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Re: Quick, someone get Dan Brown in. This guy is onto something.

Hard one, I need some more time to think :) For me it's between former World Cup Races Amstel and Paris-Tours, and on the other hand Gent Wevelgem and the Flèche... The latter 3 have the most history. Gent-Wevelgem is probably the most entertaining one of those: can be a mass sprint, can be...

Re: Re: Once again, you are making things way too complicated with all sorts of assumptions, while there are simple facts and proof available. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAyM-MBk13g . Gilbert passes 'the jacket' 3 seconds in, the crash happens at 58 seconds. Hence 55...

Re: Re: I'm afraid you are being extremely creative with the numbers here. Go on youtube, there are many videos of people on the Kwaremont right where the crash happened. You can see Gilbert passing and count the actual time difference. It is 55 seconds at the moment of the crash. Moreover...

Re: Re: get to Glibert before Paterberg? I agree that one can discuss if Gilbert would have made it to the line, but how on earth would they catch him before the Paterberg when the gap is over 50 seconds near the top of the Kwaremont??

Before the race: http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/Rio-2016/Rio2016_sporten/Rio2016_wielrennen/1.2729043 "Ik leg me niet neer bij het zware parcours, ik wil olympisch kampioen worden" (liberally) translated: "I refuse to accept the course is too heavy, I want to become Olympic champion." For me that...

The idea is that one of their top guys will be able to follow Cancellara on the Pater. Terpstra/Stybar would have been more ideal, but don't think they would have gotten this kind of gap.

perfect, the guys from the second row are doing what they need to do

bmcs were causing the crash by doing a bike/wheel change on a very bad spot

To me, the crashes happening now seem to be of a different nature than the ones happening 40+k ago. The crashes happening now are the type of crashes you will always see in this kind of races: after 200 k, a lot of guys are cooked. Combine that with steep hills, narrow roads and ditches, and...

Maes still on the front.. impressive

he went for a pee

update on the spectator: alive, but in critical condition

some kind of traffic island and/or she was trying to cross (reports vary). Elderly woman Vansummeren abandoned, btw