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The race started very for Groenewegen, winning the first two stage after brilliant set ups by the team. Things didn't go as well in the next mass sprints due to crashes or unexpected splits in the pack and Groenewegen found himself without any team mates around him in the last 3 kilometers. He finished second in all the other 3 mass sprints with Theuns, Hofland and Haller taking a stage win each.
Groenewegen celebrates a Jumbo double in the second stage
Benoît Cosnefroy won the hardest stage of the race which had an uphill finish, but with a gap of only 9 seconds to a pack, a pack which did not broke apart on the climb and contained Groenewegen, it was not enough for the Frenchman to take more than a podium spot in the GC.
It was Groenewegen who took the overall thanks to his placings in the flat stage, ending a brilliant season for the Dutchman where he won the green jersey at the Tour and was one win short of topping the rankings of most wins of the season.
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | Leader |  | Stage 1 |  | Dylan Groenewegen | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Stage 2 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Stage 3 |  | Edward Theuns | | Dylan Groenewegen |  | Stage 4 |  | Benoît Cosnefroy | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Stage 5 | | Moreno Hofland | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Stage 6 |  | Marco Haller | | Dylan Groenewegen |
Results | 1. | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 21h46'10 | | 2. | | Edward Theuns | Trek - Segafredo | + 17 | | 3. | | Benoît Cosnefroy | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 19 | | 4. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 24 | | 5. | | Moreno Hofland | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 25 | | 6. |  | Mark Renshaw | Team Dimension Data | + 32 | | 7. |  | Toms Skujins | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 8. |  | Kristoffer Halvorsen | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 9. |  | Niccolo Bonifazio | Team Total Direct Energie | + 33 | | 10. | | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 11. |  | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 12. |  | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 35 | | 13. |  | Marcus Burghardt | BORA - hansgrohe | + 36 | | 14. |  | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain - Merida | + 38 | | 15. | | Simone Velasco | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | s.t. | | 16. | | Krists Neilands | Israël - Cycling Academy | s.t. | | 17. |  | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 18. | | Sergio Andres Higuita | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 19. | | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 20. | | Koen De Kort | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. |
 | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 97 |  | | Luke Durbridge | Mitchelton-Scott | 18 |  | | Benoît Cosnefroy | Ag2r La Mondiale | 21h46'29 |  | | Ag2r La Mondiale | | 65h20'15 |
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Posted on 27-03-2020 16:33
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Quite the pace you're setting here  A couple of dominant performances recently, very strong end to the season.
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Posted on 27-03-2020 18:58
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Amazing finish and certainly something to build up, with Bennett's performances in mind
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Posted on 27-03-2020 20:27
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2019 season in retrospect | Santos Tour Down Under |  | George Bennett | | Ronde van Drenthe | | Danny Van Poppel | | Driedaagse Brugge - De Panne | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Gent - Wevelgem | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Volta Limburg Classic | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Tour of Norway | | Wout Van Aert | | Critérium du Dauphiné | | Steven Kruijswijk | | Ster ZLM Toer GP Jan van Heeswijk | | Danny Van Poppel |  | Tour de Suisse | | Primoz Roglic |  | Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic | | Dylan Groenewegen | | Arctic Race of Norway | | Antwan Tolhoek | | Deutschland Tour | | Wout Van Aert | | Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen | | Mike Teunissen |  | Turul Romaniei | | Danny Van Poppel | | Sparkassen Münsterland Giro | | Danny Van Poppel |  | Japan Cup | | Danny Van Poppel |  | Gree-Tour of Guangxi | | Dylan Groenewegen |
Giro d'Italia | Best placed rider: | | Primoz Roglic | 2nd | | Stage wins: | | Primoz Roglic | | | | Laurens De Plus |
Tour de France | Best placed rider: | | Steven Kruijswijk | 3rd | | Stage wins: | | Dylan Groenewegen | x3 | | | Mike Teunissen | | | Distinctive jerseys: | | Dylan Groenewegen |  |
Vuelta a Espana | Best placed rider: | | George Bennett | 11th | | Stage wins: | | George Bennett | |
2019 season in retrospect World Tour | Chris Froome (4079 pts) | |  | Team Jumbo-Visma (15060 pts) |
Continental Tour | Jans Roy (1143 pts) | |  | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team (3413 pts) |
Superprestige | Chris Froome (3411 pts) |  | Team INEOS (12071 pts) |
Victories | Wouter Wippert (20) | | Team Jumbo-Visma (65) |
Word Tour division changes  |  | Team Total Direct Energie |  |  | CCC Team |
Chris Froome After making the Tour - Vuelta double once again it was impossible to look past Chris Froome for the award. Giro d'Italia winner, Tom Dumoulin came in second, with the World Champion, Max Schachmann completing the podium.
