Volta ao Algarve May 5-9 2021

[Wvv]

Crash Hayter. A rather nasty one, but he continues the race right away.

 

[Bonimenier]

Hayter crashed

 

[RedheadDane]

Owww... Hayter!

 

[SafeBet]

Asgreen could be back in the GC picture with Hayter's crash.

 

[Salvarani]

That shoulder gonna hurt in the morning tomorrow

 

[Wvv]

Asgreen wins and jumps to 3rd in the GC. Hayter saves his leader's jersey. Kudos.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hayter recovered very well from that crash!

And damn it was lucky those bollards seemed to be made of some rubbery material! Imagine if they had been steel... or concrete...

 

[tobydawq]

That 39 seconds he lost due to a crash on stage 1 will probably be the deciding factor in Asgreen not winning the race. What a shame. But okay, Hayter of course also crashed today.

 

[tobydawq]

Hayter recovered very well from that crash!

And damn it was lucky those bollards seemed to be made of some rubbery material! Imagine if they had been steel... or concrete...

Or light saber material!

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Or light saber material!

He would have been chopped up and they could have frozen him

 

[RedheadDane]

He would have been chopped up and they could have frozen him

It's not nice to chop up people!

Not to mention... kind of illegal. I think.

 

[tobydawq]

Okay, a Portuguese rider from a Portuguese continental team managing a top 2 between Asgreen and B Thomas in a semi-long ITT is probably going to be one of the most bonkers results of the season.

You almost never see even ProTeam riders being anywhere near the elite in ITT's and this is a level three rider. Wow.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hayter confirmed as the next G

Hopefully he won't be affected by it tomorrow. And now there's at least a chance that someone else might win the race.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Or it's bragging. "Look at me, I'm so good that even when I feel bad I can squish you with my left leg, you puny other cyclists."

Ganna did something like that today, too - after his Giro win.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Okay, a Portuguese rider from a Portuguese continental team managing a top 2 between Asgreen and B Thomas in a semi-long ITT is probably going to be one of the most bonkers results of the season.

You almost never see even ProTeam riders being anywhere near the elite in ITT's and this is a level three rider. Wow.

Reis was a good TTer in the junior and u23 ranks (6th in the ITT at the WC in 210 & 4th in 2014), but it's still a surprise.
Efapel ride Giant bikes, so them actually having good TT-bikes probably also helped him.

 

[Ripper]

Okay, a Portuguese rider from a Portuguese continental team managing a top 2 between Asgreen and B Thomas in a semi-long ITT is probably going to be one of the most bonkers results of the season.

You almost never see even ProTeam riders being anywhere near the elite in ITT's and this is a level three rider. Wow.

Yep, that sort of belongs in a different thread doesn't it

 

[Leinster]

I think Bennett, Morkov and Quickstep would all be utterly mad to part ways next season. Even if Morkov is getting on, and Bennett won’t be a spring chicken next year either, they show no signs of slowing down right now.

Well ***. Wtf do I know, anyway?

 

[RedheadDane]

And meanwhile, the sprinters have decided to get ahead of things before the mountain:

Situation

• 1
  
  

  1			GIBBONS Ryan
  2			NAESEN Oliver
  3			ACKERMANN Pascal
  4			SCHWARZMANN Michael
  5			BENNETT Sam
  6			MØRKØV Michael
  7			VAN POPPEL Danny
  8			SÁEZ Héctor
  9			FINETTO Mauro
  10			BOU Joan
  11			FERNANDES Luís
  12			PINTO Pedro

• P
  
  +3:35

 

[RedheadDane]

Dunno if B. Thomas was in the break the whole time. At any rate, he's in the front with Schwarzmann now. The rest of the break is still in between.

D. Van Poppel was definitely never in the break, though. He was OTL yesterday.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hayter is struggling now!

 

[Salvarani]

Henao gets the award for worst helper ever.

 

[RedheadDane]

Gesbert wins the stage.
Rodrigues wins the overall.

 

[johnymax]

I think I've never seen Malhao this long. Great climb. But the racing began before the last climb, that's what made it even harder.

 

[Salvarani]

Gesbert!

Proving to be a good pick in the CQ game.

Joao Rodriguez wins overall. Thats great.

I dont know what Henao was doing for most of that climb for Hayter...

 

[JRanton]

Henao gets the award for worst helper ever.

Terrible. What on earth was he doing...