46th Etoile de Bessèges (start of the season) SPOIL

specialgueststar
specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
edited February 2016 in Pro race
Here is my season opener and every time it comes around I breathe a sigh of relief! One of the many tributaries to Milan San Remo

startlist
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=164241&c=3 (one lone Brit) 20 year old Jacob Scott

stage 1
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    This is a junior race non?
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    This is a junior race non?

    Non.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    This is a junior race non?

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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Classic early season pile up in the last KM

    1. #direct Bryan COQUARD 03h25'38''
    2. #verandas Timothy Dupond st
    3. #wanty Antoine Demoitié st
    4. #roubaix Rudy Barbier st
    5. #lotto Tosh Van der Sande st
    6. #wallonie Baptiste Planckaert st
    7. #topsport Bert Van Lerberghe st
    8. #auber Antony Maldonado st
    9. #veranclassic Justin Jules st
    10.#fdj Arnaud Démare st
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Dimitri Claeys caught in the last 20 meters.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Forgot about old Chava at Deirect Energie He takes the stage 3

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    GC

    Chava
    Gallopin
    Vichot
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Good to see Chava taking a win again. I'm hoping he has a decent final season.
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    +1 to that.

    He is pretty awesome and deserves a decent send off.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    I've ignored this thread that I started as I was going to say Jerome Copel will win this - then I didn't - then he did

    I know it is not much - but you have to foster some sort of expert knowledge on these forums :)

    Coppel has been on my revolving my man list since way back but has never really punched above his weight - high GC Avenir/Dauphine - 13th /14th in the Tour 3rd last year in the tt worlds - 3rd twice as u-23 worlds - French champion a few times? A French tester who can climb - the media were salivating .....

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    So top 20 TdF GC anonymity beckons?
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    So top 20 TdF GC anonymity beckons?

    He's riding better at IAM ( ie non French team !!) and at 29 you never know - he's got plenty of scope and a seasoned Tour rider ( France and Spain most years) Just can't seem to tick over into the bigger league . His time trialling is still improving
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,628
    possibly because at a non-French team they've spent some time sorting a better TT position for him? For a lot of French teams doing anything vaguely 'scientific' is 'pas normal'.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    possibly because at a non-French team they've spent some time sorting a better TT position for him? For a lot of French teams doing anything vaguely 'scientific' is 'pas normal'.

    Bardet had to fund his own wind tunnel testing in England last year!!!
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,628
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    possibly because at a non-French team they've spent some time sorting a better TT position for him? For a lot of French teams doing anything vaguely 'scientific' is 'pas normal'.

    Bardet had to fund his own wind tunnel testing in England last year!!!

    c'est la vie, dans l'equipe Francaise.*

    (I know this is probably grammatically incorrect French).

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