The Peloton
For observations and comments on the Pro scene.
Race Results 2018 - Men
| Event | First | Second | Third | Forth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop Het Nieublad Elite | Valgren | Wisniowski | Vanmarcke | Stuyven | Gilbert |
| Strade Bianche | Benoot | Bardet | Van Aert | Valverde | Visconti |
| Milan San Remo | Nibali | Ewan | Demare | Kristoff | Roelandts |
| E3 Harelbeke | Terpstra | Gilbert | van Avermaet | Naesen | Benoot |
| Ghent Wevelgen | Sagan | Viviani | Demare | Laporte | Debusschere |
| Ronde van Vlaanderen | Terpstra | Pedersen | Gilbert | Andersen | van Avermaet |
| Paris Roubaix | Sagan | Dillier | Terpstra | van Avermaet | Stuyven |
| Amstel Gold | Valgren | Kreuzinger | Gasarotto | Sagan | Valverde |
| Fleche Wallonne | Alaphilippe | Valverde | Vanendert | Kreuziger | Matthews |
| Liege-B-Liege | Jungels | Woods | Bardet | Alaphilippe | Pozzovivo |
| Tour de Romandie | Roglic | Bernal | Porte | Fuglsang | Costa |
| Giro d'Italia | Froome | Dumoulin | Lopez | Carapaz | Pozzovivo |
| Criterium Daupine | Thomas | Adam Yates | Bardet | Dan Martin | Caruso |
| Tour de Suisse | Porte | Fuglsang | Quintana | Mas | Kelderman |
| Tour de France | Thomas | Dumoulin | Froome | Roglic | Kruijswijk |
| San Sebastian | Alaphilippe | Mollema | Roux | van Avermaet | Simon |
| Vuelta a Espana | S Yates | Mas | Lopez | Kruijswijk | Valverde |
| Tour of Britain | |||||
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal | |||||
| The Worlds ITT Men | R Dennis | Dumoulin | Campenaerts | Kwiatkowski | Oliveira |
| The Worlds RR Men | Valverde | Bardet | Woods | Dumoulin | Moscon |
| Giro de Lombardia | Pinot | Nibali | Teuns | Uran | Wellens |
Race Results 2018 - Women
| Event | First | Second | Third | Forth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop het Nieuwsblad | |||||
| Strade Bianche | van der Breggen | Niewiadoma | Longo Borghini | Blaak | Kennedy |
| Ronde van Drenthe | Pieters | Ryan | Hosking | Bastianelli | Vos |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda | Niewiadoma | Blaak | Vos | Spratt | Amialiusik |
| Driedaagse Brugge - de Panne | D'Hoore | Hosking | Majerus | Wiebs | Brennauer |
| Ghent Wevelgen | Bastianelli | D'Hoore | Klein | Sierra | Pieters |
| Ronde van Vlaanderen | van der Breggen | Pieters | van Vleuten | Moolman-Pasio | Blaak |
| Amstel Gold | Blaak | Brand | Spratt | Markus | Ryan |
| Fleche Wallonne | van der Breggen | Moolman-Pasio | Guarnier | van Vleuten | Spratt |
| Liege-B-Liege | van der Breggen | Spratt | van Vleuten | Moolman-Pasio | van Dijk |
| OVO Energy Tour | Rivera | Vos | Rowe | Majerus | Pieters |
| Giro Rosa | van Vleuten | Moolman-Pasio | Spratt | Brand | Guarnier |
| La Course | |||||
| GP de Plouay | |||||
| The Worlds ITT Women | van Vleuten | van der Breggen | van Dijk | Kirchmann | Thomas |
| The Worlds RR Women | van der Breggen | Spratt | Guderzo | Fahlin | Jasinska |
Race Results 2019 - Men
| Event | First | Second | Third | Forth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop Het Nieublad Elite | Stybar | van Avermaet | Wellens | Lutsenko | Teuns |
| Kuurne Brussels Kuurne | Jungles | Doull | Terpstra | Groenewegen | Lampaert |
| Strade Bianche | Alaphilippe | Fuglsang | van Aert | Stybar | Benoot |
| Paris - Nice (8d) | Bernal | Quintana | Kwiatkowski | Haig | Bardet |
| Tirreno Adriatico (7d) | Roglic | A Yates | Fuglsang | Dumoulin | Pinot |
| Milan San Remo | Alaphilippe | Naesen | Kwiatkowski | Sagan | Mohoric |
| Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (7d) | Lopez | Yates | Bernal | Quintana | Kruijswijk |
| E3 Harelbeke | Stybar | van Aert | van Avermaet | Bettiol | Jungels |
| Gent - Wevelgem | Kristoff | Degenkolb | Naesen | van der Poel | van Poppel |
| Tour of Flanders | Bettiol | Asgreen | Kristoff | van der Poel | Politt |
| Paris-Roubaix | Gilbert | Pollit | Lampaert | Vanmarke | Sagan |
| Amstel Gold Race | |||||
| La Fleche Wallonne | |||||
| Liege - Bastogne - Liege | |||||
| Tour de Romandie | |||||
