Puhh, I don´t know. Just had an inspiration, that someone already won 50 stages the last days in Langkawi

Tour de Langkawi, Stage 10: Kuala Terengganu - Kuala Terengganu (110.7 km) (2.HC)

1	Andrea Guardini	ITA	Farnese Vini - Selle Italia	2h36'42"
2	Jake Keough	USA	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling
3	Sonny Colbrelli	ITA	Colnago - CSF Inox
4	Harrif Salleh	MAS	Terengganu Cycling Team
5	Raymond Kreder	NED	Team Garmin - Barracuda
6	Cristian Delle Stelle	ITA	Colnago - CSF Inox
7	Hossein Nateghi	IRI	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
8	Robert Förster	GER	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling	03"
9	Matteo Pelucchi	ITA	Europcar	03"
10	Valentin Iglinskiy	KAZ	Astana	03"

Tour de Langkawi, General Classification (2.HC)

1	Jose Serpa	COL	Androni Giocattoli	32h55'31"
2	Jose Rujano	VEN	Androni Giocattoli	30"
3	Victor Niño Corredor	COL	Azad University Cross Team	01'03"
4	Alexsandr Dyachenko	KAZ	Astana	02'20"
5	Jackson Rodriguez	VEN	Androni Giocattoli	03'50"
6	Stefano Locatelli	ITA	Colnago - CSF Inox	04'15"
7	Ghader Mizbani	IRI	Tabriz Petrochemical Team	04'23"
8	Andrey Zeits	KAZ	Astana	04'28"
9	Dennis Van Niekerk	RSA	MTN - Qhubeka	04'33"
10	Joseph Cooper	NZL	New Zealand National Team	04'44"

Is it fair to say Guardini has had an 'alright' start to the season?

It´s ok but nothing special

To be fair, it's not like the competition (sprint wise) was amazing

Vuelta a Murcia Stage 2 TT

1. Alexander Serov (RusVelo) 13:46:44
2. Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar Team) 13:46:99
3. Alexander Wetterhall (Endura Racing) 13:49
4. Jan Barta (NetApp) 13:56
5. Sergey Shilov (Lokosphinx) 13:5

Vuelta a Murcia GC

1. QUINTANA, Nairo - MOVISTAR TEAM
2. TIERNAN-LOCKE, Jonath - ENDURA RACING a 6
3. POELS, Wouter - VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO a 11

Damn, JTL should have won that if Quintana didn't wheel suck
him yesterday so much on that hill. Oh well 2nd is still nice.

Well, there wasnt really much sprinting competition for him (As you said), but, it means over the course of the race he didn't make many mistakes in his sprint, he won a large majority of them. He could either go on to have a fantastic season and get many wins, or crash and burn and get nothing more than a few minor placings.

Quintana yay! Hope to see him doing in well in bigger races this year.

At least, he gave a chance to the others.

I don't get that, but Guardini had the same season last year winning 5 stages here, not a big diffrence.

His weakness is climbing and positioning in better field, will come with experience though. Also if you watched any highlights of this race you'd know the every sprint ended on a massive road, so it was quite easy to position yourselves and it was hard to make any mistakes like boxing in. So it was easy not to make many mistakes in sprints anyway.

Guardini has picked up 6 wins, so a look at the victory list suggests he has a good season. But really, he might aswell have 0 wins. In terms of top sprinters, beating the likes of Jake Keogh, Mohammed Salleh, Raymond Kreder, Matteo Pelucchi and Valentin Iglinskiy doesnt mean a thing.

On the Cavendish-scale of 'shit-small' races, Langkawi is 'ultra-shit' for sprinters.

He didnt win a stage in San Luis against the likes of Boonen, Viviani and Haedo, and he never really challenged in Qatar and Oman with Cavendish, Kittel and Greipel etc for rivals.

He definately has work to do, but clearly has a good amount of speed to work with.

Last season he beat the likes of Farrar, Greipel, Viviani, Petacchi, Van Hummel, Chicchi, Haedo, and Bos in mass sprints.

Vuelta a la Region de Murcia, Stage 2: Murcia I.T.T. (12.3 km) (2.1)

1	Alexander Serov	RUS	RusVelo	13'46"
2	Jonathan Castroviejo	ESP	Movistar Team
3	Alexander Wetterhall	SWE	Endura Racing	03"
4	Alexey Kunshin	RUS	Lokosphinx	06"
5	Jan Barta	CZE	Team NetApp	10"
6	Robert Gesink	NED	Rabobank	12"
7	Sergey Shilov	RUS	Lokosphinx	13"
8	Kirill Sveshnikov	RUS	Lokosphinx	16"
9	Evgeniy Kovalev	RUS	RusVelo	16"
10	Stef Clement	NED	Rabobank	17"

Vuelta a la Region de Murcia, General Classification (2.1)

1	Nairo Quintana	COL	Movistar Team	5h06'10"
2	Jonathan Tiernan-Locke	GBR	Endura Racing	06"
3	Wout Poels	NED	Vacansoleil - DCM	09"
4	Sergio Pardilla	ESP	Movistar Team	15"
5	Jonathan Castroviejo	ESP	Movistar Team	21"
6	Samuel Sanchez	ESP	Euskaltel - Euskadi	22"
7	Johnny Hoogerland	NED	Vacansoleil - DCM	25"
8	Robert Gesink	NED	Rabobank	32"
9	Bartosz Huzarski	POL	Team NetApp	47"
10	Paul Voss	GER	Endura Racing	01'24"

Arnaud Démare (FDJ) wins the last stage in the Driedaagse Van West-Vlaanderen!

Nieuwpoort-Ichtegem (Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen):

1. Arnaud Démare (FDJ)
2. Alexander Porsev (Katusha)
3. Kenny Van Hummel (Vacansoleil-DCM)
4. Nico Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly)

GC:

1. Julien Vermote (OP-QS)

Demare Amazing season so far.

I didn't see the sprint, and there were no big names there (sprint-wise). It seems Démare has a huge sheer speed though, and should have a brilliant future. Sadly for him guys like Dengelkob, Goss or Kittel are not much older than him, and are probably faster (at the moment), plus others like Cavendish are not old either, and could remain fast until their old days (see Freire, McEwen, Petacchi, they still win races).

I don't know if non-Belgians can see this, but here's a video:

https://www.sporza.../1.1237432

It's in Dutch, and it's 8 minutes long
The sprint starts at 7:25

It's quite impressive if you see where he's coming from in the last 100 metres

It worked fine, thanks. Impressive by Démare, what a jump in the last 100 m. Against no big sprinters, but still...

Something came to my mind, once more, when they showed the Sky guy falling in the peloton, on a cobble section. The peloton was riding at 40 or 45 km/h, and where was the friggin' motorbike ? 15 m ahead. Don't they understand how much they're influencing the race because of the drag effect ? Really something should be done about those cars and motorbikes in cycling races.

Kreuziger 6th at Strade Bianchi?
This man will have hell of a season, if he stays healthy. He said his training was very good this year and he feels in good shape even this early.
Look for him at T-A and even more at Giro