Major event Etoile de Besseges * spoilers*
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Blazing Saddles wrote:For SGS and anyone who doesn't mind listening to French, L'Equipe have live coverage of the final three of four stages of Etoile de Bessèges, starting Friday afternoon.
Times here:
https://www.programme.tv/chaine/1401-lequipe/2.php
Live feed here:
https://www.firstonetv.live/Live/France ... 89quipe-27
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a gite you could book into for next year
Start list
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/etoile-de-besseges/2019/stage-1/startlist
Geniez,Mollema, Rolland Dombrowski Stuyven Vanmarke
Things going to get crazy
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Well that's Friday afternoon sorted....0
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for a bit of light entertainment heres the first one from 1971 - all wooly jumpers, untidy cabling and 56 tooth chainrings :shock: The good old days of Pot Belge before things got 'all scientific'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=WYO3aR-9pHc0 -
Unfortunately, the race has lost a bit of it's prestige over the past few years, as races in warmer climates became the norm.
A stage lost this year, due funding cuts, too.
On a side note, Provence is also being shown, next week, by L'Equipe.
They have gone to town, with three and a half hours of live coverage following a pre stage programme."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
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Blazing Saddles wrote:
On a side note, Provence is also being shown, next week, by L'Equipe.
They have gone to town, with three and a half hours of live coverage following a pre stage programme.
That will beat the Petanque World Tour they normally have on all day.BASI Nordic Ski Instructor
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That site isn't working for me, today, for the first time in a couple of years.
Anyhow, just 40kms to go, here.
https://www.tntendirect.com/L%27Equipe-21-en-direct"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Riding like it's 2kms to the finish, not fifteen."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Huge chute mid-pack.
Devolder comes off worst."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Laporte wins as Direct Energie make a complete horlicks of things."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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It's nice that these pre-season friendlies allow the French to win something. It's a bit like those pre-season football tournaments in SE Asia where Spurs can get some silverware.0
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Blazing Saddles wrote:Laporte wins as Direct Energie make a complete horlicks of things.
45 kmh 28.5 mph average0 -
RichN95 wrote:
It's a local race for local people. There's nothing for you here.Pross wrote:It's nice that these pre-season friendlies allow the French to win something. It's a bit like those pre-season football tournaments in SE Asia where Spurs can get some silverware.
It's fair to say that the parcour are a bit underwhelming.
Kind of like an inferior ENECO tour.
3 sprint stages, hardly a climb worth mentioning and an eleven km ITT to round things off.
So, while it may have some appeal to the classics riders, it's basically become a race for French sprinters.
Unfortunately, Bouhanni has joined the GT and GC men in the warmer climes of Valencia, while Demare has opted to start his season in the Algarve.
It's become a shadow of it's former self."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
I know it's a minnow. But a start!0
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SpecialGuestStar wrote:I know it's a minnow. But a start!
Won't stop me watching, for sure.
Live coverage put back 30 minutes I see.
Might mean that both races won't finish at the same time today.
Then there's Scotland v Ireland starting..................."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Powerful sprint by Marc Sarreau to win ahead of race leader Christophe Lapporte.
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Laporte takes a 5sec advantage ahead of Bryan Coquard into tomorrow's final stage (TT)
Despite their status these races are those in which teams like Direct Energie, Vital-Concept, etc. need to impress if they want gain a spot in this year's Tdf.0 -
Christophe Laporte (COF) puts in an excellent ride to win the TT and win the overall.0
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Final GC
1 Christophe Laporte (COF)
2 Tobias Ludvigson (GFC) @ 16s
3 Jimmy Janssens (COC) @ 29s
4 Bauke Mollema (TFS) @ 29s
5 Sep Vanmarcke (EF1) @ 34s0 -
Good ride! Laporte moving from Bouhanni's leadout to a coming of age sprinter/rouleur?
His 4th last year In Gent Welegem and nearly top 10 in Milan St Remo looked very promising - then 4 combative stages in the Tour including that second to Demarre that the judges had a good look at...
Jimmy Janssens did well . Conti rider until this year and now in a PCT with Van der Poel and Stijn Devolder0 -
L'année prochaine c'est les 50 ans de l"épreuve.
Je me reve à voir une arrivée sur Bessèges du tour de France avec les 3 tours de circuit de l'etoile pour 2020.
J'espère que Christian Prudhomme pourra faire un clin d'oeil à Roland Fangille et le féliciter pour cette magnifique longévité. C'est grace à des gens comme lui que le cyclisme peut encore etre présent sur nos terres gardoises.
Des plus grands comme le midilibre ne sont plus là. Merci encore et j'espere qu'on va réaliser nos reves...0 -
Rassurez-nous, on se retrouve l'année prochaine pour la 50e édition ?
Ce n'est pas vrai aujourd'hui. Les premiers rendez-vous avec les partenaires pour l'année prochaine sont fixés le 15 février. Quand on aura payé ce qu'on doit et si nos comptes sont bons, on annoncera quelque chose. (Interview in ObjectifGard on 7 Feb)
It would be nice to see an acknowledgement from ASO - seems as if the crunch meeting for next year takes place tomorrow.0 -
Been a reasonable start to the year for Cofidis with Herrada and Laporte.
Fingers crossed it carries on.0
