I want to dedicate this win to Michele Scarponi, it would have been his birthday tomorrow.
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Tour de Yorkshire host towns announced. Barnsley, Beverley, Doncaster, Halifax, Ilkley, Leeds, Richmond and Scarborough.
Routes announced in December.
I'm not sure how Richmond is going to work as the town sits on a hill with cobbled roads leading in and out in some places. Too much to ask for a Siena-style finish?
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Don't know the road layout of Richmond particularly well but expect it would host a start, the market square thingy would be ideal for the paraphenalia and it'd make for some nice helicopter shots. Would also guess that other starts will be in Beverley which successfully hosted a very wet start in the square a couple of races back, Halifax now the Piece Hall refurbishment is complete and Barnsley on the basis I can't think of a suitable stretch of road for a finish.
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The A61 from Wakefield that leads to Old Mill Lane. Old Mill Lane is (pure guesswork here) about a km long at about 5% for the first 600m, rising to 8%ish for the last 400m. Turn left at the top and after 100m you're at the Town Hall.
(In reply to longeared suggesting there is no stretch of road to host the finish at Barnsley.)
Think Leige-Bastogne-Leige, except with more empty crisp packets in the road.
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Yeah, thought of Old Mill Road. From a racing point of view it'd be a good location for a finale, but think the area as a whole has too small a footprint to fit in large number of spectators / race infrastructure / broadcasting / hospitality etc. Outside the town hall would be fine for a start but the road's too narrow for a finish.
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Cavendish will return in Munsterland on Wednesday, but will reportedly ride as a domestique
He is also doing Paris-Tours at the weekendLast edited by ursus arctos; 03-10-2017, 02:18.
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- Oct 2011
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- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Including the world championship with the monuments, there have been six winners of the big six one day races:
Milan-Sanremo: Kwiatkowski
Flanders: Gilbert
Paris-Roubaix: Van Avermaet
LBL: Valverde
Worlds: Sagan
Lombardia: Nibali
And that shows why they're the biggest races.
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostLaurens De Plus with a horror crash on a descent in Lombardia, going completely over the guardrail at speed. No word yet on his condition.
Bakelants meanwhile is going to have an operation today, "The 31-year-old AG2R rider broke seven ribs and two vertebrae after his fall on a perilous descent in the Italian one-day classic. Jan must have an urgent operation in Belgium to consolidate the fractures to the L3 vertabrae, it was announced on Thursday. Bakelants was treated in intensive care in a hospital in Como after the accident watched by millions of viewers. Because of a haemothorax, it was unfortunately impossible to transfer him to Belgium in the last few days. It has now stabilised allowing him to be transferred to the hospital in Louvain. (Gulf Today)
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostThe 'Presidential' Tour of Turkey isn't really doing much to justify a World Tour place. It's after Lombardia, so no-one cares.
Except one man.
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- Oct 2011
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Yes. There's a new China tour starting Wednesday think as well, though the start list looks more promising (Ewan Vs Gaviria again).
Speaking of promising news:
https://twitter.com/Jan_Bakelants/status/919906275990884352
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Really like that route, although it does seem a little odd that they've Dumoulin-proofed it before the Dumoulin Era has begun. First week could be a bit dull - good luck Ned and Dave on commentating on the 231k of flatness to Chartres - but after five of the first eight stages are sprints then there's only three more flat days. Do quite like the idea though that whichever sprinter wears yellow after the first day (Kittel or Gaviria presumably) could actually hold on to it the following day or it could be transferred to another sprinter.
That cobbled stage to Roubaix could be absolutely nuts, 21k of cobbles, way more than had been expected. Short too so it'll be absolutely mental and probably crashtastic before the first section of pave. Also presume it'll have an early start to get wrapped up in good time for the World Cup final (which starts at 4pm UK)
Watching the presentation I saw the 108k stage to La Rosiere and assumed that was our short mountain stage, so it came as a bit of a surprise to see that 65k affair to the Col de Portet. Seen longer individual time trials than that in the Tour! Also nice to see Mende in there in a year that doesn't end in 0 or 5, presume this visit is because Jaja turns 50 next year.
Mildly disappointed to see that La Course is still only a single day, they're running it over the Grand Bornand stage but not the whole thing, they start after the Col de Croix Fry. That's also the Etape, so women doing that will ride further than the elite. Work that one out. (Also noted they haven't given a date for La Course - running it on the men's rest day?)
Froome will win again, I expect.
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Mildly disappointed? It's a single day over a curtailed stage, buried in the middle of the race. On a Tuesday. One might almost think it's part of a deliberate campaign on the part of ASO to slowly strangle the concept. It is happening on the same day as the Men, though. Even that could be seen as minimising, as if they had had it on the rest day it could have gather all the attention.
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Originally posted by Janik View PostMildly disappointed? It's a single day over a curtailed stage, buried in the middle of the race. On a Tuesday. One might almost think it's part of a deliberate campaign on the part of ASO to slowly strangle the concept. It is happening on the same day as the Men, though. Even that could be seen as minimising, as if they had had it on the rest day it could have gather all the attention.
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