| Giro d'Italia | |||||
| Criterium du Dauphine | |||||
| Tour de Suisse | |||||
| Le Tour de France | |||||
| Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian | |||||
| Vuelta a Espana | |||||
| Tour of Britain | |||||
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal | |||||
| UCI Road World Championships | |||||
| Giro di Lombardia |
Race Results 2019 - Women
| Event | First | Second | Third | Forth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop het Nieuwsblad | Blaak | Bastianelli | van den Bos | van Vleuten | Ryan |
| Strade Bianche | van Vleuten | Langvad | Niewiadoma | Bastianelli | Ludwig |
| Ronde van Drenthe | Bastianelli | Blaak | van Dijk | Pieters | Kopecky |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda Women | Vos | Spratt | Ludwig | Chursina | Cecchini |
| Driedaagse Brugge - de Panne Women | Wild | Wiebers | Kopecky | Lepisto | Anderson |
| Gent-Wevelgem | Wild | Wiebes | Paternoster | Bastianelli | Pieters |
| Tour of Flanders | Bastianelli | van Vleuten | Ludwik | Bertizzolo | van Dijk |
| Amstel Gold Race | |||||
| La Fleche Wallonne | |||||
| Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes | |||||
| OVO Energy Women's Tour | |||||
| Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile | |||||
| La Course by Le Tour de France Women | |||||
| GP de Plouay | |||||
| UCI Road World Championships |
Key Rider Team Changes 2020
| Rider | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Carapaz | Movistar | Ineos |
| Degenkolb | Trek Segafredo | Lotto Soudal |
| Dombrowski | EF Education First | UAE Team Emirates |
| Formolo | Bora Hansgrohe | UAE Team Emirates |
| Kittel | Katusha-Alpecin | (Resting) |
| Landa | Movistar | Bahrain Merida |
| Mas | Deceuninck-Quickstep | Movistar |
| Nibali | Bahrain Merida | Trek-Segafredo |
| Poels | INEOS | Bahrain Merida |
| Quintana | Movistar | Arkea-Samsic |
| Trentin | Mitchelton-Scott | CCC |
| Viviani | Deceuninck-Quickstep | Cofidis |
| Zakarin | Katusha-Alpecin | CCC |
Eddy Merckx in hospital with head injuries following a crash while out riding. Very best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eddy-merckx-in-hospital-with-serious-head-injury-after-crash/?fbclid=IwAR3l73-8FEHwC16oWQer2joJ6YfvR-nq2MSahBByxrlQFp7Oac5mpFV1KcM
Eddy Merckx released from hospital and resting at home.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eddy-merckx-released-from-hospital-a-week-after-crash/?fbclid=IwAR2vwOGW19ZBy4kyapHpsYn8qKDHDW5AlMXLOCoBsCDVEoW4DQZLXTgIHII
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wada-identifies-the-dna-of-11-athletes-implicated-in-operation-puerto/
This seems backwards to me…??? After more than 10 years, they should have no problem naming names.
Here in the USA “Executive Order 13526 establishes the mechanisms for most declassifications, within the laws passed by Congress. The originating agency assigns a declassification date, by default 10 years.”
Wout Poels moving from INEOS to Bahrain Merida.
Smart move. Carapaz, Bernal, Froome, Thomas. He’ll forever be a domestique in that team.
Wonder what Landa is hoping his role will be!
Must have been a nasty crash for Steve Cummings. Best Wishes for a speedy recovery……
https://buff.ly/32O0ZIi?fbclid=IwAR36hvxT61hfa4lsNDv-NNOfDQbKhTDZY6YY1Nq8fd6E0UZhnYodM5VlWw4
So Movistar attacked Valverde today? Their tactics are head scratching to say the least.
Just watching the catchup – David Millar reckoned that it was a master stroke as Movistar broke up the following Peloton. Maybe they did get it right at least at the 40Km to go……which is where I am in the catchup…….. Noted that at 20 Km to go Millar reckoned it had backfired as there was plenty of support from Astana left for Lopez so they could then continue to drive the chase when Movistar dropped it off. Predicted a “tasty” conversation on the team bus later……… Gilbert said he was pushing a 54 x 11 at 110 RPM doing… Read more »
Has anyone ever seen a teammate who is as seemingly unpopular as Quintana?
