BinckBank Tour...Spoiler Alert!

imatfaal

It is a good days racing in horrible weather, Wellens and Dumoulin have 10secs on GVA/Naessen group and almost a minute on Sagan group (PSagan had a puncture and lost a minute or so)

imatfaal

Tim Wellens takes it from Tom Dumoulin in a non-sprint

imatfaal

trying to find out (no kirby today it seems ) what happened to Sagan

Mad_Malx

Thanks imatfaal. Just caught the last 15km and couldn't work out why Smith & Kirby were whittering on about missing service cars.

imatfaal

OK - and official GC was wrong


This from Procyclign stats looks much better

RnkPrevRiderTeamUCITime
1(170)DumoulinTomTeam Sunweb 820:27:49
2(173)WellensTimLotto Soudal 0:04
3(165)Van AvermaetGregBMC Racing Team 0:46
4(71)StuyvenJasperTrek - Segafredo 0:52
5(117)ValgrenMichaelAstana Pro Team 1:02
6(82)NaesenOliverAG2R La Mondiale 1:09
7(162)BoomLarsTeam LottoNL-Jumbo 1:46
8(1)SaganPeterBORA - hansgrohe 1:48
9(21)SütterlinJashaMovistar Team 2:13

Mad_Malx

On es now with 44km left, with cobbles and climbs up Muur van Geraardsbergen. Dry and sunny today.
Tony m and vivani 1min up the road.

imatfaal

Been some great stages reprising Spring. Final stage taken by Stuyven with a well timed last 3km break and overall by Tom Dumoulin.

Fraid to say that Tony Martin seems almost Contador-esque in his fairly silly and doomed breaks. Loved both of them in their pomp but he just doesn't look as if he still has it - he will probably still with World's but too often in Tours he misses the timetrial stage and then spends a few days in madcap breaks that are just too long to ever survive

Mad_Malx

Stuyvesant wins stage from 2km out after Sagan tells the rest he's not chasing. Sagan comes in 4th.
Tom dum takes overall win.

Could have been Decent stage if they didn't all wait for Sag to chase down every break.
Nice parcours on this one.

bigmat

So, once upon a time there was a thread about who could potentially win all 5 monuments. How about Dumoulin? I'm saying that as in he has the potential to win any of them, rather than he will potentially win all 5 (or indeed any).

m.r.m.

Nowadays it is also about targeting them. With Dumoulin going for Grand Tours it seems unlikely he will be targeting Flanders and Roubaix for the win. Most likely his shape won't be there for Milan-Sanremo as well, especially if he targets the Tour de France.