Tour of the Alps 2022 (April 18-22)

[yaco]

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.

It was a case of the two leading riders going nowhere on the descent - When Porte who is a poor descender can follow Bilbao on a descent this suggests it was not a cracking pace

 

[search]

today's finish really looks relatively easy. Will there be any action at all?

from https://climbfinder.com/de/anstiege/kodnitztal-huben

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Bahrain will just controll this race for Bilbao

 

[Velolover2]

today's finish really looks relatively easy. Will there be any action at all?

from https://climbfinder.com/de/anstiege/kodnitztal-huben

The first 3 km of the climb is how you would make a tailor-made climb for Riche Porte.

Too bad there is still almost 10 km to go after that.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Bahrain will just controll this race for Bilbao

Bilbao could probably put minutes into Sivakov and Porte if he and the team went all out on the Kartitscher Satter descent, but sadly it's way too early in the stage and the road back to Lienz after the Gailbergsattel is flat and almost a highway.

 

[Mayomaniac]

the 2nd half of the Kartitscher Sattel climb is really exposed to the sun, the heat can be brutal during the summer.
Like I've already mentioned the following descent has lots of twists and turns and short uphill ramps, you can forget about putting on a jacket, even if it's rather cold. You'd just end up sweating waaay to much on the uphill ramps, like the one after the Biathlon center in Obertilliach up to the village.
A few interesting young riders in the breakaway, but with Bouchard also there it looks like they are doomed...

 

[RedheadDane]

That's not good...

Crash by 20 riders in peloton ...

 

[Remy55]

That's not good...

Bilbao involved

 

[SafeBet]

Berthet also crashed and he's out of the race.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Bilbao could probably put minutes into Sivakov and Porte if he and the team went all out on the Kartitscher Satter descent, but sadly it's way too early in the stage and the road back to Lienz after the Gailbergsattel is flat and almost a highway.

Yeah the route is very dissapointing

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yeah the route is very dissapointing

If we only get coverage after the Pustertaler Höhenstraße tomorrow I'm gonna be mad.
It's the most interesting series of climbs in the race, just look at it from right to left:

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If we only get coverage after the Pustertaler Höhenstraße tomorrow I'm gonna be mad.
It's the most interesting series of climbs in the race, just look at it from right to left:

It's pretty much 10 years to the day since Pozzo destroyed the field on Punta Veleno and won this race. And now we have a bunch of 140km rolling stages.

 

[RedheadDane]

Break:

1		14	HENAO Sebastián	17:18
2		17	FELLINE Fabio	14:39
3		21	AMADOR Andrey	20:24
4		27	SWIFT Ben	19:42
5		37	PRODHOMME Nicolas	15:53
6		42	FABBRO Matteo	23:29
7		45	PALZER Anton	20:11
8		51	CAICEDO Jonathan Klever	3:57
9		54	KUDUS Merhawi	18:10
10		61	PINOT Thibaut	14:12
11		74	GOLDSTEIN Omer	27:56
12		83	GONZÁLEZ Abner	10:00
13		126	TESFATSION Natnael	3:49
14		144	ARRIETA Igor	23:44
15		154	CUADRADO Unai	35:27

Peloton at 1:45. Bahrain pulling.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Break:

1		14	HENAO Sebastián	17:18
2		17	FELLINE Fabio	14:39
3		21	AMADOR Andrey	20:24
4		27	SWIFT Ben	19:42
5		37	PRODHOMME Nicolas	15:53
6		42	FABBRO Matteo	23:29
7		45	PALZER Anton	20:11
8		51	CAICEDO Jonathan Klever	3:57
9		54	KUDUS Merhawi	18:10
10		61	PINOT Thibaut	14:12
11		74	GOLDSTEIN Omer	27:56
12		83	GONZÁLEZ Abner	10:00
13		126	TESFATSION Natnael	3:49
14		144	ARRIETA Igor	23:44
15		154	CUADRADO Unai	35:27

Peloton at 1:45. Bahrain pulling.

Tibopino racing with aggression.

 

[search]

so apart from Gamper, (he tried earlier on today), Bora has now managed to get all of their riders in one of the daily moves. About time for Palzer to show that he deserves this pro contract

 

[Faserr]

Palzer is better then half of the DSM team. Of course he deserves the pro contract.

 

[Mayomaniac]

so apart from Gamper, (he tried earlier on today), Bora has now managed to get all of their riders in one of the daily moves. About time for Palzer to show that he deserves this pro contract

he did a decent job as a climbing domestique for Higuita in Catalunya where he also finished 25th on the gc, nothing spectacular, but solid.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Blythe will be getting well excited for “Swifty”

 

[Mayomaniac]

Blythe will be getting well excited for “Swifty”

I'd call him an Ineos fangirl, but that would be an insult to actual fangirls...

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, so the Russians and Belarusians are not allowed to have their flags shown on the graphics.
But why doesn't it show the Puerto Rico flag?

 

[Aimar16]

But why doesn't it show the Puerto Rico flag?

Isn't that a US colony?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I'd call him an Ineos fangirl, but that would be an insult to actual fangirls...

'Look at the ineos Grenadiers now, moving up' when other teams are attacking

 

[RedheadDane]

Isn't that a US colony?

He's listed as Puerto Rican in all media. He's national champion of Purto Rico.

 

[Aimar16]

He's listed as Puerto Rican in all media. He's national champion of Purto Rico.

But there's no such country as Puerto Rico, it's just part of the US, except they can't vote or enjoy other democratic rights

 

[RedheadDane]

But there's no such country as Porte Rico, it's just part of the US, except they can't vote or enjoy other democratic rights

They still have a flag. So why not use it?
Now he got a flag!