Ardennes* races **Spoilers**

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Tom Dumoulin watching roadside.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    Ineos attacking regularly to thin the herd

    first sighting for the Herschi Bar
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Time for everybody to wake up cos it’s all kicking off now
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    Schachman, mag ik een...crash

    Jungles too, and out.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Schachmann and Jungels involved in a 6 rider crash
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Van Sevenent skewered by Di2 crash mode (would have been a hell of an effort to get back on mind)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    30 to go,

    1 lone remnant of the breakaway. group of favourites causing havoc behind. roglic, pidcock, chaves all looking frisky

    Schelling determined to go clear. Attacking constantly
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Great race. Reminds me of some of the French races.
    So much action but so hard to make anything stick.
    There’s not been a dull moment in the last 40-50kms.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    ddraver said:

    Van Sevenent skewered by Di2 crash mode (would have been a hell of an effort to get back on mind)

    Top man.
    He’s now working on the front.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    Van - bloomin' - sevenant DID get back and is now attacking off the bunch. Leuk Vliegen somehow clung on for another 5km but now caught and overhauled by an effulgent Schelling

    24 to go

    Roglic fitting ver well into the WvA 'cover everything' job
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Ben Tullett on the attack.
    Cycling really has become a young man’s game
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Ide Schelling - local boy - spitting fire off the front but gap is fairly small. Ben Tullets attacks for Britain and the memory of Prince Phillip but is closed down by the bunch.

    UAE swarm the front to exert some control

    21 to go
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    sprint trains in full flow down the hill into the last lap of the Cauberg. This is going to be crucial...

    18 to go
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Inevitably, Roglic gets a mechanical at the bottom

    Wva pulls JA and Pidcock clear
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    I think Alaphilippe is struggling.
    Ineos doing a passable impression of Quick Step
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Ooooof Pidcock looks good

    Chase of Wva, Ja, Carapaz, Kwiato, Schachman, Bling with a small gap. Need to start working together now
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Kwia with a very smart move at 14km to go just as the chase group catches up.

    Two blockers behind.

    Surely the move to win? Depends on who wants go chase.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Not sure what pidcock is doing?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Ah they caught kwia
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure what pidcock is doing?

    Killing everybody?

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Carapaz smashing the descent.

    Valverde 🤢 gets across by magic

    Kwiato goes clear, chased by Scachman

    Bling,Carapaz, WvA, Pidcock in the group

    Fugelsang, JA, Mollema and other big names chasing

    Pidcock looks in insane form. Pulls WvA and Schachman clear. WvA almost can't respond

    11 to go
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,816
    Vansevenant>Alaphilippe
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Schachman looks good doesn’t he?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    2 groups behind come together, Vansevenant STILL pulling!!

    Big 3 off the front with 14s

    10 to go
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    WvA is just unreal at the moment.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    Big Question - is WvA playing or is he genuinely tired..?

    7 to go, 20s

    Pidcock looking like a cat with its prey...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    WvA taking very short turns
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    (Vansevenant finally calls it a day - Ride of the day to him, I think)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    Gap is closing....
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Gap suddenly plummets to 13.

    5 to go

    Kwiato spoiling but other team mates in the group to pull it back
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver

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