S*** Small Races Thread - 2022

gsk82

thejimmymethod said:

Carapaz wins the stage and Higuita in to the the lead after a 130km raid together.

UAE a but rudderless sans Pog

Wunderkid Ayosa needs to learn to work for others.

blazing_saddles

Eddie Dunbar takes his first professional with the overall in Coppi e Bartali.
Worth remembering that last year's winner went on to be the only person in human history to drop Tadej Pogacar: one Jonas Vingegaard.

mrb123

blazing_saddles said:

Eddie Dunbar takes his first professional with the overall in Coppi e Bartali.
Worth remembering that last year's winner went on to be the only person in human history to drop Tadej Pogacar: one Jonas Vingegaard.

After last week, shouldn't that be "drop (on a climb)"?

RichN95.

At Coppi e Bartali today Omer Goldstein won a prize (probably combativity) and won a 12kg ham. I assume as an Israeli he's Jewish and probably has no use for ham.

Pross

RichN95. said:

At Coppi e Bartali today Omer Goldstein won a prize (probably combativity) and won a 12kg ham. I assume as an Israeli he's Jewish and probably has no use for ham.

There was a race that Cav won (I think) where the prize was a load of bananas. Can you imagine the publicity if a black rider had won that? I still find it odd that a professional sport is handing out prizes like this as if it is still the early 20th century.

Dorset_Boy

Pross said:

RichN95. said:

At Coppi e Bartali today Omer Goldstein won a prize (probably combativity) and won a 12kg ham. I assume as an Israeli he's Jewish and probably has no use for ham.

There was a race that Cav won (I think) where the prize was a load of bananas. Can you imagine the publicity if a black rider had won that? I still find it odd that a professional sport is handing out prizes like this as if it is still the early 20th century.

So what should those sponsors be giving pout as a prize? An Amazon voucher? An Asos voucher?
Hardly going to benefit their business is it?

takethehighroad

Daniel Oss won a fuel card on Friday for the combativity. As Dan Lloyd pointed out, this is worth a lot more nowadays

blazing_saddles

RichN95. said:

At Coppi e Bartali today Omer Goldstein won a prize (probably combativity) and won a 12kg ham. I assume as an Israeli he's Jewish and probably has no use for ham.

It easily trumps Ellen van Dijk's EasyToys gift set.
At least she has the option to use their "adult-themed hamper". ( although I doubt that UCI would approve her socks)

Pross

Dorset_Boy said:

Pross said:

RichN95. said:

At Coppi e Bartali today Omer Goldstein won a prize (probably combativity) and won a 12kg ham. I assume as an Israeli he's Jewish and probably has no use for ham.

There was a race that Cav won (I think) where the prize was a load of bananas. Can you imagine the publicity if a black rider had won that? I still find it odd that a professional sport is handing out prizes like this as if it is still the early 20th century.

So what should those sponsors be giving pout as a prize? An Amazon voucher? An Asos voucher?
Hardly going to benefit their business is it?

Cash (or nothing)?

bm5

Oh I love all those odd quirky prizes and strange podium ceremonies. The distinctly poor looking standard plants at either side of the Catalunya stage have been a highlight this week. Would the leaning one be on the left or the right?
Imagine W V A s lovely bathroom upgrade he won this week at E 3😊

gsk82

takethehighroad said:

Daniel Oss won a fuel card on Friday for the combativity. As Dan Lloyd pointed out, this is worth a lot more nowadays

That depends if it's for a quantity or value of fuel. If it's a value, it's worth a lot less fuel.

blazing_saddles

Here's what we get from GCN/Eurosport as aperitifs for Sunday and the big one.

31st Gran Premio Miguel Indurain (yes it's been going 31 years)



Top competitors

ALMEIDA João
MAS Enric
BILBAO Pello
VLASOV Aleksandr
HIGUITA Sergio
IZAGIRRE Ion
HIRSCHI Marc
BARGUIL Warren
PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien
LATOUR Pierre

Live coverage is from 2-30pm to 4-30pm. On both apps and tv.

Also a personal favourite of mine. There will be a lot more live coverage available besides the UK schedule.

