Utah, seems to be a huge talent if he is winning the ITT. Am I jumping the gun here?

You are not. Hes the next Lance Armstrong.

 

[proffz]

i would like to remind you that martinez is a huge talent and last year he was very impressive in utah , finish
hing 10th.
he had a very decent 2015 considering he was racing for team colombia, where corti was able to spoil any kind of rider and make all the rider to really underperform.

in last year tour de l' avenue he was impressive uphill, even if he was just used for suicide attacks by jaramillo in support of seb henao, in a very bizarre tactical plot.

this year he ran the giro with southeast and he did not shine , but he was able to finish a gt at his age and this normally makes a rider stronger.

i will not be surprised if he does a really good good avenir

 

[Ruudz0r]

The mountains will be exciting, Colombia will attack a lot I guess but America has a very good team as well.

 

[Samamba]

John Rodriguez (Colombia) wins the first mountain stage, the MTF wasn't that hard though.

Gaudu (7th) was the first of the favorites.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Nico Denz (Germany) new race leader.

Is he a good climber ?

 

[Samamba]

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Nico Denz (Germany) new race leader.

Is he a good climber ?

Not bad, but also not that good. He has the advantage of being a pro.

 

[Escarabajo]

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The mountains will be exciting, Colombia will attack a lot I guess but America has a very good team as well.

America has some promising talents such as Costa, Dani Martinez, Bernal among others.

 

[Samamba]

The Gaudu group was enormous with al the favorites in it, says enough about the toughness of that last climb.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Really happy for Denz, a great guy doing his thing by shunning the classic German development carreer and going through the Chambéry school.

 

[pablohidalgo7]

I think that Antwan Tolhoek could be the surprise of the race in the mountains, perhaps he can achieve a top 10 spot in the GC.

 

[Thepirateisgood]

Wish they didn't let WT riders do this, has it always been like that? Seem to remember for some years at least there was only max conti riders. Might be wrong though, my brain works in mysterious ways.

It just doesn't seem fair, sure they are u23, but riding far greater distances for a living gives them as someone else says above, an advantage. (Quite a big one in my view).

Race still very open, battle is still between unknown winners - but if Costa is in utah form he should take this.
Sure hope he's not the new LA.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Back in the old days of the early 2000s whole GS1 teams were allowed to race.

 

[Samamba]

Kamna finally showing something.

 

[Ruudz0r]

A quelques kilomètres du sommet du Cormet de Roselend

nous avons 5 coureurs détachés :Michal SCHLEGEL (Rep. Tchèque), Maximilian SCHACHMANN (Allemagne), Lucas HAMILTON (Australie). John RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR et Miguel Eduardo FLOREZ (Colombie)

Le peloton est pointé à 1'00''.

Le maillot jaune à plus de 5'00''.

Colombia putting pressure on USA (and GB), Denz already dropped 50 minutes ago.

 

[Samamba]

Colombia so f*cking strong...

Watch out for Schachmann btw, dangerous guy.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Le peloton est composé de Gaudu, Le Turnier, Madouas et Vincent (France), Geoghegan Hart (UK), Fabbro et Ravasi (Italie), Nych et Sivakov (Russie), Eg (Danemark), Vanhoucke (Belgique), Tolhoek (Pays-Bas), Müller (Suisse), Costa et Powless (U.S.A), Freiberger (Autriche), Aranburu et C. Rodriguez (Espagne), Bernal et Martinez Poveda (Colombie), Hindley et Storer (Australie) ainsi que Zahiri (Maroc).

That's 24 riders.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Le peloton est composé de Gaudu, Le Turnier, Madouas et Vincent (France), Geoghegan Hart (UK), Fabbro et Ravasi (Italie), Nych et Sivakov (Russie), Eg (Danemark), Vanhoucke (Belgique), Tolhoek (Pays-Bas), Müller (Suisse), Costa et Powless (U.S.A), Freiberger (Autriche), Aranburu et C. Rodriguez (Espagne), Bernal et Martinez Poveda (Colombie), Hindley et Storer (Australie) ainsi que Zahiri (Maroc).

NOt much left in the peloton (if this is the full group).

 

[Escarabajo]

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A quelques kilomètres du sommet du Cormet de Roselend

nous avons 5 coureurs détachés :Michal SCHLEGEL (Rep. Tchèque), Maximilian SCHACHMANN (Allemagne), Lucas HAMILTON (Australie). John RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR et Miguel Eduardo FLOREZ (Colombie)

Le peloton est pointé à 1'00''.

Le maillot jaune à plus de 5'00''.

Colombia putting pressure on USA (and GB), Denz already dropped 50 minutes ago.

Do you have a feed?

 

[DNP-Old]

If that is the full peloton, I wonder how and especially who will try to take them back. Apart from France, they don't have a lot of helpers left.