Classic Brugge-De Panne - 2X One-Day Race(s). Men's 22/3, Women's 23/3

[Samamba]

Fredheim deserves more praise after today. Ridiculously impressive performance, 19 years old.

 

[Landeirovic]

Molano make big steps after his Vuelta stage win. This year him look very strong. He is already better than ackermann now?

 

[Gratemans]

Holy sh*t! I didn't get to see it live so I just rewatched the race and I'm really impressed by how Philipsen took this. Incredibly strong performance and well deserved.

 

[Nick2413]

This turned into a pretty exciting race. Didn’t expect much but put it on before the Catalunya finish and was pleasantly surprised.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We'll see if the women's race will just as wind/rain affected as the men's was yesterday.

Elisa Balsamo is the defending champion after she beat Lorena Wiebes, who had to ride the final with a broken spoke after a crash. Together with Charlotte Kool they make up a trio of hot favourites this time around, but there are also quite a few other names who can potentially fight for the podium here, depending on how the race unfolds.

 

[Didinho]

We'll see if the women's race will just as wind/rain affected as the men's was yesterday.

Elisa Balsamo is the defending champion after she beat Lorena Wiebes, who had to ride the final with a broken spoke after a crash. Together with Charlotte Kool they make up a trio of hot favourites this time around, but there are also quite a few other names who can potentially fight for the podium here, depending on how the race unfolds.

Wanna see some echelons, guess it doesn't happen a lot in woman racing?
I'm supporting once again for some Italians.

 

[BR2]

Oh, a big crash? Anyone knows more?

 

[Didinho]

Paternoster to the hospital Ilse Grit also.
Bastianelli was one of them who hit the ground.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I guess this could be called day 2 of the three days of Panne.
A juniors race would make up the set.

 

[BR2]

And another crash, it seems.

 

[Izzyeviel]

That was quite the tumble into the ditch from number 76. Seemed to touch someones wheel at a pinch point, then speared off at low speed to the right & rode into a water filled ditch.

 

[Didinho]

Echelooons! Best piece of land in Belgium.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Strong group, but it might be hard for them to keep the bigger group behind for 50 km.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Looks like they're winning the battle now.

 

[Didinho]

Strong group, but it might be hard for them to keep the bigger group behind for 50 km.

But the strongest riders are in front. UAE can't close it and now Consonni trying to bridge, she just missed the first group.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Make sure you watch the Lorena Wiebes interview on eurosport

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's a good thing that Wiebes and Balsamo don't have teammates with them, but the others both need to be able to attack and also let those two do all the chasing.

 

[Didinho]

What are these random "leader jerseys(?)". Wiebes in red. The one from Canyon in blue, while teammate Bossuyt in normal team jersey. Do they have some sort of classification with all the WT races or something?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What are these random "leader jerseys(?)". Wiebes in red. The one from Canyon in blue, while teammate Bossuyt in normal team jersey. Do they have some sort of classification with all the WT races or something?

Yeah, Wiebes is leading the individual WWT ranking, while Van der Duin leads the U23 classification.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Make sure you watch the Lorena Wiebes interview on eurosport

Poor dude, he just wanted to ride with them.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stupid mistake from Barnes. I hope she and De Wilde are okay.

 

[RedheadDane]

Poor dude, he just wanted to ride with them.

Looks like a Lotto kit.



And now De Wilde and Barnes just went down pretty hard.

 

[RedheadDane]

Georgi has a good gap.

 

[F_Cance]

wiebes really handed it to her

 

[Samu Cuenca]

DSM played it well here, and Georgi deserves a big win of her own after helping her teammates to many victories over the years. The crash helped them a bit, but it looked like the decisive split had already been made when it occured.