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Nice British double in the Women’s GP de Plouay this morning.  Lizzie Deignan beats Lizzie Banks after a long dual break. Big :NED &m:ITA names in the chasing pack never managed to bury the egos.  Race held in pouring rain & driving wind, or what we in Britain call “a day at the beach.”  :beer:

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World Road Championships 2020 confirmed for Imola, :ITA.   Race track used for the start & finish, but mainly out on the roads.  Quite hilly.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/53942004

 

Just four events though - Senior Men & Women ITT & Road Race.

 

2020 UCI Road World Championships Programme

 

Thursday, 24 September: Elite Women individual time trial

Friday, 25 September: Elite Men individual time trial

Saturday, 26 September: Elite Women road race

Sunday, 27 September: Elite Men road race

 

Well done tutto il mondo for pulling all that together at less than a month’s notice.

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Young Hungarian Attila Valter has taken his first serious win by winning the main stage and GC at the Tour of Hungary today, which had a rather strong field of participants.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-hongrie/2020/stage-5

 

He's been showing good results for a while, but this is sort of a breakthrough. Cool to see Hungary having someone new after one-trick pony Laszlo Bodrogi.

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“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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The :EST rider of Bora-Hansgrohe Martin Laas won the first half stage of the Okolo Slovenska (Tour of Slovakia) on the roads around žilina this morning ahead of :NZL Shane Archbold (Deceunick-Quick Step) and  :BEL Sean de Bie (Bingal Wallonie-Bruxelles)

 

Juraj Sagan had a crash and finished more than 9 minutes behind...

 

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This afternoon the race will resume with the second half of the 1st stage, a 9km short ITT in Žilina

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and it is Jannik Steimle :GER (Deceuninck-Quickstep) who won the late afternoon ITT in Žilina ahead of Nico Denz :GER from Sunweb and Andreas Leknesund :NOR from Uno-X Team.

 

The same standing is also in the GC.

 

 

Some pics from today

 

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On 14/09/2020 at 22:07, dcro said:

Sprinter Grosu takes Tour of Romania in another bizarre turn of events. Did he train with Wout van Aert by any chance?

Did you see him just casually be the only one to follow Diego Ulissi's attack in the pretty long uphill finish in Luxembourg yesterday? :yikes: 

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About Luxembourg: yesterday riders were already angry at the rather poor organization, with tons of cars being parked right in the heat of the sprint preparation battle, incredibly dangerous. Konovalovas was dropped after his work was done...and finished 12 minutes later eventually, because he had to stop for a red light - apparently the road had already been reopened.

 

Today it was again incredibly unsafe and very early on, riders decided to neutralize it and basically go on strike. The 160km stage ended up being 40km, since the deal was they'd at least race the last 40km, leading to a sprint win by Demare.

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