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Posted on 28-03-2020 13:57
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A new season lies upon us and Jumbo start theirs with the national championships of New Zealand. George Bennett claimed the win last year after joining the early attack and this year he did the same.
Bennett leading the attackers
And once again it paid off. He attacked on the last climb of the day and got a gap big enough to allow him to cross the finish line in first place and retain his title.
ITT Results | 1. | | Patrick Bevin | CCC Team | 37'31 | | 2. | | Hamish Bond | Dimension Data for Qhubeka | + 40 | | 3. | | Sam Bewley | Brunei Continental Cycling Team | + 56 |
RR Results | 1. | | George Bennett | Team Jumbo-Visma | 4h43'41 | | 2. | | Matthew Zenovich | St George Continental Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3. | | Jason Christie | Aisan Racing Team | s.t. |
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Posted on 28-03-2020 14:55
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Danny Van Poppel started his season just as he finished the previous one, by winning. He was in perfect form in the first 3 stages in Australia and with some brilliant work by the team, he managed to be first across the finish line in all stages, including the only uphill finish of this year's race.
Jansen, Bennett and Van Poppel at the front of the pack during the third stage
Things didn't go as smooth for Jumbo starting withe fourth stage, with the entire team except for Van Poppel and C.F. Hagen being involved in a mass crash. This saw Bennett's dreams of winning the race again being shattered.
It would have been pretty hard for the Kiwi to defend his title anyway, since the fifth stage passed the Willunga Hill twice, but a few good kilometers before the finish line. After only a fifth place in the fourth stage, Van Poppel got back on the podium for the last 2 stages to defend his overall lead, despite not winning any more races.
Viviani wins in Adelaide in front of Matthews and Van Poppel
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | | | Stage 1 | | Danny Van Poppel |  | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Stage 2 | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Stage 3 | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Stage 4 | | Marco Haller |  | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Stage 5 | | Christophe Laporte |  | | Danny Van Poppel | | | Stage 6 | | Elia Viviani |  | | Danny Van Poppel | |
Results | 1. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | 18h30'30 | | 2. | | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 18 | | 3. | | Michael Matthews | Team Sunweb | + 24 | | 4. | | Christophe Laporte | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 5. | | Marco Haller | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 30 | | 6. | | Arnaud Démare | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 40 | | 7. |  | Reinardt Janse V. Rensburg | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 8. | | Rick Zabel | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 1'15 | | 9. | | Alberto Bettiol | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 10. | | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama - FDJ | + 1'45 | | 11. | | Gianni Moscon | Team INEOS | + 1'52 | | 12. | | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 13. | | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 14. |  | Zdeněk Štybar | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 15. |  | Magnus Cort Nielsen | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 16. | | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 17. |  | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 18. | | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 19. | | Kristijan Koren | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 20. | | Robert Power | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
 | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | 83 |  | | Peter Kennaugh | Team INEOS | 42 |  | | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | 18h32'22 | | | Team Sunweb | | 55h33'30 |
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Posted on 28-03-2020 17:05
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A rather interesting profile for this year's race. And one thing is for sure, the cobblestones will make for a much more interesting race.
The cobblestones weren't in the end hard enough to make any gaps at the front of the race although they thinned the pack quite a lot and made a lot of legs feel very heavy by the end of the race.
Van Poppel waited behind Roosen, while the other sprinters overtook them, but a late move proved to be the right move after a very difficult race and it brought Danny yet another victory in a month to remember for the Dutch champion.
Results | 1. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | 5h55'35 | | 2. | | Hugo Hofstetter | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 3. | | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 4. | | Luke Rowe | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 5. |  | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 6. | | Jasper De Buyst | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 7. | | Jasper Philipsen | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 8. | | Luka Mezgec | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 9. | | Timo Roosen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 10. |  | Lukasz Wisniowski | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 11. | | Jean Pierre Drucker | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 12. | | Daniel Oss | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 13. | | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 14. | | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 48 | | 15. | | Frederik Backaert | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | s.t. | | 16. | | Heinrich Haussler | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 17. | | Mads Pedersen | Trek - Segafredo | + 1'17 | | 18. | | Timothy Dupont | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 19. |  | Ivan Garcia Cortina | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 20. | | Moreno Hofland | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. |
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Posted on 28-03-2020 20:59
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Strong start of the season, great to see
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Posted on 28-03-2020 23:04
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The off-season has been very beneficial for Van Poppel. He was only 79 in sprint in Japan.
