Amstel Gold Race: April 21st, 2019

[Salvarani]

Woods dropped by Kwiat and Trentin

 

[Billie]

Fuglsang sould let the other 2 come back

 

[Vroome.exe]

MVDP was massively overhyped for this race. He's nowhere near the strongest.

 

[Red Rick]

To me it seems like riding the cobbles isn't very helpful if you want to win beer in Limburg.

 

[fuiers]

This looks interesting already.

 

[Salvarani]

Re:

MVDP was massively overhyped for this race. He's nowhere near the strongest.

Maybe why he attacked early

 

[Red Rick]

Anyone seen Gilbert?

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

MVDP was massively overhyped for this race. He's nowhere near the strongest.

Maybe why he attacked early

Cycling's Nick Kyrgios?

Tanking to preserve talent myth?

 

[DFA123]

Re:

This looks interesting already.

It looks over already. Difficult to see how Alaphilippe doesn't win from here.

 

[Gigs_98]

Man do I love this race since the route change

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re: Re:

MVDP was massively overhyped for this race. He's nowhere near the strongest.

Maybe why he attacked early

Yup, was thinking the same. An ultimate attempt to bridge to his teammate in front?

 

[Red Rick]

Amstel Gold route change was a 300 IQ play.

Now it's similar to De Ronde except the point to wait for lies like 40km from the finish.

 

[Simurgh]

WHY isn't it forbidden to put ad breaks in (at minimum) the last 50 km of a one day race?

 

[Velolover2]

I hope the route changes will make Liege more like the current Amstel.

 

[Red Rick]

Valverde, Van Aert and Wellens in a group a minute behind the peloton.

Sagan even further back.

 

[Salvarani]

They not bringing them back

 

[Valv.Piti]

Meh, this looks like its done

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Fuglsang and Alaphilippe the animateurs of this spring

 

[Gigs_98]

Thing is If fuglsang really wants to win from here he basically has to attack on the cauberg. The later climbs will be too easy to drop Alaphilippe

 

[Simurgh]

Alaphilippe should win this, if gap isn't going down the next couple of kilometers

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

I hope the route changes will make Liege more like the current Amstel.

There's one problem with that. The real Ardennes hills are just too long for that type of racing. You can't recover from attacking all out on one hill multiple times

 

[rick james]

only 13 seconds to group 2....not sure I believe the time gaps

 

[DFA123]

Thing is If fuglsang really wants to win from here he basically has to attack on the cauberg. The later climbs will be too easy to drop Alaphilippe

He probably needs Kwiatkowski to get on. So that when he attacks there at least might be some bluffing, allowing him to get a bit of a gap.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

No way Fuglsang is going to the line with Alaphillippe, it will be interesting to see what he is doing different this time...... I predict he will try to drop him on the flat.

 

[Velolover2]

I hope the Bird isn't riding for a second place. He is towing Ala to the line when doing equal work.