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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Gaviria should have crashed them everyone would have said how he definitely would have won.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    hmmm, Debuscherre is no mug of a sprinter...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Bah... missed it all as had a meeting.

    Blazing - please chuck a spoiler in the title...

    DVV Top 10 - interesting mix... another good show from Thwaites. And Pippo?!?!

    1 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
    2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Direct Energie
    3 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
    4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Southeast - Venezuela
    5 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge
    6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
    7 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Tinkoff Team
    8 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Bora-Argon 18
    9 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
    10 Fernando Gaviria (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    It's an interesting debate isn't it?

    What's to debate?

    The bit that you left out of your quote!
    With the amount of open road space out there they is no way of policing a bike race.

    If there is a threat I suspect they will postpone based on that.

    But I hope it still happens.
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  • ozzzyosborn206
    ozzzyosborn206 Posts: 1,340
    dish_dash wrote:
    Bah... missed it all as had a meeting.

    Blazing - please chuck a spoiler in the title...

    DVV Top 10 - interesting mix... another good show from Thwaites. And Pippo?!?!

    1 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
    2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Direct Energie
    3 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
    4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Southeast - Venezuela
    5 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge
    6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
    7 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Tinkoff Team
    8 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Bora-Argon 18
    9 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
    10 Fernando Gaviria (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step


    caught last 15/20k, thwaites was super strong and still finished well considering how much jumping around he had been doing, cockered would have won had he thrown his bike not his arms
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Quick step are nowhere.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    well, yes and no, Gaviria died but Terpstra pulled back GvA all on his own. I think they were working for Gaviria (good decision) but he did nt have it in the last 200m
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    One stage in TA is not a decent return for quick step.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    No but one win next weekend or the one after will be their season over...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Who's going to do that for 'em?

    I see no first row winners on that team.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Who's going to do that for 'em?

    I see no first row winners on that team.

    Look at those eyes, Rick. Can you see the depth of the hurt you've caused by saying that?

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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    On Thwaites - isn't there some issue with his bike? I may be imagining this, but I swear I read/heard (maybe on the commentary during Le Samyn?) that Argon don't really have a classics focused frame yet so he's on a much less forgiving frame than some of his competition. His solution to the rattling ride is just to big gear it.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Also, quite frankly, anyone writing off a team that has Boonen, Stybar, Terpstra and Vandenbergh in it as not having any first row winners....
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  • lyn1
    lyn1 Posts: 261
    dish_dash wrote:
    On Thwaites - isn't there some issue with his bike? I may be imagining this, but I swear I read/heard (maybe on the commentary during Le Samyn?) that Argon don't really have a classics focused frame yet so he's on a much less forgiving frame than some of his competition. His solution to the rattling ride is just to big gear it.

    That was the case at Le Samyn...restricted clearance and high pressures so uncomfortable ride and loss of traction on cobbles/rough roads. Pushing a big gear helped. He looked to be on a much more "normal" cadence yesterday, so maybe their Classics frame has arrived.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Also, quite frankly, anyone writing off a team that has Boonen, Stybar, Terpstra and Vandenbergh in it as not having any first row winners....

    Alright, nuts on the line - OPQS won't win a single 'classics' thing. Not even a de panne stage this side of Amstel Gold.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Also, quite frankly, anyone writing off a team that has Boonen, Stybar, Terpstra and Vandenbergh in it as not having any first row winners....

    Alright, nuts on the line - OPQS won't win a single 'classics' thing. Not even a de panne stage this side of Amstel Gold.

    So pretty much like last year then?
    I don't think it's about not having riders that can win races though, I think it's having too many of them and not enough teamwork.

    For the record, they've got 2 stages at TA, plus Martin at Catalunya, and a bunch of other stuff (Oman, Dubai, Algarve...)
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Also, quite frankly, anyone writing off a team that has Boonen, Stybar, Terpstra and Vandenbergh in it as not having any first row winners....

    Alright, nuts on the line - OPQS won't win a single 'classics' thing. Not even a de panne stage this side of Amstel Gold.

    Aah, but saying you don't think they'll win anything is different from saying they have no winners in their team
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Gent-Wevelgem TV - in the UK it's on Bike so Sky, Freesat and Virgin. The channel should also be streamed online if it isn't broken this time.
    http://www.bikechannel.co.uk/programmes/gent-wevelgem/

    Other links in the usual places
    http://www.steephill.tv/classics/gent-wevelgem/
    http://www.cyclingfans.com/gent-wevelgem/live
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not on Eurosport?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Also, anyone know why Greipel has such long odds?
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Also, anyone know why Greipel has such long odds?

    It's his first race back from injury, I thought.
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  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not on Eurosport?

    Not sure why but it isn't. They have Tour of Catalunya (now) and Criterium International.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    Mechanism wrote:
    Gent-Wevelgem TV - in the UK it's on Bike so Sky, Freesat and Virgin. The channel should also be streamed online if it isn't broken this time.
    http://www.bikechannel.co.uk/programmes/gent-wevelgem/

    Does this streaming work? I'm only seeing a short promo.
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    Mechanism wrote:
    Gent-Wevelgem TV - in the UK it's on Bike so Sky, Freesat and Virgin. The channel should also be streamed online if it isn't broken this time.
    http://www.bikechannel.co.uk/programmes/gent-wevelgem/

    Does this streaming work? I'm only seeing a short promo.

    It starts at 2pm on TV so maybe not till then.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    ^thanks.
    I'll head to the garage for a fettle.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Gent Wevelgem live from Sporza with 122kms to go.
    A very good feed:

    http://cyclinghub.tv/livestream

    The peloton split into 2 already.
    About 50 riders left to chase the break.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Not quite a carbon copy of last year, but the wind has already caused havoc and we have a "red" echelon alert in place until 4-30pm. :D
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    just me and you here I think blazing. We may as well call this the spoiler.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Yeah, I'd better not mention what just happened to Boonen and Maes, then.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yeah, I'd better not mention what just happened to Boonen and Maes, then.

    Boonen made it didn't he?
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