Tour of the Alps 2022 (April 18-22)

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Did Traen crash from (potentially) victory??

 

[Eclipse]

Bilbao really impressing today, shutting down moves and martialling things himself.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Second all-African one-two of the year is still possible.

Would also be the first all-Eritrean one in a non-African race.

No more. Poor Kudus, been a while since he's been in the situation to get a good result.

 

[Mayomaniac]

They are now on the main road in the Pustertal, hard to get away on this one...

 

[Mayomaniac]

There would have been another climb on the other side of the lake (3.2kms at 6.2%, but irregular) that they could have used to reduce the false flat here.

 

[Eclipse]

Massive regrouping for the leaders bunch. Big surprise given how fractured it was so far from the top of the climb

Good attack from Kamna, if they keep working you'd think this might stick as Amador seems very strong

lol, random EF train in the leaders group

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Remember when Vaughters said he wasn't worried about UCI points because he wanted EF to light up the big races?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Get that *** motorbike out of the way

 

[Eclipse]

Really good second attack from Kamna and a nice stage win for him.

Amador the strongest of the group but got leant on too much.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Kämna is so strong in this kind of situation when on song.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Big Lenny beats those cookie cutters!

 

[Billie]

Get that *** motorbike out of the way

Motorbike did a great job always moving over to other side of the road of the riders and not interfering with the race.

 

[Bolder]

Well, now we know why Kämna took it easy yesterday and lost over 9min...

Indeed

 

[Mayomaniac]

Indeed

Yeah, he tried to enter the breakaway multiple times until the final one got away.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Remember when Vaughters said he wasn't worried about UCI points because he wanted EF to light up the big races?

It's all fine and good, Sean Quinn won the sprint behind the breakaway.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Does Kämna still have ambitions to turn into a GC rider or is he liking stagehunting better?

 

[Remy55]

Does Kämna still have ambitions to turn into a GC rider or is he liking stagehunting better?

He likes stage hunting better, reading his last quotes he has no GC ambitions in the near future.

 

[gunara]

Good to see any of these guys still can produce a win. It's good when all those young German and Austrian climbers hit the scene almost at the same time, but then most of them had problems at around the same time, too.

 

[Red Rick]

Why are you guys remembering me about the Giro 2020?...

Because it was once in the bag

 

[Escarabajo]

Why is Kals am Grossglockner not categorized tomorrow? it looks hard!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Why is Kals am Grossglockner not categorized tomorrow? it looks hard!

They only climb the first half though. That being said, the first ramp really should have been categorised.

Last year was far worse for this, they actually didn't categorise the hardest climb of the race, Passo Castrin from the hard side, easily HC territory:

 

[yaco]

Lets hope the only uphill finish livens up the race - Its been bland so far.

 

[Red Rick]

They only climb the first half though. That being said, the first ramp really should have been categorised.

Last year was far worse for this, they actually didn't categorise the hardest climb of the race, Passo Castrin from the hard side, easily HC territory:

Nothing beats these guys going to Lago di Tenno where I've struggled on holiday and the pro's proceeding to just crash uphill

 

[Big Doopie]

UIJTDEBROEKS doing well it seems.

 

[VeloMaster]

Lets hope the only uphill finish livens up the race - Its been bland so far.

I disagree. Stage 2 was a cracker, with Bilbao's patented downhill charge. I know many long for more MTFs but placing the finish some ways from the crest of major climbs has produced some good racing so far.