Soler’s reaction last week and Landa”s TdF interview are telling. The Colombian seems to be very much disliked by teammates.
It seems like the team never has a coherent strategy going into a race/stage and that they just wait to try to figure out who has good legs during the race. That requires honest communications between the riders and a certain amount of humble assessment on the fly by each rider. That sort of setting aside of egos appears to be almost impossible with the personalities on that team. Really it is probably difficult on most any team. I would guess that the supporting riders would prefer to have one team leader from the start of the race.
No wonder wee Nairo’s leaving. Too much BS at Movistar. Looks like he got a bit of revenge today though.
This is/has been a cracking Vuelta. Lots of movement in the GC and several days to go yet. Another great win for the wily Phil Gil.
Ok, so AG2R have received a lot of (unjustifiable) grief over the years for their white, brown and blue kit. I’ve always liked it.
That being said, I can’t see any excuse,any good reason to like the Burgos BH kit in the Vuelta. Purple. Too much purple. Boak.
Yeah – grim.
RIP Felice Gimondi.
Felice Gimondi was one of only seven riders to have won all three Grand Tours.
Gimondi suffered a heart attack while swimming in Sicily on Friday.
Pure class … on and off the bike.
Good to see Ferrand-Prevot make a successful comeback after double iliac artery surgery with a victory in Val de Sole.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/emotional-comeback-for-ferrand-prevot-after-double-iliac-artery-surgery/?fbclid=IwAR1po9YaUUXg2EssCVRerZG5d9ADFYE08Fp6JEjwKL4hbQB63kgPYKForUs
Tragic news, Team Lotto-Soudal have announced that team member Bjorg Lambrecht has tragically died “on the operating table” after crashing at the Tour of Poland. Bjorg was only 22.
Apparently, he crashed into a concrete culvert around 60 miles from the finish line of the third stage from Chorzow to Zabrze.
RIP.
Bahrain Merida announce that Mikel Landa will be joining them for 2020.
http://teambahrainmerida.com/mikel-landa-to-join-bahrain-merida-pro-cycling-team/?fbclid=IwAR0aYt4fe1FWlquBlKeekp4KcafpWt8gk6GIJVX_V5dFdvEwVRpe1XnmXCY
The mid-season transfer window runs between August 1-15. Though announcements of a change in teams between two calendar seasons can be made between August 1 and December 31.
Early indications appear to be that Dumoulin, Nibali, Quintana, Landa, Viviani, Gilbert and Trentin are all on the move.
Of the teams Katusha Alpecin seem to be struggling for funding and are rumoured to be looking to merge with another (maybe pro continental) team.
Further details here.
Quote Brailsford “We signed him [Bernal] for not very much, anyone could have signed him but we got him…..” bet they have to pay him a lot more now!
So how do you manage 3 Tour winners on the same team for the next 2 years ?
Do they work for 5 for their leader ?
Do they get the other guy his 2nd if leader cracks ?
Do they just let the kid go be great ?
Do they pick Grand Tours out of a Sky hat and you get what you get ?
I heard a comment that their objective next year was to win all 3 tours. If they do that’s going to make them popular in the ignorant public stakes – actually maybe not just the ignorant ones…….!
Movistar will not be renewing Quintana and Carapaz for 2020. Quintana is hardly in a good bargaining position elsewhere. Will anyone want to pick him up? I’d guess he’d have t take a substantial cut in salary anywhere else.
Quintana reportedly going to Arkea-Samsic. Carapaz to Ineos.
Does anyone else notice than Dan Martin appears quite a bit heavier this year than he has in the past?
It’s just the camera and predominantly white kit. Always make you look fatter. Put him in previous murdered out black Sky kit and he would look svelte.
It has to be a total coincidence that the new owner of Team Ineos has taken a staunch anti doping stance and suddenly the former Team Sky looks much less formidable.
I don’t buy that (and I’m not a hardened Ineos fan as I don’t ‘support’ any particular team) – 1. Froome is out who would have been #1 2. G had his prep messed up due to his crash and so is short of race miles to give that extra 5% and probably was not a true favourite anyway 3. Bernal similarly had his early season messed up prior to the Giro 4. Poels went all out in the Giro and so can be expected to come up short in the TdF as #1 support rider (look at Nibali). I… Read more »
I agree with Rick! Sky were obviously doping and now they aren’t so they aren’t winning! Also explains the poor performance of Quintana, Bardet, Dan Martin and Adam Yates. Simon Yates is obviously still doping.
