Amstel Gold Race -18th April -257km

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Timmy-loves-Rabo

Timmy-loves-Rabo

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auscyclefan94 said:
Dedication! Hope you get better!


not very exciting so far.:mad:
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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

auscyclefan94

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Timmy-loves-Rabo said:
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.
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i'm getting a tad impatient!:eek:
 
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issoisso

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Timmy-loves-Rabo said:
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.
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Also, they're on a 16 km stretch with no climbs (that's about to end)
 
ak-zaaf

ak-zaaf

Mar 11, 2009
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Timmy-loves-Rabo said:
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.
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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.
 
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Moondance

Jul 2, 2009
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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. :p
 
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issoisso

Mar 18, 2009
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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

Jamsque

Mar 11, 2009
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Moondance said:
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. :p
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Of course dutch Santa doesn't exist. British Santa, on the other hand, is as real as you and I.
 
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issoisso

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Susan Westemeyer said:
Thomas Dekker has absolutely gorgeous hair, by the way.

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



Sorry, I couldn't resist :D (it is true, though)
 
ak-zaaf

ak-zaaf

Mar 11, 2009
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issoisso said:
Scientific fact of the day: continued EPO use makes your hair lighter.



Sorry, I couldn't resist :D (it is true, though)
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But he only took it once! And it didn't work! He said so himself!
 
bicing

bicing

Nov 23, 2009
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ak-zaaf said:
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.
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Good point. If only the cobbled classics had more favourites to keep us guessing. That's why I'm excited about Adrennes...
 
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Moondance

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Jamsque said:
Of course dutch Santa doesn't exist. British Santa, on the other hand, is as real as you and I.
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The modern (19th c. onwards) Santa was actually derived from Sinterklaas..... Right down to the 'comes in through the chimney' thing.
 
Jamsque

Jamsque

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Moondance said:
The modern (19th c. onwards) Santa was actually derived from Sinterklaas..... Right down to the 'comes in through the chimney' thing.
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Lies! Slander! Propaganda!
 
Jamsque

Jamsque

Mar 11, 2009
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Getting back to the race, I guess we aren't going to see a real selection made till the Kruisberg and Eyserbosweg?
 
bicing

bicing

Nov 23, 2009
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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?
 
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