Liege Bastogne Liege 2016 ***SPOILERS***

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Honestly, doesn't look that bad.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BElBpI-NnZN/
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Jonny's back in the peloton.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Some, like Bauke Mollema (Trek Factory Racing) and Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal) could smile and make light of the conditions when speaking with reporters beneath the rostrum. “I feel good, the course is a nice one and I quite like this weather,” Wellens said cheerfully.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Meanwhile, there's a bunch crash in the women's London marathon - runner hits her head on the pavement.

    HELMETS! :wink:
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    The_Boy wrote:
    Hell of a gap to be giving a break like that in a race that might be shortened.

    It's De Gendt's day!
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    With conditions like this, If Froome makes it to the end in the lead group, I'd maybe start thinking he could ride and win the Giro. Doesn't ever seem to do to well in these conditions.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Shadowrider wrote:
    With conditions like this, If Froome makes it to the end in the lead group, I'd maybe start thinking he could ride and win the Giro. Doesn't ever seem to do to well in these conditions.
    He's won a couple of pretty rain drenched Romandies. But he says himself he's a fair weather cyclist and prefers the Vuelta. I don't imagine he'll ever start another Giro.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Too skinny for cold weather.
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Too skinny for cold weather.
    RichN95 wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    With conditions like this, If Froome makes it to the end in the lead group, I'd maybe start thinking he could ride and win the Giro. Doesn't ever seem to do to well in these conditions.
    He's won a couple of pretty rain drenched Romandies. But he says himself he's a fair weather cyclist and prefers the Vuelta. I don't imagine he'll ever start another Giro.

    Both these things are what I mean. He doesn't do well in the real cold, I don't think we'll see him do a Giro, but I'd love to as it's my favourite race of the year.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,851
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Too skinny for cold weather.
    Too young to win the league.
    Half man, Half bike
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    My eurosport is playing silly buggers :(:(
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    And spring has sprung
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Do your rain jacket up guys.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Weather doesn't look as bad as I had been led to believe
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    He says, and then eurosport cuts to the break in the p*ssing rain...
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    In last 30 mins got Nibali at 32-1 and Gallopin at 80-1 on Betfair Exchange so still some value out there.
    @stagehopper
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Oh I do love a bit of hale.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    That looks grim
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Snow sticking to the riders.









    :D
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Sean Kelly making it quietly clear that he's f*cking hard....
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Yeah really manky weather now.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Shame we didn't have this weather for the cobbled races...!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Sean making a little advert for Endura kit there..!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Shame we didn't have this weather for the cobbled races...!

    Indeed.
    Wasted on this.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Gasparotto lurking towards the back a bit :(.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Voeckler should be a cross country skiier given how much upper body work there is.

    Another classic.

    Attack - then take your jacket off.

    :roll:
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,329
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Voeckler should be a cross country skiier given how much upper body work there is.

    Another classic.

    Attack - then take your jacket off.

    :roll:

    I watched that thinking "what a f*cking tit"
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Voeckler definitely has a place on Team Not My Man, the showboating little "twit".
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I watched that thinking "what a f*cking tit"

    What, Voeckler, a tit?

    Well I never!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ducknumber1
    ducknumber1 Posts: 1,158
    Gallopin abandoned according to Twitter

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