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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-11-2020 10:06
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 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (1.UWT) |  199.4 kms
It wasn't until the very last cobbled section that some kind of move happened in this very uneventful edition. Olliver Naesen split the - average - field with his acceleration and Cortes made the cut for us.
Cortes sat far back for the final sprint and did not have too much left either, yet he would just make in into the top 10, his best ever result in this race.
The others pretty much piloted the fastest man in the group to the line, where Demare comfortably outsprinted them to win the race for the second time after coming second in 2019 too.
| 1 |  | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | 4h37'43" | | 2 | | Wim Alderwerelt | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 3 | | Oliver Naesen | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 4 |  | Peter Sagan | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Edward Theuns | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 6 | | Jenthe Biermans | Israel Start Up Nation | s.t. | | 7 |  | Aldo Lature | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 8 |  | Falk Böger | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 9 |  | David Helling | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10 |  | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes  | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 29-11-2020 10:59
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 Strade Bianche (1.UWT)
 Toscana, 176.5 kms Strade Bianche Latest editions | | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. |  | Wout Poels | 1. |  | Carlos Betancur | 1. |  | Ruben Guerreiro | | 2. |  | Michal Kwiatkowski | 2. | | Andrea Manfredi | 2. | | Valerio Conti | | 3. | | Julian Arredondo | 3. | | Alexis Vuillermoz | 3. | | Enrico Battaglin |
Strade Bianche 2021 Race profile Strade Bianche 2021 Top riders | Julian Alaphilippe | Julian Arredondo | Renaud Bailly |  Ruben Fernández |  Louis Meintjes |  Ricki Nelson | | Edward Ravasi | Jordi Van Dingenen |  Simon Yates |
Strade Bianche 2021 Team lineup | F. Colla | | P. Furer | | S. Henao | | N. Padilla | | D. Quintana | | D. Sagasta | | A. Serrano | |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 29-11-2020 10:59
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Strade Bianche (1.UWT) | 176.5 kms
In the absence of our usual team captains, Quintana and Henao got their chance as a leader in the first World Tour edition of the gravel roads classic.
Fiorenza Colla spent the day in the breakaway with Julien Simon, but a duo rarely stands a chance is this kind of race. They were both caught inside the last 25 kilometers.
Just over the final gravel sector, Calmejane made what would turn out to be a decisive move from a group that didn't include any of our men anymore.
Bottura couldn't keep his wheel, whereas Alaphilippe and Matthews failed to close the gap together. Calmejane eventually resisted the comeback of Bailly too on the steep Via Caterina in the old city centre of Siena.
| 1 | | Lilian Calmejane | Groupama - FDJ | 4h12'32" | | 2 | | Renaud Bailly | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 3 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Michael Matthews | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5 | | Louis Meintjes | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 6 | | Diego Ulissi | UAE-Team Emirates | + 23" | | 7 | | Alexis Vuillermoz | Team Arkéa - Samsic | s.t. | | 8 | | Peter Kennaugh | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 9 | | Bernardo Suaza | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 |  | Jan Hirt | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 17 | | Dayer Quintana | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 52" |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 07-12-2020 19:12
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Paris - Nice (2.UWT) France, 8 stages Paris - Nice Latest editions | | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Davide Formolo | 1. | | Wilco Kelderman | 1. | | Julian Alaphilippe | | 2. | | Adam Yates | 2. | | Tejay Van Garderen | 2. | | Michal Kwiatkowski | | 3. | | Nairo Quintana | 3. | | Gianluca Brambilla | 3. | | Adam Yates |
| 1. |  9.4km | 2. | 185km | 3. | 193km | 4. | 177km | | 5. | 178km | 6. | 178km | 7. | 219km | 8. |  9.8km |
Paris - Nice 2021 Top riders | GC riders: | Sprinters: | Other: | | Joe Dombrowski | Bill Fraser | David Helling | | Davide Formolo | Bryan Coquard |  Bob Jungels | | Valerien Galtier | Caleb Ewan |  Abel Kenyeres | | Miguel Angel Lopez |  Eduard-Michael Grosu | Michal Kwiatkowski | | Wout Poels | Jasper Stuyven |  Matej Mohoric | | Nairo Quintana | | Sam Oomen |
