Fleche Wallone 2018 Spoilers

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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    Is it live on Eurosport today?


    1.30pm gmt
    There's some lively racing in the Tour of the Alps on now. Pinot and Pozzovivo in the break.

    Something funny going on with the Eurosport app. Eurosport 1 has disappeared at the moment so all I can watch is motorbikes or snooker! Seems intentional as it wasn't showing in the schedule this morning.

    Same, found an on-demand which I thought was the delayed version of today but it was the 2017 edition. Completely disappeared, but I can watch the Tour of Croatia :?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Landa doing all the chasing on his own for the past 3km.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not gonna be Dan Martin's day.

    Kwia takes up the chase to help Landa out.

    Serge Pauwels very attentive at the front.
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  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    Poptart242 wrote:
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    Is it live on Eurosport today?


    1.30pm gmt
    There's some lively racing in the Tour of the Alps on now. Pinot and Pozzovivo in the break.

    Something funny going on with the Eurosport app. Eurosport 1 has disappeared at the moment so all I can watch is motorbikes or snooker! Seems intentional as it wasn't showing in the schedule this morning.

    Same, found an on-demand which I thought was the delayed version of today but it was the 2017 edition. Completely disappeared, but I can watch the Tour of Croatia :?

    But if you select Tour of Croatia it's actually FW. Snafu from ES player
    Rule No.10 // It never gets easier, you just go faster
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Now Sky are chasing the gap is shrinking. Now 44 seconds.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Benoot now chasing hard for the peloton.

    Gap down to 38 seconds.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Valverde loses his last team mate Landa.

    He will hope other teams will take him to the line.

    I suspect they will since high placings are worth it....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    10km to go, 32 secs the gap.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Valverde loses his last team mate Landa.

    He will hope other teams will take him to the line.

    I suspect they will since high placings are worth it....

    Landa's back in the bunch.
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    But if you select Tour of Croatia it's actually FW. Snafu from ES player

    What a save!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    6.4km to go, on the penultimate climb. 20 seconds the gap.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nibali attacks over the top, after attacks in the peloton reduce the gap to 11 seconds.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Into a headwind, natch.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,119
    Even he can't stay away, can he?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    4km to go, Nibz has 20 seconds.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Even he can't stay away, can he?

    Ja but far fewer team mates for the others now.

    Nibali caught behind the two other breakway riders, having been dropped in the descent. Haig and Schahamann.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nibali with Kangart from Astana behind the two above.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nibz caught at 1.2km.

    Schachmann playing games upfront.

    Here we go. On the Muur.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    No Valverde's day.

    Wellens and Alaphilippe.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Vanendered sorry!!

    Now Valverde goes, following Alaphilippe! But he can't make it!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Alaphilippe.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    LOL
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    edited April 2018
    What a finish that was. Alaphilippe's beard from Valverde who never looked like getting there. Vandendert led out Wellens so well he took third, no idea if Wellens even held on to the top ten.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The best edition of this race for quite a long time
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    1: Ala
    2: Valverde
    3: Vandendert
    4: Kreuziger
    5: BLING MATTHEWS wow
    6: Mollema
    7: Wellens
    8: Schachmann
    9: Bardet
    10: Konrad
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Get in there son. PTP success :)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Time for a Valverde is finished thread.
    For once the hills are turning up some surprises.
    Matthews amazing.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Vandendert has history with this race and LBL.

    Quick Step decided that after a week off they should get back on it.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not gonna be Dan Martin's day.

    I sealed that the second I picked him for PTP.

    Sounds like a rare good edition.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    Amazing 5th for Matthews
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023

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