Ronde van Vlaanderen 2019 ***spoilers***

The spaghetti route:

The hellingen:

The profile with distances in how far to go so you don't have to try and calculate where they are after several Duvels!

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/ro ... ist/roster
Schedule (PDF):
https://www.flandersclassics.be/sites/d ... eng_v2.pdf
Inner ring stars:
***** Zdeněk Štybar, Greg Van Avermaet
**** Bob Jungels, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert
*** Oliver Naesen, Yves Lampaert, Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel
** Sep Vanmarcke, Niki Terpstra, Tiesj Benoot, Luke Rowe
* Trentin, Kristoff, Matthews, Degenkolb, Moscon, Pedersen, Mohorič

The hellingen:

The profile with distances in how far to go so you don't have to try and calculate where they are after several Duvels!

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/ro ... ist/roster
Schedule (PDF):
https://www.flandersclassics.be/sites/d ... eng_v2.pdf
Inner ring stars:
***** Zdeněk Štybar, Greg Van Avermaet
**** Bob Jungels, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert
*** Oliver Naesen, Yves Lampaert, Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel
** Sep Vanmarcke, Niki Terpstra, Tiesj Benoot, Luke Rowe
* Trentin, Kristoff, Matthews, Degenkolb, Moscon, Pedersen, Mohorič
“Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”
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1 TERPSTRA Niki NED
2 CALMEJANE Lilian FRA
3 TURGIS Anthony FRA
4 GAUDIN Damien FRA
5 LIGTHART Pim NED
6 PICHOT Alexandre FRA
7 PETIT Adrien
This will be super good for Calmejane who is the main man for the GT's and rides hard in all conditions
Damien Touze, Kenneth Van Rooy, Hugo Houle and Jesper Asselman
They've got about 1'45", but a few unrepresented teams are trying to get someone up.
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Bloody late comers, hijacking my hard earned thread.
I don't see the firepower there for him, tbh.
QS are guaranteed to have cards to play at the pointy end of the race
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It was a good thread. It just wasn't the Ronde thread :-D
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My man!
Yeah he's definitely turned up to make a statement. Unfortunately that statement seems to be "I want to show everyone my chap"
I'm contractually obliged to have hopes for MyMan Valgren, but DD haven't been going well so far this season. That said, he's got a lot of experience around him today - Bak, Knees, Eisel, EBH.
Alaphilippe isn't riding, so it would be a bit of a shock if he did anything.
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I remember valgren doing well at a messy MSR finish last year.
https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status ... 1849033729
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And run over by the cyclist following. Delicious
For comparison, it took 70km to get a break away last year, and QS made things very hard.
I expect major fireworks later, a lot of riders will be fresher than they were expecting to be. Could see some fairly early attempts from a long way out.
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Thanks, but I'll stick to Rolf Sørensen and Chris Anker ;-)
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I’ve been holding off subscribing this year as I don’t want to pay to listen to Kirby, but if they give us the option of Hatch for all the races then I’d be a happy customer.
Really don’t know why they’ve got Kirby on the main feed when they have access to Hatch. I’d always assumed they just use Kirby cos he’s cheap, but this bizarre twist has me thinking that he must have dirt on someone at Eurosport.
Quigley and Matt S are currently offering relief from laughing boy.