Paris - Nice 2021 Team lineup | C. Barbero |  | J. Caicedo | | R. Guerreiro | | Seb. Henao | | I. Izagirre | | J. Noria | | N. Oliveira | | V. Pinheiral |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 07-12-2020 19:13
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Paris - Nice (2.UWT)
Stage 1 | 9.4 km ITT | 1 | | Tony Gallopin | BORA - hansgrohe | 12'00" | | 2 |  | Ilnur Zakarin | Astana Pro Team | + 3" | | 3 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | + 8" | | 4 | | Johan Le Bon | Groupama - FDJ | + 9" | | 5 |  | Tom Bohli | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 15 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 17" |
Stage 2 | 185.6 kms | 1 | | Boris Vallée | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 3h41'10" | | 2 | | Wouter Wippert | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 | | Bryan Coquard | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Caleb Ewan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 5 | | Carlos Barbero | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 3 | 194 kms | 1 | | Sam Oomen | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 4h13'12" | | 2 | | Dries Van Gestel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | | Davide Villella | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 4 | | Bryan Coquard | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Tony Gallopin | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 19 | | Carlos Barbero | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 4 | 177.5 kms | 1 | | Jasper Stuyven | CCC Team | 4h00'42" | | 2 | | Andrea Manfredi | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 3 | | Caleb Ewan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4 | | Davide Villella | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 5 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 24" |
Stage 5 | 178.7 kms | 1 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | 4h20'22" | | 2 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 28" | | 3 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 4 | | Joseph Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe | + 40" | | 5 | | Dries Van Gestel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 21 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 3'23" |
Stage 6 | 178.2 kms | 1 | | Jasper Stuyven | CCC Team | 4h06'23" | | 2 | | Wouter Wippert | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 | | Caleb Ewan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4 | | Boris Vallée | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 13 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 7 | 219.5 kms | 1 | | Caleb Ewan | BORA - hansgrohe | 5h03'44" | | 2 | | Jasper Stuyven | CCC Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Tony Gallopin | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4 | | Valérien Galtier | AG2R La Mondiale | + 34" | | 5 | | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 16 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 8 | 9.8 km ITT | 1 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | 18'46" | | 2 | | Wout Poels | Team Sunweb | + 1" | | 3 | | Dylan Teuns | Lotto Soudal | + 5" | | 4 | | Nairo Quintana | Bahrain - McLaren | + 12" | | 5 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 15 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 40" |
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We never really made the headlines during this race and rightfully so. The first couple of stages were not too bad, with Izagirre losing about 20” to the stage winner and Barbero sprinting to a unexpected fifth place on day two.
Barbero also had very good legs on the third stage that had its finish close to the Vassiviere Lake, yet he spent way too much energy riding near the front. Guerreiro had to let go of the bunch and waved his GC ambition goodbye.
Gallopin lost the race lea on the stage to Rodez, where Stuyven won from a group of four with the new yellow jersey, Manfredi. The latter wouldn’t stay in the lead very long as he crashed out on the next day.
Izagirre had bad legs on the wrong day and lost about 3’30” to Chernetskiy, who took the stage and the yellow jersey. Ion dropped to GC 9th. An obvious yet not awarded time gap kept him from taking back some 40” on day six.
Sebastian Henao was part of a four-man breakaway on the seventh stage but saw his chances vanish in thin air when a companion took Seba down with him when he crashed. Ion made it over the climbs in the GC group but so did all of his closest competitors.
Ion set a solid time on the Col d’Èze time trial. De Gendt and Teuns however, both rode remarkably faster and forced him from 9th into 11th overall. Chernetskiy comfortably secured the biggest triumph of his career.