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Posted on 29-03-2020 13:09
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Bora rode a very good opening stage, putting everyone else at least 20 seconds behind them, with Jumbo at around the 30 seconds mark off the German team.
The German team broke apart in the next stage, when only Konrad was able to follow the pace of the strongest men in the race, in a stage won by Van Aert from a group filled with GC riders. Van Aert would take the next stage win as well, a mass sprint after a very tricky stage.
Van Aert warming-up for the classics
In the queen stage, Konrad found himself isolated quite early and unable to follow riders like Uran, Bennett and Carapaz. Uran took the stage win in front of Bennett, but it would be Bennett who would be moving into the leader's jersey thanks to Jumbo's better time than EF in the opening TTT.
Uran celebrating at the finish of the queen stage, with Bennett behind him
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | |  | Stage 1 | | BORA - hansgrohe |  | | Rüdiger Selig | | | Stage 2 | | Wout Van Aert | | | Patrick Konrad | | | Stage 3 | | Wout Van Aert | | | Patrick Konrad | |  | Stage 4 | | Rigoberto Uran |  | | George Bennett | | | Stage 5 | | Diego Rubio |  | | George Bennett | |
Results | 1. | | George Bennett | Team Jumbo-Visma | 17h17'06 | | 2. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 13 | | 3. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 24 | | 4. |  | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | + 43 | | 5. | | Robert Gesink | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'32 | | 6. | | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | + 1'36 | | 7. | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 1'53 | | 8. | | Fabio Aru | UAE Team Emirates | + 1'54 | | 9. | | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | + 1'57 | | 10. | | Jan Hirt | Astana Pro Team | + 2'12 | | 11. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'25 | | 12. | | Jesus Herrada | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 3'12 | | 13. | | Gorka Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | + 3'19 | | 14. | | Alessandro De Marchi | UAE Team Emirates | + 3'30 | | 15. | | Leopold König | CCC Team | + 4'08 | | 16. | | Dylan Van Baarle | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 4'30 | | 17. | | Pawel Poljanski | BORA - hansgrohe | + 4'40 | | 18. | | Simon Clarke | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 5'11 | | 19. | | Georg Preidler | BORA - hansgrohe | + 5'20 | | 20. |  | Joey Rosskopf | CCC Team | + 5'45 |
 | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | 56 |  | | Riccardo Zoidl | CCC Team | 38 |  | | Tobias Foss | Team Jumbo-Visma | 17h25'56 | | | Team Jumbo-Visma | | 50h25'10 |
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Posted on 29-03-2020 14:44
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Dominant performances so far!
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Posted on 29-03-2020 16:17
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After Van Poppel's brilliant start of the season, there was a lot of pressure on Groenewegen to deliver the same type of results. And the Dutchman delivered by winning the first stage and coming second, behind Jasper Philipsen in the fourth stage.
Grosu leading out Groenewegen for the first time
Poels, Kelderman and Pogacar were the strongest riders in the race and despite Poels coming out on top of the other two in both hilly stages, with no time gaps being created between them, it was the time - trial stage that proved to be the most decisive. And there it was Kelderman's time to shine as he improves on last year's 3rd place to win the race this year!
Poels outsprinting Pogacar and Kelderman to win the second stage
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | | | S1 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | S2 | | Wout Poels |  | | Wout Poels | |  | S3 | | Patrick Bevin |  | | Wilco Kelderman |  | | S4 | | Jasper Philipsen |  | | Wilco Kelderman | | | S5 | | Wout Poels | | | Wilco Kelderman | |
Results | 1. | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | 19h26'08 | | 2. | | Tadej Pogačar | UAE Team Emirates | + 5 | | 3. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 19 | | 4. | | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain - Merida | + 34 | | 5. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 6. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'06 | | 7. | | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | + 2'12 | | 8. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'17 | | 9. |  | Amaro Antunes | CCC Team | + 3'24 | | 10. | | Toms Skujins | Manzana - Postobon Team | + 3'29 | | 11. | | Sergey Chernetckii | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 12. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 3'41 | | 13. | | Alberto Bettiol | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 3'55 | | 14. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | + 3'57 | | 15. | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | + 4'29 | | 16. | | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team INEOS | + 4'40 | | 17. | | Jesus Herrada | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 5'10 | | 18. | | Jan Bakelants | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 5'37 | | 19. |  | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | + 7'21 | | 20. | | Simon Clarke | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 8'29 |
 | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | 50 |  | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | 27 |  | | Tadej Pogačar | UAE Team Emirates | 19h26'13 | | | Lotto Soudal | | 58h24'44 |
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Posted on 29-03-2020 16:40
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Plenty of good sprinters in the race, but only two of them got the chance to write their name next to a stage win victory: Caleb Ewan and Sam Bennett.
