Gent Wevelgem

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited March 2011 in Pro race
Voeckler (Fra)
ZINGLE
VAN VOOREN with 2,50

is the break before the first kemmelberg.

Just before the kemmel, Cav puncture.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Most of the big names at the front of the peloton during the Kemmel with Gilbert leading - Boonen was breathing a fair bit.


    Hayman looks strong too...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Hayman gone into the chase behind the break - with what looks like Hincape and what looks like Nuyens joining...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Geraint crashes on the decent whilst Cav joins the back of the ploton at the bottom of the Kemmel.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    It's Baden Cook, not Nuyens.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Joined with a radioshack guy, but the peloton is close in chase.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Joined by the world champ...!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Steegmans too, along with some topsport guy.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stuff happened over my lunch - Voeckler now on his own, and after the 2nd Kemmelberg, it's still a big group - Gilbert had a puncture just before so had to fight through the peloton, and van Avermaert looked very strong, along with Sagan...
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Voekler's break now down to 14" with 37km left.

    I guess they'll try to leave them out there for a while yet, but in just typing this it's down to 12", so maybe not.
  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    All back together.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The non-sprinters are trying to break it up and make it tougher.
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Counter attack now by 4 riders off the front - 2 Liquigas, 1 Quickstep, 1 Sky
  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Gilbert pulling the peleton to try to bridge as gap up to 12" quickly.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    peterst6906 wrote:
    Counter attack now by 4 riders off the front - 2 Liquigas, 1 Quickstep, 1 Sky

    Chavanel (Quick-Step), Stannard (Sky) Sagan and Bodnar (Liquigas)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    peterst6906 wrote:
    Gilbert pulling the peloton to try to bridge as gap up to 12" quickly.

    He's trying to break it up because it's a fat peloton rather than bridge...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nothing significant in the course left - even Cav has stayed in the Peloton...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not much organisation in the peloton so far - I'm sure the cars will work out that it's a sprint and we'll probably see Lotto slamming the front soon...
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    He's trying to break it up because it's a fat peloton rather than bridge...

    Yeah. Lead out to 42" now
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    HTC grouping near the front for the inevitable yellow train.

    Nice gap though for the group - they all can motor..
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So guys - Cav or Greipel????
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cav caught in a crash near the back - abusing everyone around in.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Hayman too...
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Crash at the back. Cavendish and Hayman involved with a few other riders after one of the Movistar riders fell sideways off the road.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    What in the name of cock is Cav doing down the back of the bunch with 20km to go?
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    LangerDan wrote:
    What in the name of cock is Cav doing down the back of the bunch with 20km to go?

    Haha - he had a badly timed puncture just before the first Kemmel and had been chasing for quite a while since...

    But yes, I tend to agree.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Looks over and out for Cav...

    Peloton split now...


    Sagan doing all right. Is this his first race in Flanders?
  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    LangerDan wrote:
    What in the name of cock is Cav doing down the back of the bunch with 20km to go?

    Especially on the narrow roads. Always setup for a crash with such narrow tarmac and a big group.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Cue hundreds of posts about him not being the same sprinter he was last year again!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Crash helps the break - takes the HTC impulse out.

    No news about Farrar - no idea where he is, likely peloton 1.

    Huhsovd in the 2nd peloton, along with Sutton.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Quick-Step looking good - covering all the attacks and breaks (Steegmans follows Gilbert's attack)
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