Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

TheBlaaMan

Small group of big sprinters, Sam included, but also Cav, EBH, Kristoff, GVA, Guardino, Modolo in the front of the stage 1 finish at Tour of Qatar if you can find a live feed...........10km to go.

Rambling Man

Spoiler within: http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-qatar-2016/stage-1/results/

cunavalos

Sam crashed in the final km today so did not contest the sprint which was won by Kristoff ahead of Cav
The team are reporting "several abrasions" and are hopeful he will start tomorrow

cunavalos

Sam 4th today in a reduced sprint. Outgunned by the Katusha train which left him isolated from his Team and had to fight for his own whel
Stage won by Kristoff ahead of Greg Van Avermaert
Cav finished 5th as his Dimension Data team had to drop back for yellow jersey Boasen Hagen who had a mechanical in last 10km
Sam up to 7th in GC at 41 seconds with one stage to go which should end in a sprint finish

MPFGLB

The man himself is on the cycling podcast this week

http://thecyclingpodcast.com/podcast/5-cavendish-clinches-qatar-as-kristoff-wins-three-stages

harringtonp

MPFGLB wrote: »

The man himself is on the cycling podcast this week

http://thecyclingpodcast.com/podcast/5-cavendish-clinches-qatar-as-kristoff-wins-three-stages

Go to 11 mins

dastardly00

Congrats to Sam for winning Stage 1 of the Criterium International today!!

Stage report and some photos on the official website can be found here.

I can't find any video highlights.

CramCycle

Nice tweet from Sam today, confirming he was Irish, in case, you know, some publications didn't realise.

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/Tee4Tara/status/713698422226886656

https://twitter.com/nicholasroche/status/713690126493347840

pelevin

Dunno if this needs a spoiler (edit: a day later, removed). Anway obviously a disappointing season but a big result today beating Cavendish in stage 2 of Giro della Toscana

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bennett-gains-worlds-confidence-after-giro-della-toscana-sprint-victory/

dastardly00

pelevin wrote: »

Dunno if this needs a spoiler (edit: a day later, removed). Anway obviously a disappointing season but a big result today beating Cavendish in stage 2 of Giro della Toscana

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bennett-gains-worlds-confidence-after-giro-della-toscana-sprint-victory/

That's great news for Sam and it must be a massive boost for him with the World Championship RR coming up.

godtabh

dastardly00 wrote: »

That's great news for Sam and it must be a massive boost for him with the World Championship RR coming up.

Have Ireland announced their squad? I assume the will be riding for Sam (if selected?)

MPFGLB

godtabh wrote: »

Have Ireland announced their squad? I assume the will be riding for Sam (if selected?)

Sam and Matt Brammeier I think willbe selected ...but not sure how many we can field

Roche may be there with SKY TTT and TT so might be handy to help posiiton Sam...not sure who else would be strong enough with enough experience to lead him out

D3PO

MPFGLB wrote: »

Sam and Matt Brammeier I think willbe selected ...but not sure how many we can field

Roche may be there with SKY TTT and TT so might be handy to help posiiton Sam...not sure who else would be strong enough with enough experience to lead him out

Didn't they already announce Sam Nico and Downey or am I dreaming ? We can only field 3 btw BPFGLB

MPFGLB

D3PO wrote: »

Didn't they already announce Sam Nico and Downey or am I dreaming ? We can only field 3 btw BPFGLB

Oh I didn't see that

I did see a Tweet from Matt Brammeier awhile back saying he was looking forward to the Worlds and given his expereince with Cavandish he would be a very good pick

RobFowl

I suspect Downey may have been named for the u23 race

morana

MPFGLB wrote: »

I did see a Tweet from Matt Brammeier awhile back saying he was looking forward to the Worlds and given his expereince with Cavandish he would be a very good pick

I laughed out loud when i seen this. not at you mate just that statement!!!

MPFGLB

What is wrong with the statement ???

RobFowl

MPFGLB wrote: »

What is wrong with the statement ???

Brammeier is a mate of Cavs and was part of his lead out train at times

pelevin

Big result for Sam, winning Paris-Bourges! CyclingQuotes.com have a decent write up.

happytramp

pelevin wrote: »

Big result for Sam, winning Paris-Bourges! CyclingQuotes.com have a decent write up.

That's two years in a row... Impressive.

gordongekko

He'd be a great signing for the new Irish team

harringtonp

Can't see him departing his current setup. He'll still get plenty of opportunity to go for it in sprints

RobFowl

gordongekko wrote: »

He'd be a great signing for the new Irish team

He's too big a star for them at this time. Has his train and in a good set up where he is

Pudsy33

RobFowl wrote: »

He's too big a star for them at this time. Has his train and in a good set up where he is

Sagan coming next year might inconvenience him, but if Bora get a world tour licence there should be enough races to get around.

Darkglasses

gordongekko wrote: »

He'd be a great signing for the new Irish team

He'd be great for the team but I think Bennett should have loftier ambitions to be honest.

pelevin

Good piece with him on CyclingTips with Shane Stokes:
https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/syncing-with-sagan-sam-bennett-looks-ahead-to-2017/

Glad he'll be doing the Giro.

pelevin

Nice easing of any early season pressure for Sam & his team with a win for him today in Australia:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/cadel-evans-great-ocean-road-race-towards-zero-race-melbourne-2017/elite-men/results/

TheBlaaMan

Lol

Get the t-shirt.



https://velocast.cc/sam-bennett-lanterne-rouge

RobFowl

Sam riding KBK then Paris Nice.
I hope to see at least one win