100th Ronde Van Vlaanderen - April 3rd, 2016 - 255.9k

[meat puppet]

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Sagan's most impressive ride by far. He is so uber talented. I will always fail to understand people disliking this guy, he truly is a gift for our sport. TRUE RACER.

Who the hell can dislike Sagan?

I can. Gropegate.

Rode well today, though.

 

[Punkan]

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Kirby just said that Sagan's aim this season will be the Olympic Games. Hate to break it to you Carlton but it might be slightly too hard for him.

Kirby is uninformed. Sagan himself:

“This course is not for me, it is more suitable for pure climbers A medal here is not for me…”

Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/peter-sagan-now-i-know-the-olympics-course-is-not-for-me-video-209284#P6HWA2y0SwtwAziE.99

 

[SeriousSam]

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Sagan's most impressive ride by far. He is so uber talented. I will always fail to understand people disliking this guy, he truly is a gift for our sport. TRUE RACER.

The dislike is based on his personality, not his undoubted talent.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Did Sagan just pinch Armitstead?

 

[Gigs_98]

By the way, this race showed absolutely perfectly why Kwiat should never have been considered as a favorite. He was in an elite group together with Sagan and Vanmarcke but on the Kwaremont he had absolutely no chance.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Sagan's most impressive ride by far. He is so uber talented. I will always fail to understand people disliking this guy, he truly is a gift for our sport. TRUE RACER.

The dislike is based on his personality, not his undoubted talent.

Whatever it is, I don't get it. Sagan has always come across as a good lad to me!

 

[StryderHells]

I prefer to think Vanmarcke did a class act in the end instead of being actually spent, justifying his lack of cooperation. Don't work but don't steal either, not to mention it being Cance's farewell and all. Chapeau.

Vanmarcke clearly was spent but he clearly sat up and let Cancellara cross the line in his final Flanders, it was a real class act from Sep

 

[Cance > TheRest]

I prefer to think Vanmarcke did a class act in the end instead of being actually spent, justifying his lack of cooperation. Don't work but don't steal either, not to mention it being Cance's farewell and all. Chapeau.

Plus it's always a good day when Kristoff doesn't win.

He was spent. We all saw how he was planted on Paterberg.

 

[rm7]

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Sagan's most impressive ride by far. He is so uber talented. I will always fail to understand people disliking this guy, he truly is a gift for our sport. TRUE RACER.

Who the hell can dislike Sagan?

Me.

In a sense I prefer other riders to win. No hate towards him as a person.

I doesn't count that as "dislike", but just favouring other riders. That's fair enough!

 

[RedheadDane]

Great win by Sagan.
Guess he doesn't mind that much now that his first Monument win was a few years in the making.
Also nice of him to dedicate the victory to Demoitie and Myngheer.

 

[Jancouver]

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Did Sagan just pinch Armitstead?

Can you imagine Sagan having a kid with her? That would be a cycling genetical beast

 

[Valv.Piti]

By the way, this race showed absolutely perfectly why Kwiat should never have been considered as a favorite. He was in an elite group together with Sagan and Vanmarcke but on the Kwaremont he had absolutely no chance.

Yep, some poster said that as well in E3 he was struggling on Kwaremont, but today he completely bonked. Respect for trying tho.

 

[StryderHells]

By the way, this race showed absolutely perfectly why Kwiat should never have been considered as a favorite. He was in an elite group together with Sagan and Vanmarcke but on the Kwaremont he had absolutely no chance.

Yeah he got shaken to bits on the Kwaremont which was always going to happen, this race was always going to be to hard for him

 

[JRanton]

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I just have to say this: Kwiat is a great racer. However, Sky always has 4 to 5 guys discussing these races, but it's always the same outcome. Remember who was chasing boonen at PR in 2012?

they should all work for Kwiat in every classic.

Kwiato completely collapsed on the Kwaremont and finished way down (probably outside the top 20). It reminded me of the famous Boasson Hagen fails in monuments for Sky in the past. Sky's tactical mistake was not sending someone up the road when Vandenbergh and Van Baarle went away. Probably wouldn't have mattered in the end though as they wouldn't have had someone strong enough behind to mark the attacks in the final.

