106th Ronde van Vlaanderen: April 3rd, 2022

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Ronde van Slovenië

 

[Salvarani]

Tratnik is strong!

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Asgreen very weak at Paterberg

 

[Tim Cahill]

Asgreen dropped

 

[trevim]

Just dump all marginal gains, power data, altitude and buy slovenian beer instead

 

[KZD]

Asgreen and the whole Quick Step dropped on Paterberg

 

[Eclipse]

Pog, MvP, Pidders together... but it seems Pog can drop them rather easily on any berg.

I don't think this is true. I just think he went earlier than they expected and Pogi is hard to handle at sustained pace. The interesting thing will be whether he can handle sustained efforts well enough to make a decisive difference at some point

 

[Didinho]

No Steppers. Ineos 3 left?

 

[Salvarani]

Pedersen pretty good on these hills... apparently he was supposed to be really bad. Although he has come second here and won plenty of races in Belgium.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Quickstep seemingly a non-factor once again when the big guns come to play.

 

[ppanther92]

That looked better now from MvdP.

 

[meat puppet]

A huge pogi solo is looming ominously.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

No idea y anyone works with him.

Some riders just have inoperable, probably terminal, cases of brain worms,

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Tratnik laughs at everyone who says you have to stay in the saddle on the cobbles. I guess he's the wtf is he doing there Bahrain rider for today.

 

[SafeBet]

QS disappeared?

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Quick Step back to 2022 classics form with nobody to be found at the front.

 

[limak_]

Pedersen looks great today

 

[Eclipse]

Asgreen blew himself up trying to say with Poggers rather than playing it more conservatively. Silly boy.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Btw, complete flop by Uno-X today. Early crashes by Tiller and Halland Johannessen okay, but they should still be a lot better than this. Completely blown out of the race with more than 50 km to go.

 

[Salvarani]

Asgreen must have gone into red trying to follow Pog on the Kwaremont.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ineos need to use their strength in numbers now instead of sacrificing themselves for Pidcock like in DDV. And the moment I said it Van Baarle attacked.

 

[Scarponi]

Some good young riders up front

 

[Mayomaniac]

Van Baarle with a Van Baarle move.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Campeneaerts positioning is so terrible in this race . Hitting the paterberg in the back of the group. I know he has the legs

 

[Salvarani]

Van Baarle with a Van Baarle move.

Could very well be this type of move that could win it, if the favorites sit up.