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- Jul 10, 2014
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- Jul 7, 2013
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Remco, cheer up! Another 2nd place is the biggest penalty Cosnefroy could get.
- Nov 6, 2020
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De Plus with his highest placing since BinckBank 2019. Are all the issues sorted?
- Jun 24, 2013
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- May 5, 2010
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- Mar 13, 2009
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Watch the overhead replay. Wellens was the lead rider going into the sprint, he deviated from the right side of the road to the left side of the road with Cosnefroy beside him.
Evenepoel was the victim, but that wasn't Cosnefroys fault, he had nowhere to go. It was after all the lead rider, Wellens, who started the deviation.
I am huge fan of Remco but he is one of the most tactically inept riders I have seen in a long time. There was a moment today that was so amateurish I could nbelieve what I was witnessing.
I think it was around 20km to go, I might be wrong, and Cosnefoy and Sheffield had got a gap, the others started looking at each other, Ineos did nothing as Sheffield was in front. So Remco picked up the chase and closed the gap with a monumental effort as the others just sat on his wheel. This is basic stuff. Remco should not have done a single thing, neither the other non-Ineos riders. If Ineos were daft enough to let Sheffield go to the finish with Cosnefoy then more fool them. And they wouldn’t have. They would have ended up chasing their own rider, Turner and Pidcock would have been forced to work in order to close the gap.
Last weekend Remco was towing Martinez around the Basque Country and today he is closing gaps for the team who had the numerical advantage. Crazy.
Those in charge at Quick step are no one’s fools so I am assuming Remco must be ignoring what they are telling him. Those tactics are basically 101 stuff. The team with the numerical advantage had their least fastest finisher in front with someone, on paper, much quicker than him. Ineos would have panicked and closed the gap.
I think it was around 20km to go, I might be wrong, and Cosnefoy and Sheffield had got a gap, the others started looking at each other, Ineos did nothing as Sheffield was in front. So Remco picked up the chase and closed the gap with a monumental effort as the others just sat on his wheel. This is basic stuff. Remco should not have done a single thing, neither the other non-Ineos riders. If Ineos were daft enough to let Sheffield go to the finish with Cosnefoy then more fool them. And they wouldn’t have. They would have ended up chasing their own rider, Turner and Pidcock would have been forced to work in order to close the gap.
Last weekend Remco was towing Martinez around the Basque Country and today he is closing gaps for the team who had the numerical advantage. Crazy.
Those in charge at Quick step are no one’s fools so I am assuming Remco must be ignoring what they are telling him. Those tactics are basically 101 stuff. The team with the numerical advantage had their least fastest finisher in front with someone, on paper, much quicker than him. Ineos would have panicked and closed the gap.
- Jan 31, 2016
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You sit on when the numbers don't favor you at the outset; not when no one can bridge. Racing 101 folks and particularly when he had such traction issues on the climbs.
- Feb 20, 2012
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It's hard to decide for me if Evenepoel is tactically inept or if it's a pride thing.
- Apr 16, 2009
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- Jul 16, 2015
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I think Sheffield was already sitting on Cosnefroy's wheel in what looked like a sort of repeat of Sunday's Amstel finish. So that situation would have played out with Cosnefroy doing the absolute bulk of the work alone whilst the Ineos rider sat doing nothing & got towed to the line. Meanwhile the Ineos guys in the group would have just sat there as well, waiting to counter whomever pulled them back. So Remco closed it down.
Evenepoel is a very generous rider, IMO, i.e. he steps up & does work when others wheelsuck & watch the leaders ride off into the distance. He did the same in Basque Country as well, i.e. he pulled Martinez back to the leader's group on Saturday (without Evenepoel, Martinez wouldn't have won GC because he would never have closed that 30 second gap).
There are so many wheelsuckers in the peloton I won't fault Evenepoel for forcing the issue, even when 'tactically' in a perfect world the situation would play out differently in his favor. All too often we see a couple of guys ride off into the distance because the chase group cannot agree on 'who' does the work.
I don’t think Ineos would have been happy with a Cosnefroy v Sheffield finish. On Sunday they would have backed Kwiato as he has proven himself in similar situations, plus there was the MVDP dynamic in the group behind
Always a good race this. Really enjoyable again today.
Chapeau to Sheffield and Ineos, but gutted for Teuns. He's looking really strong at the moment and without that puncture, his presence in the finale may have changed the dynamics a bit. Although against three Ineos the likely outcome should have been what we got anyway.
Also gutted for Alaphilippe and that horrible crash. Hopefully he's ok for all the Ardennes coming up.
Chapeau to Sheffield and Ineos, but gutted for Teuns. He's looking really strong at the moment and without that puncture, his presence in the finale may have changed the dynamics a bit. Although against three Ineos the likely outcome should have been what we got anyway.
Also gutted for Alaphilippe and that horrible crash. Hopefully he's ok for all the Ardennes coming up.
- May 5, 2010
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Watch the overhead replay. Wellens was the lead rider going into the sprint, he deviated from the right side of the road to the left side of the road with Cosnefroy beside him.
Evenepoel was the victim, but that wasn't Cosnefroys fault, he had nowhere to go. It was after all the lead rider, Wellens, who started the deviation.