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Paris - Nice 2021 Final overall standings | 1 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | 25h57'45" | | 2 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 48" | | 3 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | + 53" | | 4 | | Sam Oomen | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 1'27" | | 5 | | Dries Van Gestel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | + 1'50" | | 6 | | Kenny Elissonde | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 2'00" | | 7 | | Davide Villella | Team INEOS | + 2'09" | | 8 | | Michał Kwiatkowski | Bahrain - McLaren | + 2'16" | | 9 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 3'40" | | 10 | | Dylan Teuns | Lotto Soudal | + 3'47" | | ----- | | | | | 11 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 3'49" |
Paris - Nice 2021 Final overall standings | |  Overall | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team |  Points | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team |  Mountain | Johan Le Bon | Groupama - FDJ |  Young | Axel Carles | Team INEOS | | | | | Best team: |  Bahrain - McLaren | |
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| Ripley |
Posted on 09-12-2020 07:52
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Slightly unsatisfying, but I blame the course, tailored to produce a pretty random result.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 09-12-2020 09:51
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Yes indeed. I always struggle to do well at these slightly uphill finishes. Ion's stats are starting to drop now as well, but this could have been a GC top 5 if not for his bad day. |
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Posted on 09-12-2020 09:54
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Tirreno - Adriatico (2.UWT)
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Wilco Kelderman | 1. | | Julian Alaphilippe | 1. | | Fabio Aru | | 2. | | Thibaut Pinot | 2. | | Fabio Aru | 2. | | Alberto Contador | | 3. | | Tejay Van Garderen | 3. | | Adam Yates | 3. | | Tom Dumoulin |
| 1. |  16.5km | 2. | 234km | 3. | 176km | 4. | 246km | | 5. |  198km | 6. | 181km | 7. | 9.4km |
| E. Chávarri | | F. Colla | | E.L. Cortes | | P. Furer | | E. Larra |  | M. Martínez | | D. Quintana | | E. Zardini |
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Stage 1 | 16.5 km TTT | 1 | | Bahrain - McLaren | 20'09" | | 2 | | BORA - hansgrohe | + 14" | | 3 | | Team INEOS | + 26" | | 4 | | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | | CCC Team | + 47" | | ----- | | | | 14 | | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 1'40" |
Stage 2 | 234.6 kms | 1 | | Niccolo Bonifazio | Bahrain - McLaren | 5h32'13" | | 2 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 | | John Degenkolb | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Danny Van Poppel | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 5 | | Elia Viviani | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 30 | | Manuel Martínez | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 3 | 176.1 kms | 1 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | 3h55'41" | | 2 | | Danny Van Poppel | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 3 | | Michael Matthews | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 |  | Magnus Cort Nielsen | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 5 | | Fernando Gaviria | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 26 | | Manuel Martínez | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 4 | 245.9 kms | 1 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 5h55'25" | | 2 | | Louis Meintjes | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 3 |  | Gregor Mühlberger | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 4 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | + 18" | | 5 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | + 1'13" | | ----- | | | | | 9 | | Dayer Quintana | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 1'50" |
Stage 5 | 198.4 kms | 1 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | 5h19'19" | | 2 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 3 | | Louis Meintjes | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'33" | | 4 | | Allessio Bottura | Israel Start Up Nation | + 2'45" | | 5 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 14 | | Dayer Quintana | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 5'29" |
Stage 6 | 181.4 kms | 1 | | Peter Sagan | Bahrain - McLaren | 4h48'24" | | 2 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Michael Matthews | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5 | | Gregor Mühlberger | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 18 | | Dayer Quintana | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 7 | 9.4 km ITT | 1 | | Adriano Malori | Team INEOS | 11'46" | | 2 |  | Ryan Mullen | Movistar Team | + 7" | | 3 | | Tom Dumoulin | Bahrain - McLaren | + 17" | | 4 | | Mathias Krigbaum | Lotto Soudal | + 18" | | 5 | | Lukas Meiler | Israel Start Up Nation | + 20" |
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We kicked off our Tirreno adventure with a simply disastrous team time trial and underwhelming results on the two flat stages. By the end of day three, Chávarri felt extremely sick and Quintana had lost much time because of a ill-timed crash.
Dayer bounced back nicely with a 9th place on the hilly stage to Chieti, where Mühlberger became the first GC rider to move into the blue jersey. Aru, Meintjes and Yates then ruined Bahrain's plan by leaving their leader behind on the mountain stage to Prati di Tivo. Dayer chose his own pace from the foot and crossed the line in 14th.
Edoardo Zardini used the hilly circuit stage on day six to secure the mountain jersey. Dayer moved up to GC 20th on that penultimate stage but lost 3 places on the conclusive time trial.
