46th Amstel Gold Race (The maze) - Sunday April 17, 2011

[sublimit]

Rabo make Garmin look good.

Best rider won and thats the main thing though. Congratulations to Gilbert

 

[Libertine Seguros]

All about the timing. Seemed too late, seemed too late... wait, seemed almost too early.

Rodríguez really needs the Cauberg to be longer at the steep part. It flattens out too much for him to take it to the end, Huy is much more his style. Gilbert only had to keep close enough to Rodríguez on the steepest part and it was easy.

 

[Fourier]

GIlbert!!!!!!!!! good effort by purito

 

[Gloin22]

Gerrans - WELL DONE Awesome ride

 

[Anonymous]

Wow that was a DETERMINED effort!

Funny, I thought he should have gone to the Rabo car and whined about how they needed to chase...

 

[Tuarts]

So Gilbert - first dual winner in 30 odd years isn't he?

 

[beer_thirty]

That camera work at the end made me want to scream. "Lets pan out and show everyone."

Yeah, what the hell was that?? You don't take the camera off the winning ride in the final..

 

[hrotha]

Basically only Gilbert, Andy and Purito did anything to win this.

It was a perfect situation for Rabobank (out of sheer luck) and they managed to not be a factor at all.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Dekker Tifosi to throw himself under the BMC bus?

 

[auscyclefan94]

rabobank rode like losers!

 

[screaming fist]

Just wow how VDB, Schleck and Gilbert turned this race into excitement.
Schleck looks really good for LBL I guess.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

So Rabobank came up empty handed??? That's why you ride to win.

i think they did, just failed.
gesink was never gonna win in a sprint here. HE should have attacked, I suspect he just wasn't good enough today. He wont do much this week I don't think.

Friere needs to accept he will never win here.
Martens I'm dissapointed in. I thought he was gonna be really amonsgt it with the OPL tow.

they certainly failed.

 

[Thomsena]

Leopard messed up the tactics yet again.

 

[sublimit]

No real surprise.

But super super ride from Andrew. Really impressed by that.

Huh?

Yeah right

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Some good pairings in Gilbert and VDB, Kolobnev and Rodriguez, Fugslang and Schleck, Freire and Gesenk and Sanchez(?)

Some big teams really missed out.

 

[Cobblestones]

Gotta love CN ticker:

This is going Freire's way if it comes together.
It doesn't look like Schleck is cracking though. He's still got a gap.

 

[dlwssonic]

Can schleck do anything on la fleche wallonne

 

[luckyboy]

 

[Gloin22]

Two podiums for Sky in one day - that must be a record

 

[sublimit]

Dekker Tifosi to throw himself under the BMC bus?

Hopefully, Even Gesink was useless

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

rabobank rode like losers!

they didn't want to ride for each other. Gesink should have gone to the front and rode for the team with 10km to go. he never had a chance on the finish. I still think he looks pretty meh.

Again, I think Martens should have done better.

jRod looked good. I like him for fleche

 

[mulletCobra]

That didn't take long.

 

[screaming fist]

Leopard messed up the tactics yet again.

The finale wasn't down to tactics, this was about legs and a bit of luck.

 

[Cowgirlup]

Very Happy with those results. Gilbert deserved the win for a great ride and an Aussie came 3rd.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Some good pairings in Gilbert and VDB, Kolobnev and Rodriguez, Fugslang and Schleck, Freire and Gesenk and Sanchez(?)

Some big teams really missed out.

it was martens.
And I'm not sure rabo looked like a good pair ot triplet at all, rather the oposite.