Paris Roubaix 2016 *SPOILERS*

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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Got up at 4.30 this morning so I could watch it before work, hoping I could skip through to Arenberg then skip a bit on afterwards, I was glued to it like I haven't been for a long time. I managed to shoehorn it in by watching some of the sedate bits on 6x FF on sky.

    Best race I've seen for a long time if not ever, a toss up between this and P-R 2009(?) when Hushovd binned it from the lead group. But that was settled a fair way from the finish.

    Epic. That is all.
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  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 400
    adr82 wrote:
    Full race currently online here (also available on your friendly neighbourhood torrent sites)

    Thank you brother! :D
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    That was a super race. Loved it... would have been happy for any of those five to win. Great effort by Hayman, esp from the break.

    I reckon Boonen will ride another year and will be in strong form.
    Sep is building nicely and will come good. He was clearly the strongest on the cobbles.
    Impressed with Biggles.
    Cav comes in 30th as well. Take that you doubters...
    Would love to have a read/listen to a profile of Erviti...
    Excellent commentary, particularly after the shambles that was on for the Basque country...

    And ta to Chasey for telling me to rewind to 110km when I got in from Rapha's attempt at the 'hell of the north' with 40k to go...

    Now for Purito to come good over the few weeks
  • On_What
    On_What Posts: 516
    Fantastic P-R, I was unable to sleep in the early hours just thinking about what I had seen. I've never been a huge Boonen fan, but what a rider, he rode the cleverest race of all the favourites, and really was only let down by doing to much work. Great win for Hayman, he's always been there when it comes to P-R and so to win it in his twilight must be a fantastic feeling. I felt it was a better race for being fragmented and the fact that Fab and Sag had to chase made it all the more entertaining. This one will not be wiped from the Sky box in a while. Anybody wake up this morning and feel a real urge to ride the route?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    How the prize money was spread around......or not:-

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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    ddraver wrote:
    and I'm sorry Velon naysayers but this is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpx_qY ... e=youtu.be
    Great view of the Canc crash in there

    Also love the very end where you can hear Dan Jones telling Hayman "It's real mate, it's not a dream!". Their BSP video should be good :D
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Sporza commentary box

    http://m.sporza.be/#!/snippet/570b7e60c9976f6f6f474173

    :lol::lol:
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Me no likely the sneeeing at Cancellara.

    Arguably the best flat classics rider of his generation and one of the fastest ever over cobbles has just ridden his last Roubaix.

    Why are you lot so pleased it was spoiled by an unfortunate and embarrassing crash?
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    adr82 wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    and I'm sorry Velon naysayers but this is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpx_qY ... e=youtu.be
    Great view of the Canc crash in there

    Also love the very end where you can hear Dan Jones telling Hayman "It's real mate, it's not a dream!". Their BSP video should be good :D

    Yeah... nothing amazing. Basically it's another angle on some crashes...

    It's good for highlights packages. BSP do well to incorporate on-bike footage with other stuff, and I reckon that Cosmo could do a decent job with some of the stuff. But as a standalone... meh.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Me no likely the sneeeing at Cancellara.

    Arguably the best flat classics rider of his generation and one of the fastest ever over cobbles has just ridden his last Roubaix.

    Why are you lot so pleased it was spoiled by an unfortunate and embarrassing crash?
    If he hadn't grabbed a big flag and embarked on a self indulgent lap of honour he wouldn't have crashed.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Me no likely the sneeeing at Cancellara.

    Arguably the best flat classics rider of his generation and one of the fastest ever over cobbles has just ridden his last Roubaix.

    Why are you lot so pleased it was spoiled by an unfortunate and embarrassing crash?

    In a word, hubris. In three words hubris, pomposity and chutzpah. And in a sentence, my love of seeing those three things pricked and punctured.

    Whats the nearest any other winner in their final Roubaix has got to that? Ballerini and his homemade vest?
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Me no likely the sneeeing at Cancellara.

    Arguably the best flat classics rider of his generation and one of the fastest ever over cobbles has just ridden his last Roubaix.