Rohan Dennis won the second's stage time - trial, but was not able to follow the strongest climbers in the queen stage as he dropped out of contention for the first places in the GC. Dumoulin and Buchamann proved to be the strongest riders of the day, with the Dutchman taking the victory and the leader's jersey.
Dumoulin had no problem defending his position in the final stage to claim another great victory for Sunweb, following Kelderman's win in Portugal. Not the same thing happened with Buchmann, who struggled to keep up the rhythm with the strongest. Same thing happened with his team-mate, Schachmann as both dropped out of the podium places in the GC, losing them to Kruijswijk and Landa.
Dumoulin was the man of the hour in Andalucia
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | | | Stage 1 | | Caleb Ewan |  | | Caleb Ewan | | | Stage 2 | | Rohan Dennis |  | | Rohan Dennis | | | Stage 3 |  | Sam Bennett | | | Rohan Dennis | | | Stage 4 | | Tom Dumoulin | | | Tom Dumoulin | | | Stage 5 | | Ruben Guerreiro | | | Tom Dumoulin | |
Results | 1. | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 17h06'19 | | 2. | | Steven Kruijswijk | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'27 | | 3. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 1'31 | | 4. | | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'39 | | 5. | | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'05 | | 6. | | Rohan Dennis | Bahrain - Merida | + 2'24 | | 7. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 2'28 | | 8. | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 3'54 | | 9. | | Daniel Martin | UAE Team Emirates | + 4'16 | | 10. | | Ruben Guerreiro | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 4'43 | | 11. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 4'57 | | 12. | | José Joaquin Rojas | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | + 5'44 | | 13. | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 5'50 | | 14. | | Dylan Teuns | Bahrain - Merida | + 6'40 | | 15. | | Sonny Colbrelli | Bahrain - Merida | + 7'28 | | 16. | | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 7'35 | | 17. | | Jhonatan Restrepo | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | + 7'40 | | 18. | | Felix Grosschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | + 8'32 | | 19. | | Omar Fraile | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | + 8'45 | | 20. | | José Herrada | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 9'02 |
 | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 61 |  | | Angel Madrazo | Burgos - BH | 16 | | | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 17h13'54 | | | BORA - hansgrohe | | 51h30'32 |
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The awful rain made it very difficult today for the cyclists. A puncture in a very bad moment for Jansen and a massive crash in the pack which involved all but ~10 riders made in a hell race for Jumbo. Only Teunissen and Van Baarle managed to avoid the crash but neither are in a very good shape at the moment.
Van Aert hits the tarmac
The chaos in the pack allowed many of the breakaway rider to achieve a very important result today. Most of them blended in with what was left from the pack, while the strongest one would manage to make it all the way to finish line in a glorious stage win. It was QuickStep's Iljo Keisse.
Keisse enjoyed today's muddy conditions
Results | 1. | | Iljo Keisse | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 4h47'55 | | 2. | | Owain Doull | Team INEOS | + 45 | | 3. | | Daniel Oss | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4. | | Nathan Van Hooydonck | CCC Team | s.t. | | 5. | | Gianni Vermeersch | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 6. | | Hugo Hofstetter | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 7. | | Lars Boom | Roompot-Charles | s.t. | | 8. | | Jan-Willem Van Schip | Roompot-Charles | s.t. | | 9. | | Nico Denz | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 10. | | Benjamin Declercq | Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 11. | | Tom Van Asbroeck | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 12. | | Mike Teunissen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 13. | | Tim Declercq | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 1'42 | | 14. | | Dylan Van Baarle | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 15. | | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 4'02 | | 16. | | Ian Stannard | SEG Racing Academy | s.t. | | 17. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 18. | | Dries Devenyns | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 19. | | Aaron Gate | EvoPro Racing | s.t. | | 20. | | Taco Van Der Hoorn | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
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Some rider were definitely hoping to avoid a sprint today, but with the last cobbled section so far away from the finish line that was impossible.
Once the final kilometers were reached, Jumbo took full control of the pack as they launched Danny Van Poppel to his 6th win of the season. Modolo and Coquard completed the podium, with last year's winner, Caleb Ewan only fourth.
