National Championships 2015 *Spoilers*
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Cav seems to want to win this one. He has slightly distanced his group.0
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Dutch update: group of 8 are away - peloton has misjudged so is frantically chasing - mainly under giant pressure.
No idea who is in the front group apart from Lindeman.
3:13 with 25km to go.
Edit: cannondale also chasing hard.0 -
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Looks like every pro-conti and conti team has one representative and Lindeman from Jumbo.
Lindeman seems to be doing a lot of work but is frustrating the commentators as they feel his group is too slow and they're holding him back.
Lars Boom - only Astana rider, has probably worked his right arm waving away the TV motors harder than his legs.0 -
Belgians: peloton at 3mins with 56km.
Break is roelandts, one other lotto (Van Hecke?) and a topsport guy.
Boonen very angry about something - very animated.0 -
The Quickstep car is there supporting Cav. How do teams decide who they send a car/DS to support at Nationals?0
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16km to go in Holland - 1:31 to the group.
Going very fast. Rapid.
And attacks in the front group. Fiiiiinaly.0 -
Crash in the Dutch break and 2 are down on wet cobbles.
Peloton closing so fast the cars have been pulled out the gap.
Hofland looks comfortable.
Emmanuel Boechman wins the German RR.0 -
Chasing group with 2 opqs, 2 lotto, 1 topsport and a conti rider.
Front of the race is Roelandts, Van Hecke and Van der Sande from Top Sport
Chasing are Keisse, Van Keirsbluk from QS, Wout Van Aert from Cyclocross, Edward Theuns of Topsport and your 2 Lottos I don't know"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Jasper De Buyst is one of the chasing Lottos"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19636100#p19636100]disgruntledgoat[/url] wrote:Chasing group with 2 opqs, 2 lotto, 1 topsport and a conti rider.
Front of the race is Roelandts, Van Hecke and Van der Sande from Top Sport
Chasing are Keisse, Van Keirsbluk from QS, Wout Van Aert from Cyclocross, Edward Theuns of Topsport and your 2 Lottos I don't know
Cheers - will flick over when Dutch are done.
Know what Boonen was moaning about?0 -
Cav giving it a good go. Don't think he's going to get back with enough left though.0
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Back in the UK Cav has found himself out numbered. Kennaugh and Stannard have 20s on Cav who has Rowe sitting on his wheel.0
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[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19636100#p19636100]disgruntledgoat[/url] wrote:Chasing group with 2 opqs, 2 lotto, 1 topsport and a conti rider.
Front of the race is Roelandts, Van Hecke and Van der Sande from Top Sport
Chasing are Keisse, Van Keirsbluk from QS, Wout Van Aert from Cyclocross, Edward Theuns of Topsport and your 2 Lottos I don't know
Cheers - will flick over when Dutch are done.
Know what Boonen was moaning about?
Getting nervous because he needs somebody to take responsibility for chasing and he can't. He's still sending the troops to chase down anybody attempting to go off the front. So everybody stopped racing."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Sky showing Ettix how to do 3 against 1.0
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Boonen's snapped and put Gianni Meersman and 4 more on the front. Probably because its a pointless chase for his 2 team mates up front. If they get across the Lotto and Topsport riders will mug them"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Brian Smith laying into Luke Rowe for not working with Cav.
I thought team riding was banned in the nationals. Its supposed to be a straight fight,"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Brian Smith laying into Luke Rowe for not working with Cav.
You have to agree to an extent, doesn't Rowe want to win??? I know his pals are up the road but it's all about the W surely.0 -
In other commentary news.
Dutch NOS chat leaves a lot to be desired.
It's like football commentary; filled with cliches. Only cycling has about 1/10th of the number - so they get used A LOT.0 -
Topsport joining the chase behind. 40km to go and the gap to the front 3 is knocking on 5 minutes.
Sep Van Marck up to the front as well."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Peloton catches the break in Holland - almost exclusively Langeveld's doing.
He's pulled off, cooked. Few small attacks but jumbo keep the pace high for Hofland.0 -
Stannard looks massive next to Kenneugh0
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Brian Smith laying into Luke Rowe for not working with Cav.
You have to agree to an extent, doesn't Rowe want to win??? I know his pals are up the road but it's all about the W surely.
I agree Rowe just sat behind Cavs wheel, sure he should want to win it too not just burn Cav out to stop any more attacks,0 -
Yep, he makes a good point that Rowe is the only rider of the front 4 not to have won the champs. Don't imagine it'd be fun in the Team SKy camp if he towed Cav up for the win though. They always say that there should be no team riding but I've no idea how you'd police it, Rowe could legitimately argue his best chance of winning is to sit on Cav and take a free ride up to the front 2.
You have to agree to an extent, doesn't Rowe want to win??? I know his pals are up the road but it's all about the W surely.Brian Smith laying into Luke Rowe for not working with Cav.0 -
Boom and Terpstra lurk menacingly near the front with 3.2km to go - jumbo crash in same wet cobbled point - not Hoflandt.0
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Luxury for Tommeke, who can still stick 8 men on the front with 35 to go. The 7 in the middle group have given up. Gap down to 2 minutes to the front 3. Won't last"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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