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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,561
    KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:
    Poptart242 wrote:
    Plus he had the legs and was ever so slightly unlucky in the sprint - anyone's guess as to what direction Sep would fade in.

    OK but go and do it in the bus
    Where you end up in the final straight is at least partially your own responsibility.
    It wasn't like he was cheated out of it by a crash or a mechanical or sitting up at the line when there's still a lap to go.
    I think it was a very public display, together with the handlebar banging, to say that 'That race was mine - if I'd had a clear run at it I'd have definitely beat Sagan.'
    That's far from certain and a bit arrogant, and a bit ungracious towards Saggers.

    Nowt wrong with being a bit ungracious to Sagan... anyway surely we want to see these folks show some emotion and passion. It's part of the sport.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,561
    cygnet wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Terpstra has a rep in the peloton for being a bit nasty in his competitivness for who whoever was asking.
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Thing is, why would you need Sep when you have Terpstra?

    Sep is a diva by all accounts, hence the need to be the main man. Terpstra knows he's not well liked so sucks it up.

    So now I'm confused re Terpstra: If he's not liked in the peloton, but he's sucking it up, working for the team and taking his chances when he gets them, why the viewing public dislike?

    He got booed by some in the crowd in the beer tent at the E3 finishline as well as at the podium ceremony.

    As an aside the podium girls got lots of catcalls/whistles from the crowd.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Tbh I can't see why you'd dislike him. He's pretty exciting to watch, had some awesome wins and if he ruffles a few feathers while he's at it? Who cares...it's all entertainment at the end of the day.

    Nice guys finish last and all that.....
  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    I'm all for seeing the emotion of it - adds to the experience IMO.

    I think the Terpstra thing is he's a bit of a pr!ck - stuff like the Vuelta bomb jokes in the direction of Manzana Postobon denotes a fairly crass personality.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    dish_dash wrote:
    cygnet wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Terpstra has a rep in the peloton for being a bit nasty in his competitivness for who whoever was asking.
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Thing is, why would you need Sep when you have Terpstra?

    Sep is a diva by all accounts, hence the need to be the main man. Terpstra knows he's not well liked so sucks it up.

    So now I'm confused re Terpstra: If he's not liked in the peloton, but he's sucking it up, working for the team and taking his chances when he gets them, why the viewing public dislike?

    He got booed by some in the crowd in the beer tent at the E3 finishline as well as at the podium ceremony.

    As an aside the podium girls got lots of catcalls/whistles from the crowd.

    IN fairness that's as much Flandrians being parochial I would imagine.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    They also feel he’s a wheel sucker. Which in fairness, he is.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Barriers being used to keep riders off foot paths.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racin ... les-374603
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Barriers being used to keep riders off foot paths.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racin ... les-374603

    At last.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Kirby has arrived in the nick of time to ruin the classics before nipping off to Basqueland on Monday. :(

    Luke Rowe very active atm. Solo breakaway with 84kms to go.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Live with Luke Rowe off the front with 83K to go. No idea how he got there.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Live with Luke Rowe off the front with 83K to go. No idea how he got there.
    think he'd only just got away at this point. break took a long time forming.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Barriers being used to keep riders off foot paths.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racin ... les-374603

    Taaienberg is more selective with the gutter free.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Naesen abandoned after an earlier crash.
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    WTH was that with Van Aert?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Van Aert smacks into a roadside photographer and ends up in a ditch.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    BMC and QS rip it up - peloton in pieces.

    Meanwhile, we find out that Vanmarkce did another 80km after Gent Wevelgem. #lad #Bijtraining
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Annoyingly have colleagues either side of me so can't revert to Eurosport player on my phone. Live ticker it is, for now.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Martin off the front solo.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Viviani gives up.
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  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    Martin stacks it!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Zednek Boonen. :lol:
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Valverde 3rd over the Taaienberg.
    Valgren takes to a ditch.

    Impressive gap from Stybar, but he's solo, with the big boys selection behind.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,342
    I'm stuck in trains. Keep the play by play up please!
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    cracking lead group
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    Dege at the head of things, Valverde chasing with someone from QS in tow.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    That movistar Spannish guy.

    Riding well in his first DDV.

    Reckon we might hear more about him.
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    Scratch that, GVA came with and goes straight to the front.

    Tiesj, EBH, Martin all there too.

    Valverde now pushing on.

    What a bloody brilliant race
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That movistar Spannish guy.

    Riding well in his first DDV.

    Reckon we might hear more about him.
    He's going to be good when he gets older.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That movistar Spannish guy.

    Riding well in his first DDV.

    Reckon we might hear more about him.
    He's going to be good when he gets older.

    In fairness, I nicked that off Thomas de Gendt.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    M.R.M. wrote:
    I'm stuck in trains. Keep the play by play up please!

    At the moment we have; Valverde (yay), Stybar, Sep VM, Benoot, Lampaert, Moscon , EBH, Degenkolb (yay), Perderson, Tony Martin and GVH.
    What a group.
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