Calendar:
It starts with Time Trials:
- Sunday 21, morning: Elite Women (31 km)
- Sunday 21, afternoon: Elite Men (41 km)
- Monday 22, morning: U23 Women
- Monday 22, afternoon: U23 Men
- Tuesday 23, morning: Junior Women
- Tuesday 23, afternoon: Junior Men
- Wednesday 24 : mixed relays (2×21km)
Then come the mass start races:
- Thursday 25, afternoon: U23 Women
- Friday 26, morning: Junior Men
- Friday 26, afternoon: U23 Men
- Saturday 27, morning: Junior Women
- Saturday 27, afternoon: Elite Women
- Sunday 28: Elite Men
NB: Women Elite ride the same distance as U23 Men; U23 Women ride the same distance as Junior Men.
Here is the map of the circuit that all mass start races will use:
and an example of repeated profile:
In addition of this circuit, the Elite Men will also ride once a longer circuit:
which will result in this complete profile:
Today, Uno-X didn’t score a single point in Wallonie. It looks like they had sent a B or C team, but still, there were points awarded to the first 40 riders, and they didn’t get one. It is much easier to score on a 1.Pro like this, rather than on the stages of a 2.Pro (like Luxembourg) or 2.1 (like Slovakia). Wagner-Bazin, Flanders-Baloise and even the conti Beat managed to score a handful of points, only Tarteletto didn’t.
Battle of Giants today on the French SSR of the week-end, Paris-Chauny: 5 points for Cofidis vs 3 points for Uno-X 😆
Today in Belgium again, Uno-X did bad again (5 points), but Cofidis did worse (3 points) and their sprinter Milan Fretin crashed rather badly yesterday. As a result, Uno-X is now ahead of Cofidis in the 3-year UCI ranking by… 1 point!