E3 Prijs Vlaanderen - *Spoilers*

alanp23

TailWindHome wrote:

ddraver wrote:

The commentators....yep

No coverage at all!

Unless my Sky+ has fecked up.

Same here. One minute I am watching Boonen, EBH etc being chased by a group with Sagan at the back of the peloton, next minute Cancellara is off the front being chased by Sagan and Thomas etc.

Having perused the comments here...

I think in the highlights they cut the bit with no commentary out, so it went from 57km to 25km.
And I missed the best bit of the race.
:x

frenchfighter

Check out the rear derailleur

frenchfighter

Check out Stannard's wheels. Also check out the watch on the mechanics wrist...

frenchfighter

Fabian cancellara ‏@f_cancellara 23h
Finally in the massage.holy molly that was a hard one today.happy happy for the win.you have to take it and not to wait.
You never know what is tomorrow....forgot to finish my tweet. Thanks to the support from all over the world and of course the @RSLT boys.
A big speciall thank goes to my wife and the kids at home without them propably i will be not back like now. #Rocky4 #motivation
I do not belive that @justinbieber has time to follow over 123'000 i have 100 and sometimes not even time for that..! #busylife

Worth a watch:
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/stories/ ... oplay=true

graeme_s-2

Any good hires pics of Canc doling out the awesome at E3 FF?

frenchfighter

Graeme_S wrote:

Any good hires pics of Canc doling out the awesome at E3 FF?

No hi-res ones yet but will post up when I find them.

For now this one:

frenchfighter

Crozza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5rkzhT5As

Cancellara's attack at about 1:40 in (well most of it)

Crozza

frenchfighter wrote:

Check out Stannard's wheels. Also check out the watch on the mechanics wrist...

also check out the adidas logo on the mechanic's trousers

takethehighroad

That's what I love about the classics, he clearly lives local and Sky asked him to help in last year's classics in return for some free kit, and he's just carried on where he left off.

Either that or two races in three days is just too much. He'll be wearing a Team Sky onesie today

rick_chasey

Just watched this.

If this was 3 years ago we'd be raving and raving about it.

Outstanding.

I remember last year we were all saying before the Ronde that the Kwaremont suits Canc more than any other.

Eddy Plankaeart is of the opinion that on Flemish roads Cancellara is Merckx esq.

OPQS - have they been smoking the same stuff Rabo were?

Boonen absolutely not a favourite for the Ronde, even before his G-W crash.

frenchfighter

I think there was a good amount of excitement for the Canc effort especially from me. But I agree that people are a bit blase about it - I guess that is the class of the highest sportmen: they make it look easy when in fact it is hugely difficult.

Pross

I certainly admire Canc in full flow, I guess the problem is that once he goes like that the race is over with 30km to go. I think the Sagan factor makes this even worse as no-one is going to chase and pull Sagan back. What we need is a two man pursuit over those last kms!

frenchfighter

Pross wrote:

What we need is a two man pursuit over those last kms!

I like it either way but yes this would be incredible also. Like when Cancellara went against Boonen.

alihisgreat

Rick Chasey wrote:

Just watched this.

If this was 3 years ago we'd be raving and raving about it.

Outstanding.

I remember last year we were all saying before the Ronde that the Kwaremont suits Canc more than any other.

Eddy Plankaeart is of the opinion that on Flemish roads Cancellara is Merckx esq.

OPQS - have they been smoking the same stuff Rabo were?

Boonen absolutely not a favourite for the Ronde, even before his G-W crash.

For me it was played down a bit because I never actually got to see his attack on the EuroSport Highlights - apparently they had commentary sound issues so decided to cut out the most important part of the race and we jumped from 50k ish to 25k ish and Cancellara just appeared with a massive gap.

It was still impressive.. just less than If i'd seen the whole thing.

tailwindhome

frenchfighter wrote:

Pross wrote:

What we need is a two man pursuit over those last kms!

I like it either way but yes this would be incredible also. Like when Cancellara went against Boonen.

It's a shame we are unlikely to see the 3 of them (Canc, Sagan, Boonen) all in top form in the same race this spring.

rick_chasey

Canc is going to SMASH it next weekend.

rick_chasey

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Just watched this.

If this was 3 years ago we'd be raving and raving about it.

Outstanding.

I remember last year we were all saying before the Ronde that the Kwaremont suits Canc more than any other.

Eddy Plankaeart is of the opinion that on Flemish roads Cancellara is Merckx esq.

OPQS - have they been smoking the same stuff Rabo were?

Boonen absolutely not a favourite for the Ronde, even before his G-W crash.

For me it was played down a bit because I never actually got to see his attack on the EuroSport Highlights - apparently they had commentary sound issues so decided to cut out the most important part of the race and we jumped from 50k ish to 25k ish and Cancellara just appeared with a massive gap.

It was still impressive.. just less than If i'd seen the whole thing.

Ah well he "demeraged" about a third of the way up the oude kwaremont (where he dropped Boonen in 2011) and Sagan took up the chase, but soon realised he couldn't follow. Partly looked like he was turning a tooth too small but noone could follow.

DeadCalm

I hated this race and not just because of the boring inevitability of the last 30km. Cancellara is the beneficiary of huge amounts of WSOD for some reason I just do not understand.

rick_chasey

WSOD?

tailwindhome

It's either White Screen of Death or Willing Suspension of Disbelief.

DeadCalm

Erm yes. Probably best if I try to remember not to post when drunk.