U23 races and talents

[Cycling111]

Pablo Torres is struggling with the transition to the pros. He's been having a really bad time at the national championships. Pericas is showing better sensationsPericas is on the UAE development team but has competed in a few races with the first team.

Let's see if Torres can get back into his best at Tour de l'Avenir.
Perhaps another year in the U23 category would have benefited him.

He's still very young.
Uijtdebroeks had a good first year as a pro and now he's disappeared. De Lie es a similar case, he started very well but has had two horrible years.

Seixas is also having a great first year; we'll see if he continues or if he has future problems like Cian and De Lie.

Obviously, some of them will fail.
I'm afraid of what it will do to these kids mentally.

There are some fierce criticism of Pablo Torres in social media. I don't understand such aggressiveness against 18-19 years riders.

 

[AlfaLum]

Pablo Torres is struggling with the transition to the pros. He's been having a really bad time at the national championships. Pericas is showing better sensationsPericas is on the UAE development team but has competed in a few races with the first team.

Let's see if Torres can get back into his best at Tour de l'Avenir.
Perhaps another year in the U23 category would have benefited him.

He's still very young.
Uijtdebroeks had a good first year as a pro and now he's disappeared. De Lie es a similar case, he started very well but has had two horrible years.

Seixas is also having a great first year; we'll see if he continues or if he has future problems like Cian and De Lie.

Obviously, some of them will fail.
I'm afraid of what it will do to these kids mentally.

There are some fierce criticism of Pablo Torres in social media. I don't understand such aggressiveness against 18-19 years riders.

The Guy had a very very bad crash in Hungary to be fair. So no clue how that affected him but it didnt look too pretty.

 

[Cycling111]

The Guy had a very very bad crash in Hungary to be fair. So no clue how that affected him but it didnt look too pretty.

Yes, although there were already negative comments before that accident.

 

[ingsve]

Norway will once again be back in the Tour de l'Avenir this year. The team will consist of 4 riders of Coop-Repsol and 2 riders from Visma- Lease a Bike. This means that Jörgen Nordhagen will be on the starting line to once again square off against the other top U-23 riders in the world.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941049921270059322

View: https://x.com/TeamCoopRepsol/status/1941049921270059322

 

[hayneplane]

Could be a truly stacked field this year with just about every rider under 21 that is not already a podium level GC rider at World Tour level looking set to be present.

 

[Samamba]

No excuses for Nordhagen in Avenir with a parcours that fits him perfectly. Time to show the world how good he actually is.

And yes it should be insanely stacked. Widar is back training so he should be fine again, Finn depends on how fast he is healing, but I think he'll be good. And of course we will have Omrzel and Seixas.

I'm also assuming Torres will join again and maybe another climber who's already pro (Martinez from PicNic possibly?). Probably forgetting a few too.

Oh yeah Novak for example.

 

[Netserk]

Why not Lenny Martinez and Del Toro too?

 

[ingsve]

No excuses for Nordhagen in Avenir with a parcours that fits him perfectly. Time to show the world how good he actually is.

And yes it should be insanely stacked. Widar is back training so he should be fine again, Finn depends on how fast he is healing, but I think he'll be good. And of course we will have Omrzel and Seixas.

I'm also assuming Torres will join again and maybe another climber who's already pro (Martinez from PicNic possibly?). Probably forgetting a few too.

Oh yeah Novak for example.

Pericas is listed on PCS as well along with Torres for Spain so should be a good pair.

 

[SafeBet]

Samuele Privitera crashed during the first stage of Val d'Aosta and apparently had to be resuscitated. He's now in critical conditions.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Samuele Privitera crashed during the first stage of Val d'Aosta and apparently had to be resuscitated. He's now in critical conditions.

I read that he lost his helmet during his crash. How does that happen?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I read that he lost his helmet during his crash. How does that happen?

Don’t want to speculate too much given the circumstances, but I can’t think of any option that isn’t horrifying. A helmet should never, ever be able to come unstuck due to a fatal design error, material fatigue or whatever other reason, and nor should it ever be able to come unstuck due to being fastened improperly or not at all. The idea that we might be staring down the barrel of the gravest possible consequence of any such possible cause… there are no words.

 

[Mayomaniac]

There are reports that he had a sudden heart related problem that made him crash, apparently the poor guy crashed straight into a gate and lost his helmet because of the violent impact.

 

[SafeBet]

Samuele has sadly passed away.

 

[SafeBet]

Giro Valle d'Aosta stage 2 has been cancelled.

 

[JasonFly]

What a tragedy, so sad for the family, he was their only child

Hearthbreaking news on the very day a local born and raised rider wins the stage and wears the leader jersey for the first time ever.
Of course it doesn't matter anymore, but what a tragic turn of the events for the organizers and the winner...

I know very well the stretch of road where the crash occured and I am puzzled by what happened.
The road is wide and in quite good conditions, not a significantly dangerous spot.
They were coming from a short but fast descent into a wide right turn, immediatly followed by a long speed bump.
The railing Samuele crashed into is at least 30 meters after the bump, and there the road is perfectly straight and almost flat.
Had he lost control of the bike while hitting the bump, I guess he would have crashed before .
I think this poor young rider had A LOT of bad luck to crash like he did.

It is however chilling to look at the road with Street View and imagining crashing at 70km/h into those sharp railings and edgy walls: cycling is an inherently dangerous sport!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Giro Valle d'Aosta stage 2 has been cancelled.

There is a certain irony that stage 2 was an MTT, which would be just about the lowest-risk type of stage, but then stage 1 was a mostly flat one (by Valdôtain standards) and certainly not the kind of situation we would usually see that kind of risk of violent accident - but then, like we learned with Björg Lambrecht, sometimes the most dangerous crashes come in seemingly innocuous stages and feature one rider on their own.

 

[Forever The Best]

What a tragedy. RIP and condolences to his family and friends.