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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    JimD666 said:

    PCS has Evenepoel crashing early in San Sebastian.

    In the neutral zone apparently
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    Got to give the rest a bit of hope.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Girmay crashed and abandoned, he's OK but taking a trip to hospital to get some xrays
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Tiz has the international stream of Poland with Declan Quigley commentating
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Live coverage has just begun, missing Remco’s attack on the first cat climb.
    He’s bridged to the breakaway, which is on the descent.

    Movistar chasing.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited July 2023
    Bad crash for Simon Guglielmi of Arkea.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601
    Looks like Evenepoel is going to do pretty much what he likes with no one trying to challenge again.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited July 2023
    Ayuso and Rodriguez both struggling at the rear of the chasing peloton

    Gall has attacked out of the group and has already passed Bardet.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    gsk82 said:

    Looks like Evenepoel is going to do pretty much what he likes with no one trying to challenge again.

    He’s going to have to drop Bilbao somewhere although Bilbao looked less comfortable on the steep sections of the penultimate climb.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    The guy is tearing up the parcours
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Evenepoel can’t shift Pello Bilbao.
    Vlasov gone.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Bilbao doing enough to show Remco he’s still there without overdoing it.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Not sure why Bilbao keeps taking turns especially as Remco winds it up as he goes back through.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    The Belgian brat beats Bilbao.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Why the hell did Bilbao go back on the front inside the final km? There was no pressure from behind. I wouldn’t have put my nose in front after the final climb.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,340
    Don't know why Bilbao took the lead in the last km.
    Probably wouldn't have mattered but still....
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Pross said:

    Not sure why Bilbao keeps taking turns especially as Remco winds it up as he goes back through.

    Me neither.
    Even took the front in the last km.
    Should have sat on him, saved a bit and jumped him.

    Powless pinches 4th.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    Pross said:

    Why the hell did Bilbao go back on the front inside the final km? There was no pressure from behind. I wouldn’t have put my nose in front after the final climb.

    Baffling. Make him work for it at least.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I was hoping for Bilbao .....
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    At least someone stayed with him this time. He's a monster at this kind of race.

    The rest of the world needs to actually remember how good he is at the wc
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    I haven't seen Poland, but judging from the results and what I have read elsewhere, it was crash filled finale. The only GC rider not to lose time..........and he's not really a GC rider anymore was Michal Kwiatkowski.
    GC currently has Alemida, Higuita and Majka losing 2'-44". Sivakov, Kamna, Arensman, Foss, Dunbar, Thomas and Caruso all losing 1'-59"....
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    blazing_saddles said:

    I haven't seen Poland, but judging from the results and what I have read elsewhere, it was crash filled finale. The only GC rider not to lose time..........and he's not really a GC rider anymore was Michal Kwiatkowski.
    GC currently has Alemida, Higuita and Majka losing 2'-44". Sivakov, Kamna, Arensman, Foss, Dunbar, Thomas and Caruso all losing 1'-59"....

    Must have turned their backs, doing the Poznań›Poznań
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    All riders now given ST.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Tour de l'Ain starts today. The startlist is a shadow of what it once was and medium mountains have replaced the bigger bumps.
    Still, better than nothing in the run up to the worlds.







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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,232
    Watched the back end of Circuito de Getxo, happened to find it, Lutsenko on a solo break on the final lap rides off course ignoring the marshals' flags. Numptie. Did he survive? No spoilers 😉
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    Jake Stewart takes his second career win (and second win at the Tour de l'Ain) with a comfortable sprint win in the opening stage of the 2023 Tour de l'Ain. He won the opening stage last year too.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,123
    andyp said:

    Jake Stewart takes his second career win (and second win at the Tour de l'Ain) with a comfortable sprint win in the opening stage of the 2023 Tour de l'Ain. He won the opening stage last year too.

    I read Jackie Stewart for a second, he did live on the other side of the Jura at one time but I doubt he'd be up to even driving around these days.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited August 2023
    Storer to blame finishline crash tour de l'Ain
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Bizarre 2 up sprint
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Michael Storer managed to crash in a two man sprint against Jefferson Cepeda today.
    Hugh Carthy also crashed on the final descent, as did Alexis Vuillermoz.

    Cepeda takes over the lead of the GC.
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