Tre Valli Varesine 2017
October 3, 2017, Saronno, Lombardy, Road - 1.HC
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Il Lombardia and Paris-Tours bring down the curtain on the Europ♚ean Classics season
Hello and welcome to our live cov☂erage of the Tre Valli Varesine, one of the most important one-day races in Italy, that kicks of this final week of professional racing in the Bel Paese.
As 💫we join the ac💯tion, there are 100km left to race.
The riders face a total distance of 193km, with 77km covered on a 🍎loꦬop out of the city before nine laps of a rolling 12km circuit.
This is the 97th edition ofꦬ the Tre Valli Varesine and the race has attracted a star-studded line-up, including Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) and Giro d'Italia winner Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb).
You can find a full start list by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:clicking here
As we pick up the action, six rider♉s have formed the early break of the day.
The six attackers are: Turek (Israel Academy), Tonelli (Bardiano-CSF), Nych (Gazprom Rusvelo), Rubio (Caja Rural)🦂, Carlini (D'Amico Utensilnord) and Bernardinetti (Amore&a༒mp;Vita).
The Bahrain-Merida team initially chased down the early attacks but let this ൲move go clear. Their lead reached six minutes 🔯and then nine minutes before Team Sunweb began to lead the chase.
The pace 🤡has been high so far, with an average speed of 45,050 km/h for the first two hours of r♍acing.
The race is now onto the circuits in Varese and face ꦬa further eight laps up and down from La꧙ke Varese to the city centre.
Sadly Sebastien Rei♓chenbach (FDJ) crashed earlier in the race and has been taken to hospital for treatment.
Th🌳is is the profile of the 12.5km Varese circuit.
The peloton is lined out as it chases the break of the day. Bahrain and Sunweb are still lead﷽ing the chase as they study the🤡 Varese circuit.
This shot shows th💖e peloton lined-out as it climbs up to Varese.
Team Sky is also helping🀅 with the chase at the head of the p𒀰eloton.
Tram Sky has placed three riders🤪 on the front, with Rosa, Puccio and Wisniowski♔ doing the hard work for Moscon, Poels and Kwaitkowski.
Team Sky has lined out at the front of the peloton, with꧃ Bahrain and Sunweb tucked in ♉behind them.
The gap is down to 4:ཧ30 as the riders di🃏ve through the fields west of Varese.
The sun is out in Varese, with temperatures over 20C makin♚g for a perfect day for racing.
The break passes🌼 through the feed zo๊ne and heads to the finish area.
This year's route i༺ncludes a loop through Piazza Montegrappa in the centre of V🅠arese. It will be a key point of the race on the final circuits.
Nairo Quintan⛎a (Movistar) is also in action today. He💜's tucked safely in the peloton for now.
The peloton passes through t🔥he finish area and sprints away at high speed. The race is on.
British champion Steve Cummings leads Dimension Data's hopes todಞay. He's still near the back but will💙 most likely move up to the front soon.
The lead of the break is falling🌠 fast as the speed increases behind.
We have several attacks from the peloton.
But Sky and Sunweb chase them down.
Several teams clearly꧒ want to spark a hard, selectiv🅺e race to make the sprinters suffer on the rolling circuit.
Italian national champion Fabio Aru is also in action today and will also ride Milano-Torꦑino and Saturday's Il Lombardia.
He played down his chances and again avoided revealing future te💯am despite being widely linked to UAE Team Emirates.
"I'm going to give my best despite not being 100% after a long, hard season, where I've had to fight back several times,"🌱 he said.
Tom Dumoul🥂in was happy to be back racing in Italy.
"It's great to be back in Italy. I was here in Italy for a holidayꦜ in July but it's nice to be back racing again," the Giro d'Italia winner said.
61km remaining from 192km
The pelo⛦ton is lined out across the road as the gap falls to jဣust 1:30.
However after aꩲ brief pause๊, there are more attacks.
Meanwhile, upfront, Turek has split ꧑the six-rider break, cutting it to just three.
With Turek up front are Tonelli and Rubio.
There are more🌸 attacks fr𓃲om the peloton too, with Sebastian Henao on the move for Team Sky.
58km remaining from 192km
The peloton is lined out behind the attacks but the elast🍒ic has yet t🐬o break.
Turek, Rubio and🐻 Tonelli are working together to extend their lead o🍸n the rest of the six-rider break.
