Paris Roubaix 2016 *SPOILERS*

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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Held up behind a crash, around p10.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Pross wrote:

    That bit of bike handling by Sagan was incredible. Also can't believe Hayman was 800-1. OK he isn't a favourite but has shown enough ability in the past in this race to have been less than 100-1 surely?

    Broke his arm at the start of the season and has barely turned a pedal in anger since. I'd also assume the oft-quoted 800/1 was his price on the exchanges so to be taken with a pinch of salt. Pretty sure I spotted him at way less than 500s on paddy power this morning, and bookies don't often go that high even for bike racing.
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  • philwint
    philwint Posts: 763
    Just watched the full 6 hours, as many have said - best race ever! And I concur with the "any of those 5 deserved it". Amazing stuff :D
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Good reading back through the thread and seeing all my thoughts and reactions echoed. 9.5/10 for me, needed a Rowe win to get the 10. The rest of the season will be an anti-climax now, especially the next few weeks of uphill bunch sprints.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Probably as good a chance as Sep will get.

    The race was ok. but it was a bit like watching Spain vs France for me, absolutely no vested interest in any of the riders in the leading group or group 2 or group 3...group 12. I have to go back to Omloop since the last time I had someone to cheer on. Pah. Roll on some Tours!

    Having said that I did manage to watch it from about 10am, all day. :D
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Joelsim wrote:
    The race was ok.

    :shock:

    In the same way that Mozart was ok at music...
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    The race was ok.

    :shock:

    In the same way that Mozart was ok at music...

    Yes. Exactly that. But would have been better if I'd had a rider to cheer on. Or if I listened to classical music.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Terpstra also in hospital.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Terpstra also in hospital.

    Just a bruised left knee.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    edited April 2016
    Pfffft. I had nobody to cheer on, and that was the most enthralling day's bike racing I can remember.

    90km till a break established itself with thepeloton breaking up, and the battle to get in the break being well fought. Then it was almost straight into the early exchanges on the cobbles. THEN, the split in the bunch and an enthralling back and forth between the two bunches as the upper hand changed almost minute by minutes.

    After the drama of the Cancellara crash, it quickly became clear that the winner would come from the front group so the race dynamic settled into something more like what you would expect, as riders were whittled from the group with every passing cobbled sector over 30 or 40km.

    Finally there was the exchanges from about 15k out between the last 5 standing. I reckon any one of 4 or 5 attacks on the flat after the final cobbled sector looked like they might, might, might stick with the final denoument of the two riders who had been dropped catching back on at the death and finishing 1st and 3rd.

    Flat out, stone cold classic in every sense of the word.

    edit: and the fairytale ending to a career spent mostly in the service of others as old man Hayman gets a big win in the twilight of his career. I'mn ever going to cheer an Orica victory, but how anyone can shrug at that race and say 'was alright' is beyond me.
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  • thchris1958
    thchris1958 Posts: 117
    woke up at 04:00 am for the race. any regret. what a race it was

    lucky Viviani : Today I was unlucky but at the same time the most lucky of the world!A big Chest trauma and two cut (chest and hip)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Just about recovered.

    Though can't bring myself to watch the post race interviews quite yet.
    _
  • craigus89
    craigus89 Posts: 887
    I dunno if this has been seen yet? Footage of the bike that took out Viviani. Crazy

    https://twitter.com/r8uge/status/719200478475743232
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Damn. I really don't want to go to work tomorrow.
    I want to line up a row of Duvel's and watch it again for five hours.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    9/10 for me, almost perfection, just needed a few more really big names like Canc and Sagan to be there at the finale but that's looking at the race in the wider context of back stories coming into it so maybe harsh.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Best edition I've watched including the big Fabu/Boonen duels.

    Astute riding from Boonen and great work by Martin. Really was a gladiatorial finale, fully deserved by Hayman. Could have been anyones. What Boonen could have done without multiple ruined early seasons.
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  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Aagh really wanted Stannard to win but you can't complain after a race like that, just epic entertainment that reminds you why you love the sport. As said any of the first five were well worth the win. Had to avoid the result all day, but such a good reason to stay up with some of Belgium's finest exports. Won't be able to sleep for a while yet...
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Bring on the Ardennes!! :cry:
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    i can't get on to Eurosport player UK atm. Does anyone know any websites i can access in Spain that will have full coverage in English? There's nothing on Youtube yet that i can see.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Sagans Flamders.... Contadors Basque..... and very nearly Boonens Roubaix which was a classic

    A good week for cycling !

    What a race to pick for an all day broadcast! Commentary was good , atmosphere built and the grand finale....mammma mia!

    Ervitti again?! Direct Energie rode well and I was impressed with Adrien Petit who kept finding ways through and managed a 10th position leading in the Sagan group - also the IAM pairing of Haussler and Saramotins were very competitive
  • tailwindhome
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  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 400
    What a great race! Fairy tale ending but a bit gutted for Stannard but only a wee bit, deserving winner.

    I had company so couldn't really focus on the whole thing, anywhere online I can watch the lion's share of the race??
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    hanshotfirst wrote:
    What a great race! Fairy tale ending but a bit gutted for Stannard but only a wee bit, deserving winner.

    I had company so couldn't really focus on the whole thing, anywhere online I can watch the lion's share of the race??
    Full race currently online here (also available on your friendly neighbourhood torrent sites)
  • lucan2
    lucan2 Posts: 293
    Maybe I'm not a fan. Watched a bit of it then went out for an afternoon's drive in the sunshine. I'll probably download and save it for those long hours on the turbo in the winter.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Pross wrote:
    Good reading back through the thread and seeing all my thoughts and reactions echoed. 9.5/10 for me, needed a Rowe win to get the 10. The rest of the season will be an anti-climax now, especially the next few weeks of uphill bunch sprints.

    I'd also say 9.5, but for a different reason. Rowe was the Hashtag Epic/Colnel Oats ride which brought the selfless sacrifice to the race. My only nit pick was that the Giant Alpecin pair did nt work with Sagan to chase back on. That deprived us of having the jeopardy of will Sagan/won't Sagan which would have raised the tension so high that I would have just been a dribbling wreck on the sofa - so perhaps actually it's best that they did nt do it...
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Watched it back last night, it was an even better race for not being in a tent surrounded by drunk Belgians.

    QS deploying actual, honest to goodness tactics. Boonen finally showing something and building a great race on experience. Two favourites caught behind a crash chasing like their lives depended on it. The amount of riders in the front group who still had team mates with 50km to go. Hayman taking a deserved victory. Just an awesome race.

    The Chin coming a cropper on his "victory" lap just put the cherry on it for me.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    and I'm sorry Velon naysayers but this is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpx_qY ... e=youtu.be
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  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    Great race, and tactically very astute use of Tony Martin to keep the gap ticking over by Boonen. Hayman rode the canniest race. All of them absolutely battered at the end, fair play to them. Gutted for Tommeke, and hope he gives it one more go next year. He has still got it, both tactically and physically. All the front 5 did what they could and was absolutely amazed by Sagans bike handling. Cancellara, well that wasn’t the exit from the classics he really wanted…. Stannard as well, for the highest british finish since Roger Hammond

    9.3/10

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