Was that the chester race?

I was going to go but couldn't get back from my touring holiday of scotland in time :/

Yup, the Chester round

Columbia not only won tage 1 of Tour of Austria with Greipel, today Albasini finished first on top of the "Kitzbühler Horn" (tough climb with 7,7km in 12,4% average)

WTF?

How the heck does Albasini win on the Kitzbüler Horn???

That's....insane

He won out of a big escape group that formed early in the race. and there are not much other good climbers around apart from Kessiakoff, Cobo Acebo and Seeldrayers.
Giampaolo Caruso (Ceramica Flaminia) 2nd, Ruslan Pidgornyy (ISD) 3rd.

Pieter Weening wins the 3rd stage in the Tour of Austria. He caught early escaper Leonardo Bertagnolli 500m before the finish line on a cat2 mountain finish, with before that the climb to the Grosclockner (2500m, HC).

Suprising!

There is a race in Canada for Juniors with a funny name Le tour de l'Abitibi. Looks like an Austrian won (I assume Autriche is either french or Austrian for Austria)

https://www.tourabitibi.qc.ca/images/d...1_6895.pdf

What is important though is 8th place, My teammate Ryan, who is one of 5 guys representing the US at Worlds. 15th 16th, 64th 88th are also guys from my area.

I suppose Deadpool will claim victory though, his teammate was 6th.

so few europeaans

One of my good friends was 3 min down He is so tiny, a pure climber but needs the big hills.

Not me, its like icecreamtester whose teammate was sixth.

I don't see any of my teammates, most of them were getting good results at Fitchburg and Red River Gorge

1st stage of sachsen tour was riden today

1 André Greipel - Team Columbia - HTC
2 Alex Rasmussen - Team Saxo Bank
3 Marcus Burghardt - Team Columbia - HTC

2nd stage in the Sachsen Tour won by Sebastian Langeveld

He escaped with 2 others and dropped them 300m from the line, peloton was close behind where Paul Martens won the sprint for 2nd place, so a 1-2 for Rabo

On a site note, after Sinkewitz won a Stage and the yellow jersey the only rider congratulating him was Dirk Müller. The rest of the peloton didnt even sprint for second place in protest against Sinkewitz. Greipel took his hands of his handlebar and clapped his hands when crossing the finish line.

Looks like someone made to much trouble in happy land cycling

Thats how cycling works.

One of the many post-Tour de France criteriums: Designa Grand Prix:

1 Aleksejs Saramotins - Team Designa Køkken 1.19,08
2 Michael Rasmussen 1.01
3 Troels Vinther - Team Capinordic 1.14
4 Daniel Holm Foder - Team Concordia
5 Chris Anker Sørensen - Team Saxo Bank 1.16
6 Simon Lerbech - Team Concordia 1.22
7 Thomas Guldhammer - Team Capinordic
8 Michael Reihs - Team Designa Køkken
9 Lars Ulrich - Team Concordia
10 Allan Johansen - Team Designa Køkken
11 Jakob Fulgsang – Team Saxo Bank
12 Martin Pedersen - Team Capinordic
13 Max Jenkins - Glud & Marstrand Horsens 1.45
14 Frank Høj - Team Saxo Bank 1.52
15 Martin Mortensen - Vancansoleil

Has anyone seen any photos or videos of Rassmussen lately? I mean after over two years away from the sport, he could have changed as a rider (at his age I could see him being quite a bit heavier).

190 km long successful breakaway for Goss in stage 3 of Tour of Wallonie

1 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 5:05:44
2 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Team Katusha
3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0:00:05
4 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
5 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Cofidis, Le Credit en Ligne
6 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator
7 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française Des Jeux
8 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team
9 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
10 Alexander Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank

And Sinkewitz won Sachsen Tour for PSK Whirpool

There's some images of the race in the photo gallery of the newspaper that I'm working at. Included one of them here.

Looks as skiny as ever, it being him I wouldn't expect anything else.

how did the race shape up? havent seen a write up yet! Dont recognize the winner.

It's Rasmussen. Nobody is more paranoid about weight. Mechanics have complained that he constantly nags them to make his bike lighter.

He doesn't let his hair grow because of the hair's weight.

Trust me, he'll be skinny as ever.