Jumbo-Visma in control
Results | 1. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | 5h04'58 | | 2. | | Sacha Modolo | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 3. | | Bryan Coquard | Vital Concept - B&B Hotels | s.t. | | 4. | | Caleb Ewan | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5. | | Jonas Rickaert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 6. | | Giacomo Nizzolo | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 7. | | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 8. | | Matteo Trentin | Euskadi Basque Country - Murias | s.t. | | 9. | | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 10. | | Mathieu Van der Poel | Corendon - Circus | s.t. | | 11. | | Sean De Bie | Roompot-Charles | s.t. | | 12. | | Oliver Naesen | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 13. | | Mike Teunissen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 14. | | Gianni Vermeersch | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 15. | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 16. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 17. | | Alberto Bettiol | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 18. | | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 19. | | Taco Van Der Hoorn | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 20. | | André Greipel | Arkéa - Samsic | s.t. |
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Fun story you have here Really enjoyed reading the last couple of pages!
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Thanks. The last racces have been quite fun to play. Especially with Van Poppel's new stats.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | 2019: | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/moHt5CE.png[/img-r] | Je. Herrada | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/Ht2gUCD.png[/img-r] | E. Cháves | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/yQUmrec.png[/img-r] | P. Roglic |
Plenty of sprint opportunities in the Arab Emirates. And the wide roads meant we saw some very close finishes, which resulted in 5 different winners in 6 mass sprints. The only rider to win twice? Dyland Groenewegen.
A very close sprint in the first stage
With the help of Gesink, Poweless managed to get himself into a very good position in the queen stage of the race. The American did not have the legs to follow the likes of Geoghegan Hart and Dombrowski as they broke away from the rest, but did enough to gain himself a top 5 overall. Geoghegan Hart outsprinted Dombrowski to take the stage win and eventually the GC.
Gesink and Powless at the front of the pack in the queen stage
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | | | S1 | | Pascal Ackermann | | | Pascal Ackermann | | | S2 | | Fernando Gaviria | | | Pascal Ackermann | | | S3 | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | | | S4 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | | | S5 | | Dylan Groenewegen | | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | | | S6 | | Christophe Laporte | | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | | | S7 | | Michael Matthews | | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | |
Results | 1. | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | 25h44'02 | | 2. | | Michael Matthews | Team Sunweb | + 10 | | 3. | | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | + 12 | | 4. |  | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | Israël - Cycling Academy | + 22 | | 5. | | Neilson Powless | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 26 | | 6. | | Tony Gallopin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 7. | | Valentin Madouas | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 8. | | Jan Bakelants | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 9. | | Alexey Lutsenko | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10. | | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 11. | | Benoît Cosnefroy | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 12. | | Gorka Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 13. | | Gregor Mühlberger | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 14. | | Alex Howes | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 15. | | Remco Evenepoel | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 1'45 | | 16. | | Robert Gesink | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'47 | | 17. | | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 2'13 | | 18. | | Simon Geschke | CCC Team | + 2'32 | | 19. | | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 20. | | Mark Padun | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. |
 | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo-Visma | 105 |  | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | 12 |  | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | 25h44'02 | | | Team INEOS | | 77h14'14 |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | 2019: | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/09zuO8c.png[/img-r] | M. Kwiatkowski | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/3kSQJ4o.png[/img-r] | L. Calmejane | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/moHt5CE.png[/img-r] | Je. Herrada |
Despite thinning the pack quite a bit, none of the white Italian roads were rode hard enough to really decide this year's winner. Instead we ended up with a sprint between a group of almost 40 riders.
Wout Van Aert looked quite good the entire day and even though he was quite fast in the final sprint, he failed to get on the podium due to rather poor positioning at the start of the final punch. Bora's Patrick Konrad proved to be the strongest in the sprint as he gets one of the most important wins of his career.
The Austrian Champion showing off the national colors
Results | 1. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | 4h32'35 | | 2. | | Mads Pedersen | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 3. | | Enrico Gasparotto | CCC Team | s.t. | | 4. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 5. | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6. | | Gianluca Brambilla | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 7. | | Toms Skujins | Manzana - Postobon Team | s.t. | | 8. | | Guillaume Martin | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9. | | Sergio Andres Higuita | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 10. | | Sergio Luis Henao | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 11. | | Davide Ballerini | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Bauke Mollema | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 13. | | Peter Kennaugh | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 14. | | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 15. | | Marco Canola | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 16. | | Jan Bakelants | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 17. | | Davide Villella | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 18. | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 19. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 20. | | Rafal Majka | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
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