    Why are you lot so pleased it was spoiled by an unfortunate and embarrassing crash?
    If he hadn't grabbed a big flag and embarked on a self indulgent lap of honour he wouldn't have crashed.

    He's had a magnificent career. And this was his last race cobbled race. Surely allowed some self-indulgence.
  • mamil314
    mamil314 Posts: 1,103
    Amount of cheers in the velodrome stands when Sky pair crashed was also baffling.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    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.

    The race did lose a bit when Cancellara crashed.....it effectively took Sagan out as well.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    mamil314 wrote:
    Amount of cheers in the velodrome stands when Sky pair crashed was also baffling.

    French sports fans do not exude class...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    I laughed when Cancellara fell off. We've basically all had comedy virtually stationary accidents.

    I have no objection to his lap of honour or whatever. But then I didn't have any objection to that stage in the tour.

    He still seems to have the engine, but being caught out twice in two weekends suggests he is not quite as race sharp.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I laughed when Cancellara fell off. We've basically all had comedy virtually stationary accidents.

    I have no objection to his lap of honour or whatever. But then I didn't have any objection to that stage in the tour.

    He still seems to have the engine, but being caught out twice in two weekends suggests he is not quite as race sharp.

    I agree with all of that. It was funny but he's still a legend of the cobbles.

    In the last few weeks he has seemed 'lazy' at times.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    dish_dash wrote:
    Cav comes in 30th as well. Take that you doubters...

    7 mins down though! I'm not sure that really counts as being in contention.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I laughed when Cancellara fell off. We've basically all had comedy virtually stationary accidents.

    I have no objection to his lap of honour or whatever. But then I didn't have any objection to that stage in the tour.

    He still seems to have the engine, but being caught out twice in two weekends suggests he is not quite as race sharp.

    That last sentence is key IMO

    On the flag fall, the main reason i sniggered is that, as goat says, he can be rather pompous and it's always fun to see that punctured. That flipping interview he did with the CN podcast when he was trying to tell people when they could start calling him "legend" was just awful. Contrast that with Hayman's interview after he WON!
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Cosmo - http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/how-the- ... s-roubaix/
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    Photos on Twitter of fans attempting to clear up an oil spill caused by a moto crash where Fabs crashed 45 mins before the race came through!
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Nasty pictures of Mitch Docker post Arenburg crash. Not for the squeamish. http://road.cc/content/feature/185822-m ... is-roubaix

    he is ok, but having listened to eulogize the race on his podcast that's a real shame. Especially given the OGE fairytale that played out
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    After another Lefevre quote of "Our team was too good. They had balls- I didn't see that from the other teams", it's interesting to see that Ettix got a result when they had one favourite, and two domestiques (Van Kiersbruck and Martin) actually willing to put everything in for Boonen, rather than Terpstra, Vandenburgh, Stybar all saving themselves.

    And I wish Trentin would leave Ettix, one of my favourite riders and think he'd get a heap of results if he wasn't on that team.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    ddraver wrote:
    Nasty pictures of Mitch Docker post Arenburg crash. Not for the squeamish. http://road.cc/content/feature/185822-m ... is-roubaix

    Oof. That's grim.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    dish_dash wrote:
    Cav comes in 30th as well. Take that you doubters...

    Did he really! Ha ha. Nice. He climbed off the last time he raced this.

    And as to the sniggering over Cancellara. Come on it was hilarious! It wouldn't have been hilarious if he wasn't acting like he'd won the thing and it wasn't Princess Fabs we're talking about. But he was and it is (and I have a problem with that much overt egotism) ergo said slow-mo spill was hilarious.
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Look how close that bike runs to the rider on the floor at the Fabs crash. Must have been inches from his hand. What a joke.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Look how close that bike runs to the rider on the floor at the Fabs crash. Must have been inches from his hand. What a joke.

    What's he supposed to do?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Look how close that bike runs to the rider on the floor at the Fabs crash. Must have been inches from his hand. What a joke.

    What's he supposed to do?

    What would Sagan do?
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  • Pross
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    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Contadors Basque.....

    This sounds like something Frenchie would bid a lot of money for on eBay!

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