S*** Small Races Thread - 2021

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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Bora also out of G-W

    No Bora as well. Ready to start but banned from racing by the race organization.

    https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210328_92660414

    Deemed the infection that took them out of E3 as too close a contact and needed quarantine.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Bora have been pulled out too (against their will)
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    Have Bora been pulled out, possibly against their wishes?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Nevertheless we have a very interesting race developing in the crosswinds.
    4 riders have 2 and a half minutes lead over another group of +20 riders, who have a minute on the peloton.
    Only Sam Bennett has made it for DQS, but WVA, Matthews, Trentin, Cobrelli, Kung, Nizzolo and Mezgec and several other names are there too.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    blazing_saddles said:

    Nevertheless we have a very interesting race developing in the crosswinds.
    4 riders have 2 and a half minutes lead over another group of +20 riders, who have a minute on the peloton.
    Only Sam Bennett has made it for DQS, but WVA, Matthews, Trentin, Cobrelli, Kung, Nizzolo and Mezgec and several other names are there too.

    Can't see it staying like that, DQS will want numbers and the others up front won't be keen on having Bennett along for the ride. Will make the tactics interesting later if it does though.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I notice Cholet Pays de Loire is on later too. I watched that live once without realising, I was staying with a family in our nearby twin town and they took me to see what I assumed would be a local bike race. I was slightly surprised to then see a load of team cars I knew coming through.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2021
    Pross said:

    I notice Cholet Pays de Loire is on later too. I watched that live once without realising, I was staying with a family in our nearby twin town and they took me to see what I assumed would be a local bike race. I was slightly surprised to then see a load of team cars I knew coming through.

    Yes and it'll come in handy next week, when there isn't much in the way of racing.
    Kind of ironic that it goes ahead, but Paris-Roubaix might not. #Covidlottery
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Nevertheless we have a very interesting race developing in the crosswinds.
    4 riders have 2 and a half minutes lead over another group of +20 riders, who have a minute on the peloton.
    Only Sam Bennett has made it for DQS, but WVA, Matthews, Trentin, Cobrelli, Kung, Nizzolo and Mezgec and several other names are there too.

    Can't see it staying like that, DQS will want numbers and the others up front won't be keen on having Bennett along for the ride. Will make the tactics interesting later if it does though.
    Gap between the group van Aert and peloton already 2 minutes.



    Plus, non-shock of the day:

    The peloton, meanwhile, has begun to fragment all over again. Sep Vanmarcke is reportedly among those caught out.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    blazing_saddles said:

    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Nevertheless we have a very interesting race developing in the crosswinds.
    4 riders have 2 and a half minutes lead over another group of +20 riders, who have a minute on the peloton.
    Only Sam Bennett has made it for DQS, but WVA, Matthews, Trentin, Cobrelli, Kung, Nizzolo and Mezgec and several other names are there too.

    Can't see it staying like that, DQS will want numbers and the others up front won't be keen on having Bennett along for the ride. Will make the tactics interesting later if it does though.
    Gap between the group van Aert and peloton already 2 minutes.



    Plus, non-shock of the day:

    The peloton, meanwhile, has begun to fragment all over again. Sep Vanmarcke is reportedly among those caught out.
    I guess that, on his own, Bennett will get worked over and be left to chase attacks.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2021
    Break:

    Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal), Danny van Poppel (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Nathan Van Hooydonck (Jumbo-Visma), Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Victorious), Jack Bauer (BikeExchange), Luka Mezgec (BikeExchange), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange), Robert Stannard (BikeExchange), Imanol Erviti (Movistar), Luis Mas (Movistar), Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar), Giacomo Nizzolo (Qhubeka-Assos), Sven Erik Bystrøm (UAE Team Emirates), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates), Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Michal Golas (Ineos), Timothy Dupont (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB), Jeremy Lecroq (B&B Hotels), Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels), Stefan Bissegger, Jonas Rutsch (EF Education-Nippo), Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana Premier Tech) and Laurenz Rex (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB)

    Peloton at 1:35

    Alpecin-Fenix and AG2R-Citroën are setting the pace in the peloton, having missed the crucial split. DQS getting a free ride behind.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Sep Vanmarcke has abandonned. He's been ill recently
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  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    No INEOS in the break?
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Michal Golas according to above.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Matt Stephens in the comms chair today.
    Still waiting on live pics
    140kms of Jose Been available too.
    Nice day in Cholet,
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Live with 96kms to go and the gap now 1-20”
    Adam Blyth co commentary
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    GVA and Naesen just allow Stybar and Ballerini to ride away
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661


    Rerouted
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Fantastic
    We get a restart for tv and miss the first Plugstreet
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    Yeah, wondered wtf was going on then.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    What is Demare trying to do here?
    Idiot.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    blazing_saddles said:

    What is Demare trying to do here?
    Idiot.

    Answer:
    He was trying to out-farce the French rugby team. Blew himself up.

    DQS caught out for once. Lampaert forced to chase solo and tow some deadwood with him.
    Group 3 struggling.
    However Sam Bennett looking good.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Every group is nackered now .
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The second and third groups merging really worked in favour of the (then) lead group. Before that I thought Group 2 might catch them but then that group became too big and most stopped working.

    Bennett looking very good, WVA the only person with a team mate up front though.

    Amador didn't look too good when he got dropped off Group 4, top fully unzipped when others are still wearing arm warmers.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Here we go, final Kemmelberg
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Nothing happened, Bennett went backwards a bit but held on. WVA loses his support.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Van Hooydonck back
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Bennett throwing up big time.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Bennett throwing up.
    Not good
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Ineos now trying to work in Group 2 but a lot of others not doing their bit. Still close enough that the front group can't mess around too much.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    You would think that group 2 would be making inroads as there are a few teams with two riders in there but actually losing time. Front group working surprisingly well, possibly as they are all decent sprinters.

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