2020 classics season thread
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Anyone else getting excited about the start of the classics?!! The last few years I have started to prefer these to the GTs (which are still great).
The classics are just so unpredictable and pretty much always guarantee excitement.
1 week to go until kuurne brussel kuurne!!
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Or an attitude. Cavendish had the same thing - rubbish numbers but an unquenchable desire to compete. Can't help but think Pidcock will - at best - nick a couple of wins somewhere on the road and not much else though because he's just too small but I would love to be proved wrong. I'd like to see that cycling still doesn't have a single solution to the question of what the ideal cyclist looks like.No_Ta_Doctor said:
That's the point. Junior Worlds TT, P-R Jnrs and P-R Espoirs. These aren't races a small bloke should be winning. Physics suggests he must have something exceptional in the tank.
As for MvdP, the worlds last year weren't anything to base judgement on - it was just horrible out there - but plenty of decent riders have just emptied the tank and fallen apart so I suspect just being there is a bigger statement than what happened next.0 -
As I was saying, I want to see him in the mountains. I'm not expecting him to be winning cobbled classics or TTs. At his weight he should be a decent climber, and if he can TT a bit that's not bad for an all round GC racer. He's won Alsace as well.Lanterne_Rogue said:
Or an attitude. Cavendish had the same thing - rubbish numbers but an unquenchable desire to compete. Can't help but think Pidcock will - at best - nick a couple of wins somewhere on the road and not much else though because he's just too small but I would love to be proved wrong. I'd like to see that cycling still doesn't have a single solution to the question of what the ideal cyclist looks like.No_Ta_Doctor said:
That's the point. Junior Worlds TT, P-R Jnrs and P-R Espoirs. These aren't races a small bloke should be winning. Physics suggests he must have something exceptional in the tank.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
There's no way he's only 5'2". That has to be nonsense"Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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That is a disaster.
That aside, there are more pressing races afoot, namely Omloop het Nieuwsblad (Volk) in 6 days.
Notoriously difficult to predict, here are the odds:
MvdP - 3-1
GvA - 8-1
Stybar - 11-1
Jungels - 17-1
Gilbert 21-1
Current forecast all week, including Sunday: Rain and windy.
Things I also hadn't realised - Degenkolb is now riding for Lotto....0 -
is it being shown live on TV ?0
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Pop quiz - without googling, name all the riders/coaches/DS/professionals who work in cycling in the promo photo.0
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Latest weather forecast for Sunday is gusts of up to 80kph in what will predominantly be a tail/crosswind.
*blows off the dust from the echelon klaxon*0 -
Oh my word.rick_chasey said:Latest weather forecast for Sunday is gusts of up to 80kph in what will predominantly be a tail/crosswind.
*blows off the dust from the echelon klaxon*
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Waaiers on the first day of the season! Buzzing, going to start listening to eurodance now0
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Quite right too.
Though it’s still only Tuesday so maybe just hit the vengaboys.
Bit early to be hitting the 2Unlimited. That’s more of a Saturday night rev up.
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Alright I've got about 15 interviews to get through on Sporza, but what I've heard so far beyond the usual pre-Omloop platitudes:
Edward Theuns has hurt his thumb, and Gilbert says he's a week behind where he wanted to be because of illness.0 -
I'm also staying in Ghent for that weekend - I take it walking back from the Paterberg to Kwaremont after the riders have been through for the final time would still enable us to pick up the bus back to Oudenaarde ?simey.haine said:You can get a bus from Oudenaarde out to Kwaremont - its is free and laid on by the organisers. We walked back to Oudenaarde from the Paterberg. It's a few miles but you pass through the village at the base of the Koppenberg if you are interested in seeing it.
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Quick step start list
For saturday:- Jasper Asgreen (Den)
- Tim Declercq
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Florian Sénéchal (Fra)
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
and for Sunday:- Kasper Asgreen (Den)
- Fabio Jakobsen (Ned)
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
- Bert Van Lerberghe
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rick_chasey said:
Ah there's a 90 minute Sporza podcast. Will report back tomorrow.
That's longer than Eurosport's KBK coverage on the telebox."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Asgreen changed his name between Saturday and Sunday? Or he has a brother with a very similar name...rick_chasey said:Quick step start list
For saturday:- Jasper Asgreen (Den)
- Tim Declercq
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Florian Sénéchal (Fra)
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
and for Sunday:- Kasper Asgreen (Den)
- Fabio Jakobsen (Ned)
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
- Bert Van Lerberghe
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Exciting stuff... wind, rain and cold weather is what makes the classics the classics.0
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2 other new "classic" races also on this weekend. Both held in the regions of Ardèche and Drôme.
Saturday.
20th Faun-Ardèche Classic (1.Pro)
Sunday.
8th Royal Bernard Drome Classic (1.Pro)
Alaphilippe, Nibali, Mollema, Bardet, Latour, Madouas, Bettiol, Barguil, Calmejane, Kreuziger, Visconti all riding one or both.
I only mention them as Eurosport player has both races live, which means replays will be available to round off a perfect opening weekend.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
No, my mistake. Same guy.bobmcstuff said:
Asgreen changed his name between Saturday and Sunday? Or he has a brother with a very similar name...rick_chasey said:Quick step start list
For saturday:- Jasper Asgreen (Den)
- Tim Declercq
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Florian Sénéchal (Fra)
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
and for Sunday:- Kasper Asgreen (Den)
- Fabio Jakobsen (Ned)
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
- Bert Van Lerberghe
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More worringly, MvdP will likely miss this week's racing as he has the flu.0 - Jasper Asgreen (Den)
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Sadly now confirmed. Out of the weekend.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.0
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Kasper kan be a bit forgetful...bobmcstuff said:
Asgreen changed his name between Saturday and Sunday? Or he has a brother with a very similar name...rick_chasey said:Quick step start list
For saturday:- Jasper Asgreen (Den)
- Tim Declercq
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Florian Sénéchal (Fra)
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
and for Sunday:- Kasper Asgreen (Den)
- Fabio Jakobsen (Ned)
- Bob Jungels (Lux)
- Iljo Keisse
- Yves Lampaert
- Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
- Bert Van Lerberghe
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