Local hero Aru rode slower than his GC rivals, yet he still won Tirreno - Adriatico for the second time. In the end, he did so by almost the slimmest of margins.
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Tirreno - Adriatico 2021 Final overall standings | 1 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | 26h05'21" | | 2 | | Louis Meintjes | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2" | | 3 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | + 7" | | 4 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 1'08" | | 5 | | Gregor Mühlberger | Bahrain - McLaren | + 2'00" | | 6 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | + 2'41" | | 7 | | Tom Slagter | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 3'56" | | 8 | | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | + 4'10" | | 9 | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 4'24" | | 10 | | Allessio Bottura | Israel Start Up Nation | + 5'33" | | ----- | | | | | 23 | | Dayer Quintana | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 15'23" |
Tirreno - Adriatico 2021 Jersey winners  Overall | Fabio Aru | UAE Team Emirates |  Points | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb |  Mountain | Edoardo Zardini | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team |  Young |  Shani Odhiambo | NTT Pro Cycling Team | | | | | Best team: | NTT Pro Cycling Team | |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 12-12-2020 18:19
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Milano - Sanremo (1.UWT) 296.3 kms
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Nacer Bouhanni | 1. | | Fernando Gaviria | 1. | | Marcel Kittel | | 2. | | Marcel Kittel | 2. | | Wouter Wippert | 2. | | Peter Sagan | | 3. | | Carlos Barbero | 3. | | Matteo Pelucchi | 3. | | Bryan Coquard |
| C. Barbero | | I. Izagirre |  | A. Mendigain | | N. Oliveira | | N. Padilla | | D. Sagasta | | A. Serrano | |
Despite countless tries, nobody was allowed to join poor Atle Veiby out front. With just one man in the break and the atrocious weather, some roadside campers did not even bother to open their tents.
It was former world champion Jasha Sütterlin who lit up the race hours later with a surprising attack on Capo Berta. Sagan and Alaphilippe went with him and eventually Lampaert bridged as well. The four caught sight of Veiby at the foot of the Cipressa climb.
Once Veiby was back in the bunch, the chasers reduced the gap of the lead four to 20". Near the Poggio, however, they almost sat up collectively. Halfway up the climb, Barbero had enough of it as he jumped away.
Alaphilippe set the pace in the front group, which made Sagan crack just before the top. As he was unable to pick up the pace in the descent, a trio would fight for the win.
Lampaert saw both Alaphillipe and Sütterlin launch too early to keep up their sprinting effort. At the age of 29, winning Milano - Sanremo became the biggest achievement of his career.
Carlos started his sprint too late to stay clear of the bunch, but he did hold off Van Poppel to finish in 8th place, securing our first sponsor goal of the season.
Milano - Sanremo 2020 Race results | 1 | | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 6h38'16" | | 2 | | Jasha Sütterlin | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 3 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Peter Sagan | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Niccolo Bonifazio | Bahrain - McLaren | + 49" | | 6 | | Caleb Ewan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 7 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 8 | | Carlos Barbero  | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 9 | | Danny Van Poppel | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 10 | | Magnus Cort Nielsen | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 20-12-2020 08:57
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 Volta a Catalunya (2.UWT)Catalonia, 7 stages
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | 1. | | Wilco Kelderman | 1. | | Nairo Quintana | | 2. | | Mikel Landa | 2. | | Alberto Contador | 2. | | Adam Yates | | 3. | | Nairo Quintana | 3. | | Romain Bardet | 3. | | Mikel Landa |
| 1. | 137km | 2. | 161km | 3. | 209km | 4. | 197km | | 5. | 206km | 6. | 165km | 7. | 119km |
| P. Bilbao | | F. Colla | | L. Doncel | | S. Henao | | J. Herrada | | M. Martínez | | J. Noria | | C. Verona |
Stage 1 | 137.4 kms | 1 | | Pello Bilbao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | 3h19'43" | | 2 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Jesús Herrada | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 5 | | Peter Kennaugh | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
Stage 2 | 161.7 kms | 1 | | Joseph Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe | 3h38'45" | | 2 | | Graeme Hammond | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 3 | | Stu Bryce | EF Education First Pro Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 3 | 209.5 kms | 1 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | 5h26'47" | | 2 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 27" | | 3 | | Joseph Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'11" | | 4 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | + 1'54" | | 5 | | Clément Chevrier | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 9 | | Sebastian Henao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 2'12" |
