2014 Paris-Roubaix, 257 Km's, Sunday April 13th (1.UWT)

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What the hell was cancellara thinking the last couple of races. He was lucky he won RvV, but his MS and PR were the most conservative racing ever (and honestly, so was RvV)
 
Buffalo Soldier said:
What the hell was cancellara thinking the last couple of races. He was lucky he won RvV, but his MS and PR were the most conservative racing ever (and honestly, so was RvV)

Had he been stronger, he'd probably have tried something, don't you think?
 
Buffalo Soldier said:
What the hell was cancellara thinking the last couple of races. He was lucky he won RvV, but his MS and PR were the most conservative racing ever (and honestly, so was RvV)

Not as strong as in previous years. He knows he cant just ride away from everybody anymore.
 
Mar 31, 2010
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Buffalo Soldier said:
What the hell was cancellara thinking the last couple of races. He was lucky he won RvV, but his MS and PR were the most conservative racing ever (and honestly, so was RvV)

he couldn't do any better clearly
 
I had a French stream of Eurosport for the last 20km as it was more reliable and I was fed up with Kirby.

The poor old commentators went very quite at the end though as the camera just lost the plot at the end leaving no one any idea what was happening behind Terpstra. Made their job impossible. Shocking Eurosport coverage, really really poor.

Congrats to Terpstra on a fine win though to ride away from such a large select group at the end.
 
Mar 31, 2010
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ingsve said:
Perhaps more than Degenkolb didn't know Terpstra was ahead. Maybe that's why they didn't chase harder.

of course he knew. when terpstra went both degenkolb and de backer saw it happen as they were in front
 
Aug 16, 2011
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Pretty anti-climatic Paris-Roubaix overall. Had some good parts, but definitely not as good as last year or Flanders last week.

Cancellara and Vanmarcke messed up I think. They may not have been able to, but they really should have done more and put in some more attacks to try to drag a more select group out.