10% Steep Finale- Tour of Luxembourg Stage 2

Great technical run in into the bottom of a steep pinch before a flat sprint.
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Luxembourg stage two we’ve had the prologue we’ve had stage one which christop report one I’ll link that in the description good good stage did enjoy that hey this the finale of this stage is straight uphill basically finishes with a little bit of flat but it’s a good sort of 30 seconds to a

Minute climb pretty punchy so everyone’s trying to get in real good position because it’s pretty technical running can you see confidence with Christophe report on the left hand side doesn’t really suit him it’s a bit hilly but some of the other guys that Alex Kirsch Pascual on yan track neck some of the

Other these other guys who like so the climbers sprinters punchers really I mean if this again was in this race it would really suit him and that’s the sort of finale I’d said is similar to grab a grave of an album out Michael Matthews sort of that style of finished

And you can see joka Marseille again on the left hand side a lot of disorganization there’s no real strong team here who’s like really gonna boss anything there’s a single World Tour squad here um so there’s just no one who you’re like oh I’ll just boss the lead

Out confidence is looking good but again it doesn’t really suit them if this was a flat sprint you can see hydrant parties is doing his turn because it’s not really a stage for him darkanian’s you didn’t really have that one anyone was that good léa léa pod pro cycling had a couple

Guys up there tops what Vlaanderen thought they might do right and you can see Verona’s williams Klassen’s definitely believe in how it’s Kirsch who’s wearing the points jersey I think it is so he’s in the white just behind he’s known as normal dayglo yellow which

We all love you can also see a pass Colin’s team which is uh want a group Gober pointing out some cars there it’s a very technical running you’ll see in a bit that it basically gets real strung out before the finish just because in these towns and Luxembourg’s a bit like

Belgium where they said loads of road furniture and like they don’t like to keep the road straight to try and decrease car speed so you’ll see that like that in the finale like here that’s the tree know that meters straight road so it means that you keep on having to

Like excel right round these corners which makes it an a lot more easy to string out so you can see we’ve still got we’ve still got a lot of chaos we’re here really I mean no one’s taking control I mean aqua Veronica’s classics are I could protect her hands classic sort of

That cord they’re doing decent job but again they don’t really have the whole team there’s just a couple guys as no one really and I think I mentioned that a lot in some of these lower sprit likes Prince stages it’s just there’s just not enough lead out men to really dominate a

Sprint anymore some aggressive cornering by uh by was Dell Kumar say finally actually creates a stringing out so you can see here like it’s now actually strung out and this is looking good for tell them I’ll say on this crime I think the draft definitely does help so you

Don’t really want to be that stray the beginning but confidence now decide that they want to go lead out I’m not really sure who but they decide they’re gonna do it anyway because they’re confidence so they often just do really weird things so this confidence guys now on

The front burnt quite a lot of energy to get there but he’s now got some aggressive cornering well I’ll probably save some energy and managed to just keep it strung out from now on everyone pretty much has the same tactics just keep it strung out and leave it for that

Big guys there’s no real special tactics here and we’re now into the bottom of the climb just about here and you’ll see it gets pretty steep up to maybe ten ten to fifteen percent in that range so enough to do some damage but it’s not enough really to cause huge gaps then

Maybe a couple seconds at most but I think yeah and GC wise it’s just still sort of those punchy sprinters who’s gonna do well so you again right this is it the climb so you can see Delco Marseille set a real set of solid tempo everyone at the back now who’s going

Around that corner then they just know there’s no way they’re gonna get on the back so they sort of goes up then it flattens here and then it goes up again and that’s really what everyone’s trying to make the difference so you can see Alex Curtis in second wheel the sprinter

Who came second or third yesterday Yantra nakhon the in the ccc spraying coca beater and he now decides that he’s feeling good and he comes to the front to set a real cracker tempo cuz i think he just wants to try and drop everyone from the strong front because he’s not

Like really the best sprinter talks well Brandon got a decent rope and Andrew at Pascal on four wanted group Gobert is also looking good that you can see Delco Marseille bloke he went way too hard too early and Yantra annex now opening a gap up between Pascal on it’s just maybe a

Bike lane but it’s enough that if Pascal on can’t close it he really could get away again well rounded glasses off looking like a proper Belge and they’re up to the top now so yang training really just wants to try and get across so he now like looks around and tries to

See if anyone else wants to work but no one really does because it’s sort of like you don’t want to work and then keep it away but if you’re sprints if you’re spent has then compromised you know I mean anyway some shop and camera footage here as we can see some blokes

Get in the way you can’t really see what’s going on but it seems like everyone’s basically writing 90% 80% not hundreds that full gas like they want to stay away you can see Delco marseille blokes trying to get across Alex Kirsch takes this corner pretty pretty well and

Then just starts to sprint early he tries to box out Pascal on the left-hand side of the road but Pascal ins too strong managed to hot round him at the very end and that takes that win so that’s a great stage from the Tour of Luxembourg classic finish a bit like

Some of the spring classes that freshmen on sort of similar uphill finish to that and then goes on to the flap similar to Kalibak obviously a little bit shorter but anyway there’s the GC pass no there’s no stages also Pascal on got it then Alex cry go then Kush and yan track

Nicolas anyway cheers for watching and I’ll see you in the next vid