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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Guys - quick step don't have the legs. No one was surprised by the move. The 3 you see at the front were stronger than the rest.

    No top tier riders. Only 2nd/3rd
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  • pollys_bott
    pollys_bott Posts: 1,012
    Etixx's strength in depth is their biggest weakness, no?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    :roll: it's not strength in depth. It's having 5 tier 2 riders and no tier 1. Tier 1 riders win races.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    If Sep guns it soon no one will chase.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Boonen doesn't look like he's going to retire in a blaze of glory (like Canc).
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Big attack from Cancellara on the cards shortly I reckon...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sep shirks a turn.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    I'm already feeling sorry for Sagan
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sep waving Sagan on.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So it's a sprint....
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Rowe attacking out of the bunch?
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Wow he won!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sagan. Good lad.
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Finally breaks his duck!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Finally
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    Sep vanmarke is a joke
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    It seems like a long time but I think Kwia was saying after E3 he didn't win in the WC jersey until April... I guess it's just because he's had so many chances that it seems longer!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    How does he loose so many when he can do that? Super strong.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    inseine wrote:
    How does he loose so many when he can do that? Super strong.

    No Kwaremont ;)
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    Pleased for him. Good win
    Too-ra-loo-ra, too-ra-loo-rye, aye

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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Good attempt by kusnetzov (sp?) to take the sprint mind.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    gsk82 wrote:
    Sep vanmarke is a joke

    Suck Vanmarke?
    He did quit working very early.

    Etix even manage to lose the sprint for 5th.
    #Gaviriahype
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    So etixx etixxed it up again?

    Any highlights likely?
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    So etixx etixxed it up again?

    Any highlights likely?
    Cyclinghub should have the final kms up before too long.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sagan does seem to be blunted after the Kwaremont, every time.
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  • pollys_bott
    pollys_bott Posts: 1,012
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    :roll: it's not strength in depth. It's having 5 tier 2 riders and no tier 1. Tier 1 riders win races.

    OK, too many chiefs and not enough Indians then. Are Stybar / Terpstra really that far behind Sagan / Cancellara etc or is there possibly an element of none of them being prepared to bury themselves and give up their own chances of winning to assist a team mate when they think they're better than and / or more deserving of being put in a winning position than said team mate? As you say, five riders at more or less the same level, where's the hierarchy / pecking order?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,309
    They worked so hard together the 4 of them. Obviously in their combined experience they knew that easing up too early would be possibly catastrophic or that one of them would jump - especially Kuznetzov(?) or SVM. It's a pity someone had to loose.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pollys Bott wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    :roll: it's not strength in depth. It's having 5 tier 2 riders and no tier 1. Tier 1 riders win races.

    Are Stybar / Terpstra really that far behind Sagan / Cancellara etc ?

    Yeah.

    Massively.

    Look at the Kemmelberg - the tough side, the 2nd side. Look at that acceleration by Sagan. It's really something. Cancellara creaks but follows, and then you have 3 riders behind - Sep, Greg and Stybar. Only Sep has anything left afterwards to make the bridge Cancallera/Sagan on the descent.

    So, in this race, you have

    Sagan-Canc

    Sep

    Stybar-Greg.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boonen was having a p!ss whilst being pushed by Maes just as the crosswind kicked off at 110km to go.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,309
    Cancellara is having a good twilight year so far but Boonen is a spent force.

    What's his (Boonens) chances of winning a classic before the end of his career?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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