Hilly Classics 2022 ***Spoilers***

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  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    blazing_saddles said:

    That sprint wasn’t the straightest.
    I hope they don’t get stupid over it.

    Wellens relegated to 9th, Barguil on to the podium
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    thejimmymethod said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    That sprint wasn’t the straightest.
    I hope they don’t get stupid over it.

    Wellens relegated to 9th, Barguil on to the podium
    They got it right.
    I was worried they might relegate Cosnefroy as well, but he was just the meat in the sandwich.
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  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    edited April 2022
    50x11 said:

    mididoctors said:

    This season does miss wva

    Disagree but I think Sunday will very much miss him even if he's there I doubt he'll be 100%.


    Is Yogi DS for the classics this year? Ineos really stepped it up
    Roger Hammond is a DS at Ineos would imagine he’s doing classics

  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Well I spent all of that thinking it was Fleche Walloon...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    ddraver said:

    Well I spent all of that thinking it was Fleche Walloon...

    Literally just worked that out as you said it.

    I too thought that
    _
  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,205
    Impressive from the Ineos youngsters.....As already said, Turner has probably been their MVP for the classics - always there pulling a big turn, and at the sharp end of races.
    All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    Good win Ineos and Magnus S, way to start a career at 19.

    (Just watched on catch up. Off to women's race now, no spoilers perlease)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    I think the change to the calender this year isn't all bad ... It's going to be harder to get some one winning the triple ...fleche amstrel ..liege ... Also the outcomes in general seem a bit less pre ordained
    "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
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    andyp said:

    50x11 said:

    mididoctors said:

    This season does miss wva

    Disagree but I think Sunday will very much miss him even if he's there I doubt he'll be 100%.


    Is Yogi DS for the classics this year? Ineos really stepped it up
    Nope, he's lead DS for Trinity Racing.
    Have I made up that he was a DS for them?
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    r0bh said:

    Pross said:

    These Ineos youngsters seem quite a tight unit.

    Luke Rowe said as much on the latest Watts Occurring.
    I enjoy Luke and G chatting on the podcast. Informative having 2 pros interacting. But those 2 Grenadiers are a decade plus older than the front 3 group today. Times change, people get older.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    50x11 said:

    andyp said:

    50x11 said:

    mididoctors said:

    This season does miss wva

    Disagree but I think Sunday will very much miss him even if he's there I doubt he'll be 100%.


    Is Yogi DS for the classics this year? Ineos really stepped it up
    Nope, he's lead DS for Trinity Racing.
    Have I made up that he was a DS for them?
    I think so. I mean it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he joined them, but that hasn't happened yet.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Ineos have been seriously good in the classics this season, they've animated the races, got numbers at the pointy end and have deserved their results.

    In other news, Remco hates cobbles - he didn't have the skills to get in the gutter on the one cobbled climb and got dropped on it twice. He also said so himself after the race that he can't imagine riding Flanders. So much for the new Merckx...
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,205
    Remco has a good engine - and that's about it; tactically all over the place, and technically, well not great. Which isn't really a surprise as he's come from football; and doesn't have a grounding in the sport; I wonder why they don't give him some skills/ CX training in the winter?
    All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    No Roglic for Fleche and Liege. Dodgy knee.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    RichN95. said:

    No Roglic for Fleche and Liege. Dodgy knee.

    Hmmm....
    Vingegaard off the leash then. Interesting.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited April 2022
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    RichN95. said:

    No Roglic for Fleche and Liege. Dodgy knee.

    Hmmm....
    Vingegaard off the leash then. Interesting.
    Maybe.
    WVA is riding LBL and he’ll need to be in better shape than he was in Pais Vasco.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited April 2022
    Fleche Wallone or Groundhog Day time, tomorrow.





    Top competitors

    POGAČAR Tadej
    EVENEPOEL Remco
    ALAPHILIPPE Julian
    VINGEGAARD Jonas
    VLASOV Aleksandr
    MAS Enric
    ULISSI Diego
    VALVERDE Alejandro
    WOODS Michael
    CARUSO Damiano
    COSNEFROY Benoît
    MATTHEWS Michael
    MARTINEZ Daniel
    VALVERDE Alejandro

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    What time are they likely to be getting into the last 15 minutes?
  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    edited April 2022
    Marta Cavalli times it to win in the last 50m from AvV, then Vollering in 3rd.
    Also won Amstel, on for the treble.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    So AVV went early on the climb and didn't make it. Like everyone who goes early always.

    Good race from what I saw - I like the Cherave coming close to the finish to make it more selective before the finish climb.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Heading for a very early finish by my reckoning.
    85kms to go.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    First time up the Mur and Pidcock is looking in trouble
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pidcock has abandoned
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Vingegaard is the next big name to get dumped out the rear door
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Talk of Pogacar wanting to go long
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    14k to go for whoever was asking
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    3 cofidis go early setting up remy rochas (sp?)
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    6k to go
  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    SKA with a trademark SKA move, Vansevenant marking
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    SKA with vansevenen out front with 4k

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