***La Fléche Wallonne SPOILER***

Pokerface
Pokerface Posts: 7,960
edited April 2010 in Pro race
Thought I'd kick off the race thread.

Race has started and there are 5 riders with a 6 minute lead so far.

"The leading five (Loosli, Champion, Augé, Gourgue and Palumbo) have reached kilometre 61 while the pack remains 5kms adrift. The time gap has now reached 6’10."


In the leading group are David Loosli (Lampre-Farnese Vini), Dimitri Champion (Ag2R-La Mondiale), Benjamin Gourgue (Landbouwkredit), Stephane Auge (Cofidis, Le Credit en Ligne) and Giuseppe Palumbo (Acqua & Sapone).
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    Damm... looks like cunego is good for it in his mind and lotto dont want to play.. took a gamble there dont think its going to pay off
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Leading five riders now 8'25" ahead. But VERY early doors.
  • The lead has been reduced to 6'20" according to the feed from Team Sky.

    Should be on British Eurosport in 7 minutes or so.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    5'40" now..,
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  • Eurosport is now on
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    any live streams?
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  • Gap 5'11"
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
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  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    seems that there are more attacks in the peloton...
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  • gabriel959 wrote:

    Thanks
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Big crash!
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    crash
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Kroon down.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    astana rider, radioshack (a couple)... looks nasty...
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Popovych. Dominic Rolls and Brandt involved too.
  • Nasty Crash just happened. Few riders are down, Most possibly Karsten Kroon cant remember who the others were..
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Popo is one of the shack riders down... couldn't identify the astana one but its not contador.
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  • Looks like you guys got there first.. :lol:
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Moreau just had a flat...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Bad one. Roels right across the peloton. Dimitri M the other Shacker???

    Most of those down are out.
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  • Moreau has punctured and is out of the break with Jens Voigt.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Who was the guy laying motionless on the ground? There was Roels from Milram sitting up by Popovych, but there was another Milram guy laying further up the road. Looked bad.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    they are catching up the chase group... must be only a few seconds now.

    Break is about 2.20 away.
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Emma Pooley just won the women's race, beating Nicole Cooke to the line.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Lead group now down to 1.19 - 54km to go.
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Pokerface wrote:
    Emma Pooley just won the women's race, beating Nicole Cooke to the line.
    Shamone 8)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    Paulinho, Fedrigo and half of Cervelo/BMC out the back already....

    Ivanov attacks....
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Huy coming up soon, it's going to be important to be at the front this time up as even taking back 10 metres on the climb demands a big effort.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    35KM to go! 30 second gap to the leaders.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pokerface wrote:
    Emma Pooley just won the women's race, beating Nicole Cooke to the line.

    1-2. Amazing. Well done.

    Haha. Contador smooth as you like on Andy's wheel. Might be a shoot out between those two on the final.
    Contador is the Greatest