2016 Dwars door het Hageland Fri 5th Aug 1.1

[Flamin]

Saw the CCC guys on a training ride this evening. Dunno where they are staying but it was quite some distance from tomorrow's route.

 

[BalearicBeats]

Looking at the weather near the parcours right now, and on the dirt road near my home, there will still be more than enough mud left on the sand sections through forests like Wezelbaan.

 

[Valv.Piti]

So I guess Ill tune into this at some point tomorrow, looks like it has potential! Etixx massacre inc.

 

[Samamba]

Final climb to the finish, the Citadel of Diest.

 

[Kwibus]

Shame I can't see it!

Will Sporza show this? If so I can record it.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Re:

Shame I can't see it!

Will Sporza show this? If so I can record it.

I'm afraid not, I think it will be only in VTM and RTBF. Somebody upthread also said it was on Eurosport?

 

[gerundium]

live on eurosport 1 in the netherlands according to program guide.

 

[jens_attacks]

quite pumped up for this

vaaaiiii pipppooo

 

[Samamba]

It was raining pretty hard for like 5 minutes here just a moment ago.
So it's possible some of the dirt roads are gonna be very slippery. Also very windy right now.

 

[jens_attacks]

^music to my ear.

 

[Samamba]

And it's raining again. This is gonna be fun

 

[robin440]

Re:

And it's raining again. This is gonna be fun

NICE! Are all the dirt sections so narrow, as the ones posted you here? BTW Thanks for the pictures!

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Are there text updates anywhere?

 

[Samamba]

Re: Re:

And it's raining again. This is gonna be fun

NICE! Are all the dirt sections so narrow, as the ones posted you here? BTW Thanks for the pictures!

Not all, but a lot of them yes.

 

[Samamba]

Finish

200m before the finish

 

[Leffe_Bruin]

Apparently it's live on Eurosport 1 from 16:45 in The Netherlands

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Peloton has split on the Bevekomsestraat. There is a leading group of 25 riders.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

18 riders in front now; R. Bouhanni, Sénéchal, Vanbilsen, Wallays, Boonen, Terpstra, Wisniowski, Vereecken, Hoeyberghs, Van Aert, Coenen, Raim, Holmes, Horton, Dupont, Vermeersch, Pardini, B. Planckaert

 

[Samamba]

Re:

Peloton has split on the Bevekomsestraat. There is a leading group of 25 riders.

already a lot of Etixx riders in the first group.
Don't know who's gonna close this gap.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Yep Etixx with Terpstra, Boonen and Wisniowski already gone on the first cobbled section 55km into the race.

 

[Netserk]

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Yep Etixx with Terpstra, Boonen and Wisniowski already gone on the first cobbled section 55km into the race.

Well, given the parcourse, I think it's smart to race in small groups.

I can't wait for coverage to start.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

80km into the race the 18 leaders have 20 seconds

So they haven't gotten away very far yet

Stijn Vandenbergh DNF

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Front group caught now by a peloton of about 50 riders

 

[BalearicBeats]

Re:

Peloton has split on the Bevekomsestraat. There is a leading group of 25 riders.

Damn it, I was going to watch there but decided I didn't have enought ime and it would be too early for a peloton split anyway. :sad:

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Group of 35 at the front now, among them Ahlstrand, Hofstetter, De Bie, Wallays, Kurek, Kaczmarek, Boonen, Martinelli, Wisniowski, Kerkhof, M. Kreder, Van der Lijcke, Kirsch, Declercq, Biermans, McNally, Marcato, Veuchelen, Andriato, Bertazzo, Bosmans, Hoeyberghs, Van der Poel, Raim, Turek, Blain, Stewart, Christian, Latham & De Bondt.

Peloton not too far behind