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Turul Ciclist al României

September 11th to 15th

After last year's return to the cycling calender, the Tour of Romania is back for 2019 as well - and this time as 2.1 UCI race.

The race starts in Cluj on Wednesday, and finishes in Bucharest after a five day journey through the country:

Stage 1: Cluj - Sighisoara


Stage 2: Brasov - Focsani


Stage 3: Buzau - Targoviste


Stage 4: Ploiesti - Piatra Arsa


(~23k at 5% average)

Stage 5: Bucharest - Bucharest


Things got sorted a bit late, so there are no PCT teams around for the race, but quite a decent list of teams could be brought together for the race:

• CCC Development Team
• Cycling Team Friuli
• Elkov Author
• Giotti Victoria
• LKT Team Brandenburg
• Lokosphinx
• Monkey Town - A BLOC CT
• National Team Belarus
• National Team Estonia
• National Team Moldavia
• National Team Poland
• National Team Romania
• National Team Russia
• National Team Slovakia
• Pannon Cycling Team
• Team Illuminate
• Team Novak
• Voster ATS Team

brings Valter to compete with last year's winner Tvetcov, and also Schlegel or Torres are some good guys for GC. For the sprints, there are Grosu, Kankovsky or Laas, among others - but last year there were strong attacks every day, no matter the profile. So although most stages look fairly flat, there won't be necessarily too many sprints.

I'll be heading to Cluj on Monday and will be around for the week, so it better be fun .

There's live coverage on Livestream Romania as well, but I won't be doing the commentary

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Broadcasting times (there's a one hour difference to central Europe, two to the UK). Most of the days the stages should finish just before the Vuelta goes live

https://twitter.com/turulromaniei/status/1171336327461294080

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the Estonian National Team brought Mihkel Räim by the way, so that's quite a good addition for the sprints

[Leadbelly]

Speaking of Estonians at this race, here's one for @Cycl_Pronounced - Rait Ärm.

[LukasCPH]

Speaking of Estonians at this race, here's one for @Cycl_Pronounced - Rait Ärm.

That's pretty simple: /rɑːit ærm/

[Leadbelly]

In English please.

Something like how a Scots person would say Right Arm?

[LukasCPH]

In English please.

Something like how a Scots person would say Right Arm?

Probably, yeah.

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I didn't really find the time (well, and motivation ) to keep the thread updated, but it was a fun race to follow.



Will be interesting to see where those young guys end up over the coming years (also Aniolkowski, who did two really, really strong sprints)