Liege - Bastonge - Liege 2021 ***Spoilers***

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    I wonder which big Dutch cheese will win today?
    tailwindhome said:

    ddraver said:

    Girls go Live with 45km to go.

    Single attacker up the road with a fluctuating 20 - 30s

    Is this a deliberate change in the timing of the women's races or is it just getting more coverage
    They have all had pretty decent live coverage. Some, like Brabantse Pijl had much more of the women's race than the men's.
    Seems they have two time slots: early morning starts, as with recent races, or the prime afternoon slots, with Flandersclassics. The latter meant the men's races being shifted to early finishes, so personally, I wasn't a fan.

    I wonder which big Dutch cheese will win the women's race, today?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    11 to go

    AvV goes but doesnt make it stick. Seems to be hella windy.

    Vos & CUL dropped though.

    AvV in front with AvdB and ELB. KN getting back on

    Where is Vos?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Vos (CUL & AMP) 30 s back with 8 to go.

    AvdB working on the front
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Mate, you need to work on that sign...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited April 2021
    Enter the lovely Liege outskirts. Really a beautiful town 😐

    Vos out of it. AvdB in full TT mode dragging the front group. SD worx in full control.

    Have to admit I'm struggling to decide who I want to lose the least
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    SD Worx pull it off with Demi Vollering

    First WT win but classy it was not. She will not care of course...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Is it still a DQ for throwing a bidon away?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    AvdB doing a bike throw for Demi was rather touching tho...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • david37
    david37 Posts: 1,313
    and now we get the highlights. honestly apart from the pony tails swishing i didnt find that a good race to watch.
  • david37
    david37 Posts: 1,313
    what time is the mens race likely to finish?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    Hurrah! It's Rob Hatch! :)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • david37
    david37 Posts: 1,313
    ok so 131.5k to go so finish just before 4

  • david37
    david37 Posts: 1,313
    id love valverde to win
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    edited April 2021
    ddraver said:

    SD Worx pull it off with Demi Vollering

    First WT win but classy it was not. She will not care of course...

    So this:




    Beat this:




    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,864
    Just in what's happened? Nothing by the looks of it
    In the men's so far?
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    Headwind.
    By my rough reckoning they are averaging about 38kph now.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,864
    So everyone rides to the last climb? Bit disappointing .. they turned into the headwind on the way back ?
    "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
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 709
    ddraver said:

    SD Worx pull it off with Demi Vollering

    First WT win but classy it was not. She will not care of course...

    I think the opposite – a classy win for Vollering and for Sram Worx as a team, while van der Breggen showed her class as team captain and team member. It had been suspected vdB would work for Vollering, esp after Vollering's work in Fleche Wallonne, and it was clear, that was how it was to be, the last 12 kms or so.
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 709
    pblakeney said:

    That'll be after the potential winners are filtered out on the Redoute, I'd think?

    Heard that Jumbo are anticipating that Quick-Step and Ineos will try to 'filter things out' before the Redoute (as was apparently Quick-Step's plan A last year, until Alaphilippe had a fall on the Wanne, and they went to plan B ). Maybe on the newly-introduced climb prior to Redoute?
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,114
    ddraver said:

    Mate, you need to work on that sign...

    Lol. Rubbish, wasn't it?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,864
    Go on leon
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    Astana want to open things up early. LL Sanchez with a playful dig from 80 km out
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    Tao to go on Stockeau if we're lucky
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  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    Horses!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    No_Ta_Doctor said:


    My thinking too.
    Held off until now, but it's definitely beer o'clock.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,692
    thejimmymethod said:

    Horses!

    You are Patti Smith and ICMFP
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Tao to go on Stockeau if we're lucky

    Narrators voice: "We weren't lucky"
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,864
    McNulty's legs hurt from here . Still not recovered
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    blazing_saddles said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:


    My thinking too.
    Held off until now, but it's definitely beer o'clock.
    Supplies were from a Belgian charcuterie, run by a cycling fan from Liege. Authenticity a premium :smiley:

    La Chouffe and Rochefort are the local beers he says
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