Stage 4 | 197.6 kms | 1 | | Loïc Vliegen | Lotto Soudal | 4h38'40" | | 2 | | Joseph Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 3 | | Leopold König | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 |  | Vladislav Gorbunov | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Silvio Herklotz | Israel Start Up Nation | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 53 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | + 2'47" |
Stage 5 | 206.8 kms | 1 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | 4h54'46" | | 2 | | Davide Formolo | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 3 | | Wout Poels | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 4 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 5 | | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 20 | | Sebastian Henao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 58" |
Stage 6 | 165.7 kms
| 1 | | Brendan Canty | Mitchelton-Scott | 3h55'40" | | 2 | | Alessandro De Marchi | Movistar Team | + 23" | | 3 | | Nacer Bouhanni | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 51" | | 4 | | Pello Bilbao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Sebastian Henao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 7 | 119.4 kms | 1 | | Léo Vincent | Team INEOS | 2h50'07" | | 2 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain - McLaren | + 42" | | 3 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 4 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 1'14" | | 5 | | Sebastian Henao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
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Although Martínez, our sprinter for this race, had the worst legs on the opening day, we still could not have gotten off to a better start. Herrada ripped the pack apart over the last climb as the stage concluded with a unique 1-2-3 for the team and a second ever Catalunya stage win for Bilbao.
Team leader Verona accelerated from the bunch on the final climb of the second stage. He finished with the GC group as stage winner Dombrowski grabbed the overall lead.
Verona disappointed on the big mountain stage on day three as he fell through the ice on the penultimate climb already. Aru countered a long range attack from Dombrowski, who also saw De Gendt pass him near the line. Henao followed beautifully for us and came home in a superb 9th place.
Sitting in 6th with the same time as GC 5th Carthy, he saw Aru lose the race lead the day after because of the crash. Henao lost time himself on day 5, despite Veronalending him a strong hand.
We made the top 5 on the last two stages, both won by the breakaway. We missed the GC top 5 sponsor goal by about a minute, yet Henao's best ever GC result was a result worth cherishing.
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Volta a Catalunya 2021 Final overall standings | 1 | | Joseph Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe | 28h47'21" | | 2 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 17" | | 3 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain - McLaren | + 46" | | 4 | | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | + 1'11" | | 5 | | Hugh Carthy | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 2'08" | | 6 | | Sebastian Henao | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 3'06" | | 7 | | Vladislav Gorbunov | Astana Pro Team | + 3'26" | | 8 | | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | | Börje Kratzert | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 5'31" | | 10 | | Davide Formolo | Bahrain - McLaren | + 5'37" |
Volta a Catalunya 2021 Jersey winners  Overall | Joe Dombrowski | BORA - hansgrohe |  Points | Fabio Aru | UAE Team Emirates |  Mountain | Fabio Aru | UAE Team Emirates |  Young | Börje Kratzert | Team Jumbo-Visma | | | | | Best team: | Bahrain - McLaren | |
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| Ripley |
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Well done, Henao!
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| Kiserlovski01 |
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That was genuinely one of my favorite results of this story. Such a shame it let him protect Verona which caused him to lose time earlier in the race... |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
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E3 BinckBank Classic (1.UWT) | | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Peter Sagan | 1. | | Tiesj Benoot | 1. | | Niccolo Bonifazio | | 2. | | Tiesj Benoot | 2. | | Alexey Lutsenko | 2. | | Kristian Sbaragli | | 3. | | Geraint Thomas | 3. | | Jens Keukeleire | 3. | | Yves Lampaert |
| A. Cerezo | | E.L. Cortes | | I. Izagirre | | E. Larra | | A. Mendigain | | N. Oliveira | | V. Pinheiral | | F.Zurlo |
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203.1 kms | Harelbeke › Harelbeke
Not much to be told about the race until Oliveira ripped the pack apart on the narrow cobbled Taaienberg. Most of our riders made the cut there but the group kept getting thinned on the remaining climb, which included Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg.
