Dutch Food Valley Classic *Spoiler*

RichN95.

Apparently the Netherlands's second biggest one day race.

1. Edvald Boassen Hagen (thankfully given my upcoming PTP picks)
2. Kenny van Hummel
3. Stefan van Dijck (no doubt nicknamed Stiff Dick at school)

The winner gets a ball of edam and some hash brownies.

Anonymous

Actually the winner gets one new bont TT shoe (that's one, not one pair...)


http://yfrog.com/ht5wcrj

frenchfighter

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

EBH despite missing a large chunk of the season and being off form for some part too, he is still doing very well by wins:

GREIPEL Andre THR 16
MCCANN David GNT 10
CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 9
POPKOV Vitaliy ISE 9
CAVENDISH Mark THR 8
DEGENKOLB John TET 7
CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 7
SHPILEVSKY Boris KTA 7
MIZBANI IRANAGH Ghader TPT 7
PETACCHI Alessandro LAM 7
PHINNEY Taylor RSH 67
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald SKY 6

NB, sig line additional win for EBH and AC are points jerseys

pb21

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

EBH despite missing a large chunk of the season and being off form for some part too, he is still doing very well by wins:

GREIPEL Andre THR 16
MCCANN David GNT 10
CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 9
POPKOV Vitaliy ISE 9
CAVENDISH Mark THR 8
DEGENKOLB John TET 7
CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 7
SHPILEVSKY Boris KTA 7
MIZBANI IRANAGH Ghader TPT 7
PETACCHI Alessandro LAM 7
PHINNEY Taylor RSH 67
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald SKY 6

NB, sig line additional win for EBH and AC are points jerseys

Phinney is having a good season I see.

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

Apparently it used to be called Veenendaal-Veenendaal and has jumped all over the calender in it's time.

frenchfighter

pb21 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

EBH despite missing a large chunk of the season and being off form for some part too, he is still doing very well by wins:

GREIPEL Andre THR 16
MCCANN David GNT 10
CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 9
POPKOV Vitaliy ISE 9
CAVENDISH Mark THR 8
DEGENKOLB John TET 7
CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 7
SHPILEVSKY Boris KTA 7
MIZBANI IRANAGH Ghader TPT 7
PETACCHI Alessandro LAM 7
PHINNEY Taylor RSH 67
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald SKY 6

NB, sig line additional win for EBH and AC are points jerseys

Phinney is having a good season I see.

Tbh, it would make better sense for comparison to exclude the sprinters and those not riding the top races...which leaves:
AC
Cancellera
EBH
LLS

frenchfighter

del

shinyhelmut

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

EBH despite missing a large chunk of the season and being off form for some part too, he is still doing very well by wins:

I guess someone might call it another shitty small win in a shitty small race.
FF, does your sig line differentiate between shitty small wins and real wins?

shinyhelmut

Ps "Veenendaal-Veenendaal" sounds so much better than "Dutch Food Valley Classic"

deejay

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

Apparently it used to be called Veenendaal-Veenendaal and has jumped all over the calender in it's time.

This I have been to watch a couple of times in the days of Andrei Tchmil and Frank Hoj winning.
They rode Fleche Walonne one day and some would ride this on the next day and so it got moved.
Those that didn't ride over there stayed in the Ardennes and rode the Liege Course.

Bernardus

RichN95 wrote:

Apparently the Netherlands's second biggest one day race.

It was a small race, but the UCI promoted it to 1.HC as a compensation after they scrapped the Tour of Holland as a possible ProTour event.

frenchfighter wrote:

Nice! What type of race is this? Never heard of it before.

Outside of limburg the Netherlands has only a few hills, during this race they ride most of the hills of the "Veluwe" (max. 100m) and the "Hill ridge of Utrecht" (max. 70m). Veenendaal is one of the cities in the valley between these mountain ranges.

It's unfortunate that the race always ends in Veenendaal, often with a local lap, which means there are no hills in the last 10km. If they would move the finish to Rhenen, Oosterbeek or Arnhem it would be more like the Brabantse Pijl.

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Ps "Veenendaal-Veenendaal" sounds so much better than "Dutch Food Valley Classic"

The region, usually known as the Dutch bible belt, presents itself as the Dutch Food Valley and they sponsor the race. It's a horrible name, but it's the only reason this race still exists.

deejay

Bernardus wrote:

It's unfortunate that the race always ends in Veenendaal, often with a local lap, which means there are no hills in the last 10km. If they would move the finish to Rhenen, Oosterbeek or Arnhem it would be more like the Brabantse Pijl.

The region, usually known as the Dutch bible belt, presents itself as the Dutch Food Valley and they sponsor the race. It's a horrible name, but it's the only reason this race still exists

Thanks for that Info, as I've looked for it before.
I vaguely remember watching on a hill climb in the woods between Arnhem and the circuit.
I also tried checking the Arnhem WW2 sites. (which would be easier now with the Internet)