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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    afx237vi wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    FYI, My Flanders Classics App has just told me that their Mascot is on Waterratstraat in Eke - If you want to go and find it I think you win a prize...

    Do it before he gets murdered by the Belgian version of Pinkie Brown... :!:

    Excellent Brighton Rock reference, made my day!

    It made my day that someone understood it :)

    He knew, before he had been in Gent three hours, that they meant to murder him.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    brucey72 wrote:
    Could someone tell me who the riders are in G1 please. I'm watching it on a bit of a dodgy stream and can't have the sound on at work.

    Westra is one. By the time I've found the other they'll be caught by G2 with Boonen, Flecha and others.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    brucey72 wrote:
    Could someone tell me who the riders are in G1 please. I'm watching it on a bit of a dodgy stream and can't have the sound on at work.

    Boonen, Flecha, Hayman, Hushovd, Breschel, Vanmarcke, Devenyns is all I got...

    Edit: that's the group chasing Westra and the other fella.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Flecha and Boonen look like they are doing too much work, Hushovd as usual doing none.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Group 1 is now:

    Tom Boonen
    Matti Breschel (Den)
    Dries Devenyns
    Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa)
    Matthew Hayman (Aus)
    Thor Hushovd (Noo)
    Florian Vachon (Fra)
    Sven Vandousselaere
    Sep Vanmarcke
    Lieuwe Westra (Ned)
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    afx237vi wrote:
    brucey72 wrote:
    Could someone tell me who the riders are in G1 please. I'm watching it on a bit of a dodgy stream and can't have the sound on at work.

    Boonen, Flecha, Hayman, Hushovd, Breschel, Vanmarcke, Devenyns is all I got...

    Edit: that's the group chasing Westra and the other fella.

    Thank you
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    2' 13 on the peloton
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    2' 13 on the peloton

    I reckon @ 25 to go the peloton will hit the gas
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    BANG!!!!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    BANG!!!!

    stupid place to attack. They are screwed if they don't keep working together till a bit later..
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Flecha and Boonen look like they are doing too much work, Hushovd as usual doing none.

    Boonen's always the same in this race. Just a form-tester for him. Bigger fish to fry in a couple of weeks.

    Breschel's looking good to me.
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    If Breschel wins, whilst i will be very happy for him, i'll be proper PTP annoyed too!
  • Sheesh sounds like I should have tuned in an hour earlier!

    No race radios today.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Boom tried to go around Boonen but he didnt give an inch. That will be a talking point after the race.

    Anything in this guys?
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  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Does Hushvod EVER do a real turn on the front or his usual "Soft tap" - Boonen and the bloke from garmin doing too much work on the front.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Gap coming down, now 1 41, peloton completely splintered by the Mollenberg. BMC & Gilbert in a largish group off the front.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Boom tried to go around Boonen but he didnt give an inch. That will be a talking point after the race.

    Anything in this guys?

    Not the way I saw it. Boom just went off the road... normal race incident. Lucky his bike didn't take out more riders.
  • Final climb.
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    dropped
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  • Yes Hushovd off the back. Boonen take it to them, get out the saddle and do that bobble style, ha.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Oooh! Thor dropped
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Are they playing into the hands of what's left of the peleton. Strong group, but 1'40" and 30km?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    My punditry bang on form as usual... Breschel dropped.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Danish TV getting a little bit excited now "Come on Matti, come on Matti"
    He doesn't look like he's getting bacvk though
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  • Tom Boonen
    Omega Pharma - QuickStep
    Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni
    Sky Procycling
    Mathew Hayman
    Sky Procycling
    Dries Devenyns
    Omega Pharma - QuickStep
    Sep Vanmarcke
    Garmin-Barracuda
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I think the peloton is going to swallow them up.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    They're looking quite good actually, pushed it back to 1 55.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Stupid Friends making me go and help them move house - missed the break now!!! :(
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    They're looking quite good actually, pushed it back to 1 55.

    The gap's in and out, isn't it? I'm not sure.
    Ben

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Gap to peloton increasing slightly....
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)