Thursday, 17 October 2013

Some highlights of 2013 Road Race season

8 clips showing some of my highlights from the 2013 Road Race season. (away from the Grand Tours)



Dwars Door Vlaanderen 2013. Thomas Vockler goes on a solo attack with 7km to go and is agonisingly caught in the last 25m.  Would probably have made it if Ian Stannard had not done a massive turn with 1km to go,


Cracking early season win for Geraint Thomas at the Tour down Under.




Peter Sagan wins Brabantse Pijl.  One of my favourite parcour.




Tour of Oman. Stage 5. Cracking early season battle between J-Rod, Contador and Froome.




Tour of Poland. Stage 6. Enjoyable and chaotic last 10 km. Particulary enjoyed Riblon's aggressive ride.




GP Wallonie. Picked this for 3 reasons. 1 - Thomas Voeckler. 2 - Jan Bakelants. One of the riders who really impressed me this year. His win here shows what a strong and canny rider he is. 3- The commentary of Carlton Kirby. Always entertaining. Loved his talk of Voeckler.




Couldn't do a list without including one of Cosmo Catalano's insightful race summaries. This is the
Milan-Sanremo recap.



GP Quebec. Great win for Robert Gesink and an exciting conclusion to this one day race.