2014 - 98th Ronde van Vlaanderen, 259km, Sunday 6th April (1.UWT)

[BigMac]

Great race, but i still hate seeing Canc winning.

Boonen's form is crap. . .

Agreed. GVA should have taken it.


And poor Netserk. I wonder if we'll ever see him again.

 

[Walkman]

just ended.

FU*K!!

And the first thing I see is "Great edition" and I missed it.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Did anyone get a screenshot of Vanmarcke with is face in his hands right next to Cancellara smiling?

 

[Vino's Mum]

Kristoff best of the rest yet again.

 

[Netserk]

Vanmarcke shot himself in the foot again

Don't ****ing close the gap for Canc. He should've played it cool there.

 

[ILovecycling]

Stijn doing stupid again yet again in the final km.
Saw him fail for how many years ?

yeah,huh

Great race, but i still hate seeing Canc winning.

Boonen's form is crap. . .

Me too mate.

 

[movingtarget]

GVA was strong but plays his cards in the wrong way

He gambled on the race ending in a sprint and decided to attack but why did he roll to the front again in the km ?

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

GVA was strong but plays his cards in the wrong way

No, he rode smart. Just a bit of bad luck, with a better company then awful Vandenbergh he could have made it.

 

[Afrank]

Recovery drink time.

 

[Arnout]

Brilliant edition, by far the best in recent history in my opinion. GvA gave another masterclass in losing. Cancellara was smart for a change, by now it's better for him not to be the strongest because he can't handle that. Vanmarcke never tried anything.

Quickstep failed big time, with the way they rode they basically invited the best guys to go all out on the Oude Kwaremont and they were left behind. Had they controlled the race, it would've been the small group and nobody would've tried anything.

Sagan still can't handle long races.

 

[Hugo87]

This was a thrill, what a great day.

Sagan failed hard again, he must be devastated and G.Thomas after that early fall still recovered and manage a good place.

Leukemans always up there too.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Did anyone get a screenshot of Vanmarcke with is face in his hands right next to Cancellara smiling?

All I see was Vanmarcke celebrating his 3rd place.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Wow awesome race.

Was hoping Vanmarcke would win, but great ride by Cancellara!

Just hoping Vanmarcke won't get 2nd behind Canc for the 3rd time in PR

 

[ILovecycling]

Alberto still 1st tho,HA!

 

[movingtarget]

Vanmarcke shot himself in the foot again

Don't ****ing close the gap for Canc. He should've played it cool there.

Cancellara played it perfectly.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

An excellent edition and well done canc Poor gva needs to not emotionally respond but bags of guts

 

[alspacka]

Amazing race.

Expect OPQS backlash at P-R.

Just need, oooohh, anybody else deciding their tactics.

 

[dlwssonic]

There's nothing GVA could do... He really did his best...

 

[podunavac]

Cheers, Fabu!

What to say... Very good edition. Will be remembered, for sure.
Although I've spent four and a half hours in front of the TV set, I feel it was the right thing to do today.

 

[hfer07]

Hands down to Cancellara- for him to win in a small sprint among a better sprinters is a premium. Gotta love the man- no matter how predictable his victories are- he just delivers

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Vanmarcke shot himself in the foot again

Don't ****ing close the gap for Canc. He should've played it cool there.

He basically wasn't good enough though. Cancellara and Van Avermaet did the bulk of the work and he couldn't beat either in a sprint

 

[ILovecycling]

This was a thrill, what a great day.

Sagan failed hard again, he must be devastated and G.Thomas after that early fall still recovered and manage a good place.

Leukemans always up there too.

Tacticaly,and his team with their 'power'.

 

[The Hitch]

Tactically, from Cancellara that was the best performance I have ever seen.

Never panicked, always knew which moves to close down and which ones to take easily on. Didn't panick when he was isolated - like Sagan did. Didn't attack 30k out - like he did in 2011. Was very calm, took his pulls, bided his times.

Attacked at the right time on the Kwaermont, didn't try to shake Sep off when he realized he couldn't. When the winning group formed, he was the calmest off the lot, didn't burn his matches at any point, when Vandenberg attacked, he took a real risk not going 100% on his pull, and it paid off.

Then geniusly worked himself into the correct position for the sprint and bided his time on the back till the right distance marker came, and bam.

 

[burning]

Recovery drink time.

He definitely deserved that

 

[Arredondo]

What a finale. Cancellara just a great campionnissimo, he can win in every situation.

Kristoff, what a great race to. When he rode with BMC, they found him only a C-sprinter. Well, i think they regret this now