Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“It's the season that refuses to die! After confidently asserting that road cycling was over for the year, there is still another race to come, this time a full 9-dayer. The Tour of Taihu Lake from China starts this weekend, replacing and extending the classic old late-lamented (ie started about 5 years ago) Tour of Beijing. Taihu Lake sounds a bit cleaner than notoriously smog-bound Beijing.. It's been going for a while, but seems to have to been a pretty low-grade race for Asian and antipodean domestic teams. All live on Eurosport starting on Saturday.”
I think I'll give that one a miss......it's on at 5AM !........
There's a Rabobank Development team and the Southeast Team who I think got an invite to the Giro ?......other than that none of the teams or riders mean anything to me
It looks a very low level event