2014 Scheldeprijs, 201km, 1.HC 09 April

[Dazed and Confused]

Race is scheduled to finish around 17:00. Exactly at the same time as Pais Vasco. Well done.

 

[classicomano]

Seems like Androni is bringing Van Hummel to spice up the finale

Is Graeme Brown racing this? Should be an exciting finish!

 

[stijndefieuw]

The lukewarmSteppers to do a 50-80km TTT somewhere mid race and then Boonen exits.

Should be enough firepower in team

11.BOONEN Tom
12.FENN Andrew
13.PETACCHI Alessandro
14.RENSHAW Mark
15.STEEGMANS Gert
16.TRENTIN Matteo
17.VANDENBERGH Stijn
18.VELITS Martin

to setup Ale-Jet FTW.

You think the train will be for Petacchi? Not for Boonen ?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

You think the train will be for Petacchi? Not for Boonen ?

Too dangerous to engage in the bunch sprint for Boonen imo. The Steppers really need him to be at 100% on Sunday.

Anyway we shall see.

 

[del1962]

Viviani FTW. Sagan lead out.

Like to see Viviani do well and Sam Bennett, (of course this has nothing to do with them being in my CQ team, honest guv)

 

[RedheadDane]

Love the poll! Was expecting a regular who'll win? one.

Anyway, my prediction is that there will be a massive pileup right on the finish line, giving them some issues finding out who actually won.

(Guess if that actually happens you can all say I jinxed it!)

You could have spared bandwith by posting the profile like this

_________________crash________________crash_

There are even pre-set places to crash? And honestly; one two crashes?

 

[wirral]

Not often I burst out laughing 3 times on the first page of a race thread. Great witty posts.

I was supposed to be working this morning, but I found myself daydreaming about this race and I came up with the thought.....what if the organisers picked a team with little chance and paid them to absolutely drill it from about 130 km for about 50 km. Probably no difference except a lot of angry sprinter's team.

Anyway, what is happening with the race? Has the obligatory non-entity mostly Belgian break consisting of 3 to 6 riders formed yet?

 

[RedheadDane]

There's a six-man-break up the road. But I can't seem to find a list of names...

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Luke Rowe (Sky), Jan Ghyselinck (Wanty), Ivan Balykin (Rusvelo), Andrea Fedi (Neri Sottoli), Alessandro Bazzana (United Healthcare) & Dimitriy Groezdev (Astana)

 

[Jancouver]

Not often I burst out laughing 3 times on the first page of a race thread. Great witty posts.

I was supposed to be working this morning, but I found myself daydreaming about this race and I came up with the thought.....what if the organisers picked a team with little chance and paid them to absolutely drill it from about 130 km for about 50 km. Probably no difference except a lot of angry sprinter's team.

Anyway, what is happening with the race? Has the obligatory non-entity mostly Belgian break consisting of 3 to 6 riders formed yet?

11:59:52 CEST
After a hectic opening 14km of racing, there are now six riders on the attack: Fedi, Gruzdev, Bazzana, Rowe, Ghyselinck and Balykin. They have a lead of 1:20 on the peloton.

13:28:38 CEST
The gaps has fallen below four minutes with 120km left to race.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

here we go live:

http://sports-livezz.com/80/100/

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, I read this:

Before the start of the race, the 1947 winner Rene Mertens was remembered with a minutes silence after recently passing away.

And thought that by 'recently passing away' they meant 'in the last week', not - as is the case according to a Danish newspaper at least - dropping dead on the start line!

 

[wirral]

Okay, I read this:



And thought that by 'recently passing away' they meant 'in the last week', not - as is the case according to a Danish newspaper at least - dropping dead on the start line!

This race is just odd.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

This is like a group ride before the big race this weekend.

 

[jsem94]

Let's hope that is truly the case. Don't want riders like Kristoff hitting the tarmac and not arriving fresh at PR.

 

[burning]

Race is scheduled to finish around 17:00. Exactly at the same time as Pais Vasco. Well done.

Who cares about Pais Vasco, this is the real deal.

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Who cares about Pais Vasco, this is the real deal.

Agreed, Pais Vasco is just going to be a sprint stage today, who would choose to watch that over a one day classic?

 

[BigMac]

I would, just to see Swift get in the mix

Dude no wayz! Ian Stannard is going to take the winz. YOLO.

 

[wirral]

They are having a slow day in Pays Basque. So Scheldeprijs may finish half an hour before those leisurely lot in Spain.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

C'mon break. Work together.

 

[scholar]

10km to go, the break has just over a minute, and Boonen's pulling on the front of the peloton.

 

[burning]

They might be able to win

 

[Ney the Viking]

So who is betting on break now?

 

[max_powers]

Sagan at the back, saving energy...

 

[Ney the Viking]

aaand here we go about moto pacing