3daagse De Panne-Koksijde, March 29th - March 31st

[del1962]

anyone know why Luke Rowe abandoned?

 

[cellardoor]

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Kittel was going too soon. It's going to be a great Tour, now that Kittel can't do the same sucking he and his pathetic team always did.

Too soon, how far was it 200 meters?

It seemed 300 meters and that is too soon. Having said that, I still remember when he was at giant, and not once did giant help chasing breaks. They only did their lead-out with 2ks to go, nothing more. He was able to abuse that way too many times.

Now he can't. But Cav will be able to do just that, and do what Viviani did today.

When Tony Martin pulled off I thought it was clear that there weren't enough Etixx men left to get him to 200m. I think the last man did a good job actually.

 

[jmdirt]

Viviani seems to have upped his game a notch...good for him!

 

[Kwibus]

Re: Re:

Kittel was going too soon. It's going to be a great Tour, now that Kittel can't do the same sucking he and his pathetic team always did.

Too soon, how far was it 200 meters?

It seemed 300 meters and that is too soon. Having said that, I still remember when he was at giant, and not once did giant help chasing breaks. They only did their lead-out with 2ks to go, nothing more. He was able to abuse that way too many times.

Now he can't. But Cav will be able to do just that, and do what Viviani did today.

They certainly didn't put everyone on the front, but usually they always had a rider controlling the break.
It were smart tactics, certainly because other teams didn't seem to learn from it. Can't blame them for that.

 

[jaylew]

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Ouch, 4 Cannondale riders DNFs today. Their cobbled team is truly abysmal this year. At least Bettiol showed himself nicely this time.

Apparently most of the team is sick.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Kristoff's leadout pulled quite the swerve in front of everyone else. That contributed to Etixx messing up their own leadout.

 

[coimbrawu]

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Ouch, 4 Cannondale riders DNFs today. Their cobbled team is truly abysmal this year. At least Bettiol showed himself nicely this time.

Apparently most of the team is sick.

flu and food poisoning:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/03/news/illness-blanks-cannondale-at-gent-threatens-flanders-plans_400366
poor Cannondale boys

 

[Alexandre B.]

Five DNS this morning :

Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Katusha)
Lars Boom (Astana)
Jens Keukeleire (Orica-GreenEDGE)
Ian Stannard (Team Sky)
Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen)

 

[del1962]

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Five DNS this morning :

Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Katusha)
Lars Boom (Astana)
Jens Keukeleire (Orica-GreenEDGE)
Ian Stannard (Team Sky)
Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen)

Was Kuznetsov thrown out for punching

 

[Alexandre B.]

He hasn't been sanctioned.

EDIT : he was fined.

 

[Lexman]

Bunch at one minute of 6 leaders : Stijn Steels (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise), Lars Bak (Lotto-Soudal), Alexandre Pichot (Direct Energie), Hugo Hofstetter (Cofidis), Guiseppe Fonzi (Southeast) en Igor Boev (Gazprom).

 

[Lexman]

LOL De Cauwer describes the Astana tactics : "you have dumb and you have Astana dumb. They must have two radio frequencies at Astana ; they spoke russian at Westra and dutch to Lutsenko"

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/extra/opvallend/1.2615968

 

[Lexman]

Kreder abadons

 

[Lexman]

leaders are taken by the bunch, Van Bilsen (Cofidis) attacks...

 

[Lexman]

Van Bilsen back in the bunch...

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Guardini on Kittel's wheel

 

[Lexman]

crash in the last corner, Kittel wins

 

[Hugo Koblet]

1. Kittel
2. Bauhaus
3. Kristoff
4. Capiot
5. Mezgec

 

[Lexman]

1. Kittel
2. Bauhaus
3. Kristoff
4. Capiot
5. Mezgec
6. Sarreau
7. Van Staeyen
8. Baska
9. R. Kreder
10. Kump

 

[pedromiguelmartins]

Oh please. Even I could have won against bauhaus

 

[robin440]

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Oh please. Even I could have won against bauhaus

lol

 

[Tarnum]

What were the organizers thinking having that corner at 350m?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Oh please. Even I could have won against bauhaus

Sagan would probably have finished second to him though

 

[Lexman]

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What were the organizers thinking having that corner at 350m?

that corner was there already for some time in this stage in previous years

Bak abandoned maybe fallen as well like Greipel?

 

[Ruudz0r]

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What were the organizers thinking having that corner at 350m?

that corner was there already for some time in this stage in previous years

Bak abandoned maybe fallen as well like Greipel?

Planned abandon (for Flandres)