Minor Stage Races 2016 **may contain SPOILERS**

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Pinot takes the final stage of Criterium International and wins the overall

 

[rich p]

Pinot takes the final stage of Criterium International and wins the overall

Keep yer money in your dusty wallet Marmy, Quintana is nailed on for the Tour

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Keep yer money in your dusty wallet Marmy, Quintana is nailed on for the Tour

Maybes

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Another medical emergency (yesterday), this time a heart attack at Criterium International for Daan Mynghee of Roubaix Lille Métropole

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/myngheer-suffers-heart-attack-during-criterium-international/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

EQSs inability to win is yet again to the fore at 3 Days of De Panne, where Viviani pips The Beautiful Marcel to the line. I was following it on twitter and EQS were getting all excited about "leading the way #waytoride" and "Our team took the lead with 8 km to go! #waytoride", and how there were "five riders for marcel kittel inside the last 3km #waytoride"...and then "Viviani wins stage 2..."

#waytocomesecond

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Would've loved to have been a fly on the wall of Astana's team bus after De Panne stage 1 too...
Lutsenko: What the f**k were you doing?
Westra: Me? What the f**k were YOU doing??
Lutsenko: Nah mate. What. The. F**k. Were. YOU. Doing???

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Would've loved to have been a fly on the wall of Astana's team bus after De Panne stage 1 too...
Lutsenko: What the f**k were you doing?
Westra: Me? What the f**k were YOU doing??
Lutsenko: Nah mate. What. The. F**k. Were. YOU. Doing???

That was so funny, complete and utter "handbags" on the road

 

[rich p]

Viviani didn't even have a lead out and beat Kittel and Kristoff in a mano a mano sprint. Very impressive.

 

[Hont]

Viviani didn't even have a lead out and beat Kittel and Kristoff in a mano a mano sprint. Very impressive.

I was really impressed with his tactics - I don't think there would be many riders prepared to leave it that late. He jumped at the perfect moment and spinning a noticeably smaller gear than Kittel. It would be interesting to see the wattage of those three in that sprint, I think Viviani's would be considerably less than Kittel's.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Westra is presumably over his disappointment from stage 1. He did enough in the time trial to overhaul Kristoff and take GC. And with a podium for Lutsenko too, the Astana team all lived happily ever after.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Westra is presumably over his disappointment from stage 1. He did enough in the time trial to overhaul Kristoff and take GC. And with a podium for Lutsenko too, the Astana team all lived happily ever after.

Lefevere will accuse them of stealing his tactics to win

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Lefevere will accuse them of stealing his tactics to win

You think that's LeFevere's secret weapon? Lull the opposition into thinking you can't organise a p*ss up in a brewery then BOOM spring your trap? If only they could get part 2 of that plan to, y'know, work...

 

[Crackle]

Cyril Gautier wins Paris - Camembert

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

This is gonna hurt a bit in Pais Vasco tomorrow

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Props to whoever wrote "Txurruka" and "Amets" on the road, repeatedly, for what seemed like miles and miles. I was beginning to think they were official road markings in the Basque highway code.