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Baloise Belgium Tour 2023 (June 14-18)

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Dec 27, 2015
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Looks like Yaco will be right after all, no Ewan to the Tour. Not cause of the reason he thought it would be, but still. Nightmare for him and honestly even for Lotto. Massive amount of points gone if he doesn't make it. Doub't they'll send Menten out of nowhere.
All out for stages I imagine.
Kron, Sweeny, Frison, Vermeersch, Van Moer, Van Gils, Eenkhoorn & Sepulveda? Maybe even De Buyst for sprints as he wasn't far off Jakobsen's pace today.
 
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All out for stages I imagine.
Kron, Sweeny, Frison, Vermeersch, Van Moer, Van Gils, Eenkhoorn & Sepulveda? Maybe even De Buyst for sprints as he wasn't far off Jakobsen's pace today.

You absolutely need a sprinter given there's like 7 chances. Even if it's just between 5 and 10, it gives you a lot of points. So yeah De Buyst should still be in, maybe they can think about the Menten option. I wouldn't send Frison if Ewan is out, no point honestly. And Sepulveda isn't preparing for it, so it would be Moniquet probably.

Anyways Ewan finished, not that it means everything as it was just 3km to go and he looked hurt in the wrist area, but let's just hope he's fine.
 
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I had stated that you do not take Ewan to the TDF until he chalks up a win which he did a week or two ago - The gist of my posts about Ewan was that he demands a whole team around him, yet he has failed to win a stage in his last 3 Grand Tours - If he's fit you take him to the TDF, however you provide less support.
 
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So the Merlier/Jakobsen duo equalled Philipsen/Groves duo for wins. I would not have thought that battle would be this close this deep into the season.
 

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Even though it was due to Philipsen's crash, good to see Van der Poel contesting a bunch sprint once more. Even if he doesn't win the TT tomorrow, he should get into the leader's jersey.

Mørkov with a great leadout for Jakobsen, he actually manage to drop the Uno-X riders of his wheel.
 
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Even though it was due to Philipsen's crash, good to see Van der Poel contesting a bunch sprint once more. Even if he doesn't win the TT tomorrow, he should get into the leader's jersey.

Mørkov with a great leadout for Jakobsen, he actually manage to drop the Uno-X riders of his wheel.

It was actually Pedersen that created the gap (you can see in the overhead), the gap was already there when he delivered Moerkoev.
 
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It was actually Pedersen that created the gap (you can see in the overhead), the gap was already there when he delivered Moerkoev.

You know, you're not really helping your case that you're not a certain former forum member. Writing Mørkøv like that. ;)
 
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That's the argument he made. Even those who doesn't have easy access to 'ø' usually just use 'o', because it's easier.

That "most" choose to use letters that don't exist in English, is not really my problem.

Also I find it odd to constantly have to be the subject of other users' conspiracy theories.
 
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Even though it was due to Philipsen's crash, good to see Van der Poel contesting a bunch sprint once more. Even if he doesn't win the TT tomorrow, he should get into the leader's jersey.

Mørkov with a great leadout for Jakobsen, he actually manage to drop the Uno-X riders of his wheel.
Lampaert likely to win tomorrow but with VDP close. I wonder if he improved over last years with the couple of times he apparently specifically trained his TT during the last training camp.
 
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I'm just saying that Lampaert is amazing at this distance. Apparently not today, but he's one of the best in the world at that distance. It isn't so easy to beat him... Except for today :D
Lampaert is very good especially at 20-25km TT's, Also at shorter TT's but he isn't Ganna or Bissegger in these 10-15km TT's.
Van der Poel is physiologically just a superior athlete and if he actually did train his TT, then he should be able to beat Lampaert on this distance.