UAE Tour 2023, February 20-26 (women's race February 9-12)

[yaco]

That was such an instinctive move by Groenewegen with 500 metres to go. Thought he looked fast yesterday but he couldn't fully open up his sprint.

 

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[Carrick-On-Seine]

Remco the sprint beast extends lead to 9 seconds.

 

[Lequack]

Tomorrow is a possibility for Remco to steal even more sprint bonus seconds.

Sprint replay

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629112903071846405

View: https://twitter.com/GreenEDGEteam/status/1629112903071846405?s=20

 

[search]

Bouachard didn't make it back, I think. His team mates now seem to have waited for him.

He gained one second in the intermediate sprint earlier on. May lose minutes in the end

he indeed lost 1:50 in the end. Minus the one second bonus

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Dylan Groenewegen for taking the stage and to Bora for good leadout.

 

[Filippo_3467]

Bennett still doesn't have it. If he doesn't find his form soon the talk abput leaving him out of the tour will start again....With this leadout you should win the stage.

 

[happytramp]

Bennett still doesn't have it. If he doesn't find his form soon the talk abput leaving him out of the tour will start again....With this leadout you should win the stage.

He's been a fair bit better than Jakobsen this season so I guess Jakobsen's probably in trouble as well so.

 

[DNP-Old]

He's been a fair bit better than Jakobsen this season so I guess Jakobsen's probably in trouble as well so.

Jakobsen hasn't been good at all, true, but that QuickStep train isn't working right now. Him and Morkov aren't clicking on any cylinders currently. Bennett on the other hand has the best lead out rider in the world right in front of him. And it shows, since Bennett can hardly pass Van Poppel.

I recall an interview with Denk saying he is done with sprinters, and Bennett is doing brilliant work to confirm his ideas. Eisel was livid yesterday too.

 

[search]

DvP may be the best on paper, but I also wouldn't say his leadouts the past two days were perfect. Yesterday they left it too late, today he came to the front a bit too early.

Sure, in the end Bennett should have launched his sprint earlier then instead of getting boxed in behind his faiding leadout man, but overall I wouldn't really see it as a reason to be too critical (yet).

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Bennett still doesn't have it. If he doesn't find his form soon the talk abput leaving him out of the tour will start again....With this leadout you should win the stage.

Archbold is part of that train and ended up in the Quickstep C team.
Kirby reckons he's good but I suspect that's just an excuse to go on about a mullet.

 

[Filippo_3467]

Archbold is the 3rd to last leadout man at this point in his career. So tbh he barely matters and doesn't start even in all WT races Bennett attends. He will be also not a part of the Tour team even if Bennett is in Top form he max gets Mullen and van Poppel with Hindley, Buchmann, Jungels, Schachmann, Politt, Haller they have other very good riders looking at the tour. Plus the Job that Archbold does can be also done by Politt or Haller.

Mullen + van Poppel is elite and it makes you wonder if Meeus wouldn't get better results. because he missed his wins this season because he was terrible out of place for the sprint but looked the strongest to the line in a few.

If Bora isn't fully out of being a sprint team they could find a good replacement for bennett as well in the summer but for now he has a few months to proof himself. At the moment I don't think he's a top 5 sprinter overall and I think you could also argue that he isn't top 10 anymore depending on how you rate the emerging talent in Kooij, Welsford and De Lie. With Bennetts money it is possible that Bora could pick one of those up and resign van Poppel.

Let's see how tomorrow goes. maybe Bennett proves me wrong immediately.

 

[KZD]

Impressive sprint from Groenewegen. Seems to be one of the sprinters in better shape at the moment.

 

[Red Rick]

Thomas De Gendt over niveau in UAE Tour: "Ik verlies hier conditie"

Thomas De Gendt trok in etappe vijf van de UAE Tour door na een tussensprint. Plots zat hij helemaal alleen, maar de Belg reed gewoon door. Het resulteerde in een eenzaam gevecht tegen het peloton. “Het niveau valt hier tegen. Maar vandaag was een betere dag”, aldus De Gendt. In het zicht van de...

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Lmao De Gendt complaining the race is too easy and he's losing condition doing it.

 

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Thomas De Gendt over niveau in UAE Tour: "Ik verlies hier conditie"

Thomas De Gendt trok in etappe vijf van de UAE Tour door na een tussensprint. Plots zat hij helemaal alleen, maar de Belg reed gewoon door. Het resulteerde in een eenzaam gevecht tegen het peloton. “Het niveau valt hier tegen. Maar vandaag was een betere dag”, aldus De Gendt. In het zicht van de...

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Lmao De Gendt complaining the race is too easy and he's losing condition doing it.

He's not wrong.

 

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[RedheadDane]

Today's Mission Impossible taken on by:

1		17	WARBASSE Larry	4:27
2		25	PLANCKAERT Edward	27:22
3		77	ZOCCARATO Samuele

They have just under 4 minutes.

 

[Lequack]

De Gent will lose his form in the peloton.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I didn't know Larry Warbasse was still knocking about, would've thought todays stage was a bit too long and brutal for him, surprised he hasn't tried to get together 100 other willing participants to come in an hour OTL.

 

[Lequack]

48 kmh in the first hour of racing. Must be a really strong tailwind.

 

[hayneplane]

Thomas De Gendt over niveau in UAE Tour: "Ik verlies hier conditie"

Thomas De Gendt trok in etappe vijf van de UAE Tour door na een tussensprint. Plots zat hij helemaal alleen, maar de Belg reed gewoon door. Het resulteerde in een eenzaam gevecht tegen het peloton. “Het niveau valt hier tegen. Maar vandaag was een betere dag”, aldus De Gendt. In het zicht van de...

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Lmao De Gendt complaining the race is too easy and he's losing condition doing it.

He should get himself in the breakaway one day then and make the peloton suffer to keep him in range.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Merlier stayed back a long time and came with a lot of speed.

He should get himself in the breakaway one day then and make the peloton suffer to keep him in range.

That's what he did.

 

[Ricco']

Ewan with a terrible week everytime the sprint needs fighting for position.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Alright, Cav just needs to win tomorrow than to keep the win this race alive.

 

[Lequack]

What an awful three stages. If they want to do a Sunday ride that's fine with me, just don't sell it as racing and televise it. Real insult to the viewers.