Tour of the Alps 2024 (April 15 - 19)

[DNP-Old]

Someone took a nasty dive.

 

[Squire]

it also was the wrong Paret-Peintre (Valentin), wasn't it? Don't think he has much of a sprint.

I had this in my mind:

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So yes, it was the wrong Paret-Peintre!

 

[Escarabajo]

This is the fastest slow motion sprint that I have ever seen. Roglic and Pogacar were watering their mouth!!!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hot Foss is back!

 

[Salvarani]

Hot Foss is back!

Getting steamy up in here

 

[DNP-Old]

I'm going to place a bet that the guy who crashed is Traeen.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I'm going to place a bet that the guy who crashed is Traeen.

Traeen finished 14th, though

 

[DNP-Old]

Traeen finished 14th, though

Darn. Who else wears white and is a terrible bike handler?

 

[Salvarani]

Darn. Who else wears white and is a terrible bike handler?

Maybe a youngster like Finley Pickering?

Or a Polti rider.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Darn. Who else wears white and is a terrible bike handler?

Pellizzari doesn‘t wear enough white, right?

 

[Laplaz]

Pellizzari doesn‘t wear enough white, right?

Pellizzari was in that Ganna group

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Pickering is the only rider with no result yet so it‘s probably him.

 

[SafeBet]

Pellizzari doesn‘t wear enough white, right?

Pellizzari is actually not that bad of a bike handler. Last year in TotA he was still feeling the consequences of an unlucky crash while training (slipped on an oily road while descending and made other teammates crash with him). He told me he was afraid to push on descents for months before gaining back his confidence.
Granted he's no Savoldelli or Mohoric but I wouldn't say he's someone who'll be automtically dropped in every descent like Latour or Reichenbach.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Crash looked seriously bad, went flying off the road, hopefully whoever it was (Pickering?) got lucky with the landing.

 

[Rob5091]

Bahrain's Pickering a DNF so I think we can assume he was the one going off road.

Good for Foss and Ineos with the win. Seems a lot of their guys are doing the Giro so it's important that there's some good form.

 

[KZD]

Really nice route for this race.

Foss may not be the GT contender that some thought he would become but he is still a very interesting rider.

 

[Izzyeviel]

I think the crasher was Kevin Inkelaar

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I think the crasher was Kevin Inkelaar

Inkelaar was reported as abandoned with 100k to go which would mean this crash was an inside job. Suspicious, Suspicious…

 

[Ricco']

I think the crasher was Kevin Inkelaar

Inkelaar was pulled out by the team because his condition wasn't good enough to race following a bout of illness (team said it on social media).

Bahrain announced that Pickering was out of the race with a concussion, so there must be it. He was lucky, considering that by the look of it, he just missed a big stretch of fencing and poles.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1779909507470004352

View: https://twitter.com/BHRVictorious/status/1779909507470004352?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet%7Ctwtr%5Etrue

Very unfortunate sentence structure, makes it sound like he crashed while already concussed.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Ah, I forgot that hellsite exists. I checked their Insta and there was nothing on it about Finlay.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Really nice route for this race.

Foss may not be the GT contender that some thought he would become but he is still a very interesting rider.

Ib4 Ineos turn him into Honchar 2.0.

Yeah, there would be an absurd amount of super steep stuff around Bolzano/Bozen. I'm talking about gradients that put the Zoncolan to shame

 

[Rob5091]

Stage 2 highlight is the Gnadenwald 4.5 km @ 7.3 % but the first 3 km are a beast at way more then 7 %.

15 km from the summit though, down a descent and to the finish line.
Be interesting to see how Bardet, O'Connor & Chaves get on. G will probably do his normal diesel his way up so we'll get a good idea of his form if he can hang on.

 

[search]

temperatures are down in the single digits already, and there could be some rain as well. So it'll also come down to who copes with this best.

 

[search]

Lukas Pöstlberger is on the attack with de Marchi, Pellaud and three more (edit: Gamper, Oka and Koishi). Today is probably his best chance of the year to get back on the radar of some pro teams.