Road Cycling 2023 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,769]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

@hckošice Did they mention anything about technical issues or something in terms of making the broadcasts? The official YouTube channel has a sort of stream, but it's mostly consisting of showing a few seconds of cyclists, then one or two guys in a studio talking for a while, and then a few seconds of some cyclists again (but no graphic at all, so no idea how far to go, differences, etc, basically no information at all and we can't get it from watching because most of the time no cyclists are being shown at all ).

 

I presume there must be some sort of technical issue (Wednesday and yesterday at least, I didn't get to today's stream yet), but my Slovak is....well....yeah  

 

Mostly I'm happy with your reports here, so....gonna give it a try......hvala?  

Yeah, the coverage is terrible, I assume they did not find an agreement with the public TV (which was expected to cover the entire race, it was even in the TV schedule 2 days before the start), so there no professional broadcast of the race, sadly. The only one is the stream of the race organizers on their youtube channel, which is, yeah at absolute hobby-amateurish level I would say (only last 20km or so... and limited cameras..., so yes, definitely not-watchable).

Edited September 15, 2023 by hckošice

[hckošice 14,769]

4 Stages 4 Wins for Soudal/Quick-Step.

 

Tim Merlier won the stage today (his 2nd here), a 150km flat from Prievidza to Nitra in the peloton sprint.

 

Stage 4 Top 10

 

 

Jerseys after Stage 4

 

GC : Remi Cavagna (FRA, Soudal-QuickStep)
Point Competition : Cavagna
KOM : Milan Vader (NED, Jumbo-Visma)
U23 : Colby Simmons (USA,  Jumbo-Visma) 
Best SVK Jersey: Lukáš Kubiš (Dukla Banská Bystrica)

 

 

Edited September 16, 2023 by hckošice

[hckošice 14,769]

Remi Cavagna won the Tour de Slovaquie 2023 ahead of Stefan Kueng and Milan Vader.

 

Last 184 km stage from Hlohovec to Púchov ended just like all others of this edition by a Quick-step win, Impressive unprecedented 5/5 for Soudal. this time Kasper Asgreen crossed the line first.

 

Soudal won also the green jersey via Time Merlier, Junbo won the othre 2 main jerseys, the KoM by Milan Vader and the U23 jersey by Colby Simmons.

 

Lukáš Kubiš won the best SVK rider jersey.

 

Stage 5 Top 10

 

 

GC Final Standing

 

 

 

[Rafa Maciel 1,592]

A lot of action across both the men's and women's tours on the roads this week:

 

 

Men's Events

 

La Vuelta Ciclista a Espana

1.)   Sepp Kuss

2.)  Jonas Vingegaard

3.)  Primoz Roglic

 

Tour of Slovaquie

1.)   Remi Cavagna

2.)  Stefan Kung

3.)  Milan Vader

 

Grand Prix de Wallonie

1.)   Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez

2.)  Dylan Teuns

3.)  Jasper De Buyst

 

Giro della Toscana - Memorial Alfredo Martini

1.)  Pavel Sivakov

2.)  Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro

3.)  Felix Grosschartner

 

Gran Pemio citta di Peccioli - Coppa Sabatini

1.)  Marc Hirschi

2.)  Pavel Sivakov

3.)  Tadej Pogacar

 

Kampionenschap van Vlaanderen

1.)  Jasper Philipsen

2.)  Dylan Groenewegen

3.)  Fabio Jakobsen

 

Super 8 Classic

1.)  Mathieu Van Der Poel

2.)  Anthony Turgis

3.)  Florian Vermeersch

 

Memorial Marco Pantani

1.)  Alexey Lutsenko

2.)  Marc Hirschi

3.)  Pavel Sivakov

 

 

 

Women's Events

 

Tour de Romandie

1.)   Demi Vollering

2.)  Katarzyna Niewiadoma

3.)  Marlen Reusser

 

Tour Cycliste Feminin International de l'Ardeche

1.)  Marta Cavalli

2.)  Erica Magnaldi

3.)  Anastasiya Kolesava

 

Grisette Grand Prix de Wallonie

1.)  Marta Lach

2.)  Sylvia Persico

3.)  Victoire Berteau

 

AG Tour De La Semois

1.)  Karlijn Swinkels

2.)  Clara Koppenburg

3.)  Noemi Ruegg

 

 

[Grassmarket 3,362]

 Nathan van Hooydonck has to retire suddenly after his heart episode last week.

 

\https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66871751

[heywoodu 14,913]

Adriatica Ionica Race was supposed to start today, it was cancelled yesterday

 

Organizer blaming the federation, federation blaming the organizer, yaddi yaddi yadda.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/adriatica-ionica-race-cancelled-just-16-hours-before-start/

[heywoodu 14,913]

On 9/20/2023 at 7:58 PM, Grassmarket said:

 Nathan van Hooydonck has to retire suddenly after his heart episode last week.

 

\https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66871751

And today became a dad. What an incredible rollercoaster the past two years have been for him and his wife (girlfriend?).

[Grassmarket 3,362]

Horrible ordeal for Miguel Angel Lopez in 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12552445/Cycling-Miguel-Angel-Lopez-Colombia.html

[Rafa Maciel 1,592]

Most of the focus this week has been on the European Championships, but there have been a few other events taking place on the roads across the globe.

 

Men's Events

 

Tour of Luxembourg

1.)   Marc Hirschi

2.)  Brandon McNulty

3.)  Ben Healy

 

Tour of Binzhou

1.)  Lucas Carstensen

2.)  Luis Carlos Chia Bermudez

3.)  Blake Agnoletto

 

Paris-Chauny

1.)  Jasper Philipsen

2.)  Jason Tesson

3.)  Paul Penhoet

 

Omloop van het Houtland

1.)  Gerben Thijssen

2.)  Dyland Groenewegen

3.)  Cedric Beullens

 

 

 

 

[Rafa Maciel 1,592]

Looks like Tom Pidcock's road season may now be complete whilst he focuses on mountain bike qualification for Paris. Assuming he has recovered from his infected backside, he is on the entry list for this weekend's world cup event at Snowshoe.