54km remaining from 192km
The trio lead the other trio by 20 seconds.
Behind other riders are on the attack. They want to perh𓆏aps go up the road before the final attacks are made.
It is Petilli on the move for UAE now.&nb🃏sp;
The rolling Varese circuit is hurting the riders, with Rubio putting the hurt on hi⭕s friends in the break.
51km remaining from 192km
The riders top a climb just a kilometre f♛rom the finish, where teams have created a feed zone to hand up bottles on each lap.
The break hits the finish 𓆏with four 12.5km laps to go.
The peloton is only a minute or so back.
The riders are lined out but the peloton is still pretty big. The speed is high 🤡but few riders have been dropped.
Three chasers have emerged from the🌳 peloton but are struggling to go across to th♛e break.
Behind Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) and Thibaut𓃲 Pibot (FDJ) are als𝓡o on the move.
The leaves have started to fall in Italy and so it can ✃only mean the end of the Euro racing🌟 season.
Today riders are in action in Varese, on Thur♔sday they will fight for success at Milano-Torino and then Saturday' is the big one: Il Lombardia.
This week also see racing in Belgium, Germany and France, 🦂with Paris-Tours coming 24 hours after Il Lombardia.
43km remaining from 192km
Bahrain has taken control 💧of the peloton to reduce the effect of the attacks.
Gasparotto is leading the peloton with Colbrelli on his wheel. This could per꧙haps mean that Bahrain is riding for Nibali t🍃oday.
41km remaining from 192km
Turek, Rubio and Tonelli ar𓄧e still out front📖 but their lead is down to 45 seconds.
Turek, Rubio and Tonelli are still out front but their lead is do♒wn to 45 seconds.
A trio of Latour (AG2R),&nb𒐪sp;Redi Halilaj (Amore e Vita) and Carlos Verona (Orica-Scott) are about to catch them.
38km remaining from 192km
There just three laps to go, with the peloton taking on food and gels before ꦜthe descent to Lake Varese.
36km remaining from 192km
As t☂he road kicks ups Wout Poels (Team Sky) goes on the attack.
Poels kicks again, with Visconti chasing him. Other riders are💝 following 💖him.
The big-name contenders are about to take off.
Poels is pulled back but ♑other riders arﷺe on the attack.
Maison of FDJ, Masnada of Androni and a th𓆉ird rider are trying to go across to the break.&n♛bsp;
The peloton prefers to let them go on this downhill section before upping the speed in the climb back to the fꩵinish of the12.5km circuit.
28km remaining from 192km
We have other chasers on the attack, with Visconti and Geschke ꦉin there.
Visconti is driving a group o🧜f seven but Cannondale is closing the gap for Uran.
Ho♋wever Canno🐈ndale have a rider with Visconti.
25km remaining from 192km
The riders are close to the fin🍰ish with two laps of 12.5km to racℱe.
Strangely the peloton has ⭕sat up. They big teams seem to be playing bluff with each other but they could lose the ra𒆙ce unless a serious chase begins.
There are two chase groups behind 💛the attack of five riders. They are spread across a minute but could be a threat if they come together.
Masnada has split his chase g♎roup, dropping Maiso🍌n and Pawel Poljanski.
He can see the break up the road but he🍬 has fresh legs for the final 20km.
22km remaining from 192km
Pawel Poljanski catches Maꦆsnada but the break is still 100m ahead.
18km remaining from 192km
Poljanski a🗹nd Masnada make ๊it across to the break.
This move could stay away but there is another chase group behind🌊 them.
About 20 secꦫonds further back is the main peloton with all the big-name🃏 contenders.
Bahrain i😼s leading the chase with Sky also up there.
Verona has attacked♑ alone as the road climbs but is alone as t💧he other riders in the break struggle to chase him.
Behind th🌃e peloton has swept up the second chase group.&🍸nbsp;
Bahrain is setting a high pace and could pull the rꦕace al♓l back together.
Viscont♔i and Gasparotto are doing the hard work for Bahrain♈.
The riders are on the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhard climb back up to Varese.
Verona is on 💫the big ring b༒ut the break can see him.
12km remaining from 192km
Verona passes through the finish and can hear the bell ring to signal the last lap.&nbsℱp;
Tꦓhe break is only 20 seconds back, with thওe peloton only 35 seconds down.
All th𒉰e big names are still in the peloton, including Aru, Dumoulin, Quintana and Nibali.
