Tour of Slovenia 2021, June 9 - June 13

[Lequack]

Fun fact, Ilnur Zakarin, the once popular Russian is also racing this. Last year he was still racing for CCC world tour team, but this year he switched to pr continental level Gazprom - RusVelo team.

 

[limak_]

I really hope Aniołkowski will show himself off in this race. A stage win for him (why not today) would be great, but facing Bahrain train won't be easy by no means.

 

[Lequack]

There are some thunderstorms forecast in the area.

 

[Poursuivant]

Fun fact, Ilnur Zakarin, the once popular Russian is also racing this. Last year he was still racing for CCC world tour team, but this year he switched to pr continental level Gazprom - RusVelo team.

What happened to him?

I remember that horrible descent crash he had in the Giro

 

[Lequack]

What happened to him?

I remember that horrible descent crash he had in the Giro

Something about it in this article:

Zakarin moves to Gazprom-RusVelo – Transfer shorts

Halvorsen steps down to Uno-X as Nakane leaves Nippo Delko for EF

www.cyclingnews.com

"I know almost every teammate in person," Zakarin said in a team press release. "The same applies to team sport director Dmitry Konyshev with whom we have worked and achieved great results together.

"Speaking about my goals, I would like to be straight to the point – my aim is not to only share my experience, but to demonstrate [the] maximum and achieve new victories with the team.

 

[Gigs_98]

What happened to him?

I remember that horrible descent crash he had in the Giro

The one in 2016? That was scary but it came before his career even properly got going. The guy got a gt podium and a Tour stage win after that as well as a giro stage as recently as 2019. He really had a career trajectory similar to Chaves.

 

[Lequack]

And we're live on Eurosport/GCN!

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

And we're live on Eurosport/GCN!

Whose that with Smith? I'm off to Belgium.

 

[Lequack]

Whose that with Smith? I'm off to Belgium.

Good question.

 

[Lequack]

Trentin has crashed and has a sore butt

 

[Lequack]

Break now has 1:20 advantage with 30k to go.

And a rider going offroad

https://twitter.com/x/status/1402629481425211392

View: https://twitter.com/CajaRural_RGA/status/1402629481425211392?s=20

 

[Sciatic]

Trentin has crashed and has a sore butt

Whoa, is the trainer debriding that road rash wound with a scraper on the fly? Hope they don’t hit a sudden bump!

 

[titan31]

That was an odd looking crash. Looks in a decent bit of pain but no idea what happened

 

[SigurdJ]

Where they really saying Padun suddenly becoming the next Pantani by eating more??? I guess all race threads should be in the clinic from now on if the sports continues like this. :-(

 

[Lequack]

Where they really saying Padun suddenly becoming the next Pantani by eating more??? I guess all race threads should be in the clinic from now on if the sports continues like this. :-(

I though he said he lost some weight, so if anything he's eating less.

 

[SigurdJ]

I thought they said the diet was too strict so he got more energy by eating more.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Awesome seeing Pog leading out for the sprint

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Awesome seeing Pog leading out for the sprint

Until he went the wrong way around in the roundabout

 

[RedheadDane]

Looked like Bauhaus.

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Respect for Pogi leading out the sprint for Trentin.. is there anything he cannot do? (Ok the roundabout was a bit in the way)

 

[Poursuivant]

I would like to visit Slovenia, it looks beautiful.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I would like to visit Slovenia, it looks beautiful.

People tend to forget it's next door to Venice

 

[bNator]

I would like to visit Slovenia, it looks beautiful.

Yes - do it! And take your bike with you. Road or MTB...

This is the pass they are leaving out this year for some (probably not very convincing) commercial reason...

 

[Gregor_Slovenia]

Fans are also already out in force

These are probably here to secure Slovenian Rule of Law, tough task I guess..

 

[Leinster]

Fans are also already out in force

"They showed up during stage 15 of the Giro, and they haven't left since... they built a camp outside town with wooden walls..."