Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne -** Spoilers**

LangerDan

Break of 5 away and had a lead of 7 minutes. One of the 5 (Andrew Fenn) got shelled and was caught in no-mans-land. Meanwhile at the front, the remaining 4 (Edwig Cammaerts (Landbouwkrediet), Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun), Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) and Arnoud van Groen (Veranda's Willems-Accent)) jumped the red light at the train crossing and were promptly disqualified, with Fenn moving back in ot the lead. Two other riders have bridged.

Andrew Fenn (An Post-Sean Kelly), Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaandere) and Matthieu Ladagnous (FdJ)

Peloton at 1:10

LangerDan

Coverage should be up on some these links on about 20 mins:

http://www.steephill.tv/semi-classics-live/

blazing_saddles

KBK now live with 88kms to go:
http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-3.php

squired

Shame about all the lags on the streams. Barely watchable. Was tempted to pay for 3 months of Cycling.tv, but there is so little information on their website that I decided against it. I had bad experiences with them in the past and don't want to give them money when they aren't even saying which races they will cover after this weekend.

blazing_saddles

They are closing down streams as fast as they are opened up.
Worst culprit is RTBF, which used to be free to watch on tv. :x

Talk of the devil:
http://fr.justin.tv/bobomelody#/w/912248256

wicked

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oops beat me to it

rick_chasey

Quick-step trying to arrange a chase to get the group that's gotten out ahead - it's well represented with a few good names...

Yesterday they were caught doing too much too early.

emadden

54km to go ... Rabo driving at front of bunch . they've split the bunch in two... devolder in 2nd half!

rick_chasey

Just tuned in - peleton had split - hence QS trying to arrange a chase, with devolder in the 2nd peloton, naturally - chasing very hard...

Seems that teams are finding it tougher to arrange chasesd without radios...

rick_chasey

Rabo join QS - they don't want the 2nd peloton to rejoin.

emadden

Devolder is riding eye-balls out to get back in touch

rick_chasey

Boom dropped from peloton 2...

frenchfighter

Just locked in - what group was that with Voeckler in?

rick_chasey

frenchfighter wrote:

Just locked in - what group was that with Voeckler in?

The break ahead of the first peloton I believe.

rick_chasey

Farrar's stuck in the 2nd peloton as well - hence steegmans working hard.

emadden

Ich bin Tyler Farrer sprinter mit 2nd peloton

frenchfighter

Top group:
Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaandere), Matthieu Ladagnous (FdJ), Maxime Vantomme (Katusha), Jürgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma-Lotto), Martin Velits (HTC-Highroad), Sebastien Minard (AG2R), Mathew Hayman (Sky), Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil) and Thomas Voeckler (Europcar)

emadden

2 bunches back together... panic over

frenchfighter

Any Belgian Classic ending in a bunch sprint is a failure. Hopefully when I come back in 30mins the field would have exploded.

rick_chasey

frenchfighter wrote:

Any Belgian Classic ending in a bunch sprint is a failure. Hopefully when I come back in 30mins the field would have exploded.

Kuurne is usually won from a sprint of some form or other.

Anyone notice as soon as Weylandts got away the entire QS team chased him down?

No hard feelings for leaving eh?

afx237vi

LangerDan wrote:

Break of 5 away and had a lead of 7 minutes. One of the 5 (Andrew Fenn) got shelled and was caught in no-mans-land. Meanwhile at the front, the remaining 4 (Edwig Cammaerts (Landbouwkrediet), Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun), Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) and Arnoud van Groen (Veranda's Willems-Accent)) jumped the red light at the train crossing and were promptly disqualified, with Fenn moving back in ot the lead. Two other riders have bridged.

Andrew Fenn (An Post-Sean Kelly), Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaandere) and Matthieu Ladagnous (FdJ)

Peloton at 1:10

See, this is another case for race radios. No radios = no directeurs to tell their riders not to be freakin' idiots.

rick_chasey

Wehay - Devolder dropped.

QS were driving on the front.

I know they call Kuurne the revenge race, but I doubt they meant it like that...

rick_chasey

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

Break of 5 away and had a lead of 7 minutes. One of the 5 (Andrew Fenn) got shelled and was caught in no-mans-land. Meanwhile at the front, the remaining 4 (Edwig Cammaerts (Landbouwkrediet), Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun), Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) and Arnoud van Groen (Veranda's Willems-Accent)) jumped the red light at the train crossing and were promptly disqualified, with Fenn moving back in ot the lead. Two other riders have bridged.

Andrew Fenn (An Post-Sean Kelly), Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaandere) and Matthieu Ladagnous (FdJ)

Peloton at 1:10

See, this is another case for race radios. No radios = no directeurs to tell their riders not to be freakin' idiots.

Did they not watch Paris Roubaix?

It's a pretty well known rule by now.

blazing_saddles

Better feed here, if you download the v plug. It's safe.
http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-5.php

afx237vi

Rick Chasey wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

See, this is another case for race radios. No radios = no directeurs to tell their riders not to be freakin' idiots.

Did they not watch Paris Roubaix?

It's a pretty well known rule by now.

I know, but you don't become a professional cyclist because of your brains, do you?

rick_chasey

afx237vi wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

See, this is another case for race radios. No radios = no directeurs to tell their riders not to be freakin' idiots.

Did they not watch Paris Roubaix?

It's a pretty well known rule by now.

I know, but you don't become a professional cyclist because of your brains, do you?

They won't do it again, that's for sure...

frenchfighter

From 2010, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05. The only bunch sprint was in 07.

afx237vi

Lotto doing a lot of work now for Greipel. Farrar, Welyandt, EBH, Sutton, Kluge, Keukeleire also here if it's a sprint.

ETA: Casper, too.

frenchfighter

I would expect a bunch sprint in this race more than other Belgian races as it isn't as selective a parcours yet either way I'd prefer a non-bunch sprint in a one day race.

emadden

as the commentators say just dirtdteen km to go

sonny73

Who's your money on then? Farrar for me.