S*** Small Races Thread - 2022

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Well done cofidis ... Didn't balls that up
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Max Walscheid from Dries de Bondt then Adrien Petit
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    blazing_saddles said:

    davidof said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Any reason most of the big name sprinters are missing?

    Cav' has scared them off
    He's just become the first British winner of the race.
    Quite a hard, slightly uphill sprint.
    Bouhanni left fighting his handlebars again.
    A nice little win for Cav' really. Will he do better this year I wonder?

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Tomorrow's offering could also be known as the second, one day of the 3 Days of De Panne, as it starts just outside Ostend, heads inland, before returning to the coast, next door to De Panne. It bares a strong resemblance to an old style Gent-Wevelgem.

    The Bredene Koksijde Classic is 201 kms of mostly flat Flanders.



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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2022
    No Pogacar or Roglic, so a chance for lesser mortals to take a WT stage race spoils.
    Starting today we have the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya. A bit more sprinty looking than usual and another trip up La Molina.

    Anyhow, today's route.



    Top Trumps

    VALVERDE Alejandro
    COLBRELLI Sonny
    ALMEIDA João
    CARAPAZ Richard
    WOODS Michael
    YATES Simon
    QUINTANA Nairo
    MATTHEWS Michael
    MARTIN Guillaume
    PORTE Richie

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Echelons!
    Jumbo must be hammering it with Dennis. Yates, Woods and Sivakov the only obvious GC guys besides in group 1.
    Group 2 must have everyone else but are 30” behind.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    Tough first day all round. Finish looks like it will be as expected.
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,978
    Well, Colbrelli obviously doesn't believe in not drifting across the the entire width of the road in that sprint.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Bling from Colbrelli, with Pacher in third.
    Hard drag uphill. I reckon there'll be a couple of GC men shipping some seconds.
    Carapaz on the deck on another descent, too.
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  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Colbrelli looks to have had cardiac incident after finish line, received "cardiac massage" on finish line.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2022
    50x11 said:

    Colbrelli looks to have had cardiac incident after finish line, received "cardiac massage" on finish line.

    Indeed.
    Eurosport bailed on coverage so quickly, I had no idea. The news filtering through at the moment is mostly not in English, but it seems to be fairly serious. He's been taken to hospital. Fortunately it was a place where medics are always present.





    Now CN have it:

    https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rider-in-emergency-condition-after-volta-a-catalunya-opening-sprint/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=cyclingnews&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR21agWlbLqHgKx0jMs11fpWLVSH7mzD0dl_Tb3-Y2Q2k6_IU96zGN-4T94
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    The fact he seems to be conscious is at least one bit of good news. Fingers crossed that his prognosis is good.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2022
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    50x11 said:

    Colbrelli looks to have had cardiac incident after finish line, received "cardiac massage" on finish line.

    Holy moly. If he wasn't fully recovered, that was a hell of an effort to put out up the finishing straight.
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,978
    dabber said:

    Well, Colbrelli obviously doesn't believe in not drifting across the the entire width of the road in that sprint.

    I hasten to add that I never knew he been taken ill when I posted this. I hope all will be OK.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    dabber said:

    dabber said:

    Well, Colbrelli obviously doesn't believe in not drifting across the the entire width of the road in that sprint.

    I hasten to add that I never knew he been taken ill when I posted this. I hope all will be OK.
    My thought was that it didn't age well.

    Hopefully Colbrelli will be OK and recover fully.
    Am I right in thinking he'd missed a couple of races in the last week due to illness?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    Dorset_Boy said:

    dabber said:

    dabber said:

    Well, Colbrelli obviously doesn't believe in not drifting across the the entire width of the road in that sprint.

    I hasten to add that I never knew he been taken ill when I posted this. I hope all will be OK.
    My thought was that it didn't age well.

    Hopefully Colbrelli will be OK and recover fully.
    Am I right in thinking he'd missed a couple of races in the last week due to illness?
    yes - bronchitis.
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    dabber said:

    dabber said:

    Well, Colbrelli obviously doesn't believe in not drifting across the the entire width of the road in that sprint.

    I hasten to add that I never knew he been taken ill when I posted this. I hope all will be OK.
    Could be linked I guess
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Hmm, sounds more like an Erikson, Muamba type thing to me. Lets hope not...
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    Ooh, nasty. Just watched the ES coverage on catch up and indeed closed out quickly so didn't know about Colbrelli until doing a retro on the spoilers. Best wishes to the man.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    BBC can't help itself with innuendo ...
    "Colbrelli won last year's Paris-Roubaix monument classic - his biggest career win to date, reflecting a vast improvement in form"
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    It seems the anti-doping loons are being forced out by the anti-vaxxer loons in social media conspiracy circles.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Coppi e Bartali tomorrow and a couple of Brits are making their season debut. James Knox and YouTuber Chris Froome
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited March 2022
    RichN95. said:

    Coppi e Bartali tomorrow and a couple of Brits are making their season debut. James Knox and YouTuber Chris Froome

    For the first time in years today isn't a split stage and no TTT.

    Stage 1:



    A few more names of note taking part besides the two you mention.

    Top competitors

    VAN DER POEL Mathieu
    ULISSI Diego
    HAYTER Ethan
    THOMAS Geraint
    CATTANEO Mattia
    HIRSCHI Marc
    HERMANS Ben
    FOSS Tobias
    BETTIOL Alberto
    NIBALI Vincenzo

    Highlights only I am afraid, so it will be found at the likes of Tiz etc.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    While in Catalunya, the stage crosses the French border for a finish in Perpignan.

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    Haig and (obviously) Colbrelli not starting today for Bahrain.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    blazing_saddles said:

    While in Catalunya, the stage

    And they go through a town called Argeles sur Mer where we used to go to on family holidays when I was a kid. I'm going back there in June.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    While in Catalunya, the stage

    And they go through a town called Argeles sur Mer where we used to go to on family holidays when I was a kid. I'm going back there in June.
    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    While in Catalunya, the stage

    And they go through a town called Argeles sur Mer where we used to go to on family holidays when I was a kid. I'm going back there in June.
    I spent a summer working just inland from there at Palau del Vidre, working at the restaurant L'Anciene Ecole. It's still running I think. Lovely part of the world.

    Le Perthus on the Spanish border used to be a duty free town and we used to go there to buy cheap Spannish gin to fuel the G&Ts we had in our water bottles in the kitchen!

    There was a nice cafe in Elne too and Colliore is really pretty.

    Palau had a pretty good rugby league team too, and got to the regional cup final that year. The whole village went along, and it was a real grudge match, with a couple of sendings off.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Crashes have marred the race, despite there being no real pressure.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    edited March 2022


    not ideal - that's Jensen passing his bike back up to the road

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