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  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Shocker for DQS today.
  • Mad_MalxMad_Malx Posts: 4,770
    ddraver said:

    Pross said:

    Moscon looks likely to get caught by the WVA group

    If I was him, I'd have thrown the bike in a ditch and walked off into one of the fields...
    If I was DDR I'd have thrown him in the ditch and walked off with his bike
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    No idea about Vermeersch sprinting
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    Vermeersch attacks Colbrelli shuts it down
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  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,327
    edited October 2021
    Vermeersch!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 13,111
    Pross said:

    Shocker for DQS today.

    they had a massive off and mechanical arnberg
    "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
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Needed to get a bigger gap so neither of the other two wanted to close it, Colbrelli was too alert.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    If in doubt lead it out
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,520
    Colbrelli to go too soon....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,327
    edited October 2021
    Come on Not Colbrelli...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 13,111
    its bizarre ending in a track sprint
    "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
  • Dorset_BoyDorset_Boy Posts: 5,904
    Colbrelli!
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,520
    Or not.
    Yes Sonny boy!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 13,111
    oufffffffff close
    "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
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    Colbrelli!
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    What a year for Italian sport
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  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,327
    meh 😕
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 13,111
    moscon holding on to 4th
    "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
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    That was a tired sprint. Colbrelli takes it, Vermeersch holds on for second I think. Colbrelli seems happy. Moscon holds on for 4th and seems to take it quite well.
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Lampert wins the van Aert group sprint.
  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 10,565
    Van der Poel did too much work as usual. He let Colbrelli sit in and do half turns for the last 80k

    Vermeersch kicked it off way too soon there.

    Colbrelli was odds on as soon as the 3 of them were on the front.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,304 Lives Here
    MvdP actually in the pain cave
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  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Really good race.
  • Dorset_BoyDorset_Boy Posts: 5,904
    The contraast between Colbrelli & MvdP after the line .....
  • Dorset_BoyDorset_Boy Posts: 5,904
    And yet again MvdP beats WvA in a race that doesn't have a mountain in it.
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    bobmcstuff said:

    Van der Poel did too much work as usual. He let Colbrelli sit in and do half turns for the last 80k

    Vermeersch kicked it off way too soon there.

    Colbrelli was odds on as soon as the 3 of them were on the front.

    Did exactly what he had to and almost held on.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,520
    If you can DQF someone for getting over emotional.....
    Smartest rider on the day won.
    MvDP: fantastic athlete, but couldn't win a game of draughts, never mind chess.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Season a few weeks too long for van Aert.
  • rozzer32rozzer32 Posts: 3,704
    Well that was a great race. Not sure I’d be saying that if those where the conditions when I did the PR challenge.

    Said it before and I’ll say it again. MvdP needs to learn give up races rather than towing everyone along. He always does far too much when riding in a group. The others know he will work and so leave him to it. In order to win a bike race you must be prepared to lose it. His sprints in classics is useless, but I fear that is due to him spending too much energy towing people along rather than being a bad sprinter. Something he definitely needs to work on.

    He could do with spending time with someone like Cancellara or Boonen and taking in the knowledge.
    ***** Pro Tour Pundit Champion 2020, 2018, 2017 & 2011 *****
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,488
    Did MVDP do that much more than the other two? Vermeersch worked a fair bit and was out there longer. Colbrelli took his turns albeit shorter and also attacked before MVDP.
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