Over Knokteberg, the last main difficulty of the day, Cerezo and Cortes both found themselves in the lead group. With no sprint of his own and little left in the tank, Cerezo focused on supporting Cortes as long as he could.
Cortes knew the leading group of 14 had several fasters sprinters in it than him and hoped to knock at least some of them out of contention with a late acceleration. INEOS' Lukas Spengler was looked at to close the gap.
Switzerlands' main man for the cobbles did so and went on to win the race after an impressively long sprint. Both Lutsenko and Sagan secured a podium spot by passing Cortes in the final 50 meters. Cerezo crossed the line in 12th.
E3 BinckBank Classic 2021 Race results | 1 | | Lukas Spengler | Team INEOS | 4h41'07" | | 2 | | Alexey Lutsenko | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 3 | | Peter Sagan | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 4 | | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 6 | | Jasper Bovenhuis | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 7 | | David Helling | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | | Oliver Naesen | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | | Aldo Lature | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 10 | | Wilfried Köhler | CCC Team | s.t. |
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Gent - Wevelgem (1.UWT) | | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Bryan Coquard | 1. | | John Degenkolb | 1. | | Niccolo Bonifazio | | 2. | | Tiesj Benoot | 2. | | David Helling | 2. | | Tom Van Asbroeck | | 3. | | Florian Senechal | 3. | | Alexey Lutsenko | 3. | | Sam Bennett | | | |
| C. Barbero | | J.L. Campos | | E.L. Cortes | | P. Furer | | N. Padilla |  | F. Palmero | | A. Serrano |
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236.1 kms | Gent › Wevelgem
A very inexperienced squad supported Cortes and Barbero very well and helped them make it through the hilly zone in this front group of 19. Barbero didn't have the legs to do more and gave everything to help Cortes.
The young Brazilian didn't have his best day either and didn't make the top 10 in a final sprint with many fast riders. Magnus Cort kept Spengler from making it two out of two, adding the biggest classic win of his career to his own tally.
Gent - Wevelgem 2021 Race results | 1 | | Magnus Cort Nielsen | BORA - hansgrohe | 5h08'37" | | 2 | | Lukas Spengler | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 3 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 4 | | Niccolo Bonifazio | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Logan Owen | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 6 | | Elia Viviani | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 7 | | Jasper Stuyven | CCC Team | s.t. | | 8 | | Edward Theuns | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 9 | | Sam Bennett | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 10 | | Lars Boom | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 14 | | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
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Dwars door Vlaanderen (1.UWT) | | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Adrien Petit | 1. | | Tiesj Benoot | 1. | | Tiesj Benoot | | 2. | | Edward Theuns | 2. | | Jasha Sütterlin | 2. | | Lars Boom | | 3. | | Alexey Lutsenko | 3. | | Florian Senechal | 3. | | Ian Stannard |
| J.L. Campos | | A. Cerezo | | E.L. Cortes | | A. Mendigain | | N. Oliveira | | F. Palmero | | A. Serrano | | |
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196 kms | Roeselare › Waregem
Cortes also made the front group a couple of days later, yet he found himself slightly at the back at the time of a late acceleration.
Youngster Vanderaerden beat good old Jürgen Roelandts to top an entirely Belgian podium, Cortes finished in 9th.
Gent - Wevelgem 2021 Race results | 1 | | Massimo Vanderaerden | Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise | 4h28'49" | | 2 | | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 3 | | Tom Van Asbroeck | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 | | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 5 |  | Gytis Veikutis | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 6 | | Paulo Wehmschulte | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 7 | | Hendrick Quaglia | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 8 | | Miguel Bryon | EF Education First Pro Team | s.t. | | 9 | | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | | Magnus Bak Klaris | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
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 GP Miguel Indurain (1.Pro)
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Sam Oomen | 1. | | Eder Chávarri | 1. | | Eder Chávarri | | 2. | | Carlos Verona | 2. | | Jordi Simón | 2. | | Alexis Vuillermoz | | 3. | | Dylan Teuns | 3. | | Joaquim Rodríguez | 3. | | Andrea Fedi | | | |
| P. Bilbao | | J. Caicedo | | E. Chávarri | | J. Herrada | | J. Noria | | C. Verona | | E. Zardini | | |
177.6 kms | Estella › Estella
One week before Itzulia, a team built around Verona and Chávarri raced in the Basque Country alreayd. Noria bridged to the breakaway by himself and saw Higinio Fernández leave the other three behind with 25 kilometers to go.
