Episode Topics:
UAE Tour Recap. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne Recap, Corona Virus
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Strava:
Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347
Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453
Strava…..Stats of the week!
Sam: 35 Miles, 1100 Ft
Aaron: 202 Miles, 6800 Ft
Ride of the Week:
Sam: Discovering a new area for some climbing.
Aaron: WVC
Pro Cycling News:
Corona - Last stages of UAE cancelled and riders quarantined. Most teams cleared to leave but UAE decided to stay for further testing. It all seems pretty odd but clearly just speculation since nobody knows what is going on. Bigger story is what is going to happen to Strade Bianchi and upcoming Italian races. I’ve heard at least Strade is to be decided tomorrow.
Race Coverage:
UAE Tour
Stage 1 - Ackermann beats Ewan Groenewegen and Barbier
Stage 2 - Ewan wins on hatta dam, beats bennett who goes a bit early
Stage 3 - Yates pulls away early and gains time on pogcar. Gadeau looks good, super hot out (man they love to talk up a brit)
Stage 4 - Windy, commentators talking about Cavendish with a chance, seriously? Chaotic final turn with strong showing by gavira and ackermann but groenewegen winning (Cavendish 21st)
Stage 5 - Repeat of stage 3, literally, they do the same climb. Froome on bottle duty. Pogacar attacks and attacks but can’t drop Yates. They come in as a 3 up sprint with Lutsenko who goes to celebrate just as Pogacar gets him on the line.
Takeaways - Campenarts in breaks, riding with the climbers, must be putting in some serious base training (changing his physique?)
Omloop
Wout a late add to the lineup who beat Froome’s strava KOM in Tenerife - showing some form
A lot of wind, set the tone for the race. Winning group slips away with 70km to go and end up pulling out almost 2 minutes. Basically boring from that point until the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Jasper Stuyven and Yves Lampaert pull away from the breakaway group. Soren Kragh Anderson manages to keep up and caught them on the small descent.
KBK
Front break goes early with a significant gap 5+ minutes around kilometer 70 there was a crash holding up quite a few riders and an unknown ineos (later found out to be moscon) throws another rider's bike out of his way. This created momentary splits but nothing significant. The race really got away without the peloton knowing when Kasper Asgreen joined the front breakaway riders eventually dropping them and holding off the peloton that finished just 3 seconds later with Nizzolo and Kristoff coming in 2nd and 3rd.
Next Week Preview:
Strade Bianche
Favorites - Sagan, SEP, WVA, Benoot, Bling, Gilbert, Dege, Nibali, Brambilla, Fulgsang, GVA, Costa, Stybar
