3 Days of De Panne (spoilers)

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Davis, Brown, Hutarovich, Van Hummel up there too.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    afx237vi wrote:
    Davis, Brown, Hutarovich, Van Hummel up there too.

    About time Davis won something again.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Van Hummel - legend.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    calvjones wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Davis, Brown, Hutarovich, Van Hummel up there too.

    About time Davis won something again.

    Looks like his type of finish, too. Headwind, slightly uphill.

    The bunch might still mess this up though, like they did yesterday. Some Verandas guy on his own, 34 seconds ahead. 12 km to go.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Arnaud Van Groen 48" with 8 km :shock:

    This must be a radio issue, surely. Never seen such an indecisive bunch for 2 days in a row.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Russ maybe?
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Galimzyanov, Russ a good 5th was that?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Galimzyanov takes it.

    Hat's off to Van Groen. Great effort for a small team.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    afx237vi wrote:
    Hat's off to Van Groen. Great effort for a small team.
    Indeed.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    6th for Russell Downing.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Degenkolb 2nd, Sagan 3rd, Davis 4th.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Sagan very fast at the line - this was clearly about positioning
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Make that 7th for Russ, my observational skills are poor today :oops:
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Ah, Cartoon Kirby:
    Mistakes Rabo's Crasher Brown for Katusha's Dennis Galimzyanov, who Kirby clearly had never heard of, even though he's been quite prominent this season.

    Russ Downing man of the match. Manages to finish 7th in the sprint after bridging to the front group, first on his lonesome, then with Puerto Davies.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited March 2011
    double posting
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Repost from the first page.
  • RichN95.
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Poor Wiggins - 5 minutes down where you should have been expected to podium. I'm a fan, but poor.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,600
    mroli wrote:
    Poor Wiggins - 5 minutes down where you should have been expected to podium. I'm a fan, but poor.

    he won't care, he's already put some effort in to one race this year which should keep people quiet for a bit. sky will really struggle in the grand tours until they forget this jokers ideas about doing well again.

    i really liked wiggins a couple of years ago but he's really starting to annoy me now. he's always far too busy been lazy at the back of the group to make any splits. i'm not going to be fooled by the odd spell at the front pretending to chase down a break (like yesterday)
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    It's the 3 days of De Panne, can you even name the last three winners?

    Of all the stage races Wiggins rides this year, I think this one is the least suited to his characteristics.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Ah, Cartoon Kirby:
    Mistakes Rabo's Crasher Brown for Katusha's Dennis Galimzyanov, who Kirby clearly had never heard of, even though he's been quite prominent this season.

    Russ Downing man of the match. Manages to finish 7th in the sprint after bridging to the front group, first on his lonesome, then with Puerto Davies.

    Kirby had a shocker! I feel embarrassed for poor Maggy who has to put up with him. I know they're sat in a room in London watching the same feed as us, but even I could spot who was about and it's not my job. He had to ask whether de Groen had been caught about a minute after it clearly showing him being swallowed up by the pack.

    Downing did well to get up as far as he did. They were strung out single file and he was a long way back, working his way along the side before he could even attempt a sprint. It's a wonder he had anything left to up the pace again.

    I only saw the last 30 mins. What caused the split in the peloton? and how did the gap get as far out as 10 mins between first and last groups?
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    andyp wrote:
    It's the 3 days of De Panne, can you even name the last three winners?

    Of all the stage races Wiggins rides this year, I think this one is the least suited to his characteristics.
    David Millar last year
    Otherwise odds and ends in the past George Hincapie, Ballan, Sean Kelly

    Cavendish won 2 stages and Wiggins the final TT - 2009
    Cavendish won 2 stages - 2008
    Sciandri a couple of stages and places.

    The race "was" always the build up to Sundays Flanders.
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    hammerite wrote:
    I only saw the last 30 mins. What caused the split in the peloton? and how did the gap get as far out as 10 mins between first and last groups?
    Combination of a few cobbled climbs (including the Kemmelberg) and wind according to the CN report (although Kirby reckoned it was a still day............presumably there was no wind in Eurosport's basement apart from that he generated himself)
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Bronzie wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    I only saw the last 30 mins. What caused the split in the peloton? and how did the gap get as far out as 10 mins between first and last groups?
    Combination of a few cobbled climbs (including the Kemmelberg) and wind according to the CN report (although Kirby reckoned it was a still day............presumably there was no wind in Eurosport's basement apart from that he generated himself)

    Ah OK, thanks Bronzie.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    deejay wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    It's the 3 days of De Panne, can you even name the last three winners?

    Of all the stage races Wiggins rides this year, I think this one is the least suited to his characteristics.
    David Millar last year
    Otherwise odds and ends in the past George Hincapie, Ballan, Sean Kelly

    Cavendish won 2 stages and Wiggins the final TT - 2009
    Cavendish won 2 stages - 2008
    Sciandri a couple of stages and places.

    The race "was" always the build up to Sundays Flanders.

    Still is for Devolder.

    Every time he finishes 3rd he win Flanders.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:

    Still is for Devolder.

    Every time he finishes 3rd he win Flanders.

    He's just packed in De Panne, so no win for him :wink:
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  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Anyone know who won this morning, trying to find out with no joy.
    EDIT: Looked everywhere but here: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... stage.html
    Iacopo Guarnieri.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    This mornings stage 3
    1st Jacopo Guarnieri - Liquigaas
    2nd Galimzyanov - yesterdays winner
    3rd Jimmy Casper.

    No overall given but I think Magnus said they were in the leading group so perhaps no change.
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    deejay wrote:
    This mornings stage 3
    1st Jacopo Guarnieri - Liquigaas
    2nd Galimzyanov - yesterdays winner
    3rd Jimmy Casper.

    No overall given but I think Magnus said they were in the leading group so perhaps no change.

    the overall is a real who's who going into the final TT

    1. Bert De Backer (Bel) Skil-Shimano
    2. Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM at 2 secs
    3. Arnoud Van Groen (Ned) Veranda's Willems at 4 secs
    4. Dmitri Muravyev (Kaz) RadioShack at 6 secs
    5. Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM at 7 secs
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Cant find the full results but reports seem to indicate that Wiggins, along with a lot of other riders, missed the time cut in stage 3a and so miss out on the time trial.

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