2020 classics season thread

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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Rather worryingly - corona in Oise area - where PR starts I think?

    "A dozen cases are centred in the Oise area of northern France, which has emerged as one of the most significant clusters" Peter Beaumont, Guardian this morning
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Well I think it's all still going ahead and the weather forecast could not be more 'omloop het nieuwsblad'

    11 degrees, raining, heavy west/southwest winds.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited February 2020
    If anyone needs more there's the women's race:

    11-00am
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LftJ_OwCZ0
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    I'm going to put a couple of quid on Omloop and KBK being pretty much all we get this season. This is going to be a pub quiz question in a decade or so: "who won most WT races in 2020".
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Caleb Ewen.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    I'm going to put a couple of quid on Omloop and KBK being pretty much all we get this season. This is going to be a pub quiz question in a decade or so: "who won most WT races in 2020".


    My bet is everything will be back to normal by the Dauphine (at least in Europe)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yup, it's once again time for the biggest little Northern classic of them all: Le Samyn.





    Eurosport have live coverage tomorrow, of both the men's and women's race, starting at 1pm with the ladies.

    A nice little 10 minutes highlights show from last year with Rob Hatch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhladOl6v8

    And the final 10 kms of the epic 2017 edition.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNPVwaTPc8
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Some of the cobbles look pretty damp and greasy in the women's race. Chantal Blaak has 10 km and a couple of minutes
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Blaak takes the women's edition.
    70km to go for the men, spots of rain, lots of short attacks but nothing really sticking
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Splitting into groups with relentless attacks and the rain making those cobbles even slicker.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Yeah, starting to kick off now
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Lost pictures.

    Come on guys, it's 2020.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited March 2020
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Some of the cobbles look pretty damp and greasy in the women's race. Chantal Blaak has 10 km and a couple of minutes


    I see her name is now van der Broek-Blaak. Can I copyright the headline 'Broeck-Blaak Mountain' in case she ever wins going uphill
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    For once DQS not going to be able to sit on and control this one.
    Only Senechal and Ballerini in the front group.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Errr... Tim Declercq seems to be doing a lot of work for someone who's not there...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yes, they appear to have left their quick guy behind, with Nizzolo, Coquard and Venturini out front.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yes, our Eurosport boys called all the sprinters..................except the winner: Hugo Hofstetter.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Hugo. Boss.
    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.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    gweeds said:

    Hugo. Boss.

    Errrr.... Hugo Hofstetter rides for an Israeli team and Hugo Boss was a Nazi. Just saying.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,270
    Not Joe Lycett then?
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    gweeds said:

    Hugo. Boss.

    Errrr.... Hugo Hofstetter rides for an Israeli team and Hugo Boss was a Nazi. Just saying.
    What are you saying exactly? All Hugo's are Nazi's? It's a weird coincidence? It's ironic in the Alanis Morissette way?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Somebody hold Rick down.

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tom-boonen-admits-he-often-considers-making-a-professional-comeback-450833
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    blazing_saddles said:

    Somebody hold Rick down.

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tom-boonen-admits-he-often-considers-making-a-professional-comeback-450833

    I'm sure there'd be a team willing to take that handicap for the short term publicity. QS did for at least 3 seasons :*
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Hasn't made it to the sporza website so I suspect it's not all that serious....
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    rick_chasey said:

    Hasn't made it to the sporza website so I suspect it's not all that serious....

    You what?

    It's the front page headline.

    https://sporza.be/nl/2020/03/05/tom-boonen-is-topic-in-extra-time-koers-hij-is-eigenlijk-te-vroeg-gestopt~1583392530073/
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Haha, not quite the same, but I get your point (they're advertising their prog where they discuss his comments...)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    It seems that Nokere Koerse will benefit from the current instability. 11 WT teams have signed up already, bringing the total to 22 teams.
    Sunday's GP Monsere plans a late additions of 3 WT teams.

    However, the 7 new cases in Wevelgem may send them scuttling home again.

    https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20200304_04876067
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Until people stop bothering with quarantining and isolating I can't see any pro bike race going ahead tbh.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    And Strade formally canned.
    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.
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    Does any one know if Gent Wevelgem is going ahead?

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