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Underdog thing again?
Except when Sam Bennett is racing, of course.
There's still hope. Sam and Ewan have only raced head to head at UAE and MSR this year and Sam didn't make it to the sprint in MSR. But yeah, clearly Ackermann, Gaviria, and Viviani are shells of their former selves and a step below. We need the Dutch sprinters back.Pretty much.
I find it a bit awkward when one of the handful of riders I’ve more emotional investment in reaches the top of their sub discipline and starts being the usual big favourite. It’s an interesting novelty for a while but not for long. Bennett’s not even my favourite sprinter these days!
At least with a guy like Pinot I can be absolutely certain that he’s not going to start winning so predictably that it becomes boring...
Might be grounds for termination?Imagine Movistar winning Tour of Flanders.......
Bruh
to me it was clear how he felt at the time of second kwaaremont, as he did not get his long sleeves down => just training, then the patterberg confirmedSagan in impossible to tell after having COVID during an essential part of the pre season.
Things I never imagined to say for 1000 k EurosMight be grounds for termination?
Thank goodness for the Men's race today.
The Women's was so boring.
they tried dropping the weight in liquigas, it actually it put him on step back, then, they tried to continue it in tinkoff with even one step back further, then he came back to life and in 2019 they tried it again at Bora, that didn't work so well either. Let him just race in his current weight pls, unless he's "fat" of courseI don't think they 'never' were, after all you can look at some of the things like Grindelwald and Porto Sant'Elpidio that he won that suggest, he could have gone in those directions, but he would probably have needed to win all the rouleur monuments very early on, in order to justify dropping the weight to go targeting those events, as it is he's gone more the direction of flat power and sprint strength to pursue Roubaix and the maillot vert record, and it's probably too late for him to now turn into a realistic contender for the likes of Lombardia.
What's crazy to me is how MVP and WVA still only have 1 monument each.
Thank goodness for the Men's race today.
The Women's was so boring.
Turgis is listed as Direct Energie for 2022. If I was a betting man, I'd say there will be an agent or two seeing how much argent it would take to get him on a WorldTour team for next year.
Would have been alright if anybody had bought Cordon-Ragot or Paladin as serious threats, but as it was, especially when the bunch halved Audrey's advantage on the Kruisberg, it was kind of known that it was going down to the last two climbs. Anna VDB fired her bullets on the Oude Kwaremont, then Annemiek fired hers more decisively on the Paterberg.I just watched since before Paterberg.
but I have become a Movistar fan since a few weeks when I discovered the @ganadohoy account on twitter, a petty bastard Spanish follower trolling Movistar. now I can´t help cheering for everyone of their, rare, wins.
No crazy at all. It's bloody hard to win a Monument.What's crazy to me is how MVP and WVA still only have 1 monument each.
Not to mention that MVDP dropped his bidon before they reached the 2 km marker at the end.So Schär got the DQ but the winner gets away with it
This is by far EF's best result in a cobbled race this year!
It seems they kept their powder dry for the most important race of the spring!