2016 Worlds *spoilers*

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,449
    edited October 2016
    twitter.com/NOSwielrennen/status­/787550722325872640
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,705
    Gazzetta dello Sport

    ***** Sagan, Gaviria
    **** Boonen, Bouhanni, Cav, Kittel, Kristoff
    *** Demare, Greipel
    ** Groenewegen

    l'Équipe

    ***** Greipel
    **** Sagan
    *** Cav, Boonen, Matthews
    ** Démare, Gaviria, Kittel, Kristoff
    * Bouhanni, Groenewegen, GvA, Martin, Terpstra, EBH
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,538
    Anyone know what Germany's strategy is with Kittel and Greipel?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cav wearing a closed in helmet. Nutter.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Peloton flying at 30kph. Break already 10:30 up
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,160
    Had a quick look on BBC just now, 240km to go. At the rate they are going through bidons and camelbacks they need a water tanker following.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Most riders riding with a bunch of bottles down their jerseys. Storing them up.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Doesn't look windy at all :(
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    Had a quick look on BBC just now, 240km to go. At the rate they are going through bidons and camelbacks they need a water tanker following.


    Not a bad idea...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Break roughly 8km up the road.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Oh good wind is blowing
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  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    Belgium team set off with the ice jackets on today
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Must be some dry ice kit teams could use.
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  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Just saw the entire spectator count stood on a roundabout then.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Commentators already having his first existential crisis on BBC.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cav already attentive up front
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Columbia did well to get a man in the break.

    Good for Gavaria.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,605
    What time are we expecting the finish today??
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boonen with ice packs on his wrists
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Brits already massed towards the front.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Great #51 chat
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Commentators missing a trick discussing the many instances in the '70s & 80s when the break got a lap on the bunch.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So my reckoning is the proper echelons will be in that 160-100km to go.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Commentators missing a trick discussing the many instances in the '70s & 80s when the break got a lap on the bunch.

    What do they do if they do get a lap?
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Cav''s DD teamate & GBs 10th man Kosta Siutsou helping out in the front there.
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Commentators missing a trick discussing the many instances in the '70s & 80s when the break got a lap on the bunch.

    What do they do if they do get a lap?

    Would assume its game over for the main bunch if they catch them all?
    Seem to recall the main bunch were warned to pick it up to prevent a catch in 2010 - think Brammier was in a break that had 20+ minutes.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    When the Tour came to the Uk in the '70s it happened. Solo break lapped the field. When he crossed the line in the middle of the bunch he celebrated - rest of the bunch carried on.

    Can't remember what stage unfortunately.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,538
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    When the Tour came to the Uk in the '70s it happened. Solo break lapped the field. When he crossed the line in the middle of the bunch he celebrated - rest of the bunch carried on.

    Can't remember what stage unfortunately.

    You'd think he could have nipped off the front or dropped off the back for a bit of solo self indulgence.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    The two right turns at Ras Laffan are about 180km out - and the race south down (which is about 20km) to the pearl will have crosswinds. How much gap can you open up in 20 km of echelons? Enough to hold off the 150km around the pearl?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So who is Belarus riding for?
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