64th E3 Saxo Bank Classic: 25 March, 2022

[SafeBet]

Asgreen was at the back of the peloton about 1km before that climb and couldn't move up in time. Ghirmay was third wheel and he let it go and since the climb was essentially a narrow strip of tarmac as there were no barricades it was impossible to pass without going onto cobbles. Bit of a major mistake from Asgreen.

Nobody had the legs to go with the Jumbo couple.
They would have passed Ghirmay, even on the cobbles, if necessary. They just couldn't.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Did you watch it from Taaienberg to Paterberg as well? It has been solid.

It isn't solid when there is only ever one team with a shot of winning. This might as well be an exhibition race, a play, a farce.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nobody had the legs to go with the Jumbo couple.

They're a couple now?
Not that there'd be anything wrong with that, except... I think Wout's GF might have a thing or two to say about that.

 

[Velolover2]

With two teams with two riders and in a classic I think it is far from safe for Ghirmay yet.

The only one I can see pulling off an ambush attack for third is Narváez but it look like he has wasted way too much energy. He was a beast on Berg Ten Stene and seems to be the one in the group who is working the most.

 

[Volderke]

Wout was smart to gift the win in PN to Laporte. He probably said: "next is mine"

 

[Andre]

Drop him Wout. I don't trust him. He might ask for another gift.

 

[jaylew]

With two teams with two riders and in a classic I think it is far from safe for Ghirmay yet.

Agreed, especially with Mohoric there as well and with Girmay's relative lack of experience. They'll all know he's the fastest on paper.

 

[Netserk]

It isn't solid when there is only ever one team with a shot of winning. This might as well be an exhibition race, a play, a farce.

We heard the same whine in Sanremo.

 

[sir fly]

Tiegemberg - the mushroom hill.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

We heard the same whine in Sanremo.

Kindly point me to the point during the race when I said anything similar there. Spoiler alert: I didn't.

 

[tobydawq]

The fact that we're reduced to discussing third place behind two riders from the same team with half an hour to go in a big classic says it all really. This sport is dying incredibly fast, can't imagine viewership numbers will stay at their current levels for too much longer when things are unprecedentedly predictable.

I know it's not a good outcome today, but your constant nihilism is getting a bit tiresome, I must say.

Nothing is dying.

 

[jaylew]

It isn't solid when there is only ever one team with a shot of winning. This might as well be an exhibition race, a play, a farce.

It could get worse. Benoot could get 3rd.

 

[Netserk]

When will Benoot attack?

 

[sir fly]

Hillmill?

 

[F_Cance]

the one year we don't get ridiculous QS stuff it's jumbo going full 90s. Cool race

 

[Red Rick]

Apparently one of those guys ridong beside van Aert and Laporte was that kid that jumped into the cornfield when Boonen won de Rpnde in 2012

 

[AlfaLum]

They should sprint for it to make it a bit more exciting. Not gonnaaaa happen.

 

[Tim Cahill]

The B&M Bargains Magnus Cort donning yellow and immediately smashing a group containing monument winners, looking forward to seeing if they can keep this up the next couple of weeks!

 

[Velolover2]

Agreed, especially with Mohoric there as well and with Girmay's relative lack of experience. They'll all know he's the fastest on paper.

I don't know he is riding like the smartest rider in the chasing group. Not taking too many draining pulls while still being very attentive in case of ambush attacks. Did a good job in marking the other riders.

 

[tobydawq]

The B&M Bargains Magnus Cort donning yellow and immediately smashing a group containing monument winners, looking forward to seeing if they can keep this up the next couple of weeks!

The what?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I know it's not a good outcome today, but your constant nihilism is getting a bit tiresome, I must say.

Nothing is dying.

With the exception of Sanremo and maybe the final stage of Paris-Nice, any race featuring either the Jumbo A-team or Pogacar has been one-sided as hell this year. It isn't nihilism when it's the norm.

 

[Samamba]

Man i hate dominant teams

 

[tobydawq]

With the exception of Sanremo and maybe the final stage of Paris-Nice, any race featuring either the Jumbo A-team or Pogacar has been one-sided as hell this year. It isn't nihilism when it's the norm.

It's nihilism when you must moan about it all the time and assume that this will keep on for ever and ever.

 

[Red Rick]

Sporza interviewing Jumbo DS live in the race on the motobike

Vam der Sande broken elbow most likely elbow break, wouldnt say whos gonna win

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Man i hate dominant teams

We are missing only Roglic up front.