Tour of Utah 2018, August 6 - August 12

[greenedge]

Powless is very talented as well, in the future I can see him being a rider in the Kwiatowski mold, good at time-trials, good enough on the climbs and in sprints. He may not be as talented a rider as McNulty, but with the right development (he's so young) he should be a presence in the Ardennes and GT's for years to come (that includes a GC tilt on a friendly route).

Is Kuss going to ride the Vuelta after this race?

 

[Koronin]

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Powless is very talented as well, in the future I can see him being a rider in the Kwiatowski mold, good at time-trials, good enough on the climbs and in sprints. He may not be as talented a rider as McNulty, but with the right development (he's so young) he should be a presence in the Ardennes and GT's for years to come (that includes a GC tilt on a friendly route).

Is Kuss going to ride the Vuelta after this race?

Good question. He's not on the list to race Colorado like Powless is, so it's possible he could be going to la Vuelta. I agree with you that with the right development he could be a threat in some of the hilly one day races and maybe go for GC in some of the 1 week races. Not sure about GTs, but he is very talented and still very young.

 

[Tim Booth]

Tom Bohli was disqualified from stage 2 for holding onto a vehicle. Tom took a bottle from another team car but has been penalized for holding onto the car.

 

[Highlander]

Tom Bohli was disqualified from stage 2 for holding onto a vehicle. Tom took a bottle from another team car but has been penalized for holding onto the car.

Thanks for the information. I was curious why he was disqualified yesterday since it wasn't mentioned in the article.

 

[Lequack]

Re: Re:

Powless is very talented as well, in the future I can see him being a rider in the Kwiatowski mold, good at time-trials, good enough on the climbs and in sprints. He may not be as talented a rider as McNulty, but with the right development (he's so young) he should be a presence in the Ardennes and GT's for years to come (that includes a GC tilt on a friendly route).

Is Kuss going to ride the Vuelta after this race?

Good question. He's not on the list to race Colorado like Powless is, so it's possible he could be going to la Vuelta. I agree with you that with the right development he could be a threat in some of the hilly one day races and maybe go for GC in some of the 1 week races. Not sure about GTs, but he is very talented and still very young.

According to PCS they're both riding in colorado, basically the whole Lotto NL team that's currently in Utah. It makes sense too, they're already there and Colorado is just a few days away.

 

[Lequack]

It's the laps around Salt Lake City today, 10 laps to be exact.

They're on lap 5 now.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Photo finish. Philipsen v. McCabe

 

[RedheadDane]

That… was… close…

 

[Koronin]

That finish was crazy.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

His first pro win.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So tonight is the mountainstage with uphill finish right?

 

[Lequack]

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So tonight is the mountainstage with uphill finish right?

Yes it's a MTF:

Another profile:

 

[Lequack]

Profile for the penultimate climb, 12.1km @ 6.9%

 

[Koronin]

Today is the climb to Snowbird. Always enjoy watching this stage.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Chaos already and it's only the first climb (Cat 4). Should be a good stage. For those of you wondering why the smoke, it's mostly from a nearby wildfire that's causing unhealthy air in the region (plus the smoke coming in from the CA fires).

 

[RedheadDane]

:surprised:

Smoke from wildfires in California can be seen in Utah?

 

[Lequack]

Final climb to Snowbird, 10.2km @ 7.8%, it's a pretty brutal climb:

 

[Sciatic]

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:surprised:

Smoke from wildfires in California can be seen in Utah?

Yes, indeed, sometimes you can satellite images of smoke trails all the way across the country. Athough there are fires in most western states right now, including really big fires in Oregon which may be what Utah is getting. This is getting to be the norm for August out here.

 

[Koronin]

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:surprised:

Smoke from wildfires in California can be seen in Utah?

Yes, indeed, sometimes you can satellite images of smoke trails all the way across the country. although there are fire in most western states right now, including really big fires in Oregon which may be whatvUtah is getting. This is getting to be the norm for August out here.

Unfortunately. Even worse is at least two of the fires are definitely from arson.

 

[memyselfandI]

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His first pro win.

"Philipsen is the new Evenopoel" coming up!

 

[Sestriere]

Lotto and Kuss look very solid to me, it's up to EF and BMC to apply the pressure. However, I don't think Tejay has the climbing ability atvthis point, EF appears to be more dangerous.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

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:surprised:

Smoke from wildfires in California can be seen in Utah?

Yep. Salt Lake City is in a valley surrounded by mountains, and all that smoke gets trapped in there. It's worse now because of multiple fires in Utah as well.

Race now passing over one of my favorite places to ride. The mountain biking here is superb.
This last kick right before the KOM really hits you in the groin.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hmm... was that the corner where Brammeier smashed into that car a few years ago? Looked familiar.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The first section of the descent is more twisty, but once they take that right onto the main road of Big Cottonwood Canyon, the descent isn't really technical.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

In case you're listening to the Tour Tracker, these are not the Uinta mountains. These are the Wasatch.