47th Volta Limburg Classic



Top competitors

BONNAMOUR Franck
DUMOULIN Tom (how the mighty have fallen)
DE BONDT Dries
DE LIE Arnaud
EENKHOORN Pascal
KRON Andreas
OLDANI Stefano
FIORELLI Filippo
GILBERT Philippe (hard to believe)
PLANCKAERT Baptiste

Live coverage is also from 2-30pm on GCN/Eurosport player.

takethehighroad

gsk82 said:

takethehighroad said:

Daniel Oss won a fuel card on Friday for the combativity. As Dan Lloyd pointed out, this is worth a lot more nowadays

That depends if it's for a quantity or value of fuel. If it's a value, it's worth a lot less fuel.

Once again, facts get in the way of a nicely phrased joke

Isn't the Internet wonderful?

blazing_saddles

L1 Limburg have been live for the last 45 minutes and can be watched here:

http://livetvland.com/tv/limburg-l1

It is currently snowing heavily on the course.

blazing_saddles

Snow in Spain has meant that all the climbs have been removed from Big Mig’s bash.
Of course by the time they go racing, the snow has all disappeared.

takethehighroad

Wawa Barguil wins in Migs race

A tribute from the Whimsical Flaneur to the Cycling Podcast

drhaggis

blazing_saddles said:

Snow in Spain has meant that all the climbs have been removed from Big Mig’s bash.
Of course by the time they go racing, the snow has all disappeared.

Got family not far off the area, and they mentioned a surprising amount of snow there the last couple of days.

blazing_saddles

The 61st Itzulia Basque Country starts today with an ITT of 8kms.



I hope the weather plays ball as it looks to be a spectacular course.



Jumbo sending Roglic, Vingegaard and Kuss.
Quick Step have Alaphilippe and Evenepoel.
Ineos stick with the trio of Yates, Martinez and Rodriguez.
Gaudu, Bilbao, Majka, Ulissi, Latour etc etc

blazing_saddles

The course is stunning.
Ineos currently have 3 of the top 4 spots. Geraint Thomas leads from Yates, Izagirre and Ben Tullet.
Jumbo and QS’s big guns yet to appear.

shirley_basso

Thanks for the heads up. Watching Vingegaard on a death-defying run

neonriver

Remco 11 secs faster than anyone else so far only Rog would really touch that

andyp

Roglification.

neonriver

1st to 3rd 16sec difference, 3rd to 20th 14 sec difference

kingstongraham

That course packed a lot into ten minutes. Very nice.

pinno

bm5 said:

Oh I love all those odd quirky prizes and strange podium ceremonies. The distinctly poor looking standard plants at either side of the Catalunya stage have been a highlight this week. Would the leaning one be on the left or the right?
Imagine W V A s lovely bathroom upgrade he won this week at E 3😊

I don't know what they are complaining about really, I mean, for some CX races, you get a giant yellow duck.

bm5

Certainly an interesting course. Roglic was very chirpy after he crossed the line.

takethehighroad

Roglic is unbeaten in time trials in Spain, going back 5 years and 8 time trials

blazing_saddles

Here is today's course, with the hardest climb of the day coming as soon as the flag drops.

daniel_b

blazing_saddles said:

The 61st Itzulia Basque Country starts today with an ITT of 8kms.



I hope the weather plays ball as it looks to be a spectacular course.



Jumbo sending Roglic, Vingegaard and Kuss.
Quick Step have Alaphilippe and Evenepoel.
Ineos stick with the trio of Yates, Martinez and Rodriguez.
Gaudu, Bilbao, Majka, Ulissi, Latour etc etc

Missed this completely, thankyou - watched the long highlights this morning with a coffee, slightly oddly the stephens/roche commentary ceased not long after Remco left the ramp.

Pretty decent field, looks like it could be a pretty good stage race.

I think Roche might take a bit of time to warm up to his co-commentator role, if that is in fact what he is destined to do - previously he has been a studio pundit I think?
Blythe seemed to fall into the role very naturally I thought, but hopefully Roche will get better as time goes on.
*He's already better than ck

kingstongraham

Good racing today. Caja Rural absolutely mental tactics trying to chase down their own rider who was over a minute ahead with 8km to go.