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The map is also not exactly a masterpiece. How is anyone supposed to tell which circuit is which?

This sprint was about positioning and having enough left in the tank, not pure speed. That's a sprint Pedersen has a shot at when he doesn't kill his legs - on paper, he and Wærenskjold are both reasonably evenly matched and definitely not the fastest in this group in a regular sprint.

This is quite literally the opposite of Pedersen in approximately 95% of classics.

He looked plenty fast in Sanremo. You could also have made this post without the insults.

Shades of 2019 Amstel. Van Aert really is cursed at this race.

Pedersen himself is also stupid, more likely to win in a sprint than with whatever the *** he's trying to accomplish right now.

God forbid RR isn't complaining in realtime about a race he isn't watching.

Odds of Larsen riding for Visma next season?

Less than half a minute, if the peloton grows two brain cells it will be a sprint.

I don't think Planckaert was planning on camping out in the Flemish Ardennes until Sunday...

De Lie DNFing really early four days after a good Wevelgem, never change.

It's only a different beast distance-wise, and we obviously know that Evenepoel likes monument-length races. Moskesstraat is pretty comparable to most of the main hills in RVV that are not named Oude Kwaremont.

On the flip side, his performance in Brabantse Pijl last year compared to the one in 2022 suggests his deficiencies on this kind of terrain are a lot smaller than they once were.

Things are going very poorly in the world of Swiss cycling. After the financial situation of the Tour de Suisse caused it to be massively downscaled, the Tour de Romandie is running without a main sponsor this year - and the organisers say they don't have the financial reserves to do so next...

On the other hand, LFR is dead wrong about some of the climb stats. Nokereberg is not hard, but definitely more than 2.8%... Oh, and they're also missing the cobbles on Berg ten Houte and Eikenberg.