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

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Gaviria was relegated to last for pushing Bauhaus out of the way.

Video: https://streamable.com/ct2xfv

 

[Lequack]

3 days of boring stages is taking its toll even on the best

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Mmkay.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Tim Merlier for winning the stage.

Am rather surprised on how sprint stages turned out. Was expecting different names taking more wins. Now i guess on to the finale. Yates already said he has nothing to lose. Kuss i guess should come alive when steep will hit. Lets see if the bunch will get reduced tomorrow. And if Remco will put himself under some difficulty or if others will try that.

 

[Faserr]

Today we have a group which is fast at the flat.
Ballerstedt, Hessmann, Welsford, Konovalovoas, Hänninen

 

[Lequack]

 

[Faserr]

50 km/h 1h 45min

 

[Netserk]

The peloton has roughly 20 km to the start of the climb.

 

[Netserk]

The break have reached the foot of Jabel Hafeet and have nearly 3 minutes on the peloton.

 

[Red Rick]

The break have reached the foot of Jabel Hafeet and have nearly 3 minutes on the peloton.

Looks like a headwind out there, and they lost over a minute quite quickly before the climb, so they're not gonna make it.

 

[Netserk]

Hessmann has already reduced the break to him and Konovalonas.

 

[BR2]

3 days of boring stages is taking its toll even on the best

Boy! There are some things I really don't need to know.

 

[Salvarani]

Leknessund back of the group already.

 

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Hessmann has already reduced the break to him and Konovalonas.

any idea what's the issue with Hänninen? He won a medal at the U23 worlds, but basically nothing since. You'd expect him to be able to hang on with those non-climbers, at least.

 

[Red Rick]

Looks like a headwind out there, and they lost over a minute quite quickly before the climb, so they're not gonna make it.

Gap is actually going down much slower than I thought.

 

[Netserk]

Bjerg has hit the front. It's Soler on his wheel, then McNulty and Yates.

 

[Netserk]

any idea what's the issue with Hänninen? He won a medal at the U23 worlds, but basically nothing since. You'd expect him to be able to hang on with those non-climbers, at least.

No. I haven't been particularly attentive to his career so far, but I too expected more from him.

 

[Netserk]

We didn't see Soler pulling, Yates only has McNulty now.

I'm not surprised, they should have used Soler before Bjerg.

 

[DNP-Old]

Soler pulled for about 10 seconds and called it a day.

 

[Salvarani]

Tarling still there. Impressive.

 

[Salvarani]

McNulty upped the pace.

 

[Netserk]

Is it steep enough, Sepp?

 

[Salvarani]

Yates!

 

[Netserk]

Yates goes. Not a very explosive attack, but a sustained effort. Remco and Sepp can keep up.

 

[Salvarani]

Kuss will win the stage probably.