2013 GP Ouest France - Plouay, September 1 (WT)

[LaFlorecita]

Pippo!! Nice

Bennati and Rojas as usual somewhere in top 10.

 

[murali]

you have sprints, and then you have sprints!

nice finish by pozzatto!

 

[roundabout]

When Dumoulin looks fast it sure is a weird sprint.

Shame for Van Avermaet. I really thought he had it, but then the chase suddenly got organized.

 

[Netserk]

Pozzato
Nizzolo
Dumoulin
Roelandts
Bennati
Hushovd

 

[roundabout]

Pozzato
Nizzolo
Dumoulin
???
Bennati

??? looked like Roelandts

Hushovd 6th

 

[Netserk]

I think it might be Breschel and not Bennati who got 5th.

 

[VeloHuman]

Did Degenkolb at least make it into the top 10? How about Kwiatkowski? I couldn't tell.

 

[Afrank]

Degenkolb 10th, Procycling stats says 5th was Bennati.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Wow JJ Rojas not top 10!

 

[jens_attacks]

classic pippo win
congrats to him, he will be at firenze after all

 

[Parrulo]

Costa says that unlike last year where the wind was blowing from the back, this year the last part of the course had a strong headwind making it really really hard to go away.

Also explains why pippo came so strong from behind as he had a lot of shelter from riders while he was getting up to speed.

 

[Der Effe]

According to Offredo and Demare the fans were a little mean.

Demare: GP de Plouay: pour commencer les 2 premiers tours de circuit, on a eu des encouragements que je n'ai pas trop l'habitude d'entendre, de spectateurs bretons.. "Fainéant!" "C'était mieux avec le dopage!" "La honte!" "Trop payés"....

 

[Ferminal]

That was a great sprint by Pippo...

BL to GVA too, looked like his gamble was going to win for while, didn't seem to be much of a chase.

 

[BigMac]

Costa leading pozzato


GVA should have had it

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

A bit sad that GvA's effort did not pay off.

 

[manafana]

Pozz did have the smartest sprint if the wind was strong on the run in, nizzollo went very early.

 

[VeloHuman]

Pozz did have the smartest sprint if the wind was strong on the run in, nizzollo went very early.

Nizzolo was cut off by Marcel Sieberg in the closing moments at Vattenfall and was not pleased: I think he was probably a bit paranoid about it happening again, so he jumped ahead too early.

 

[SafeBet]

Nizzolo was cut off by Marcel Sieberg in the closing moments at Vattenfall and was not pleased: I think he was probably a bit paranoid about it happening again, so he jumped ahead too early.

Exactly. Still pulled off a great sprint coming in second.
Kid has talent.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

It's really more by Becca than the team.

At any rate not Trek.