We're they not sprinting for Wippert? Bizarre result!

Haha cheers to that

Wow, low countries power! I like dutch riders for many years, so i am looking forward to some success in the future, great result at L'Avenir.

Tour de l'Avenir, Stage 3

1	Lukas Pöstlberger	AUT	Austria	3h23'51"
2	Vegard Breen	NOR	Norway
3	Bob Jungels	LUX	Luxembourg
4	Danny van Poppel	NED	Netherlands	29"
5	Angelo Tulik	FRA	France	29"
6	Jan Polanc	SLO	Slovenia	29"
7	Alexey Lutsenko	KAZ	Kazakhstan	29"
8	Asbjørn Kragh Andersen	DEN	Denmark	29"
9	Tim Mikelj	SLO	Slovenia	29"
10	Haavard Blikra	NOR	Norway	29"

Silvan Dillier keeps the leader's jersey. Jungels slipped in the breakaway.

Tour de l'Avenir, Stage 4

1	Warren Barguil	FRA	France	4h11'52"
2	Gennadiy Tatarinov	RUS	Russia	02"
3	Juan Ernesto Chamorro	COL	Colombia	02"
4	Daan Olivier	NED	Netherlands	02"
5	Sergey Chernetskiy	RUS	Russia	02"
6	Mattia Cattaneo	ITA	Italy	02"
7	Jay McCarthy	AUS	Australia	21"
8	Sergei Pomoshnikov	RUS	Russia	21"
9	Pierra Paolo Penasa	ITA	Italy	24"
10	Antoine Lavieu	FRA	France	24"

First mountain stage. Barguil also takes the leader's jersey.

That was Avenir's profile today. Much tougher to come tomorrow:

Will have to keep an eye on Barguil. He already has a contract with Argos next year and as a stagiare this year. He also won the final stage of l'Avenir last year ahead of Cattaneo.

Here's the current GC top 10. Still very close.

Wow, Boonen beats Greipel, Kristoff, Renshaw et al. in a flat sprint. A surprise, I think also for him.

World Ports Classic - Stage 1

1 Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma Quick Step)
2 Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol)
3 Alexander Kristoff (BMC)
4 Blaz Jarc (NetApp)
5 Matk Renshaw (Rabobank)
6 Steele Von Hoff (Garmi)
7 Jonathan Cantwell (Garmin Sharp)
8 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlanderen)
9 Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech)
10 Daniel Schorn (NetApp)

Very good racing there. OPQS probably fucked up letting Greipel and others to come back because they refused to chase having Fenn up the road, but at least Tommeke took the sprint. It was insanely fast, that helped Boonen surely.

Missed it on Eurosport but it sounded like a great race

I think that the women's football game was too late so the race didn't get transmited. It's currently beeing transmited on delay.

Vintage Tommeke in Ports Classic

Average of over 52 km/h for 200 km of racing. Peleton ended at almost half an hour, and outside of the time limit. But then they just shifted the limit from 8% to 12%, problem solved...

What a win for Boonen, and it's great for the race to have such a name on the winner's list.

This is utter bullshit. They should get rid of the time limit if they won't use it.

Totally agree with you, what the hell is the point in having a time limit

Today's stage at the Tour de l'Avenir was shortened to 44 km due to the weather conditions.

Tour de l'Avenir, Stage 5

1	Alexey Lutsenko	KAZ	Kazakhstan	1h18'38"
2	Ian Boswell	USA	USA	03"
3	Mattia Cattaneo	ITA	Italy	26"
4	Juan Ernesto Chamorro	COL	Colombia	26"
5	Tim Wellens	BEL	Belgium	26"
6	Warren Barguil	FRA	France	26"
7	Davide Villella	ITA	Italy	29"
8	Sergei Pomoshnikov	RUS	Russia	31"
9	Sergey Chernetskiy	RUS	Russia	35"
10	Jan Polanc	SLO	Slovenia	37"

Barguil keeps the leader's jersey. Here's the GC:

44km? awesome

That's just a bit shorter than the average Vuelta stage.