2018 La Fleche Wallonne

[May0maniac]

Who are Dimension Donkey riding for, Slagter?

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

anyone have a link, tiz is gone again

http://live.drakulawidget.com/streamvideo10/cycling-vs-fleche-wallonne-live-stream-4641038.html

Doesn't work anyone else please?

 

[Serpentin]

Bad race for Movistar to only have Landa left here.

 

[DFA123]

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Wow, DD in front for the top25 place of Slagter. Pathetic.

Why shouldn't they be at the front? It's not pathetic at all. They've missed the break and Landa isn't going to bring it back by himself. Better to actually use your riders and try to finish as high as possible.

Reminds me of the Paris-Nice editions when people kept complaining that every other team should subvert their own aims, to allow Contador to win. Just nonsense.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

looked it up, slagter was 5th in fecking 2014:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25296

4 years ago. Solid reason to ride now

 

[Red Rick]

I think we need more close ups of the DD riders driving the peloton

 

[Pantani_lives]

This is already the strongest attack in La Flèche in many years.

 

[El Pistolero]

Dimension Data shouldn't even be in the WT anymore if the UCI followed their own rules.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Wow, DD in front for the top25 place of Slagter. Pathetic.

Why shouldn't they be at the front? It's not pathetic at all. They've missed the break and Landa isn't going to bring it back by himself. Better to actually use your riders and try to finish as high as possible.

Reminds me of the Paris-Nice editions when people kept complaining that every other team should subvert their own aims, to allow Contador to win. Just nonsense.

It is 100% pathetic

 

[burning]

I fully expect EF to hit the front soon for Woods

 

[deValtos]

Relax people.

From DD's perspective this is the right thing to do though. No one in the break, may aswell bring it back to 20s and try and bridge with an attack. They can't do anything at all if it goes up to 50s+, it's just a 100% loss.

 

[DFA123]

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looked it up, slagter was 5th in fecking 2014:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25296

4 years ago. Solid reason to ride now

Yep, and even if their leader's highest ever position was 20th, there would still be a good reason to ride now. They've missed the break, and have riders spare in a reduced peloton in a chaotic race - of course they should give themselves every chance to get the best possible result.

 

[Velolover2]

Tactical fail by Movistar? Landa should have joined the break..

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re:

Who are Dimension Donkey riding for, Slagter?

Lmao, Dimension Donkey.

 

[May0maniac]

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Dimension Data shouldn't even be in the WT anymore if the UCI followed their own rules.

But you need a retirement home for old HTC guys.

 

[El Pistolero]

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looked it up, slagter was 5th in fecking 2014:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25296

4 years ago. Solid reason to ride now

Fifth in FW, I doubt the sponsor gets much exposure for that. If he wants to win, that's fine, but he should attack instead of dragging Valverde to the Mur de Huy.

 

[Velolover2]

If Teuns/Ala/Wellens are smelling blood, they should attack now.

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

Wow, DD in front for the top25 place of Slagter. Pathetic.

Why shouldn't they be at the front? It's not pathetic at all. They've missed the break and Landa isn't going to bring it back by himself. Better to actually use your riders and try to finish as high as possible.

Reminds me of the Paris-Nice editions when people kept complaining that every other team should subvert their own aims, to allow Contador to win. Just nonsense.

It is 100% pathetic

Pathetic would be doing nothing, watching Landa toil away while the gap to the break goes out, and then having four relatively fresh riders arrive at the foot of Mur, when the top 10 positions have already been filled.

Trying to get the best possible result for their team is not pathetic in the slightest.

 

[Velolover2]

Wellens have been a bit disappointing to me this year. Conservative riding like in Amstel. He is riding more like a GC rider now. :sad:

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Dan Martin now +1m30s

 

[Pantani_lives]

The gap is growing. Amost a minute!

EDIT: Sky train in formation.

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

looked it up, slagter was 5th in fecking 2014:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=25296

4 years ago. Solid reason to ride now

Fifth in FW, I doubt the sponsor gets much exposure for that. If he wants to win, that's fine, but he should attack instead of dragging Valverde to the Mur de Huy.

Maybe he will attack on the penultimate climb, or some other point. But obviously he can't attack while the break is 40-50 seconds up the road. His team have to narrow the gap first, whatever tactics they later want to use.

 

[Serpentin]

The other teams need to ride now if they want to win.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Kwito and Landa, 2 of the worlds best riders doing domestique work now

 

[May0maniac]

They burned Riabushenko who almost closed the gap and then Dan Martin isn't even able to keep the gap stable, he's cooked.