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General Race Thread 2024 **spoilers**

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  • #692
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,352 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Another win for Sam… uphill on cobbles (?) I think. Had to dig deep, there were 2 other riders with him from the reduced peloton.

    Now has a 28 seconds lead over Penhoet going into the final stage tomorrow.

    Preliminary results of the stage below.

    RNK.

    RIDER

    TEAM

    TIME

    1

     BENNETT Sam

    Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team

    4:24:31

    2

     PENHOËT Paul

    Groupama - FDJ

    0:00

    3

     BERCKMOES Jenno

    Lotto Dstny

    0:00

    4

     VAN BOVEN Luca

    Bingoal WB

    0:03

    5

     DELETTRE Alexandre

    St Michel - Mavic - Auber93

    0:03

    6

     BREUILLARD Nicolas

    St Michel - Mavic - Auber93

    0:03

    7

     NAESEN Oliver

    Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team

    0:06

    8

     MENTEN Milan

    Lotto Dstny

    0:10

    9

     WATSON Samuel

    Groupama - FDJ

    0:10

    10

     LEROUX Samuel

    Van Rysel - Roubaix

    0:10

    https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/4-jours-de-dunkerque/2024/stage-5/live

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #693
    Dodge
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    loved that win for Sam. One of the best of his career. Might only be a .pro stage win, but it looked and felt like a mini-classic. All he has to do is finish with a bunch sprint and he’s going to win a stage race too. Great to see him looking so strong



  • #694
    Dodge
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    PS he’s already equalled his wins total in 2022 and 2023…



  • #695
    happytramp
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    Last couple of km from today's stage.

    https://youtu.be/JweEf9sr-hg?si=BPaNvzYTKtlsxBeV



  • #696
    breezy1985
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    Winning a sprint stage in a race like this was nice given where he was coming from but nothing to get too excited about.

    But winning today's stage and probably GC is a real show of strength. Some year for the team and lots of guys putting hands up for the Tour.

    Speaking of France the predictions are that this could be Irelands best ever Olympics in terms of number of medal contenders and it would be amazing if someone like Healy could be part of that. The course is "made for Loulou" so Healy and Dunbar could do well if they play it smart.



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  • #697
    Dodge
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    Lara Gillespie wins a 1.1 race in Belgium ahead of Zoe Backstedt. Her biggest win to date


    Seth Dunwoody second in a junior race stage today too



  • #698
    odyssey06
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    And Sam seals the overall GC win in Dunkerque (aka Grand Prix des Hauts de France) with a victory on the final stage.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #699
    Dodge
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    Class by Sam. 4 stages and the overall GC. Just an incredible week for him



  • #700
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,812 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    First year junior Conor Murphy won Stade Bianchi jnr today, savage rider & he was in A3 not 5/6 weeks ago 😂😂😂



  • #701
    happytramp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭happytramp


    I like that when people read that Sam won 4 stages at the 4 days of Dunkirk... They'll just assume he got the clean sweep.



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  • #702
    breezy1985
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122159555#Comment_122159555

    Would be even better if he won 5 days out of 4.



  • #703
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,352 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122159555#Comment_122159555

    Didn't there used to be sometimes 2 stages in one day in some of the Grand Tours… iirc Sean Kelly talking about them on commentary.

    So it could be like that, but it isn't :)

    I'm guessing the original 4 days of Dunkirk was subsumed in the wider  Grand Prix des Hauts de France.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #704
    Junior
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122159778#Comment_122159778

    Aye split stages, the year Roche won the Giro I think there was a split stage, with the Poggio included as a downhill TT. I may have that arseways now .. but they were common enough way back when GTs needed the start/finish fees to survive.



  • #705
    Raoul Duke
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122160200#Comment_122160200

    From memory, there were split stages in the Nissan Classic as well.



  • #706
    breezy1985
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    Tour of Britain were still doing the odd split stage in London. Sprint and TT split seeing as the British were very good at both for a while there.



  • #707
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Stephen Roche's first TdF stage win was a split stage on Col d'Aubisque in 1985. IIRC, he wore a skinsuit with pockets hand-sewn into the back - the first speedsuit?

    Just looking back - 22 stages plus a prologue and just one rest day.



  • #708
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 8,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Catching up on the Antwerp Port race and Girmay should have been relegated in my opinion after a very dangerous nudge into an Israel rider I think which almost had him doing a Fabio Jacobsen into the barriers. He wasn't on the podium so the organisers probably didn't see the point but the idea is surely to stop this behaviour.



  • #709
    Dodge
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    3 of the grand tour stages won by Irish men were split stages

    1979 Vuelta stage 8a by Kelly (Standard stage with sprint finish followed by a 15 min prologue style ITT in the evening)

    1985 Tour stage 18a by Roche. 52.5km race up to the Aubisque (Kelly was second). Afternoon stage was 83kms to Pau. Kelly 3rd, Roche 5th. Roche sat 3rd, Kelly 4th on GC

    1987 Giro Stage 1b by Roche. 10 min ITT after a 30km mountain stage earlier that day. He was 4th there



  • #710
    Macy0161
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122160417#Comment_122160417

    I think this years TdF Femme has a split stage.



  • #711
    eagle eye
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    I see Wout is back today in the Tour of Norway. It's a stage he can win if he's fully healthy.



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  • #712
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122173838#Comment_122173838

    Hope you didn't put the house on that.

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  • #713
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,738 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122175004#Comment_122175004

    I didn't put anything on it. As I said it's a stage he could win if he's fully healthy.

    And betting on cycling is a bit nuts. Outside of the brutal mountain stages and sprints it's impossible to call. Even the sprints are difficult to predict.



  • #714
    breezy1985
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122175346#Comment_122175346

    Don't tell that to the Keirin lads.



  • #715
    Dodge
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    Finn Crockett wins the first stage in the 2.2 ranked Tour de la Mirabelle

    Fiona Mangan 4th in final stage of 2.1 Bretagne Ladies Tour



  • #716
    Thud
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    Pro cycling stats has Sam down for the Dauphine and Healy on TdeF squad already



  • #717
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,303 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Archie Ryan and Darren Rafferty are back in action tomorrow for the “Mercan'Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes”

    It’s been won by climbers in the 3 years it’s been run



  • #718
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Superman lopez banned for 4 years, backdated from Jul 23

    https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/uci-statement-concerning-miguel-angel-lopez2/4Ot8GmGsmT749ekuBE1KaX



  • #719
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    What race will Vingegaard do or is it straight to the tour?



  • #720
    retalivity
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122199839#Comment_122199839

    He's running out of road...hes not doing the dauphine, and currently not listed for tour de suisse the week after, which finishes 2 weeks before the tour. There's no worldtour or proseries race after that, before the tdf starts. I'd imagine it'll be a few weeks at altitude instead of proper racing



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  • #721
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,812 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    It's likely that if he goes to the tour it will be week 3 where he is found out much like Podjacar last year.



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