Amstel Gold Race -18th April -257km

[ak-zaaf]

You see. They are waiting for Boogerd to attack.

He will. He always does.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Dedication! Hope you get better!


not very exciting so far.

Naturally riders aren't gonna go to early. Like most races (believe it or not, this happens outside holland also ) it will get more interesting the closer it gets to the end. When the group is caught im sure it will get more interesting.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Naturally riders aren't gonna go to early. Like most races (believe it or not, this happens outside holland also ) it will get more interesting the closer it gets to the end. When the group is caught im sure it will get more interesting.

i'm getting a tad impatient!

 

[Bala Verde]

He will. He always does.

Hoping bettini and rebellin are on his tail...

LTD punctured

 

[issoisso]

Naturally riders aren't gonna go to early. Like most races (believe it or not, this happens outside holland also ) it will get more interesting the closer it gets to the end. When the group is caught im sure it will get more interesting.

Also, they're on a 16 km stretch with no climbs (that's about to end)

 

[ak-zaaf]

Naturally riders aren't gonna go to early. Like most races (believe it or not, this happens outside holland also ) it will get more interesting the closer it gets to the end. When the group is caught im sure it will get more interesting.

Sad evolution of hill classics.
They used to finish in Maastricht, now it's on Cauberg. Waiting as long as possible is rewarded that way.
In Fleche Wallone everybody just waits for the Mur. In LBL there used to be a select group after Redoute, now 15-20 guys at St. Nicolas is nothing strange. In Lombardy Ghisallo is done calmly by the favorites so they have an explosion left in the last 10km....

After weeks of racing where the favorites attacked as early as 70km from the finish this is always disappointing. The EPO years were way more exciting for hill classics.

 

[jaylew]

LTD punctured

Had to do a double take. Looked like T Dekker for a minute with that hair.

 

[Bala Verde]

Happy to see Lampre and Saxo are both denominating the race today at the front.

 

[Moondance]

Oh sh!t...

I'm hoping that there aren't a lot of little kids watching in the Netherlands because Smeets just said that Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus) doesn't exist.

Needless to say this was news to me.

 

[issoisso]

Oh for god's sake. Every race Paulinho shows up to guest commentate, it's the same damn thing. Instead of discussing the race, they spend most of the time asking him about being Contador's roommate and the friction at the Tour last year.

 

[Jamsque]

Oh sh!t...

I'm hoping that there aren't a lot of little kids watching in the Netherlands because Smeets just said that Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus) doesn't exist.

Needless to say this was news to me.

Of course dutch Santa doesn't exist. British Santa, on the other hand, is as real as you and I.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Had to do a double take. Looked like T Dekker for a minute with that hair.

Thomas Dekker has absolutely gorgeous hair, by the way.

Susan

 

[issoisso]

Thomas Dekker has absolutely gorgeous hair, by the way.

Susan

Scientific fact of the day: continued EPO use makes your hair lighter.



Sorry, I couldn't resist (it is true, though)

 

[Bala Verde]

Thomas Dekker has absolutely gorgeous hair, by the way.

Susan

He never posed naked with sidi shoes though...

 

[ak-zaaf]

Scientific fact of the day: continued EPO use makes your hair lighter.



Sorry, I couldn't resist (it is true, though)

But he only took it once! And it didn't work! He said so himself!

 

[auscyclefan94]

magnus owns this other eurosport guy. get him on!

 

[bicing]

Sad evolution of hill classics.
They used to finish in Maastricht, now it's on Cauberg. Waiting as long as possible is rewarded that way.
In Fleche Wallone everybody just waits for the Mur. In LBL there used to be a select group after Redoute, now 15-20 guys at St. Nicolas is nothing strange. In Lombardy Ghisallo is done calmly by the favorites so they have an explosion left in the last 10km....

After weeks of racing where the favorites attacked as early as 70km from the finish this is always disappointing. The EPO years were way more exciting for hill classics.

Good point. If only the cobbled classics had more favourites to keep us guessing. That's why I'm excited about Adrennes...

 

[Moondance]

Of course dutch Santa doesn't exist. British Santa, on the other hand, is as real as you and I.

The modern (19th c. onwards) Santa was actually derived from Sinterklaas..... Right down to the 'comes in through the chimney' thing.

 

[Jamsque]

The modern (19th c. onwards) Santa was actually derived from Sinterklaas..... Right down to the 'comes in through the chimney' thing.

Lies! Slander! Propaganda!

 

[Jamsque]

Getting back to the race, I guess we aren't going to see a real selection made till the Kruisberg and Eyserbosweg?

 

[Bala Verde]

Ze heten allemaal Sorensen in Denemarken, op Riis na

Ducrot (tm)

 

[issoisso]

Interesting.

When we didn't get invited to Tirreno, all our season plans had to be reshuffled - Sérgio Paulinho

 

[auscyclefan94]

No bmc seen? maybe they have their invisibilty cloaks on like mcewen does!

 

[bicing]

some of you guys mentioned the english audio was working, the steephill.tv link says to me "this event has not yet started", where are you guys getting it from?

 

[issoisso]

No bmc seen? maybe they have their invisibilty cloaks on like mcewen does!

I saw Evans moving up from the back of the pack about 2kms ago