And I don’t need to say what the obvious conclusion is about the performance of Alaphillipe and Pinot in the TT AND in the mountains…
Hey Rob: Did you see that Lefevere said “Anyone suspecting Alaphilippe of doping in the Tour de France doesn’t have a brain.” 🙂
So after the team Ineos 1-2 in the Tour…are they doping or not doping? I’m confused.
More pressure on the Women’s Peloton as Team Virtu closes leaving Bastianelli searching for a new team.
Something needs to be done to fix women’s cycling. It’s just as good and as fun (if not more so) to watch as men’s.
Agreed. I’ve been watching some of the women’s world cup matches. Just as passionate and as competitive as the men’s game.
No Dumoulin. That leaves some “experienced” GT riders (Thomas and Nibali) up against some young guns. Should be interesting. Be more interesting is there was more TT kms though.
Though with fewer TT Kms that also plays towards Pinot and Bardet too.
I know. I’d be very happy for a French win.Bardet or Pinot, not fussed which one. Of course, should one of them win, the cry will be “well, they wouldn’t have won if Froome or Dumoulin had been riding!” Yeah well, you know what, Zoetemelk likely wouldn’t have won his Tour had Hinault stayed fit in 1980. You can only race against whomever shows up and has good luck to get through three weeks.
As the say “To win, first you have to show up”.
Dumoulin will not be at the TdF.
This is just disgraceful. F*ck ASO. They have enough money to do this. Almost makes me want to boycott watching TdF this year. The only reason TdF might actually be interesting this year is that Dumoulin has no choice but to focus on it and might be able to challenge Sky/Ineos. https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a27532359/battle-of-the-north/ … races must meet criteria set out by the UCI, which starting in 2020 will include at least 45 minutes of live TV coverage … The news of a fresh race on the Women’s World Tour comes as two high-profile events will leave the series next season. Flèche-Wallone… Read more »
Agreed. ASO are a disgrace.
Really?! What a pile of crap is ASO?! Just let dudes ride bikes to their bestest!
A great set of photos………
Look so like Roglic’s Giro to lose after TT today. Great ride by Nibs to try and stay within striking distance. But he will have to take huge chunks of time out of Roglic in the mountains. Just can’t see him doing that. But Roglic has to prove he can hold it together over the course of a 3 week GT. A jour sans or Kruswieck (sp?) episode is all the Shark needs.
I remain to be convinced Nibali still has it in the mountains, but we will obviously see. Yates is going to have to go for it if he has the form. Hopefully he has and we will see some fireworks. Lopez also needs to put time in in the mountains. Though Roglic really only needs to wheel suck to the finish.
I have the same doubts about Nibali’s ability to gain time in the high mountains at this stage of his career. The big question in my mind is whether Roglic can pace himself through the high mountains to avoid doing what Yates did last year. I hadn’t thought of Roglic as being a pure high mountain climber, but he seems to have transformed himself over the past year or so. It should be fun. I am hoping that Yates and Lopez can make it interesting.
On the face of it, a strange decision by Tour of California officials to give TJvG the same time as the main finishers yesterday. He crashed twice outside the 3Km zone and yet had his time preserved. Seems from the first crash that he and his team were at the back of the peloton and he touched wheels with another rider and went down. Then when chasing back on with his team they steamed into a second crash and he went down again. Didn’t see it but it sounds somewhat self inflicted. Seems he is a lucky guy in this… Read more »
Lefevre sounds apoplectic about it, and rightly so.
If every rider who had an unfortunate incident was allowed to retain their placing then the record books would be a hell of a lot different
I watched the replay of the race. TJ’s first crash was result of broken chain. Then he shot through a turn ( but didn’t go down) because he was on Lachlan Morton’s bike that has the brake lever routing reversed. The last incident was riding into a group that had gone down at the back of the peloton just as they were about to make contact. I don’t think TJ went down but had to stop/slow to thread through the carnage. This was just outside the 3km mark but clearly outside. By the rules as I know them ( and… Read more »
Looks like it will be academic to the final result anyway after yesterday.
Kittel taking a break from cycling and terminating his contract with Katusha……..
https://teamkatushaalpecin.com/news/team-katusha-alpecin-and-marcel-kittel-have-agreed-terminate-their-contractual-relationship-its?fbclid=IwAR3Mg6hR-ByqYcsN5abKeGRxW2fuz1fl–NxoXrr32v_tpHNxIPBnhAXQz8
Always strange to see something like that. But considering how Tony Martin seemed to be escaping Katusha at any cost just last year I cannot help but think that team may not have the healthiest atmosphere.