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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Huge crash very close to the front.
    About 50 riders or so got through the congestion OK.
    Most of the sprinters made it, bar Ackermann.

    Refreshing to hear Hatch and Brian Smith giving out some proper info and describing the actual race in detail....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Groenewegen takes it comfortably from Gaviria and Viviani.
    Nice podium, but it's a lousy race.
    Why they have gone for this over the usual stage 1, I cannot fathom.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Huge crash very close to the front.
    About 50 riders or so got through the congestion OK.
    Most of the sprinters made it, bar Ackermann.

    Refreshing to hear Hatch and Brian Smith giving out some proper info and describing the actual race in detail....

    Brian Smith is getting better and better as a commentator.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Quite pumped for E3.

    Such a shame it's a Friday but usually a well fought race with riders willing to throw caution to the wind and test themselves...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2019
    So the sequence of the run in goes, from 50km to go:

    Boigneberg, Stationberg, then a gap, then Kapelberg closely followed by Paterberg & Oude Kwaremont all within 6km (at c. 35km out), before the Karnemelkbeek, the varent flat cobbled section and then finally the Tiegemberg at 9km to go.

    So that Kapelberg Paterberg, Kwaremont combo is where it's all gonna kick off.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Right. Anyone got a live stream for this one? Slow day at work and keen to watch.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Right. Anyone got a live stream for this one? Slow day at work and keen to watch.
    Well it's on live now without commentary on the Eurosport player app/online.

    About 95 to go. I am going to watch the last 13k of Catalunya then switch over.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Right. Anyone got a live stream for this one? Slow day at work and keen to watch.
    Well it's on live now without commentary on the Eurosport player app/online.

    About 95 to go. I am going to watch the last 13k of Catalunya then switch over.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Jungels isn’t so massive.

    Calls time on Classics season to prep for Giro. Won’t defend LBL (so he says).
    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.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Echelon alert in Scheleprijs. Peloton in pieces after 20kms. There has been a regrouping, but DQS's main man, Jakobesen is still off the back.
    I expect it will all have calmed down by the time there is live coverage, although the wind is forecast to strengthen.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    edited April 2019
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Hooray, some proper weather !
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sporza is live and we need that klaxon.
    At least 3 groups on the road.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    CarbonClem wrote:
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    I assume that means he’s not down and out?
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Setting up nicely for DQS as other teams panic into sending their guys forward while Greipel needs his to to bring him back after being distanced.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Soon be time for the Paris-Roubaix boys to bail out the back to avoid the usual crashes.
    A pity they decided to stop racing, just as tv coverage started.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Kittle down, EBH attacks! Had 10 secs on bunch
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Shock win for Quickstep
    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.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    The EBH move forced them to the front a bit early but it was never in doubt
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    inseine wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
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    I assume that means he’s not down and out?

    Sorry, yes he was, but not in a Northern Classic. Broken collarbone in the Basque Country. :(
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    CarbonClem wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
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    I assume that means he’s not down and out?

    Sorry, yes he was, but not in a Northern Classic. Broken collarbone in the Basque Country. :(

    A stage earlier than in 2017.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Quickstep warming up nicely for the big one. Will they drop the ball again like last weekend???????
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Who’s their main man for it. Stybar?
    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.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Gweeds wrote:
    Who’s their main man for it. Stybar?

    Yes.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Greg for me is probably the favourite but it’s so hard to call, especially with his bad team.

    Really would struggle to do the star rating for this one.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Looking like the most open race for a few years.
    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.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Gweeds wrote:
    Looking like the most open race for a few years.

    Yes i get that feeling too, not unlike Flanders

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