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This.DFA123 said:Why does this make it a bad race? Do you think it would have been a more entertaining race if Schachmann would have won by 500m, with the peloton all looking at each other while Landa toiled by himself and the gap went out to two minutes?Valanga said:Cance > TheRest said:I don't get the FW thing either. It was set in stone that it would be an uphill sprint, and that's exactly what happened. Valverde didn't win, that's the only surprise.
It was a superb edition of Fleche, imo. Lots of action and tension throughout the last hour of the race, but without sacrificing the entertainment of the final sprint up the Mur as well.
This.Blanco said:This.DFA123 said:Why does this make it a bad race? Do you think it would have been a more entertaining race if Schachmann would have won by 500m, with the peloton all looking at each other while Landa toiled by himself and the gap went out to two minutes?Valanga said:Cance > TheRest said:I don't get the FW thing either. It was set in stone that it would be an uphill sprint, and that's exactly what happened. Valverde didn't win, that's the only surprise.
It was a superb edition of Fleche, imo. Lots of action and tension throughout the last hour of the race, but without sacrificing the entertainment of the final sprint up the Mur as well.
Also about Liege, everybody was whining for years about that boring uphill sprints, how large group was on St.Nicholas, how there were no attacks at RaF, how we didn't have a solo winner in years. And now when we had all this, it's dull againMaybe if Nibali had won like Jungels did, "we" would've been much more satisfied with the race.
Yeah the other riders in the group (Van Avermaet, Vanmarcke, Stuyven) all confirmed when Terpstra took the lead on cobbles everything went a few kph faster and they were hanging on for dear life.The Hegelian said:Yeah, I think Terpstra was the dominant cobbled classics rider by quite a margin. Just looked so strong - the way he attacked that elite group for third at PR highlights something new he developed this year: a searing attack.
In the past he could obviously get away, and at times stay away - but it was more opportunistic/ exploiting QS numbers. But this year I think he truly arrived as champion of the cobbles in his own right.
The Ardennes have been such a let down in recent times, but this year was pretty cool. I enjoyed them more than the cobbled races.