2018 E3 Harelbeke - 206.5 km - March 23

[tomorrow]

wtf were bmc doing, GvA clearly had enough for the sprint

 

[Bardamu]

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I'm starting to get a great dislike for Van Avermaet. What a selfish rider.

Has he ever been any different?

Chapeau for Terpstra, earned the victory. Was the strongest today.

 

[Frankschleck]

Well played Quickstep. BMC that was just plain stupid

 

[Irondan]

Great tactical race by Quick Step, chapeau Terpstra.

 

[Jspear]

Fun watching from 60 K out. GVA, Benoot, Sep, Naesen, ect seem fine for the coming classics. Terpstra just picked the right attack at the right time.

 

[DFA123]

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wtf were bmc doing, GvA clearly had enough for the sprint

I think they were very worried about Gilbert and Stybar and either wanted to catch Terpstra late enough that Gilbert couldn't properly counter. Or try to drop Stybar before a sprint.

But they just messed it up.

 

[Koronin]

Great job by Quickstep. As a classics team they should know what they're doing.

GVA has always raced that way, as for what BMC was doing otherwise, who knows.

 

[El Pistolero]

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How on earth could they not catch Tersptra? What a failure, this is why I dislike sprinters.

Because ya boy Gilbert was there.

Are you implying sprinters made it to the fight for the win in a Flemish Classic?

I'm following a live ticker from work and to my understanding Matthews, Degenkolb, Demare and Roelandts were all there.

 

[Jspear]

Sagan just came in

 

[Gigs_98]

Perfectly played by Quickstep. I'm actually not surprised the group didn't catch him. If a chase group is so big there are always people who aren't satisfied with the situation and if there are riders not satisfied the group won't work together very well. This really isn't big news. For the same reason it was basically clear Terpstra would win Paris Roubaix only a fews seconds after his attack since the chase group was never gonna work together well.

 

[Velolover2]

BMC vs. the Steppers for the coming races.

Both have very strong teams.

 

[Alexandre B.]

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How on earth could they not catch Tersptra? What a failure, this is why I dislike sprinters.

Because ya boy Gilbert was there.

Are you implying sprinters made it to the fight for the win in a Flemish Classic?

I'm following a live ticker from work and to my understanding Matthews, Degenkolb, Demare and Roelandts were all there.

That’s terribly wrong.

 

[Jspear]

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How on earth could they not catch Tersptra? What a failure, this is why I dislike sprinters.

Because ya boy Gilbert was there.

Are you implying sprinters made it to the fight for the win in a Flemish Classic?

I'm following a live ticker from work and to my understanding Matthews, Degenkolb, Demare and Roelandts were all there.

They weren't

 

[Irondan]

Queue the "Peter Sagan is overrated" rhetoric in 3. 2. 1...

 

[Bardamu]

Terpstra is rapping in the post-race interview?

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Great win!

 

[PremierAndrew]

Terpstra must be happy he didnt wait for Gilbert

 

[jaylew]

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Queue the "Peter Sagan is overrated" rhetoric in 3. 2. 1...

That started pages ago

 

[Gigs_98]

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How on earth could they not catch Tersptra? What a failure, this is why I dislike sprinters.

Because ya boy Gilbert was there.

Are you implying sprinters made it to the fight for the win in a Flemish Classic?

I'm following a live ticker from work and to my understanding Matthews, Degenkolb, Demare and Roelandts were all there.

Of the ones you mentioned only Roelandts was there and BMC was also the only team with the numbers (except for quickstep who didn't chase for obvious reasons). At one point BMC tried to just let Küng chase Terpstra but he wasn't closing the gap so basically the whole group had to work together and that simply doesn't work most of the time.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Queue the "Peter Sagan is overrated" rhetoric in 3. 2. 1...

I think you have to go back 10 pages to find the start of that rhetoric.

 

[Irondan]

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Queue the "Peter Sagan is overrated" rhetoric in 3. 2. 1...

That started pages ago

 

[woodburn]

Never understand why the chase gets that close and then disintegrates right before the catch.

 

[Bardamu]

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How on earth could they not catch Tersptra? What a failure, this is why I dislike sprinters.

Because ya boy Gilbert was there.

Are you implying sprinters made it to the fight for the win in a Flemish Classic?

I'm following a live ticker from work and to my understanding Matthews, Degenkolb, Demare and Roelandts were all there.

Of the ones you mentioned only Roelandts was there and BMC was also the only team with the numbers (except for quickstep who didn't chase for obvious reasons). At one point BMC tried to just let Küng chase Terpstra but he wasn't closing the gap so basically the whole group had to work together and that simply doesn't work most of the time.

It was mostly Kung, Benoot, Moscon and Vanmarcke doing the work.

 

[Lexman]

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Never understand why the chase gets that close and then disintegrates right before the catch.

no one wants to deliver the action too much which might him makes lose the race

 

[SKSemtex]

Good racing today.