 

[Kwibus]

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Sagan's most impressive ride by far. He is so uber talented. I will always fail to understand people disliking this guy, he truly is a gift for our sport. TRUE RACER.

Who the hell can dislike Sagan?

I can. Gropegate.

Rode well today, though.

Juvenile action and wrong, but he went apologized for it and learned from it.

It's a showman with a good heart. I don't have much affinity with wheelies and crazy stuff, but his racing style is great and he has his heart at the right place.

 

[jaylew]

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Also respect for Vanmarcke to let Fabian have his own moment at the end.

I don't think it was anything like that though it might get spun that way. Sep was done. He had zero chance of beating Canc in the sprint. The guy was clearly cooked. First acceleration in the finishing straight and that was it.

 

[GP Blanco]

I prefer to think Vanmarcke did a class act in the end instead of being actually spent, justifying his lack of cooperation. Don't work but don't steal either, not to mention it being Cance's farewell and all. Chapeau.

Vanmarcke clearly was spent but he clearly sat up and let Cancellara cross the line in his final Flanders, it was a real class act from Sep

Or he wants to replace Canc at Trek.

 

[Kwibus]

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Did Sagan just pinch Armitstead?

Oh you...
Trying to stir some drama?

Clearly touched her back.

 

[StryderHells]

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I just have to say this: Kwiat is a great racer. However, Sky always has 4 to 5 guys discussing these races, but it's always the same outcome. Remember who was chasing boonen at PR in 2012?

they should all work for Kwiat in every classic.

Kwiato completely collapsed on the Kwaremont and finished way down (probably outside the top 20). It reminded me of the famous Boasson Hagen fails in monuments for Sky in the past. Sky's tactical mistake was not sending someone up the road when Vandenbergh and Van Baarle went away. Probably wouldn't have mattered in the end though as they wouldn't have had someone strong enough behind to mark the attacks in the final.

They did send Stannard up the road but the attack just didn't stick, so they did attampt to do something

 

[DFA123]

By the way, this race showed absolutely perfectly why Kwiat should never have been considered as a favorite. He was in an elite group together with Sagan and Vanmarcke but on the Kwaremont he had absolutely no chance.

Yep, some poster said that as well in E3 he was struggling on Kwaremont, but today he completely bonked. Respect for trying tho.

Think he should probably have saved his strength for the Kwaremont - doing too much work before hand cost him. Sky should have sent Thomas in the attack instead; he was never going to win here with his lack of a sprint.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Why Fabian? Why? Why would you let Sagan go?

Fabian was incredible up the Kwaremont and Paterberg, would have torched Sagan I think.

Great ride by Sagan tho, well deserved win

 

[JRanton]

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Strongest rider won.

Yup. The final 50km is so hard that it's pretty much impossible for any other outcome.

 

[JRanton]

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I just have to say this: Kwiat is a great racer. However, Sky always has 4 to 5 guys discussing these races, but it's always the same outcome. Remember who was chasing boonen at PR in 2012?

they should all work for Kwiat in every classic.

Kwiato completely collapsed on the Kwaremont and finished way down (probably outside the top 20). It reminded me of the famous Boasson Hagen fails in monuments for Sky in the past. Sky's tactical mistake was not sending someone up the road when Vandenbergh and Van Baarle went away. Probably wouldn't have mattered in the end though as they wouldn't have had someone strong enough behind to mark the attacks in the final.

They did send Stannard up the road but the attack just didn't stick, so they did attampt to do something

Yes, but it was too late because Stannard couldn't bridge the gap to the front group on his own.

 

[benzwire]

Paris-Roubaix is going to be a good one! Can't wait....

 

[RedheadDane]

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Did Sagan just pinch Armitstead?

Can you imagine Sagan having a kid with her? That would be a cycling genetical beast

I don't think Phillip Deignan and Katarina (Sagan's wife) would like that too much...