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7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Sad for the president you mean, I hope? Not sad for Pirazzi and Ruffoni? :p 

Sad moment for the president and for all people that whatch it :p Who care about Pirazzi and Ruffoni? I hope that CONI will disqualificate both for 4 years..

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Tour of Tunisia stage 1:

 

1. Benjamin Satuder (Allemagne) :GER 2h 43:55.
2. Abdallah Ben Youssef (Algérie) :ALG m.t.
3. Ali Noussri (Tunisie) :TUN m.t.
4. Lucas Cartensen (Allemagne) :GER 2h44:09.
5. Hamza Yassine (Algérie) :ALG m.t. 
6. Mathias Legley (Belgique) :BEL m.t.  

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36 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

Yeah, how do Cofidis get invited here. They seem to get into many races. :d

 

This year king Sagan doesn't have it on a plate. So many sprinters are here it would be a nice battle for stages. :p

 

Yep, I doubt he'll take all the sprints again :d 

 

I'm mostly really curious about Sam Oomen, 'our' next talented GC rider. Only 21 years old and so far this year 15th in Andalucia, 14th in Paris-Nice and 19th in Pais Vasco, I wonder what he can do in this field that just doesn't have a whole lot of fantastic GC riders.

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Nice win for Majka, beating Bennett in a bit of a dirty sprint :p (in which Majka was sort of sprinting on the line of the laws, while Bennett was sprinting like he has an IQ of -20 or his brains had shut off temporarily)

 

Nasty fall for Tom Skujins by the way, who was in the lead group, after which he was completely lost. Unbelievable and incredibly irresponsible that his team let him get back on the bike (even cycling greats like Robbie McEwen immediately went on Twitter asking the Cannondale people to please get him off the bike). At least after a while he finally got off.

 

 

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

:NORTour des Fjords :NOR 

stage 1:Balestrand – Førde  24/05/2017
Distance : 189,8 km

 

top 10

 

1 Dries Van Gestel :BEL Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise 4:35:16  
2 Daniel Turek :CZE    
3 Hector Saez Benito  :ESP   Caja Rural-Seguros RGA    
4 Torkil Veyhe :DEN Coloquick - Cult    
5 Youcef Reguigui :ALG Dimension Data 0:00:27  
6 August Jensen :NOR Team Coop    
7 Amund Grondahl Jansen :NORTeam LottoNl-Jumbo    
8 Andre Looij :NED Roompot - Nederlandse Loterij     
9 Jonas Koch :GER CCC Sprandi Polkowice    
10 Andrea Pasqualon :ITA Wanty - Groupe Gobert  
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Meanwhile in Japan, Canola is on fire :lol:

 

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It's not like there are any serious top riders there, but still, it's slightly remarkable..

 

Stage 6 is fun by the way, the traditional 11km stage from the bottom to the top of Mt Fuji (and no, not a time trial) :d 

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4 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

That is so stupid.. BTW what is the grade on that pass?

Nothing stupid about it, much more fun than a 200km stage with one climb at the end, like they love in the Vuelta :p Like this: _______/

 

A short stage with one major climb where everyone starts off fresh? That's one hell of a guarantee for attacks and spectacular racing. I'm not sure about the grade by the way. 

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