4 Jours de Dunkerque 2014 (2.HC), 07. - 11.05

[Afrank]

That is no sprint...that's a breakaway!

 

[jsem94]

That was like Degenkolb's victory in the Giro last year. Incredible. More like an attack than a sprint, and he made it look so easy.

 

[VeloHuman]

FDJ has a wealth of young talent. Crazy that Demare is only 22, Pinot still just 23.

 

[roundabout]

Cap Blanc Nez tomorrow.

FDJ has by far the strongest team, but maybe something can happen

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Cap Blanc Nez tomorrow.

FDJ has by far the strongest team, but maybe something can happen

Forecasting sh!te weather too I think.

Stage will end approx. 17:00 local, before the Giro TTT starts. Very nice.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so 70km to go now,

Gap about 2-3 minutes I think.

Clément Koretzky (Bretagne-Séché), Brian Bulac (Giant-Shimano), Hugo Houle, Blel Kadri (AG2R-La Mondiale), Alexandre Pichot (Europcar), Julien Fouchard (Cofidis), Michael Morkov (Tinkoff-Saxo), Ralf Matzka (NetApp-Endura), Flavien Dassonville (Big Mat-Auber) et Julien El Fares (La Pomme-Marseille).

Serious winds out there.

Live in about 20 minutes on Eurosport, but here is a ticker while waiting:

http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/sports/s...-de-dunkerque-depuis-fruges-ia228b230n2122819

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Echelons!

 

[jsem94]

Race breaking apart. Chavanel on the move.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Strong tailwind all the way to the finish now.

 

[jsem94]

Much more exciting race than this Giro TTT will be.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Much more exciting race than this Giro TTT will be.

Yep. Unfortunately, it seems like we're the only people here watching it.

 

[Netserk]

Yep. Unfortunately, it seems like we're the only people here watching it.

Nah, I'm watching as well

Only saw it from 15km to go though

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Nice win Chava.

 

[Netserk]

Nice win Chava.

My stream still has 2.5km to go :O

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Great ride by Chavanel and the boke in second who I had never heard of.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

My stream still has 2.5km to go :O

Oops...

 

[Netserk]

Oops...

I see it was a close sprint.

 

[Netserk]

GC after stage three:

 

[T-Nielsen]

Great ride by Chavanel and the boke in second who I had never heard of.

That bloke is a doubble youth LBL winner so I hope we will all hear alot more of him in due time.

 

[Wallenquist]

Great ride by Chavanel and the boke in second who I had never heard of.

Valgren is double LBL u23 winner. Big talent.

 

[roundabout]

Cap Blanc Nez = good entertainment

Unsure about Dumoulin, but maybe he used up most of his energy when he nearly made it across on the Cap Blanc Nez

 

[Carstenbf]

Great ride by Chavanel and the boke in second who I had never heard of.

That would be Michael Valgren. Won U23 LBL twice.

*edit: damn, slow typer. I blame the Ipad!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I would actually say Michael Valgren, he surely have the talent for these kind of hills but I don´t know about what kind of shape he´s in atm.

Good call.

Excellent ride by him and Chava.

Demare digging deep to keep the jersey.

 

[veji11]

With Chavanel so close, there is room for a real battle on saturday : he needs to blow up Démare again in a similar way, because on sunday it will be a sprint for sure and Démare will again get bonifications. It will be hard to pull it off because the FDJ team is the strongest (and once more, imagine if the race was raced with teams of 6 instead of 8, god do I hat teams of 8). Chavanel needs Démare to be further than 10 seconds away tomorrow evening. SHould make for interesting racing tomorrow again.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

yea, the six man team decision is starting to look like a no-brainer in these stage races at least.