2014 Ronde van Belgian? (Baloise Belgium Tour), May 28 - June 1, 2.HC

[Flamin]

Stage 1 (173,6km):

Stage 2 (170km):

Stage 3 (16,7km, ITT):
Pancake flat with few corners.

Stage 4 (177,7km):

Stage 5 (178,7km):

Provisional startlist

Obvious Tony Martin win is obvious.

2009 Lars Boom
2010 Stijn Devolder
2011 Philippe Gilbert
2012 Tony Martin
2013 Tony Martin

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Mathieu van der Poel ftw.

nahhh, but for me it's nice to see him race here.

Indeed Tony Martin ftw.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Is Tom Dumoulin participating? One of the few who could give Martin a hard time even in the ITT

 

[Task_Force]

Is Tom Dumoulin participating? One of the few who could give Martin a hard time even in the ITT

he is on the startlist, so i guess so ...

 

[De Snelle Duif]

I don't understand the start and finish places in any of these stages. Most of these aren't even cities or something close to that The second stage and the fourth stage should have been the other way around.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Lets see if Chavanel can give Martin some competition.

BMC with a strong classic team:
BURGHARDT Marcus
CUMMINGS Stephen
DILLIER Silvan
GILBERT Philippe
HUSHOVD Thor
LODEWYCK Klaas
VAN AVERMAET Greg
ZABEL Rick

 

[jsem94]

BMC, Belkin and Giant have to bring the hurt to Martin. Big time. But OPQS are armed with Terpstra, Bakelants, Boonen, Steegmans and Vandenbergh. Can't see Martin losing this after all.

With 6 man teams, OPQS would have been beatable. Now, not so much.

 

[Roderick]

Terrible course as always

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ticker: http://www.sport.be/fr/cyclisme/livestage.html?Stage_ID=1304

150km to go.

Surely Greipel can't get this wrong?

 

[Der Effe]

lol bos what a waste of space to have in your team

edit: this is actually way too harsh on bos who is kinda realistic, but belkin should stop hyping him so much.

 

[fowlyetti]

Impressive win by Boonen

 

[Shardi]

Great sprint by Boonen. Was there any gap behind the small sprint group?

 

[trevim]

Tommeke!

 

[jsem94]

OPQS totally owning that sprint.

 

[MagnusMagnussen]

OPQS Cycling Team ‏@opqscyclingteam
Boonen launched in great position thanks to fantastic work by @GertSteegmans, who finished 10th! #BelgiumTour #OPQS

 

[Netserk]

Boonen the leeeeeeegend! _O_

 

[rghysens]

Does anyone knows if Cavendish will feature in Boonen's sprint train next tour?

 

[Flamin]

Great lead-out by Steegmans, powerful sprint from Tommeke. Lol at the bike throw though Greipel still has some work to do.

 

[therhodeo]

I was laughing about the bike throw too.

 

[GuyIncognito]

I was laughing about the bike throw too.

Pretty funny yeah

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Last few minutes of the stage:

http://www.rtbf.be/video/detail_tom...e-du-tour-de-belgique-a-buggenhout?id=1930831

 

[VeloHuman]

I wonder if OPQS can win all five stages in the race.

 

[Gabriel Gray]

na onderling overleg tussen de organisatie en de jury is er besloten om kenny van hummel niet meer te laten starten in de 2de rit, na het ongeoorloofd incident in de etappe van gisteren

Kenny von Hummel DQ at first stage, not allowed to start today

according to a german cycling page, he shoved a BMC rider multiple-times after a crash...kvh blamed him for causing the crash

 

[classicomano]

na onderling overleg tussen de organisatie en de jury is er besloten om kenny van hummel niet meer te laten starten in de 2de rit, na het ongeoorloofd incident in de etappe van gisteren

Kenny von Hummel DQ at first stage, not allowed to start today

Yeah he assaulted another guy after a crash, typical Kamikaze Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1401305294&v=RDeWsXK3OhQ&x-yt-cl=68117322

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

that was a Cibel rider, not BMC