2017 Flat Classics thread - will probs have spoilers

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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    andyp wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    My man Sep. You need the hairdryer treatment you choker. This is 2017. The racing starts 70km. Can't get dropped then you lightweight choker. Sort it out.
    He's sick, had a dodgy stomach on Wednesday and it came back during yesterday's race. He's got 15 days to recover.

    Hayman was still on the turbo at this point last year shirley?
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    Yes, good point. He rode a couple of one day races the weekend before Roubaix, but that was his total race prep after breaking his collarbone at Het Nieuwsblad.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    I suppose it's time I put this one out there:-

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    Live coverage (Sporza) will probably start around the 1-20pm mark..........................BST. :D
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    andyp wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Oooooaaaaaarr, Gilbert looks mighty tasty doesn't he?

    He's got that whole QS team purring.

    They look like they've got their mojo back. I love it when they are tearing races up.
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    My man Sep. You need the hairdryer treatment you choker. This is 2017. The racing starts 70km. Can't get dropped then you lightweight choker. Sort it out.
    He's sick, had a dodgy stomach on Wednesday

    Like me it would seem. Ugh.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Looking ahead to next Sunday and the Ronde, early indications are that Eurosport will be live from 9-15am, with a 90 minute gap from 11am.
    This ties in with how Sporza normally cover the race, with the signing on, roll out and opening kms.
    Talking of the sign on, I'll miss not seeing The Markt in Bruges.
    Gets me all beery.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Fairly sure there's been a crossswind split as is usual early on. No idea if it's back together or not in the peloton.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Gap between peloton 1 and peloton 2 is 1:35

    Led by Quick Step.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Hmm maybe not.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    It sounds like peloton 1 is Quickstep, who seem to have dropped everyone else
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Yes but also have read it's back together, so not sure if the peloton has gone full Taylor Swift or not.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Meanwhile at sporza

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    240km today.

    Chat about plenty of guys "bijtrenen" after dwars door (training after the race).
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    From Dan Lloyd's Twatter.

    'Crash in the peloton involving Demare, Vandenbergh, Oliver Naesen.'
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    From Dan Lloyd's Twatter.

    'Crash in the peloton involving Demare, Vandenbergh, Oliver Naesen.'

    Neasens played a blinder so far this year
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Sporza is playing a blinder too.
    Nowt but chin wagging, but for a brief glimpse of the breakaway.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Well, final we are live. 106kms to go.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Ive stopped drinking for a bit and seem to have completely lost my ability to interpret 'Sporza language' I got that bit on the All Blacks but usually can get a handle on the minute by minute developments

    If i was 1 /2 bottle of red in or a on my third Duval I would usually be passing onto others what is 'going on'
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Well, final we are live. 106kms to go.

    Quick step instructed to sit "just behind sky"
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    SKY driving at the from while Van Poppel goes out the back, I assume he's ill
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Eurosport ad breaks signals large crash.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Echelons!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Ouch, nothing for miles and you crash into a wooden post.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    BMC use the 2 crashes to put the hammer down and cause an echelon alert.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Eurosport think the ECHELONS klaxon is the cue for adverts.
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    even QS sound the claxon

    Quick-Step Cycling‏ @quickstepteam 17s17 seconds ago
    More
    Echeloooooons!!! #GWE
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Eurosport: Imagine if they took ad breaks in football, just as a penalty was being taken?
    Terpstra left adrift in the second group.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    If I have it right then the long flat stretch after the last of the bergs from Ieper to Menen will have a mild cross head wind (about 10mph) - dunno if enough to really matter. And who knows what the plug streets and Kammelberg mark two might have already smashed it up
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    about 1km tp plug street
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    The new, dirt sectors prove decisive.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    The in-car shots of the Trek car show that DSs usually use radios to say little of consequence.
    Twitter: @RichN95

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