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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    GVA and Benoot away.....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    GvA barely holding onto Benoot's wheel during that attack. Grimacing like a mad man.

    Made a big gap quickly, and not because the chasers weren't trying to close the gap.

    It'll be between those two. Benoot looks stronger.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Spoke too soon, group is clawing it back.

    Working well.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Gobbled up by QS
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Fascinating race.
    Impossible to tell haw this will play out.

    EBH has woken from his winter hibernation.
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    Pedersen, Sep, Lampaert, EBH, Teunnisen (sp) away with 27 seconds, 21k to go.

    EBH!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    EBH could win a race
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Come on Edvald
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Now it is sorted.
    QS have a man up there.
    Only GVA, Benoot and Moscon likely to make any effort.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Valverde out sucking Tersptra: impressive. :lol:
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I have a feeling that Pedersen will mug the others.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Teunissen! Lad.

    Came 3rd in the 2016 Surrey classic IIRC.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Teunissen! Lad.

    Came 3rd in the 2016 Surrey classic IIRC.

    2nd in 2015... :lol:
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Lampaert. Nice work after his efforts last week
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    So, Lampaert poaches consecutive wins as Quick Step's disastrous classics campaign continues. :P
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    I'm guessing the other 4 were pretty much spent, bu that looked really odd!
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    2nd consecutive DDV win. Only 26.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Arguably more impressed by Valverde, even though I knew he'd be good.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Good lad.

    But can someone have a word with him about the length of his shorts.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,142
    BigMat wrote:
    I'm guessing the other 4 were pretty much spent, bu that looked really odd!

    It was brilliant. Somehow made it look like he was swinging across trying to get someone else to lead, then realised he had a small gap and just disappeared.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Perfect move from Yves. That will go into the junior coaches playbook!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Arguably more impressed by Valverde, even though I knew he'd be good.

    Nevermind about Valverde. Will Benoot win Flanders?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Milton50 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Arguably more impressed by Valverde, even though I knew he'd be good.

    Nevermind about Valverde. Will Benoot win Flanders?

    He needs it to be a real slijtage wedstrijd and nowadays that happens once a decade at best.
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  • tim000
    tim000 Posts: 718
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Van Aert smacks into a roadside photographer and ends up in a ditch.
    it was a race marshall , stopped to warn the rider about the bollards in the road . http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/lates ... ren-374730
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    cracking, this is for me the best time of the year with the best races.

    Quick step Peerless in this type of racing and Valverde wow a proper racers racer.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    tim000 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Van Aert smacks into a roadside photographer and ends up in a ditch.
    it was a race marshall , stopped to warn the rider about the bollards in the road . http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/lates ... ren-374730

    To be fair, he'd usually just ride through a CX bollard....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    Thanks inseine and all the others for the play by play!
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
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    A horse mascot and a pile of horse crap trophy. Look at his little face. Other than bed with no dinner, there’s not much more a chap could want after racing all day in the p1ssing rain.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Half way though last night’s Sporza extra time koers which is an hour of pundits and riders sitting around a table chatting pro cycling.

    Guests are van der Poel, Boonen and Lefevre.

    Few t!tbits.

    1) Lampaert didn’t bonk in E3 he was just pooped.

    2) Everyone around the table bar the journalists feel that when the flag drops its racing and there’s way too much hanging around waiting for crashes etc. Boonen looks quite incredulous at the suggestion otherwise and says plainly “we’re pros. If you have bad luck, tough”. He also blames the commentators for making it an issue.

    3) Lefevre doesn’t even blink when he makes it clear Terpstra follows team orders.

    4) QS still don’t have a sponsor, believe it or not,

    5) Boonen feels “had Nibali and Valverde turned their attention to cobbled one dayers sooner we would have all had serious competition”

    6) Lampaert is so West Flanders he needs subtitles for Flemish people let alone the Dutch.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Oh and Boonen makes a point that a lot of riders will be struggling to get those top form sensations because of the bad weather.

    He also says that you feel a wet MSR in your body for the rest of the classics season. Big debate around how to prepare - do you go back to warmer climes to train or do you try to adjust? Conclusion; no one really knows.
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