In the meantime in Malaysia Guardini took another stage win in front of Ewan and the promising Mareczko. I'd rather like to see him spreading what he wins at Langkawi throughout the year
How The Race Was Won: Strade Bianche; worth the watch, as always. Especially because race coverage was a bit confusing at times tbh. Shows how strong Styby was strong in this race very well, he's game for classics.
Ewan takes his 3rd pro win in his young career already, winning the sprint from a reduced peloton of 40 riders. Guardini not in the peloton so Ewan also takes the leader's jersey. Edited by Wilier on 10-03-2015 21:52
Back to normal, Guardini wins yet again in Langkawi:
On another note, I completely agree about Strade Bianche's UCI classification, but I honestly don't care too much whether it's WT or not: that's still more popular than tons of other races and as long as the most important riders will show what they're able to do, as it's actually happened this year, I will be happy. The same can obviously be said of the Omloop Edited by matt17br on 11-03-2015 13:31
Only just seen the full results of yesterday's Tour de Langkawi's stage. Does anyone know what happened for 3/4 of the peloton to finish 24mns after the first group?
gargatouf wrote:
Only just seen the full results of yesterday's Tour de Langkawi's stage. Does anyone know what happened for 3/4 of the peloton to finish 24mns after the first group?
That's a huge gap for so many riders!!
Don't quote me on that, but I assume they were dropped on the mid-stage climb and the front group just went too fast so they gave up chasing.
What a race for MTN and Reguigui! I think guys like JvR, Kudus, Berhane, etc. were very disappointed with the exclusion of the Genting climb. I seriously think Jacques would've won that with his current form. They bounced back brilliantly with this win though.
Wow, so Reguigui can get 5th in a Qatar stage, nearly pass Ewan in a flat sprint and win a mountain stage. This guy seems like he'll be WT material soon.
Out of curiosity, who's the most successful African rider that is not South African?
Edited by cio93 on 14-03-2015 15:03
cio93 wrote:
Wow, so Reguigui can get 5th in a Qatar stage, nearly pass Ewan in a flat sprint and win a mountain stage. This guy seems like he'll be WT material soon.
Out of curiosity, who's the most successful African rider that is not South African?
Chris Froome. Edited by Alakagom on 14-03-2015 16:08
cio93 wrote:
Wow, so Reguigui can get 5th in a Qatar stage, nearly pass Ewan in a flat sprint and win a mountain stage. This guy seems like he'll be WT material soon.
Out of curiosity, who's the most successful African rider that is not South African?
Chris Froome.
You know just as well as I do that I refuse to acknowledge any Froome results. Remember what happened to Armstrong?
cio93 wrote:
Wow, so Reguigui can get 5th in a Qatar stage, nearly pass Ewan in a flat sprint and win a mountain stage. This guy seems like he'll be WT material soon.
Out of curiosity, who's the most successful African rider that is not South African?
Not sure that Bukit Fraser is quite as Mountainy as Genting would have been.
I guess it could be Natnael Berhane, with GC wins at Turkey in 2013 and La Tropicale last year. Probably will be Kudus soon, but his best result so far is 2nd at Langkawi last year.
