Volta ao Algarve 2024 - 2.Pro (February 14-18)

[samhocking]

Just watched yesterdays stage

Great to see Martínez free of the INEOS chains....he always was a quality cyclist
Hopefully he stay injury free for rest of the season

Interesting to watch Grumpy and Dopey in the same team..against Bora, JV and UAE cant see them winingn a GT

Traknik is looking good but so is Kuss the man 'awarded ' a GT by the experts on here ....he looks very good to me and the season is long

Free of what chains? He won this race last year at Ineos?

 

[Rob5091]

So it's Remco v Ganna in the TT. If Remco can impress, then Vingegaard will be full mutant at the Tour.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

'Work work work sets you free. If this is freedom, give me chains I can see.'

The Wall 1980

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Top 10 starts with 2 minutes in between. I don't think anybody will be overtaken.

161	94	15:02:00	Landa Mikel	Soudal - Quick Step
162	61	15:04:00	Arensman Thymen	INEOS Grenadiers
163	111	15:06:00	van Aert Wout	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
164	82	15:08:00	Geoghegan Hart Tao	Lidl - Trek
165	64	15:10:00	Pidcock Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers
166	115	15:12:00	Tratnik Jan	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
167	4	15:14:00	Higuita Sergio	BORA - hansgrohe
168	112	15:16:00	Kuss Sepp	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
169	92	15:18:00	Evenepoel Remco	Soudal - Quick Step
170	1	15:20:00	Martínez Daniel Felipe	BORA - hansgrohe

 

[Berniece]

Top 10 starts with 2 minutes in between. I don't think anybody will be overtaken.

161	94	15:02:00	Landa Mikel	Soudal - Quick Step
162	61	15:04:00	Arensman Thymen	INEOS Grenadiers
163	111	15:06:00	van Aert Wout	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
164	82	15:08:00	Geoghegan Hart Tao	Lidl - Trek
165	64	15:10:00	Pidcock Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers
166	115	15:12:00	Tratnik Jan	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
167	4	15:14:00	Higuita Sergio	BORA - hansgrohe
168	112	15:16:00	Kuss Sepp	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
169	92	15:18:00	Evenepoel Remco	Soudal - Quick Step
170	1	15:20:00	Martínez Daniel Felipe	BORA - hansgrohe

On a good day Arensman could take Landa

 

[search]

different course, but last year Arensman only lost half a minute despite riding in worse conditions. So he could be someone interesting to watch in general.

 

[DNP-Old]

Bissegger slower than Kluckers and Trentin.

 

[tobydawq]

Tudor pulling strings as official timekeeper?

 

[DNP-Old]

Did Vermote jump in a car between T1 and T2?

 

[DNP-Old]

Del Toro fastest at T1.

 

[tobydawq]

Lol, del Toro

 

[DNP-Old]

Appears to be a very weird time trial, gaps are swinging all over the place. Managing ones effort very much the key.

 

[DNP-Old]

Ganna 12s faster.

 

[tobydawq]

Ganna restores a semblance of normality.

 

[DNP-Old]

Del Toro #1 at T2, gained 7s on Kluckers.

 

[johnymax]

Remco should easily win this. If not, well...

 

[Salvarani]

What a finish by Del Toro

 

[DNP-Old]

Pippo only -8, lost 4 seconds.

 

[tobydawq]

Did Vermote jump in a car between T1 and T2?

It seems like it then waited for Del Toro to take him to the finish! What a rider.

 

[ingsve]

Del Toro is a strange rider. Did he take it easy on stage 2 after he got dropped just so that he could get a potential top 10 in the ITT or something. Seems to be a mood rider of the highest proportion or something. Unless he actually got a puncture or something on the climb after he was dropped.

 

[tobydawq]

Ganna too late.

 

[Salvarani]

Del Toro is a strange rider. Did he take it easy on stage 2 after he got dropped just so that he could get a potential top 10 in the ITT or something. Seems to be a mood rider of the highest proportion or something. Unless he actually got a puncture or something on the climb after he was dropped.

Just no to this.

 

[tobydawq]

Hirschi is doing a Froome by forgetting to remove the cotton wool from his nostrils.

 

[Landeirovic]

Del Toro is a strange rider. Did he take it easy on stage 2 after he got dropped just so that he could get a potential top 10 in the ITT or something. Seems to be a mood rider of the highest proportion or something. Unless he actually got a puncture or something on the climb after he was dropped.

or maybe we should just accept that a young 20 year old rider will alternate very good days with bad days in his 1st professional year??

 

[Tim Cahill]

Cycling is hilarious at times