Late season races - *Spoilers*

[Flying_Monkey]

Degenkolb seems to have gone off the boil after the Vuelta. He came in third behind Adam Blythe the other day IIRC.

He's probably knackered, he's done pretty well this season and he's still young...

 

[rich p]

He's probably knackered, he's done pretty well this season and he's still young...

Of course, I wasn't suggesting anything else!

 

[ColinJ]

I haven't read much about the Tour of Beijing which I think it is going to be on Eurosport next week. Is it likely to be of interest, or will it be just a boring procession of unknown riders who couldn't get out of being sent over there to keep the UCI happy?

 

[raindog]

Paris-Bourges results
http://s288581967.onlinehome.fr/LIVE/resultat/resultat.php5?code_course=BOU&menu=1&type=0
a nice end of season win for Florian Vachon and Bretagne-Schuller
Endura Racing still up there in the results.

 

[rich p]

I haven't read much about the Tour of Beijing which I think it is going to be on Eurosport next week. Is it likely to be of interest, or will it be just a boring procession of unknown riders who couldn't get out of being sent over there to keep the UCI happy?

Dunno either but I'm guessing it will be the ones who draw the short straw. I'm also guessing Sky will send the riders who haven't done agreat deal in the bigger tours and the ones who are getting the heave-ho this year. I could of course be completely wrong but Lofquist and Nordhaug spring to mind.
IIRC, it was blighted last year by boring parcours and pollution.

 

[rich p]

Well, I was wrong - poor EBH has drawn the short straw with a team of youngsters starting one short due to Ben Swift's wihdrawal.
Dowsett, Rowe, Puccio, Sutton.

 

[ColinJ]

Well, I was wrong - poor EBH has drawn the short straw with a team of youngsters starting one short due to Ben Swift's wihdrawal.
Dowsett, Rowe, Puccio, Sutton.

I'll give it a go! I'm still stuck indoors most of the time so I might as well watch the last big-(gish) race of the season.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Another Colombian win, this time for Nairo Quintana in the Giro dell'Emilia. He's had an excellent season and still only 22.

 

[thom]

Another Colombian win, this time for Nairo Quintana in the Giro dell'Emilia. He's had an excellent season and still only 22.

But he looks a bit older :

 

[Flying_Monkey]

But he looks a bit older

He looks indigenous.

 

[raindog]

Degenkolb
beast of a rider - another 500 metres and he would've got that.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Marcato wins Paris-Tours. Now there's a result no-one was predicting.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

And Basso wins the Japan Cup after a serious attack by Dan Martin on the final climb wrecked the sprinters' hopes. Nice photos of the fans too, which show where pro-cycling's future lies.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Niki Terpstra finishes a late season surge with victory in the Amstel Curacao Race.