If the race cones back together, it💎 could suit sprinters such as Colbrelli but also Matthews of Sunweb.
💟UAE and Sky are also there in numbers. As are Cannondale.
The peloton 🌠is about to sweep up th꧋e break. Only Verona is out front now.
However the Bahrain pace has cracked Colbrel൲li. They will have to ride for Nibali now and hope he can attack on the final climb.
Visconti has done a huge turn to bring 🎶the race back together.
Verona is caught.
8km remaining from 192km
Cannondale has Slagter, Uran and Villela u꧙p front.
Visconti is still on the front, keeping the front group lin♔ed out at speed.
Henao moves up with Moscon on his whe𓃲el. Matthews is still there for Sunweb.
Now Formolo does a huge turn for his Cannondale teammates. He heads to Bor🐼a in 20🐼18 but wants to do his bit for his current team in his final races.
6km remaining from 192km
There are 🐻30 r🐽iders in the front group ready to fight for victory.
The riders are on the desce𒊎nt to the lake shore and then the climb up to Varese will decide th𓆏e race.
Visconti hi🔯ts the front again with veteran and former wi🍨nner Albasini (Orica).
Boom! Nibali attacks!
Pinot tri🎐es to go with him, as does Aru but they're struggling.
Nbali and Pinot have a gap on Aru.
It could be enough as Pino💝t helps Nibali.&nꦛbsp;
1km remaining from 192km
A chase group of six has formed behind Ni🅘ba✨li and Pinot.
Moscon goes alone in pursuit of the two.
Bu🧔t they follow Moscon and then a Cannondale rider jumps away.&n꧟bsp;
1km remaining from 192km
Last Kilometre!
The chasers a🔴re about to catch Nibali and Pinot.
Pinot is tired and so struggles to help Nibali.
Now Ulissi is coming across.
Geniez of AG2R is with him.
Watch for an Ulissi attack.
Pinot leads it out and three riders ꦐfinish together.
It seems Geniez gets it from Pinot ꦓand Nibali. 🏅
Allez les Francais!
Ulissi finished fourth a꧋fter failing to join Nibali and Pi♔not.
Geniez managed to get across and win thꦆe sprint with a late kick to t🍷he line.
Geniez beat Pinot b꧑♏y half a wheel with Nibali at less than a bike length.
David Vilella of Cannondale was🍷 fifth a few seconds💙 back.
This is the photo finish of the sprint.
Geniez won a stage at the 2016 Vuelta a Espana but was pulled for this🎃 year's race by his team after he and Nico Denz were filmed hanging onto a AG2R team car.
Geniez was happy to win Tre Valli Varesine.
“It&r💃squo;s a great feeling to win a race like this at the end of the 🦹season,” Geniez said.
“We loo⛎ked at the start list this morꦐning and realised it’s a real race, but we said we wanted to win it.”
G♔eniez was withdrawn from the Vuelta a Espana after being✨ filmed hanging onto a AG2R team car.
It later emerged that Team Sky shot the ♛video from the team♒ car. However a team spokesperson told Cyclingnews that Team Sky did not forward the video to the commissaries or file an official complaint.
This image shows how selective the Tre Valli Varesine was a🌃fter some inteﷺnse and aggressive racing.
This is the top ten result for t🍸he Tre Valli Varesine.
1 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 04:49:08
2 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ
3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Team UAE Emirates
5 Davide Viella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 00:00:07
6 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
7 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky
8 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana
9 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) Wilier Triestina 00:00:17
10 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott 00:00:18
We already have 20 photos🉐 from today's race on the report page.🍸
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Click here to see them.
This was the six-rider early break of the race.
The race split several times with groups going off the front and catching the early break. However B🔴ahrain-Merida brought the race back together on the last lap and then Vincenzo Nibali made a strong attack on the final climb back up to the centre of Varese.
This shot at the sta🍸rt shows Nibali with his younger brother Antonio. ⛎;
This is one of the fi꧑rst images of the Geniez, Nibali, Pinot sprint that decided the Tre Valli Varesine.
to see our full photo gallery, and race report, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:click here.
Thanks for joining us for live coverage from the Tre Valli Va🗹resine.&💖nbsp;
Join us on Thursday for live coverage of Milano-Torino and then on 🅺Saturday for full live coverage of Ilꦇ Lombardia.
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