2020 World Championships - now confirmed for Imola, Italy.

[TomLPC]

Another decent bike change from Pog, 7/10 that one

 

[glassmoon]

Pog a bad bad time for mechanical...
OK. He'll be back.

 

[Eclipse]

Pog was riding with an extra 7kg weight to stop him blowing the field off his wheel by accident while pretending to be a dom, but he's got the call Rog isn't feeling great so is switching to a normal ride.

 

[Salvarani]

Pog looks really strong

 

[JosephK]

Pogi casually preparing for nuclear attack.

 

[Rollthedice]

The French are gone. Now Belgium.

 

[Red Rick]

Depth of quality in the field is much higher here, so I don't think we will see the same here - unless there are tactical games behind and no team is willing to commit to the chase.

Fuglsang stayed away in LBL last year really easily. Winning move has gone on the Kwaremont/Pater every single time on the 'new' Ronde route since 2012. Never once been brought back.

 

[Breezy1985]

Speaking of pointless tactics here come Belgium

 

[glassmoon]

French are gone, Swiss are gone... Who's next?

 

[Jungle Cycle]

di Pog changed bike with Rog and then changed?
Rog was so far behind just before Po went back f his change.

 

[memyselfandI]

Pogi casually preparing for nuclear attack.

Really calmly made bike change and climbing back to the peloton.

 

[BlueRoads]

The Aussies are now making it hard for Matthews, right?

 

[TomLPC]

Unreal gradient on that descent, wow.

Can't be too sure about the Belgian strategy here.

 

[Salvarani]

Fuglsang stayed away in LBL last year really easily. Winning move has gone on the Kwaremont/Pater every single time on the 'new' Ronde route since 2012. Never once been brought back.

Yup.

If you get a gap there, you probably are the strongest in the race that day. It will be difficult for the others to bring you back then, if you can ride until the finish and not run out of gas. A group would have to work extremely well and unselfishly to come back.

 

[Eclipse]

Pidcock's going to annihilate them all rawr

 

[skippo12]

Guys like Degenkolb and Stuyven are still in the front group. Pace looked high but it wasn´t as hard as I expected.

 

[Keram]

Pogi casually preparing for nuclear attack.

He should attack as a preperation for Roglic and than accidentally win it

 

[JosephK]

Attrition taking a toll.

 

[TomLPC]

Is Luke Rowe setting up a thermonuclear attack from the 15 year old Thomas Piddock, would be nice, we are usually a complete disaster in these races.

 

[Red Rick]

Dumoulin don't tell me you're gonna get dropped by frigging Luke Rowe.

 

[Rollthedice]

Dumoulin for the camera at the back.

 

[skippo12]

Belgium slowing it down. They probably want a sprint.

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali looking good, deceiving the audience.

He always looks good.

 

[Red Rick]

Dumoulin for the camera at the back.

2/10 Voeckler imitation

 

[rghysens]

Boring race. Hoping for a spectacular final.