Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var 2022 (February 18-20)

[Devil's Elbow]

Startlist

Stage 1

Col de Taillude:

Col de Fourche (from the junction onwards):

Col du Mai (as far as the route réglementée 4.3 km in):

Stage 2

Coursegoules:

Col de Vence (final 5.8k only - it's beyond me why they put the KOM here, it's not even the highest point)

Côte d'Aspremont:

Col de Châteauneuf:

Col d'Èze:

Stage 3

Col d'Èze:

Col de Saint-Pancrace (final 8.2k only):

Côte de Berre:

Col de Saint-Roche + preceding climbs (final 20.9k only):

The uncategorised climbing near the end and the ensuing descent to the finish line are identical to last year's stage, when they came from Col de la Madone.. Here's a profile of the uphill parts:

 

[Samamba]

Congrats Quintana on winning the GC.

1. Quintana
2. Martin
3. Skjelmose

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Current situation - onto the first climb of the day, breakaway with a gap of 2:20 consisting of Van Niekerk, Siskevicius, Guégan, Delacroix.

 

[SafeBet]

No coverage, right?

 

[will-10]

Interesting that Ewan switched his program from UAE to here. I think he's a Monaco resident so a home race rather than risk the travel/getting stuck in the UAE?

 

[Samamba]

No coverage, right?

Eurosport player

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No coverage, right?

Not until 2 PM CET.

 

[Samamba]

Just waiting for a big crash on this parcours

 

[SafeBet]

They're approaching the last climb of the day in France. Scary amount of road furniture in these last kms, Askey has crashed but seems fine.

 

[Samamba]

So Sagan not in good form, kinda as expected

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Another race, another severe case of motorpacing.

 

[Samamba]

Another race, another severe case of motorpacing.

This is getting ridiculous. He's just riding in the wheel of a moto lol
He actually has a chance at making it like this with a technical final coming up.

 

[SafeBet]

Another race, another severe case of motorpacing.

The moto here is so close I'm actually afraid for Geniets.

 

[Samamba]

I have no idea whats happening

 

[Samamba]

Doubt LTS can control this with 2 riders for the next 9k

 

[SafeBet]

Doubt LTS can control this with 2 riders for the next 9k

I think it's 3. Wellens, Kron, Vermeersch?

Edit: maybe 4 now.

 

[Samamba]

I think it's 3. Wellens, Kron, Vermeersch?

Edit: maybe 4 now.

Yeah i ment with Kron and Wellens alone controlling. But looks like Sweeny came back too so they're fine.

Bouhanni is there so we get a duel.

 

[SafeBet]

Too easy for Caleb.

 

[Samamba]

Ok this was dumb. He wasn't even sprinting lol

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ewan is getting some really easy sprints handed to him this year, although tbf he and the team had to put in a fair bit of work in the finale.

 

[SafeBet]

Ok this was dumb. He wasn't even sprinting lol

Decent training for Sanremo I guess. That last hill was just a little longer than Poggio.

 

[repre]

Good sprinters didn't bother to go to this race, so nothing extraordinary in easy win for Ewan

 

[Samamba]

Decent training for Sanremo I guess. That last hill was just a little longer than Poggio.

True, still has Tirreno to do some sprinting. And indeed, he seems to be focussing on the climbing aspect right now. I remember he said before this season that he basically never trains sprinting cause it comes naturally.

Bouhanni was incredibly dissapointing there tho.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Good sprinters didn't bother to go to this race, so nothing extraordinary in easy win for Ewan

Normally you'd expect at least one of Bouhanni and Sagan to be somewhat competitive but when one of them is nowhere in the sprint and the other is nowhere in general there's not much you can do.

 

[Netserk]

True, still has Tirreno to do some sprinting. And indeed, he seems to be focussing on the climbing aspect right now. I remember he said before this season that he basically never trains sprinting cause it comes naturally.

Bouhanni was incredibly dissapointing there tho.

As I saw it, when Turgis went there wasn't really any space for Bouhanni before it was over.