Sure, it was just a bit funny how, after all the talk about Cosnefroy, suddenly: BLAM! Wellens punished.
- Oct 31, 2018
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Fantastic team performance by Ineos doing what QS and Jumbo normally do in classics. Sheffield a huge talent and fantastic win for a 19 year old. A bit of a dissapointing Pidcock but his team was there to pick up the slacks.
Strongest rider today was probably Evenepoel. He did miss Alaphilippe in the final. You can argue all you like but in the end everyone in the group looked at Evenepoel to close the gaps and so he did.
Strongest rider today was probably Evenepoel. He did miss Alaphilippe in the final. You can argue all you like but in the end everyone in the group looked at Evenepoel to close the gaps and so he did.
Remco and Martinez closed that gap together. If Remco didn’t do what he did he wouldn’t have gotten back. If Martinez didn’t cooperate he wouldn’t have gotten back either.
- Jun 7, 2011
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Funny. Sheffield now has more pro wins than Pidcock.
Cumbersome performance of Evenepoel and Quickstep as a whole. Everytime the 'team' is there 'for him' it's one big no-show. Alaphilippe doing fck all, again. I think he tried to bridge once maybe. Evenepoel against 3 Ineos guys must have seemed like a good balance to the rest of the team. I also have no idea what Evenepoel himself was doing, at one point i started to think maybe he was baiting the Ineos guys to ride all out by pretending he was struggling considering he didn't seem to have too much issues closing the gap a gazillion times, it seemed somewhat surreal. Then, i think 7k from the finish he closes Sheffield down and i thought, ok now he's going to drive the momentum and work for the gap considering Sheffield just attacked, with Pidcock struggling since the last lap and Turner perhaps also not so fresh anymore... and then he just closes the gap and stops. Was he really thinking he was going to outsprint Pidcock, Wellens and Cosnefroy? I'm baffled. But at least he was there which can't be said for the rest of the team.
Too bad for Teuns, he seemed really good and maybe the strongest of the front group, though Sheffield was amazing himself. Of the three Ineos guys, Pidcock was the least impressive imho. Turner and Sheffield were awesome. The strongest guy of the strongest team won. Well deserved. Still remember the 2019 junior WCC RR, where he was working for Simmons but actually he was the strongest guy there.
Cumbersome performance of Evenepoel and Quickstep as a whole. Everytime the 'team' is there 'for him' it's one big no-show. Alaphilippe doing fck all, again. I think he tried to bridge once maybe. Evenepoel against 3 Ineos guys must have seemed like a good balance to the rest of the team. I also have no idea what Evenepoel himself was doing, at one point i started to think maybe he was baiting the Ineos guys to ride all out by pretending he was struggling considering he didn't seem to have too much issues closing the gap a gazillion times, it seemed somewhat surreal. Then, i think 7k from the finish he closes Sheffield down and i thought, ok now he's going to drive the momentum and work for the gap considering Sheffield just attacked, with Pidcock struggling since the last lap and Turner perhaps also not so fresh anymore... and then he just closes the gap and stops. Was he really thinking he was going to outsprint Pidcock, Wellens and Cosnefroy? I'm baffled. But at least he was there which can't be said for the rest of the team.
Too bad for Teuns, he seemed really good and maybe the strongest of the front group, though Sheffield was amazing himself. Of the three Ineos guys, Pidcock was the least impressive imho. Turner and Sheffield were awesome. The strongest guy of the strongest team won. Well deserved. Still remember the 2019 junior WCC RR, where he was working for Simmons but actually he was the strongest guy there.
- Jul 4, 2010
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Great race and wow Sheffield.
A couple of things. The radios the riders use, I thought it was just to the car and then the car had comms with all riders?
Why did Remco do so much work? Why didn't the others just sit on the Ineos wheels and tell them to graft?
A couple of things. The radios the riders use, I thought it was just to the car and then the car had comms with all riders?
Why did Remco do so much work? Why didn't the others just sit on the Ineos wheels and tell them to graft?
- Feb 20, 2010
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This is often a problem when one is used to being so dominant that they don't actually need to learn any tactics. He's won everything at the junior level so easily that thinking tactically is going to take him a while to learn now that he can't just ride away. Give him time.
I actually think Ineos would have been very happy with Cosnefroy and Sheffield going ahead with around 20KM to go. They'd just tell Sheffield to sit on. Considering Sheffield did okay in the reduced bunch sprint at Dwars, and was looking extremely strong all day, if Cosnefroy had pulled him along I have little doubt that Sheffield would have just dropped him on one of the remaining climbs and that would have been the race done.
Good race. Sheffield got a very well deserved biggest result of his life riding smartly whilst also looking like the strongest rider of the day.
Wellens was rightly relegated for a clearly diagonal sprint that forced Cosnefroy to the barrier and blocked Evenepoel off entirely.
Pidcock should skip Paris-Roubaix and opt to stay fresher for LBL which is the plan if PCS startlist is correct though fascinating to see Kwiatkowski down for PR.
Wellens was rightly relegated for a clearly diagonal sprint that forced Cosnefroy to the barrier and blocked Evenepoel off entirely.
Pidcock should skip Paris-Roubaix and opt to stay fresher for LBL which is the plan if PCS startlist is correct though fascinating to see Kwiatkowski down for PR.
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