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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Has any Sky rider finished yet?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Martin would not have won even if he didnt crash.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    adr82 wrote:
    What did Martin manage to crash on? Slippy road markings?

    No idea. It looked like someone who had just had thier stabilisers removed.
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    Good win, that's green edges season over.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    I genuinely dozed off from about 20km out. When I briefly woke up it appeared that Pozzo was having a go but I'm assuming it was just another Aredennes bunch sprint in the end? I used to love the 'Ardennes' classics but the 3 races have become the terrain of the climber with a sprint. Give me cobbles and cross winds any day!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Didnt even know Gerrans was riding this. The 100th LBL as well. Definitely not done it justice.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Not sure Movistar played that well. If you have Weening and Gerrans in the group you don't wait for the sprint.


    Weening was very important in that final 5km.
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Milton50 wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    What did Martin manage to crash on? Slippy road markings?

    No idea. It looked like someone who had just had thier stabilisers removed.

    :lol:
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    It's difficult to describe how awful that race was. In fact, the whole week.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,233
    adr82 wrote:
    What did Martin manage to crash on? Slippy road markings?

    Nope - kangaroo dust and wallaby sh!t. Sprinkled by fans of you-know-who...
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Cobbles definitely outdid hills this year.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    Has the 'wheelsucker' row started yet?

    I'm staying out of it and having a lolly...

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interviewer: 'Can you explain how you got this victory'
    Gerrans: 'I hid until 100m to go then pedalled my hardest'
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Has any Sky rider finished yet?

    I don't think anyone else cares. You could go on their site later to find out.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    What did Martin manage to crash on? Slippy road markings?

    Nope - kangaroo dust and wallaby sh!t. Sprinkled by fans of you-know-who...

    Not panda poo?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    I can't recall a worse L-B-L than this.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,233
    Glad Eurosport just faded Gerrans out - sound engineer prob thought it was the high pitched whining sound of feedback...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Martin crash. Annoying for him.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Turfle wrote:
    Cobbles definitely outdid hills this year.

    Word.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 480
    Cal_Stewart wrote:
    Good win, that's green edges season over.

    How so? Surely their season is built around a cover song video and some high tension larking around with a bus :D
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Didnt even know Gerrans was riding this. The 100th LBL as well. Definitely not done it justice.

    I saw him right near the front with two team mates 30km out. I think people see what they expect to see, label a rider as a wheel sucker and you see that. Others do the same with Valverde.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    It was a lousy race but the outrage that a Gerrans win inspires is always entertaining.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Turfle wrote:
    Cobbles definitely outdid hills this year.

    Yep. I do usually like Amstel Gold and Liege Bastogne Liege but there was no contest. E3, FLanders, DVV, Roubaix, even the Omloop were miles better than the Ardennes classics this year.
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    Milton50 wrote:
    I'm guessing everyone else had the same annoyed, disappointed feeling.

    Yea, can't argue with that. Dan Martin mightn't have won that but it would have been damn close. It looks like his rear wheel slipped out. Let's hope he has better luck at the Giro.

    DD.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Arredondo attacked twice today.

    A shame the peloton soft pedalled the first 200km so were fresh as a daisy to pull his and other's like Barguil back.
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  • talius
    talius Posts: 282
    That was genuinely dull. Could have done with a bit of rain or something, riders weren't making it interesting by themselves.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Has any Sky rider finished yet?
    Ah there we go, was wondering when you'd start on that.
  • Silly Old Hector
    Silly Old Hector Posts: 573
    My 1st watch of LBL - caught last 30k. Jeez, that was dull compared to PR.

    What the hell happened to Martin ?

    What is this "Ulrika Green Udge" that Kelly keeps mentioning ?

    :roll:
    All the gear, but no idea...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    IMG_3001.jpg

    Sky at the team presentation. See every other team properly represented. I hope they get fined.
    http://www.steephill.tv/2014/liege-bast ... s/page-02/

    Check out Pozzo:
    IMG_3031.jpg
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Pozzovivo did well to hang on for 5th. Bardet first frenchie in 10th. Cunego 13th, Schleck the elder 19th.
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