SPOILER BINCKBank Tour stage 7
Vino'sGhost
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Cobbles climbs this is a cracking stage, like one of the early season races in classics season
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20k to go stybar on matthews wheel moving up the road to the front riders0
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Valgren in the front group of 3 on a neutral service bike, had it for 10k and no bottle, GVA in the chasing group. Quality Quality field.0
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Oliver Naessen about 10 seconds up the road, peloton a way back with several chase groups just behind0
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Half the chase group went over the pavement then.0
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Peloton catching the chase group of 6
Naessen now at 23 seconds with 12.9k to go0 -
Ef riders not using thenew cannondale bike still0
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Attacks on the front 5 seconds cut off the lead in a very short time.
24 seconds 11.4k to go. Split of 8 or 9 off the front but naessen time trialling all in with 24seconds0 -
9.9k to go 17 seconds0
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All in for the fnal cobbled climb0
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8.7k and 23 seconds. But 2 more climbs to go0
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Very dodgy turn coming0
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All through ok somehow. 6.8k to 18seconds
Peloton now strung out0 -
700m at 8%. Lead falling rapidly.0
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Stybar attacks and the race explodes! Stybar passes naeesen matthes coming up0
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PROPER RACING! 5k to go 7 or 8 on stybars wheel but then they all sat up, does no opne have any legs?0
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Muuur de unpronouncable is last climb in 3k0
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Stuyven getting feisty but van baal and an ef and qstep on his wheel, a few seconds ahead of whats left of the chasing group.0
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1k to go0
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Nice thread Vino. I particularly like the maps and profiles. :P
The race ultimately won from the sprinter teams failure to chase down the break.
That and the lack of any real GC opportunity outside of today, which meant lots of uncooperative GC men neutralizing all the attacks.
This race desperately needs a re-vamp."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Am I right that this race is ranked higher than anything Roman Bardet has ever won?"Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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Blazing Saddles wrote:Nice thread Vino. I particularly like the maps and profiles. :P
The race ultimately won from the sprinter teams failure to chase down the break.
That and the lack of any real GC opportunity outside of today, which meant lots of uncooperative GC men neutralizing all the attacks.
This race desperately needs a re-vamp.
I thought about the blazing profiles but my interest and ipad computer skills were at the lower end of things.
buuut what a great route and race today. Very enjoyable, it seemed odd looking at the route and the climbs in full summer glory.0 -
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In terms of GC wins, yes. Although in terms of UCI points, Bardet's 6th place in this year's TDF was worth exactly the same as winning this race which feels about right to me in terms of prestige.gsk82 wrote:Am I right that this race is ranked higher than anything Roman Bardet has ever won?0 -
DeadCalm wrote:
In terms of GC wins, yes. Although in terms of UCI points, Bardet's 6th place in this year's TDF was worth exactly the same as winning this race which feels about right to me in terms of prestige.gsk82 wrote:Am I right that this race is ranked higher than anything Roman Bardet has ever won?
What is truly ridiculous to me is that there are the exactly same UCI points awarded to the GC here, as there are in Hamburg.
So, Jasper Stuyven, who raced hard all week, gets less UCI points than Nik Arndt and Nic Bonifazio, who were the 8th and 9th best sprinters in Hamburg."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Blazing Saddles wrote:DeadCalm wrote:
In terms of GC wins, yes. Although in terms of UCI points, Bardet's 6th place in this year's TDF was worth exactly the same as winning this race which feels about right to me in terms of prestige.gsk82 wrote:Am I right that this race is ranked higher than anything Roman Bardet has ever won?
What is truly ridiculous to me is that there are the exactly same UCI points awarded to the GC here, as there are in Hamburg.
So, Jasper Stuyven, who raced hard all week, gets less UCI points than Nik Arndt and Nic Bonifazio, who were the 8th and 9th best sprinters in Hamburg.
it makes a mockery of the points system in favour of the sprinters. Perhaps it's necessary to stop the sport being all about anaemic climbers0
