2026 Races....Spoilers.

[Blazing Saddles]

Ciconne gone, Gall hanging on

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Gall cracks Onley.

 

[Archie from BR]

Break should take it

Yuo got that wrong Arch, you eejit

 

[wakemalcolm]

Gall cracks Onley.

Gall takes it. Onley got mugged for the bonus seconds by an Italian tandem of Pellizari and Ciccone.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Onley caught and passed by Pellizari and Ciconne.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Yuo got that wrong Arch, you eejit

The new break could take it.
Not terribly selective so far.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Looking at this descent, I don’t know why they took out the other one.
Kirby having kittens.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Bart Lemmon takes the win from Scaroni.
Meh stage.

 

[wakemalcolm]

A maverick performance from Lemmen. Love the way he was crossing the road finding the gaps in the white lines.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

70kms left in sunny Portugal. UAE in their usual position.

 

[Dogtrousers]

It has come to my attention that the French overseas Departement of Guadeloupe has a 2.2 stage race.
The race comprises of no less than ten stages (two are ITTs), with a total of 1224.2 kilometers to be raced.
For an island territory with a population of 378,561 this is remarkable.

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What's even more remarkable, in my eyes, is that the two main islands of Guadeloupe (which will have all stages between them) comprise an area of just 1,435km². That's:

• 221km² smaller than the Isle of Skye
• Les than four Isle of Wights
• About two and a half Isle of Mans
• 134km² smaller then Greater London
• 2 Angleseys
• And in the SI units we all understand, just over 1/15th the size of Wales

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Ten stages. Ten. Whole. Stages.
In fairness, they do seem to have a decent mountain to work with, but anyway.

Scandal hits the tour of Guadeloupe for the second year in succession.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cyc...troversy-hits-tour-de-guadeloupe-again-video/

Two riders have been disqualified from the 2.2 Tour Cycliste International de la Guadeloupe for holding onto a team car, with a video of the pair committing the offence circulating on social media.

The team car at the centre of the incident belonged to US Continental team Competitive Edge Racing, with Bermuda national champion Nicholas Narraway getting caught and kicked off the race. Curiously, the other rider involved wasn't a teammate, but Jason Jacquet Cretides from French club side Uni Sport Lamentinoi.

12 months ago, Tenniglo Niels and Huub Van Kapel of the RC Jan Van Arckel club team were disqualified after getting caught hiding behind a car and sneaking back into the peloton after getting dropped due to a mechanical.

 

[Pblakeney]

Scandal hits the tour of Guadeloupe for the second year in succession.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cyc...troversy-hits-tour-de-guadeloupe-again-video/

Two riders have been disqualified from the 2.2 Tour Cycliste International de la Guadeloupe for holding onto a team car, with a video of the pair committing the offence circulating on social media.

The team car at the centre of the incident belonged to US Continental team Competitive Edge Racing, with Bermuda national champion Nicholas Narraway getting caught and kicked off the race. Curiously, the other rider involved wasn't a teammate, but Jason Jacquet Cretides from French club side Uni Sport Lamentinoi.

12 months ago, Tenniglo Niels and Huub Van Kapel of the RC Jan Van Arckel club team were disqualified after getting caught hiding behind a car and sneaking back into the peloton after getting dropped due to a mechanical.

Nice to see that old traditions die hard. 😉

 

[Archie from BR]

If we can manage to follow another race in this busy week Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot starts tomorrow for the youngsters.
It's a 1TTT and 3 road stages, sprinters don't bother turning up it's either up or down.
A quick look through the startlist and the standout appear to be Seff Van Kerckove and Soen Le Pann both on Decathlons kiddie squad along with Karl Herzog of team Grenke.

 

[DeadCalm]

If we can manage to follow another race in this busy week Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot starts tomorrow for the youngsters.
It's a 1TTT and 3 road stages, sprinters don't bother turning up it's either up or down.
A quick look through the startlist and the standout appear to be Seff Van Kerckove and Soen Le Pann both on Decathlons kiddie squad along with Karl Herzog of team Grenke.

The De La Mare twins also taking part.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Poland currently doing a more than useful impression of the Ronde.
Steep, narrow cobbled climb.