S*** Small Races Thread - 2022

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  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 897
    It's a shame for Oldani, but, he'll be back.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Must be nice for the peloton to be back to a race where it's "let one each of Burgos, Euskaltel and Eolo riders have ten minutes before starting to work".
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    kingstongraham said:

    Must be nice for the peloton to be back to a race where it's "let one each of Burgos, Euskaltel and Eolo riders have ten minutes before starting to work".

    And then they roll around for a while in hot weather before Valverde wins. Probably.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Buitrago rides away from everyone on the finishing climb in Vuelta a Burgos and wins easily.

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,645
    kingstongraham said:

    Buitrago rides away from everyone on the finishing climb in Vuelta a Burgos and wins easily.

    Tao third, think that's his first podium since the Dauphiné last year. Hope he's finding his mojo again
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    edited August 2022
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Buitrago rides away from everyone on the finishing climb in Vuelta a Burgos and wins easily.

    Tao third, think that's his first podium since the Dauphiné last year. Hope he's finding his mojo again
    Hope so - two second places and now a third place in stages of any sort since winning the Giro isn't what he was probably looking to kick onto...

    That said, I wouldn't be surprised if he is working for Sivakov here.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    Haven’t seen it but it seems as if there was at least one crash again in Poland.
    Race leader Sergio Higuita last man home on 0”, so I am guessing he must have been down.
    Don’t know what happened to Ethan Hayter but he rolled home 2’-15” behind.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    blazing_saddles said:

    Haven’t seen it but it seems as if there was at least one crash again in Poland.
    Race leader Sergio Higuita last man home on 0”, so I am guessing he must have been down.
    Don’t know what happened to Ethan Hayter but he rolled home 2’-15” behind.

    Which seems odd as PCS is reporting he was in the same crash as Higuita
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,645
    JimD666 said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Haven’t seen it but it seems as if there was at least one crash again in Poland.
    Race leader Sergio Higuita last man home on 0”, so I am guessing he must have been down.
    Don’t know what happened to Ethan Hayter but he rolled home 2’-15” behind.

    Which seems odd as PCS is reporting he was in the same crash as Higuita
    PCS have him at 0" for the stage and still top 10gc
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    JimD666 said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Haven’t seen it but it seems as if there was at least one crash again in Poland.
    Race leader Sergio Higuita last man home on 0”, so I am guessing he must have been down.
    Don’t know what happened to Ethan Hayter but he rolled home 2’-15” behind.

    Which seems odd as PCS is reporting he was in the same crash as Higuita
    PCS have him at 0" for the stage and still top 10gc
    Yes, it's now been updated.

    He was one of the ten in the same crash as Higuita.
    Just checked the race ticker.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    Just been having a quick look at upcoming races on PCS, the Commonwealth Games ITT is tomorrow and has a class of "JR". Can anyone enlighten me on what the "JR" class is?
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 897
    JimD666 said:

    Just been having a quick look at upcoming races on PCS, the Commonwealth Games ITT is tomorrow and has a class of "JR". Can anyone enlighten me on what the "JR" class is?

    Jeux Regional. Kind of like Jeux sans frontieres without the Belgians (& others).
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    wakemalcolm said:

    JimD666 said:

    Just been having a quick look at upcoming races on PCS, the Commonwealth Games ITT is tomorrow and has a class of "JR". Can anyone enlighten me on what the "JR" class is?

    Jeux Regional. Kind of like Jeux sans frontieres without the Belgians (& others).
    Ta
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,852
    Cavendish doesn't seem to have won recently. Is he finished?
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,050
    TheBigBean said:

    Cavendish doesn't seem to have won recently. Is he finished?

    QS staff had a covid party in Poland to stop Cav winning a stage. ;)
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    kingstongraham said:

    Must be nice for the peloton to be back to a race where it's "let one each of Burgos, Euskaltel and Eolo riders have ten minutes before starting to work".

    Same three riders today.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    edited August 2022
    Jumbo take a clean sweep of the Burgos podium having caused an absolutely horrendous crash.
    Man three, Dekker went down on a speed bump. Ballarini went ploughing into him and riders went down like skittles.

    Looks like there are a number of serious injuries.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,541
    Really nasty crash in the final kilometre of the Vuelta a Burgos, where a Lotto-Visma rider, who was in third wheel, lost control when he hit a speed bump and took down the front of the peloton.

    I hope the injuries aren't as bad as they look.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Bug crash inside the final km at Burgos.

    Third man in jumbo visma lead out train goes down on a speed bump, takes out literally everyone except the two jv riders in front and the one immediately behind.

    123 for jv, and the winner raises his arms in glory.....
  • roscoe
    roscoe Posts: 525
    Win at all costs?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Bikes and railings everywhere
  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    Seeing on twitter there was another big crash in Poland too. Rough day
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    thejimmymethod said:

    Seeing on twitter there was another big crash in Poland too. Rough day

    Looking at those coming home down the field with 0" and it was clearly another sprint train collision. Cav, Kooilj, Meeus, Bennett, Akermann, Teunissen etc.
    Burgos have still only confirmed the top 10, despite the race being over more than one hour ago.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,050
    edited August 2022
    I thought I read on here QS got pulled before today's Poland stage because five staff tested positive?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    edited August 2022
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    I thought I read on here QS got pulled before today's Poland stage because five staff tested positive?


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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    I thought I read on here QS got pulled before today's Poland stage because five staff tested positive?

    You're not the only one. Remembered reading Deceuninck and assumed QS. Keep forgetting they changed sponsor.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    Why would you have a run in that includes a speed bump in the last 1km of what was presumably a sprint stage? Don't they have to risk assess these races?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    edited August 2022
    Pross said:

    Why would you have a run in that includes a speed bump in the last 1km of what was presumably a sprint stage? Don't they have to risk assess these races?


    What can you do? The race owner's daughter (and company Vice president) is on the UCI management committee and the Professional Cycling Council. She also served Lappartient at the European Cycling Union.

    Edit: Wrong race - this is about the Tour of Poland
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Now I've seen it again, they put two guys with little flags to warn the riders there was a speed bump on a downhill section 500m before the finish of a sprint stage, so all necessary precautions taken. 👍

    If you want to see, here's the footage.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    kingstongraham said:

    Now I've seen it again, they put two guys with little flags to warn the riders there was a speed bump on a downhill section 500m before the finish of a sprint stage, so all necessary precautions taken. 👍

    If you want to see, here's the footage.

    According to Brian Smith on Eurosport who read out the regulations for UCI race finish’s there should be no speed bumps in the last Kilometre.

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