S*** Small Races Thread - 2021

andyp

Big crash in Vuelta Burgos - Bernal, Martinez, Adam Yates and one other Ineos rider all down. Worse injured looks to be an unidentified Alpecin-Fenix rider.

ddraver

Was there a drop without a ramp..?

andyp

If the point of the race is to show off Burgos to tourists, it failed miserably. Last 15 km was a tour of the Burgos ring roads.

Alpecin-Fenix take the win, think it was Planckaert. Bardet dragged a small group away in the last, uphill kilometre.

blazing_saddles

Has nobody realised that the other 4th Grand Tour has started today, starring the mega team that put Ineos to the sword a couple of months ago?

The all singing and dancing Volta y Portugal, live here, for a glimpse of some good 'ol fashioned racing.

https://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtpinternacional

pinno

Erm, my Portuguese isn't up to much.

jimmythecuckoo

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

blazing_saddles

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

pinno

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

I hope you have a good reason.

salsiccia1

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

I hope you have a good reason.

I don't remember him asking. What a liberty

andyp

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

But you've prepared the stage spoiler threads content already, right?

pinno

salsiccia1 said:

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

I hope you have a good reason.

I don't remember him asking. What a liberty

Shocking abandonment of obligation.

What are we to expect from this arctic pedal?
Who will be there?*

*Too lazy to find out myself.

blazing_saddles

andyp said:

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

But you've prepared the stage spoiler threads content already, right?

Of course....














.....not.

I will endeavor to open proceedings and could possibly cover the last few stages, but there will be a large void in the middle.
Surely someone knows enough by now about how I plagiarize these threads.
Perhaps they would be kind enough to step into the breach?

jimmythecuckoo

pinno said:

salsiccia1 said:

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

I hope you have a good reason.

I don't remember him asking. What a liberty

Shocking abandonment of obligation.

What are we to expect from this arctic pedal?
Who will be there?*

*Too lazy to find out myself.

Kristoff

It will be exciting and cold and scenic.

andyp

Bardet takes a fine solo win in Burgos, dropped everyone over the big climb that topped out 15 kms from the line, then increased his gap, despite a little crash on the descent, to win by over 30 seconds.

m.r.m.

Rich won't believe it. Bardet wins a race! Up is down, down is up... 🤪

pinno

jimmythecuckoo said:

pinno said:

salsiccia1 said:

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

jimmythecuckoo said:

Arctic Race kicks off today.

Can't wait for that one ... possibly deserves its own thread?

Also Savoie/Mont Blanc but the highlights don't seem to be hitting GCN+ until 11th, well after the race is done. So can't really say much about that one !

On the subject of race threads, just letting folks know in advance that after the opening weekend, I won't be around for much of the Vuelta.

I hope you have a good reason.

I don't remember him asking. What a liberty

Shocking abandonment of obligation.

What are we to expect from this arctic pedal?
Who will be there?*

*Too lazy to find out myself.

Kristoff

It will be exciting and cold and scenic.

Some tall chap of local origin took a flyer off the front and spoilt Kristoff's party.

All I can say is 'brrrrrrrr'.

Well positioned crash barriers in a fetching shade of blue.

jimmythecuckoo

That descent was madness !!!

Nice slick surface from the rain shower. Loved it.

pinno

Is it me or is this Arctic tour thingy a bit boring?
The scenery is good.
I have started watching it so feel compelled to see it till the end. Something might happen.
I get a feeling some of the riders are trying desperately to get a renewed contract. Some of them would rather be somewhere else and most of them have been sent there unwillingly and there are teams intent on a last ditch, late season bid for some publicity.

And whilst I am in full whinge mode (it's soggy again and I baled out of a pedal), I thought the Olympic RR course was shyte.

#boredblokeindireneedofVuelta

gregster04

I’m sure the Tour of Poland was on GCN last year but can’t see it amongst the listings. Anyone know if it’s being broadcast anywhere?

pinno

Last stage of the Norway recruitment drive was actually quite good and an interesting post race interview with the winner of the stage.

blazing_saddles

gregster04 said:

I’m sure the Tour of Poland was on GCN last year but can’t see it amongst the listings. Anyone know if it’s being broadcast anywhere?

It was and has been on Eurosport for years.
This year there is no coverage in the UK. Weird.

Polish feed here with 150kms of the 1st stage to go.

https://tiz-cycling-live.io/live.php

salsiccia1

The 'Tour de Pologne with Czesław Lang' adverts have been conspicuous by their absence too

gregster04

blazing_saddles said:

gregster04 said:

I’m sure the Tour of Poland was on GCN last year but can’t see it amongst the listings. Anyone know if it’s being broadcast anywhere?

It was and has been on Eurosport for years.
This year there is no coverage in the UK. Weird.

Polish feed here with 150kms of the 1st stage to go.

https://tiz-cycling-live.io/live.php

Thanks, that’s great. Looks like I might pick up a bit of Polish this week!

hommelbier

Tour de Pologne also being shown on L'Equipe

blazing_saddles

hommelbier said:

Tour de Pologne also being shown on L'Equipe

They may have to re-jig their schedules though.
Something tells me they won't cover the remaining 86kms in 20 minutes!

hommelbier

blazing_saddles said:

hommelbier said:

Tour de Pologne also being shown on L'Equipe

They may have to re-jig their schedules though.
Something tells me they won't cover the remaining 86kms in 20 minutes!

Now with 38km to cover before next programme scheduled at 18.50 (CET) so should be time enough

hommelbier

25km left and Antoine Duchesne in the break - a chance for Jez Cox & Adam Blythe (Tour de L'Ain, stage 1) to pick up how to pronounce his name.

blazing_saddles

Nice finish there.
Looked like Hodeg had it, right up until Bauhaus nicked it on the line.

Pascal Ackermann was DNF.

blazing_saddles

60kms to go in Denmark. (GCN Eurosport- flat)
109 kms to go in Poland (link above - lumpy finish)
84kms to go in Portugal. (small MTF finish)

https://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtpinternacional

kingstongraham

Some nice shots of (flat) Danish scenery.

And Danish horses:

I think they have a KOM point coming up that is 5 metres above sea level.