Ronde van Vlaanderen Sunday 18th October 2020 *Spoilers*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Kristoff with his annual 3rd place.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    From the top that was ultra close. MvdP looked much more committed in the sprint.

    WvA closing but just not quick enough road to pass.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Get in these lads - outstanding
    _
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Poor JA. Would he have gone on that last 'berg?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    MvdP says he went so deep he couldn’t see the finish line when he crossed
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Jesus, how do I still have 2 hours of work left..??? 😕
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited October 2020
    rick_chasey said:

    MvdP says he went so deep he couldn’t see the finish line when he crossed

    But he managed to get a perfectly timed bike throw?

    From the top his sprint did look amazingly committed. Right over the front and forward - but still losing ground to WvA.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    shirley_basso said:

    rick_chasey said:

    MvdP says he went so deep he couldn’t see the finish line when he crossed

    But he managed to get a perfectly timed bike throw?
    I think as in couldn’t tell if he won
    _
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Yeah he didn't know as he crossed the line, needed his term to confirm it
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    rick_chasey said:

    shirley_basso said:

    rick_chasey said:

    MvdP says he went so deep he couldn’t see the finish line when he crossed

    But he managed to get a perfectly timed bike throw?
    I think as in couldn’t tell if he won
    i suspect his vision would be bright white lights

    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rick_chasey said:

    Get in these lads - outstanding

    It's the new Cancellara / Boonen except the two are so similar as riders.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    shirley_basso said:

    Poor JA. Would he have gone on that last 'berg?

    It would have mixed things up for sure.
  • rozzer32
    rozzer32 Posts: 3,923
    Great finish.

    Very well played from VDP. Made WvA do more of the work and slowed down the start of the sprint.

    WVA did too much of the work for me in the run in and he needs to be sprinting from a faster start. At the tour when you have lead out trains he flies as he can jump wheel to wheel and use that extra kick when already at full speed. Lacking that extra kick today.

    Just gutted roubaix is off now. This rivalry is bubbling away nicely.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    The only problem I have between WvA and MvdP is I don't know enough about them to have a favourite to be invested in who wins.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Get in these lads - outstanding

    It's the new Cancellara / Boonen except the two are so similar as riders.
    Like I said: Van Nadal vs Van Djokovic.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    For 30s in a small corner of Belgium, I'm an anti-masker...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Girls have 37 to go "as live" on GCN app now, if you want one last look at Belgian cow fields until next spring...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,197
    shirley_basso said:

    The only problem I have between WvA and MvdP is I don't know enough about them to have a favourite to be invested in who wins.

    Blimey - where've you been then? They've been rivals for years.....
    All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    blazing_saddles said:

    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Get in these lads - outstanding

    It's the new Cancellara / Boonen except the two are so similar as riders.
    Like I said: Van Nadal vs Van Djokovic.
    Lol
    plague on both your houses
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Hmmm, AvV attacks at 27 to go and no one can hold the wheel.


    Can't win 'em all I guess...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    ddraver said:

    Girls have 37 to go "as live" on GCN app now, if you want one last look at Belgian cow fields until next spring...

    No stream elsewhere? 🤨
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited October 2020
    AvdB bridges across to AvV and they both sit up. They don't even try to pretend there are others in the race anymore...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    AvdB allows Chantal Blaak to go up the road. AvV plays a bit with chasing then attacks with 8 to go. Group closes then sits up. Mitchellton with 2 riders. Now grace brown goes up the road with Boels's Amy Peters on the wheel

    20s
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Great photo in the Guardian from Luc Claessen



    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/18/julian-alaphilippe-crashes-out-of-tour-of-flanders-after-motorcycle-collision-cycling
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    kingstongraham said:

    Great photo in the Guardian from Luc Claessen



    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/18/julian-alaphilippe-crashes-out-of-tour-of-flanders-after-motorcycle-collision-cycling

    Hips above the shoulder, that's a straight red these days, as can't see any mitigating circumstances.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited October 2020
    Chantal Vandenbroucke Blaak (I'm sure I spelt all of that wrong) wins after an attack on the flat at the top of the Kwaremont...

    Amy Peters takes 2nd for a Boels 1, 2

    I think Lotte Kopecky took 3rd
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    kingstongraham said:

    Great photo in the Guardian from Luc Claessen



    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/18/julian-alaphilippe-crashes-out-of-tour-of-flanders-after-motorcycle-collision-cycling

    Stupid photographers, causing crashes to get good photos.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Dorset_Boy said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Great photo in the Guardian from Luc Claessen



    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/18/julian-alaphilippe-crashes-out-of-tour-of-flanders-after-motorcycle-collision-cycling

    Hips above the shoulder, that's a straight red these days, as can't see any mitigating circumstances.
    JA going in with his shoulder was the first offence. Yellow card only.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    kingstongraham said:

    Great photo in the Guardian from Luc Claessen



    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/18/julian-alaphilippe-crashes-out-of-tour-of-flanders-after-motorcycle-collision-cycling

    Broken bones in his right hand apparently.

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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited October 2020
    andyrac said:

    shirley_basso said:

    The only problem I have between WvA and MvdP is I don't know enough about them to have a favourite to be invested in who wins.

    Blimey - where've you been then? They've been rivals for years.....
    Yeah I am aware of this but in CX and I don't have enough time to follow it and the build up. I know who they are but just don't really care who wins between them.

    Yes you could say 'just enjoy the prodigious talent for what it is' is such a waste when you can have better ups and downs if your 'man' wins - which is a lot of the fun in following sport.

    Even if JA had made it to the finish I probably would have supported him just because I know a bit more about his road history.

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