109th/1st Scheldeprijs (aka El Crashico), Wednesday, April 7th, 2021

[Orbit501]

I'm surprised at Bouhanni DNS.

I always thought he wasn't bothered by cold, wet, windy weather. And he seems too thick skinned for the incident the other day to affect him.

I may be wrong on both counts though.

 

[glassmoon]

Men's broadcast starts at 3pm unfortunately.

Edit; never mind, local TV are broadcasting. Not sure if georestricted: https://www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/126682/LIVE-Scheldeprijs-peloton-in-drie-stukken-door-hard-wind

seems like just a random short pieces now and there are broadcasted...

 

[glassmoon]

I'm surprised at Bouhanni DNS.

I always thought he wasn't bothered by cold, wet, windy weather. And he seems too thick skinned for the incident the other day to affect him.

I may be wrong on both counts though.

I'm totally OK with his DNS. I wouldn't mind if he would even keep DNSing from now on

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Yep, it's gone now. Oh well.

 

[glassmoon]

Yep, it's gone now. Oh well.

hopefully there still will be something interesting going on after the 3pm cet
from the short piece of broadcast it looked like the peloton is already in pieces due to wind/crashes

 

[ruamruam]

The front two groups have joined and the third group is at 20 seconds

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Also, it's pretty ironic that Roubaix has been cancelled due to the pressure on hospitals, when today's crashfests will be contributing to it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Could Daniek Hengeveld be the female equivalent of Remco? She's had a fine first season among the pros so far. But she won't hold on today ufortunately.

PCS claims that Nizzolo has abandoned the race, but also that he's in the front group.

 

[tobydawq]

Also, it's pretty ironic that Roubaix has been cancelled due to the pressure on hospitals, when today's crashfests will be contributing to it.

That was probably taken into account as the main reason why Roubaix couldn't go ahead (the added pressure on hospitals from Scheldeprijs, that is).

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Group 1: Van Moer, Ackermann, Schwarzmann, Burghardt, Bennett, Mørkøv, Danny van Poppel, Vahtra, Nizzolo, Walscheid, Philipsen, Rickaert and Russo

Group 2 (+28): Dewulf, Selig, Sénéchal, Cavendish, Van Lerberghe, Koch, Bol, Kristoff, Merlier, Mozzato, De Bondt, Siskevicius, Bugter, Van Schip, Van Gestel and Havik

Groups 3, 4 and 5: ???

 

[Armchair cyclist]

At least Bennett has a teammate/dietician with him.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

So do Alpecin let Philipsen try his luck against Bennett, Nizzolo and Ackermann, or do they pull Merlier into the lead group, thus re-introducing Bol, Kristoff, and 3 more DQS helpers?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So do Alpecin let Philipsen try his luck against Bennett, Nizzolo and Ackermann, or do they pull Merlier into the lead group, thus re-introducing Bol, Kristoff, and 3 more DQS helpers?

Merlier and Kristoff just crashed so the Philipsen card looks more likely at this point. Keep in mind those four were the top four at De Panne and Philipsen was second after a perfect leadout for Bennett.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lorena Wiebes wins the first women's Scheldeprijs in front of the usual suspect and Elisa Balsamo.
And quite surprising, there weren't any crashes during the sprint.

 

[Wvv]

After around 2 hours:

Jasper Philipsen (BEL)
Pascal Ackermann (DUI)
Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA)
Sam Bennett (IER)
Brent Van Moer (BEL)
Michael Schwarzmann (DUI)
Marcus Burghardt (DUI)
Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
Danny van Poppel (NED)
Norman Vahtra (EST)
Max Walscheid (DUI)
Jonas Rickaert (BEL)
Clément Russo (FRA)

+ 40"

Alexander Kristoff (NOO)
Tim Merlier (BEL)
Cees Bol (NED)
Stan Dewulf (BEL)
Rüdiger Selig (DUI)
Florian Sénéchal (FRA)
Bert Van Lerberghe (BEL)
Jonas Koch (DUI)
Dries De Bondt (BEL)
Luca Mozzato (ITA)
Evaldas Šiškevicius (LIT)
Dries Van Gestel (BEL)
Jan-Willem van Schip (NED)
Luuc Bugter (NED)
Piotr Havik (NED)
Mark Cavendish (GBR)

Peloton + 1'45"

 

[SafeBet]

Lorena Wiebes wins the first women's Scheldeprijs in front of the usual suspect and Elisa Balsamo.
And quite surprising, there weren't any crashes during the sprint.

Oldest rider on that podium is 23.

 

[yaco]

Women's team DSM like the men's team did no work at all, despite having the fastest sprinter.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Highlight of the GCN coverage was Dani Rowe doing a Carlton Kirby/Chris Harper, by mixing up Emma Norsgaard and Alba Teruel because of the screen graphics, before excusing herself by saying "they look alike on the bike" despite the two of them looking nothing alike.

 

[Oliver]

echelons, great!

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Politt is also in the front group, and could be a key player

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Can Stefano Museeuw do what his father couldn't and win Scheldeprijs?

If the gap is accurate, it should be over for the peloton now.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lay down with the kid, proper racing will happen at Scheldeprijs...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Merlier and Kristoff dropping back to the peloton because of that crash has really strengthened Deceuninck's hand.

It's Bugter and not Museeuw up front, and more importantly Sarreau is there too.

 

[Bonimenier]

Cavendish has to hope Bennett has a mechanical or crashes so he has the best leadout man in the world while most of the fastest sprinters aren't there anymore.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Cavendish has to hope Bennett has a mechanical or crashes so he has the best leadout man in the world while most of the fastest sprinters aren't there anymore.

Roglic will win on a Stage 20 before 2021 Cav beats Ackermann, Nizzolo, Philipsen and Bol all at once.