1 Lump or 2? Flanders Fortnight and the Road to Roubaix *Spoilers*

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
edited April 2019 in Pro race
The best fortnight's racing is already underway, with a pretty anonymous break up the road in E3:
Jaime Castrillo, Marc Hirschi, Thomas Sprengers, Aksel Nommela, Ludwig De Winter, Mihkel Raim & Stijn Steels.

Today's mini Flanders course:
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Sporza's live coverage starts in 15 minutes or so, or just as soon as those hellingen appear.
Eurosport will go live for what will either be the grand finale, or dying embers of a battle already fought, at 3pm.
Don't ask me why............

I'll try and update if anything major occurs before said time.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Just went on ES player to start watching, frankly I am baffled by the lack of coverage! Will have to try a feed
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    All usual sporza feed are down and my vpn isn't working so i'm in mild panic.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sporza now live now with 94 lovely kms to go.
    Marco Haller on a bit of a solo. :? :?

    I will post a live feed if I find one.
    FirstOne tv stopped all their feeds this week.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    CyclingEntertainment.stream is also down today :(.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Here is the working Tiz stream. It's about 2 minutes behind the actual race, but beggars can't be etc.

    http://tiz-cycling.live/
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cheers - any commentary on that one? Guess not....
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited March 2019
    Vanmarcke in a ditch and out of the race.

    Tiz usually get their commentary from Eurosport, so 3pm I'm afraid.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sep!! Sep's down! looks bad.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Sep!! Sep's down! looks bad.

    See above. :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Flipping heck - they're drilling it
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Very fast into the Kortekeer
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Taainberg/Boonenberg next up.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sound the klaxen. Taainberg two minute warning.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    No gutter today.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Van Aert puts Sagan into reverse.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    A lot of sparring going on, mostly between team's number two riders.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Why is posting on this site so hard, these days?
    Times out all the time..
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    ok i have just paid for a VPN myself. Am up and running on Sporza.

    Panic over. WIll worry about what pay plan to do later.

    Peloton taking breathe. Think Wout spent a lot of energy around 70km to go.

    Next up, is the trio, Kapel, Pater, Oude Kwaremont.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Jungels shedding the breakaway deadwood.
    Politt and Sutterlin: 2 big engines up front with him now.
    The peloton being KBK'd again now a distinct possibility.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    tiz is blocked at work. Damn.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Who's the Swiss who's survived with Jungels?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Fabian Jungels. Ridiculously strong.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Who's the Swiss who's survived with Jungels?

    20 YO Marc Hirschi who had been in the BOTD. Impressive, but blown away by the mighty Bob, now.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Game over.

    Wow.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Game over.

    Wow.

    innit, just.
    Only the run in left.

    He's riding for Giro GC.
    Imagine if this was Thomas: Twitter would implode. :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Just so difficult to get organised with Stybar and they know they need to chase hard soon, so they'll give up sooner.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Boom. Haven’t seen that for a while.
    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
    Langeveld's not taking turns either.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Sagan blew up big time on the final climb as GVA put in a huge dig to pull 10 seconds out of Jungels lead.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Second group looking organised but it's a huge ask to outfox DQS

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