Lotto, who had been working all day, disappeared from the fore so we had to take matters into our own hands. We didn't catch sight of Fernández until the final climb to the line.
Fernández eventually made it to the line, despite the high pace and a strong sprint by several of our men. At the age of 32, he has finally managed to land his maiden pro win. Verona had to settle for back to back second places.
GP Miguel Indurain 2021 Race results | 1 | | Higinio Fernández | Movistar Team | 4h32'26" | | 2 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 22" | | 3 |  | Tsgabu Grmay | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 4 | | Edoardo Zardini | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Eder Chávarri | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 6 | | Julian Arredondo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 7 | | Louis Vervaeke | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 8 | | Dylan Teuns | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 9 | | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10 | | Sergey Chernetskiy | Astana Pro Team | s.t. |
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| Ripley |
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I love a result like that, a 32-year old with his maiden win, must feel so good. Ruralvia seems ready for the big home race.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
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Ripley wrote:
I love a result like that, a 32-year old with his maiden win, must feel so good. Ruralvia seems ready for the big home race.
Rather leave the win to a rider like him indeed. Hopefully Verona can take this legs to the home race indeed. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
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Ronde van Vlaanderen (1.UWT)
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Tiesj Benoot | 1. | | Tiesj Benoot | 1. |  | Alexander Kristoff | | 2. | | Jens Keukeleire | 2. | | John Degenkolb | 2. | | Davide Cimolai | | 3. | | Jasper Stuyven | 3. | | Alexey Lutsenko | 3. | | Zdenek Stybar |
| A. Cerezo | | E.L. Cortes | | I. Izagirre | | A. Mendigain | | N. Oliveira | | A. Serrano | | F. Zurlo | | |
 253.4 kms | Brugge › Meerbeke
Sadly no images of the second Monument of 2021 as the screenshots were nowhere to be found after the race.
On the old course, four of riders stayed with the favourites' group very long. Cortes and Cerezo were still there on the Muur, the penultimate difficulty. Peter Sagan split the group single-handedly at the steepest part and saw only David Helling keep up.
The duo kept its gap on the Bosberg, where Cortes failed to follow the chasing group, and he wouldn't catch up again.
Sagan beat Helling in a sprint à deux in Meerbeke to win his second Monument at long last. Lampaert won the sprint of the chasing group to complete the podium.
Cortes outsprinted Vanmarcke and former teammate Lature in group three to cross the line in 11th. That's only one place shy of the result demanded by the sponsors.
Ronde van Vlaanderen 2021 Race results | 1 | | Peter Sagan | Bahrain - McLaren | 5h49'47" | | 2 | | David Helling | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | + 1'10" | | 4 | | Niki Terpstra | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 5 | | Elia Viviani | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 6 | | Jens Keukeleire | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 7 | | Lars Boom | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 8 | | Wilfried Köhler | CCC Team | s.t. | | 9 | | Jenthe Biermans | Israel Start Up Nation | s.t. | | 10 | | Lukas Spengler | Team INEOS | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 11 | | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 1'50" |
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Itzulia Basque Country (2.UWT) País Vasco, 6 stages
| | 2020 | | | 2019 | | | 2018 | | 1. | | Julian Alaphilippe | 1. | | Fabio Aru | 1. | | Simon Yates | | 2. | | Simon Yates | 2. | | Michal Kwiatkowski | 2. | | Michal Kwiatkowski | | 3. | | Adam Yates | 3. | | Alberto Contador | 3. | | Thibaut Pinot |
| 1. | 154km | 2. | 170km | 3. | 164km | | 4. | 151km | 5. | 160km | 6. |  23km |
| C. Barbero | | P. Bilbao | | J.L. Campos | | L. Doncel | | S. Henao | | J. Herrada | | M. Martínez | | C. Verona |
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Stage 1 | 154.3 kms | 1 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 3h39'03" | | 2 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 3 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'20" | | 4 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | + 1'48" | | ----- | | | | | 6 | | Jesús Herrada | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 2 | 170.1 kms | 1 | | Bryan Coquard | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 3h53'09" | | 2 | | Fabio Felline | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. | | 3 | | Carlos Barbero | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Michael Matthews | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
