Omloop het Nieuwsblad '23 *spoiler* & KBK ‘23 *spoiler*

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    Benoot, tratnik, Wellens Mohoric consume the break
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    The peloton has been ripped into small pieces.
    Riders all over Flanders
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,861
    rick_chasey said:

    Jumbo go for a GWeiss with front 3 riding off the front and Mohorich manages to get on. Possibly Wellens too

    I was thinking that
    "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_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    Current sitch.

    Wellens, Mohoric, van Hoydonck (Jumbo), Benoot (jumbo) and 🌮

    1,07 ahead of peloton led by Lotto
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    62km to go. 1,24
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    🌮smiling whilst rest of the group is pulling faces
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    The gap has come down a little but it’s hard to see them being caught.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,861
    Is laporte sitting in behind in the second group ?
    "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
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,624
    The peloton looks vaguely organised, but the gap is 1m3s with 15 km to go
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,624
    Still 1min, so winner will come from the leading 5.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Adv. Taco
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,624
    Jumbo 1-2. Bennot won.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    unless Tiesj does that...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Benoot is today’s Jumbo jackpot winner.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,624
    And 6th for Jumbo
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Jumbo get their first podium clean sweep of the season.
    This is getting more than a bit predictable.
    Total domination across the board.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,470
    What are jumbo Visma doing in training/ preparation that other teams aren't?
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Well, arguably having their RVV or PR winner peak a month too soon and also pulling off a fairly unremarkable 2 team mates from a break of 5...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    gsk82 said:

    What are jumbo Visma doing in training/ preparation that other teams aren't?

    They all arrived straight from a long altitude training camp
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    blazing_saddles said:

    Jumbo get their first podium clean sweep of the season.
    This is getting more than a bit predictable.
    Total domination across the board.

    Yeah agreed.

    Belgians pretty cheesed with Quick Step but Benoot is a pundit’s favourite so they’ll take the consolation prize.

    They really don’t like van Baarle (far too Dutch for the Flemish)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    rick_chasey said:

    gsk82 said:

    What are jumbo Visma doing in training/ preparation that other teams aren't?

    They all arrived straight from a long altitude training camp
    As did Sagan. :#
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Just because we're all so used to seeing QuickStep screw up such an advantage in the early classics, doesn't mean every team has to...


    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    blazing_saddles said:

    rick_chasey said:

    gsk82 said:

    What are jumbo Visma doing in training/ preparation that other teams aren't?

    They all arrived straight from a long altitude training camp
    As did Sagan. :#
    Eeek. He looks a little heavy…
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    ddraver said:

    Just because we're all so used to seeing QuickStep screw up such an advantage in the early classics, doesn't mean every team has to...


    Honestly my two favourite riders then on that podium. Was a bad bad day.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    Really good example of how a strong team rides classics today

    Sky back in the day should have done it this way. Instead they rode it likes it’s a GT
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,861
    Mega jumbo
    "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_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,714
    It is quite impressive for a team who started without a proper bunch finisher, to just tear it up repeatedly between 70 and 50km so that it was a small group finish.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,342
    It's also impressive for a team to (possibly) dominate the classics AND the Tour/Grand Tours. Sky for example never did.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023

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