Dwars Door Vlaanderen (188.6 km) goes straight through Flanders

[repre]

Ineos has no idea what they do with talents.

*without marginal gains

All they did is to make two mediocre britons the GC machines+signed generational talent in Bernal. That's all

 

[Netserk]

I thought Pedersen would be better than that.

 

[search]

would be a shame if WvA is out on Sunday, but it honestly should still be an entertaining race. Alpecin is not strong enough to control it, and 20 other teams will aim to attack.

 

[Berniece]

Cant even focus on the race at all.

Really wonder what exactly happened in that crash and how hard Wout is hurt

I stopped watching. I’m not even a WVA fan but I’m really gutted for him.

 

[Netserk]

De Bondt and Abrahamsen only survivors from the break.

 

[Netserk]

Mostly crosswinds in the finale.

 

[RedheadDane]

yes, English language keyboards lack that button or any other button dedicated to diacritics. You have to press some arcane combination of keys no one knows. (I also doubt that most English-native cycling fans remember there's an umlaut in Kueng.)

However, there isn't an 'e'.

 

[Netserk]

Bettiol and Jorgenson look super strong today.

 

[Volderke]

It seems, from replays, WvA was the first to crash (which is also logic as he was laying behind all others who tumbled over him). So he got impact from the road and other riders who rode into him.

Maybe change the thread title to: Dwars door WvA?

 

[MartinGT]

Kirby is never gonna stop loving Sky / Ineos is he?

 

[Salvarani]

Great attack Milan... for absolutely no reason.

 

[Brullnux]

Bettiol and Jorgenson look super strong today.

Küng also, seems those three are a level above.

 

[Didinho]

Bettiooo!!

 

[Netserk]

Bettiol doesn't feel the chain!!!!

 

[MartinGT]

WoW Bettiol!

 

[Penninepeddler]

Watched it a few times now...

from the overhead it seems like maybe Kung (cant be anyone else) was shoulder to shoulder with someone (I think van Aert by process of elimination) who went down and then took out the Trek guys who took out everyone else.

Though with potential foreshortening with the zoom... they might have never touched.

 

[Didinho]

Great attack Milan... for absolutely no reason.

To put pressure on Mathieu so Mads and Jasper can freewheel.

 

[Boehmand]

Bettiol is a wild man

 

[Samamba]

Pretty insane ride from Abrahamsen (not really that surprising) and De Bondt

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Sigh Kirby

He cant call a rider right
He pompously just talks about the rider he has picked all day
He is not as smart or funny as he thinks he is

But for all that he is the best of the ES main commentators

 

[red_flanders]

yes, English language keyboards lack that button or any other button dedicated to diacritics. You have to press some arcane combination of keys no one knows. (I also doubt that most English-native cycling fans remember there's an umlaut in Kueng.)

With phone keyboards, it's a bit easier, just hold down the U for a popup of "weird" Us to select from.

On a Mac anyway, you just press and hold the key and the chooser comes up and you can add whatever special character is offered.

For example, here's a screen grab of my reply window:

 

[Nick2413]

Riders were getting pushed all over the road from the wind, it’s a shock there haven’t been more big crashes.

 

[Brullnux]

Clever from Bettiol. Climb wasn't hard/long enough to create a meaningful gap but adds that more fatigue to the others and possibly drops Benoot. That said, Tarling is just reeling them back lol.

 

[Netserk]

Benoot to deliver a suicide attack just as they return.

 

[Salvarani]

Just get a little bit better uphill Tarling