Stage 3 | 164.4 kms | 1 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | 3h33'22" | | 2 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | + 16" | | 4 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'12" | | 5 | | Allessio Bottura | Israel Start Up Nation | + 1'29" | | ----- | | | | | 8 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 1'47" |
Stage 4 | 151.6 kms | 1 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | 3h54'17" | | 2 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 3 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 45" | | 4 | | Julian Arredondo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | | | 7 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 1'33" |
Stage 5 | 160.7 kms | 1 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | 4h17'56" | | 2 | | Sam Oomen | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 4 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 5 | | Gregor Mühlberger | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | ----- | | | | | 8 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 57" |
Stage 6 | 24 km ITT | 1 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | 34'36" | | 2 | | Jesús Herrada | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 14" | | 3 | | Ryan Mullen | Movistar Team | + 15" | | 4 | | Tom Dumoulin | Bahrain - McLaren | s.t. | | 5 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | + 25" |
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The Yates brothers, multiple GT winner Kelderman, Alaphilippe, Formolo, Tirreno winner Aru, Mathieu van der Poel: they all headlined this year's gorgeous field.
The field's strength would show on day one already, when NTT ripped the bunch apart of the toughest climbs about halfway. It came as a total surprise that tem captain Verona had to let go their. So did the rest of the team bar Herrada, who rolled across the line in 6th as Alaphilippe thanked his teammates in the best way possibble.
The day after, Coquard made it two out of two for NTT with Barbero coming third.
The third stage proved to be too tough for Herrada because of NTT setting the pace again. While Adam Yates beat the GC top two, Verona bounced back with a solid 8th place, moving into GC 13th.
The Yates brothers kept the momentum on the annual Arate stage and put quite some time into Alaphilippe. Adam won the stage, Simon moved into the overall lead. Alaphilippe could have taken back time on day four if the jury hadn't bailed out the chasers. Two respectable results for Verona made him tackle the final day sitting in GC 7th.
Verona's conclusive time trial was mediocre and not nearly good enough to finish higher than 7th. Herrada rode a superb time trial, edging out specialists like Dumoulin and Mullen. The last rider and overall winner Simon Yates was the only one to finish even faster, proving how even his time trialing is still improving.
All in all a comfortable second overall win for Team INEOS' new flagship climber after an edition that could go down as the one with the most ridiculous time gaps.
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Itzulia Basque Country 2021 Final overall standings | 1 | | Simon Yates | Team INEOS | 19h52'39" | | 2 | | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team | + 2'23" | | 3 | | Adam Yates | Bahrain - McLaren | + 2'52" | | 4 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 5'36" | | 5 | | Julian Arredondo | Movistar Team | + 9'11" | | 6 | | Abel Kenyeres | Bahrain - McLaren | + 10'19" | | 7 | | Carlos Verona | Ruralvía-CCU Pro Team | + 11'40" | | 8 | | Gregor Mühlberger | Bahrain - McLaren | + 12'04" | | 9 | | Davide Formolo | Bahrain - McLaren | + 12'39" | | 10 | | Sam Oomen | NTT Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
Itzulia Basque Country 2021 Jersey winners  Overall | Simon Yates | Team INEOS |  Points | Julian Alaphilippe | NTT Pro Cycling Team |  Mountain | Quentin Pacher | AG2R La Mondiale |  Young | Jordi Van Dingenen | UAE Team Emirates | | | | | Best team: | Bahrain - McLaren | |
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| valverde321 |
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Cant be too upset with 11th at RvV. 7th at Basque Country isn't bad either. Some big names ahead (apart from the Hungarian) and the gaps look huge. Usually when I race it the gaps are quite small for some reason.
Spoiler I think stage 2's profile might be wrong. 
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| Ripley |
Posted on 24-01-2021 08:39
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Wow, the Basque Tour was brutal. No chance in hell to compete with the Yates twins and Alaphilippe.
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