Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2023 (February 1-5)

[Red Rick]

On the flip side for Jumbo, Oomen has failed to make this 40-rider peloton. A shame he's never properly recovered from his iliac artery surgery, may be time to pack it in at the end of the year for him given that he's out of contract.

He got 20th in the Giro. He should easily be good enough to get a contract somewhere. But Jumbo may want better even from their depth signings.

 

[pablohidalgo7]

On the flip side for Jumbo, Oomen has failed to make this 40-rider peloton. A shame he's never properly recovered from his iliac artery surgery, may be time to pack it in at the end of the year for him given that he's out of contract.

Oomen is there alongside Gloag and Koen Bouwman. In any case he will finish today between P8 and P16 with Zubeldia Ninja Style...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

He got 20th in the Giro. He should easily be good enough to get a contract somewhere. But Jumbo may want better even from their depth signings.

I think he's on decent money at Jumbo given that he was one of the better Dutch prospects even when he signed, so he'd have to take a lower salary, probably at a smaller team, while accepting that his career will be a lot more in the margin than was to be expected a few years ago. Yes, he can find a new team if he wants to, but it just isn't a combination that I see adding up to him continuing well into his thirties.

 

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On the flip side for Jumbo, Oomen has failed to make this 40-rider peloton. A shame he's never properly recovered from his iliac artery surgery, may be time to pack it in at the end of the year for him given that he's out of contract.

pretty sure he is there, together with Gloag and Bouwman

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Oomen is there alongside Gloag and Koen Bouwman. In any case he will finish today between P8 and P16 in like Zubeldia Ninja Style...

Must have been with the few riders that latched back on then given that he was reported as not being there by Jumbo.

 

[Red Rick]

I think he's on decent money at Jumbo given that he was one of the better Dutch prospects even when he signed, so he'd have to take a lower salary, probably at a smaller team, while accepting that his career will be a lot more in the margin than was to be expected a few years ago. Yes, he can find a new team if he wants to, but it just isn't a combination that I see adding up to him continuing well into his thirties.

I don't think Oomen was a great pickup cause he had had one good season which happened to be at Giant when everyone overperformed there.

But right now I like their recruiting, trying to get young talents and developing or trying to get more speculative signings like Milan Vader.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I don't think Oomen was a great pickup cause he had had one good season which happened to be at Giant when everyone overperformed there.

But right now I like their recruiting, trying to get young talents and developing or trying to get more speculative signings like Milan Vader.

I think a big difference with when they signed Oomen is that their development team is really churning out talents now. Even now, you have the likes of Staune-Mittet and Ryan who are remaining espoirs when they're probably ready for the jump to the pros, so the need to make second-rate signings isn't really there anymore because they have so much potential influx already.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The moment they don't have to deal with Pogacar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel or Roglic in a stage race, Ineos go back to their old selves. Every time.

 

[Potomac]

Did I just see the PCS van?

 

[RedheadDane]

Did I just see the PCS van?

They do park it along the routes of various races.

 

[BR2]

Holiday feeling very strong in this race.

 

[Salvarani]

Not a very hard climb by the looks of it... will it get any steeper?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not a very hard climb by the looks of it... will it get any steeper?

It's literally still flat here, from 2.8k to 0.3k (approximately) it's pretty steep.

 

[Salvarani]

Gloag looks good!

 

[Salvarani]

Strong attack by McNulty!

 

[RedheadDane]

McNulty attacks.

 

[Salvarani]

Gloag attacks!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Everything Jumbo touches turns into gold...

 

[ice&fire]

It's UAE vs Jumbo everywhere

 

[Salvarani]

Small group together now.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Best I've seen Ciccone and TGH look for ages. Tomorrow's stage will be the key one though.

 

[RedheadDane]

And off goes the glasses!

Ciccone wins.

 

[Salvarani]

Ciccone wins!

 

[Salvarani]

Landa not happy with TGH there.

Edit: Bilbao not very happy with him.

 

[Samamba]

Was that Torsten Traeen for UNO X?