E3 Saxo Classic 2024, one day classic, March 22

[tobydawq]

Igor Chzhan top 20?

Surely, he must have abandoned earlier and ridden to the line, now pretending to make a result?

 

[postmanhat]

Didn't realise MVDP has never won G-W. What's the weather forecast for Sunday

 

[Ricco']

Great result for Albanese

 

[AmRacer]

What does that have to do with dumb tactics by Van Aert?

There's nothing Wout could've done.

 

[LookProGoSlow]

Van Aert tries a different approach, but gets the same result: beaten by Van der Poel. His tactics were questionable. He should have kept Jorgenson with him to start a duo time trial after the Kwaremont. Perhaps a few riders from other teams would have taken turns as well.

this

 

[Didinho]

Didn't realise MVDP has never won G-W. What's the weather forecast for Sunday

Could be a leadout for Philipsen again.

 

[Barkintheeye]

That was quite revealing:

1. No one really has anything to put up against Van der Poel, who is literally better on every type of ground. Better on the punchy sections, better on the cobbles, better break away and better on the flats. WVA not close and the rest completely obliterated. Potentially only one man that could put up a fight and he will not be riding RVV and P-R

2. You can post power data from training rides but racing is something else. On the note of Lazkano’s amazing numbers pre-race

3. Van der Poel was great at the Road WC in Glasgow and good at the CX WC in Tabor. This was a statement that his trajectory is positive!

4. Will this be enough for a major showdown in Liege?

5. Van der Poel finally got a haircut

 

[Volderke]

Didn't realise MVDP has never won G-W. What's the weather forecast for Sunday

veeeeeeeeery windy. Coming from the NW, so mainly in the side / back, so very fast finale and very good for echelons.

 

[Lequack]

Van Aert tries a different approach, but gets the same result: beaten by Van der Poel. His tactics were questionable. He should have kept Jorgenson with him to start a duo time trial after the Kwaremont. Perhaps a few riders from other teams would have taken turns as well.

It's not the Belgian way.

 

[Salvarani]

Igor Czhzan top 20?

Surely, he must have abandoned earlier and ridden to the line, now pretending to make a result?

You sure they havent mixed him up with someone else?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

You sure they havent mixed him up with someone else?

It was Brussensky, but yeah he had given up already

 

[Volderke]

That was quite revealing:

1. No one really has anything to put up against Van der Poel, who is literally better on every type of ground. Better on the punchy sections, better on the cobbles, better break away and better on the flats. WVA not close and the rest completely obliterated. Potentially only one man that could put up a fight and he will not be riding RVV and P-R

Nothing from the above is 'revealing' unless you were living on a different planet the last 3-4 years.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Igor Czhzan top 20?

Surely, he must have abandoned earlier and ridden to the line, now pretending to make a result?

Astana tactics getting more and more desperate

 

[tobydawq]

You sure they havent mixed him up with someone else?

It was an Astana rider in the Asian champion's jersey, just behind Girmay when they crossed the line.

But I think he was riding on the bike lane when Stuyven bridged to Wout earlier. A bit amateurish to 'stay' in the race like that.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Didn't realise MVDP has never won G-W. What's the weather forecast for Sunday

windy

 

[tobydawq]

Igor Chzhan top 20?

Surely, he must have abandoned earlier and ridden to the line, now pretending to make a result?

Correction: I mean Gleb Brussenskiy. He is the current Asian champion. Chzhan was from 2022 (and didn't participate today).

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Belgian Pozzato really did a special classics preparation, skipped the best opportunity in years of winning another monument by not going to MSR and in the end gets beaten by his daddy with a bigger margin than the "best ever spring form" Slovenian Pozzato is managing to get on a couple of farmers and plumbers over in Catalunya.

 

[Brullnux]

Nothing from the above is 'revealing' unless you were living on a different planet the last 3-4 years.

I think that's unfair, this is possibly Van der Poel's most dominant ever classics win other than Glasgow. He's always been a bit better than the rest, this was a LOT better than the rest.

 

[Netserk]

Belgian Pozzato really did a special classics preparation, skipped the best opportunity in years of winning another monument by not going to MSR and in the end gets beaten by his daddy with a bigger margin than the "best ever spring form" Slovenian Pozzato is managing to get on a couple of farmers and plumbers over in Catalunya.

I think it's too early to judge. If anything, this prep should pay off for Ronde and Roubaix, not before.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Belgian Pozzato really did a special classics preparation, skipped the best opportunity in years of winning another monument by not going to MSR and in the end gets beaten by his daddy with a bigger margin than the "best ever spring form" Slovenian Pozzato is managing to get on a couple of farmers and plumbers over in Catalunya.

Jezus, the hate on WVA these past few days on the forum is growing. You wonder why. Perhaps everyone is just bitter that they wouldn't even be able to touch the heels of a Caja Rural-rider if they were to haul their fat ass on a race bike...

 

[tobydawq]

Belgian Pozzato really did a special classics preparation, skipped the best opportunity in years of winning another monument by not going to MSR and in the end gets beaten by his daddy with a bigger margin than the "best ever spring form" Slovenian Pozzato is managing to get on a couple of farmers and plumbers over in Catalunya.

Slovenian Pozzato?

 

[postmanhat]

Could be a leadout for Philipsen again.

Was assuming that would be the case, but it's gap in his palmares he might want to fill in this sort of form. In the right conditions he could ahem, blow the race apart.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Belgian Pozzato really did a special classics preparation, skipped the best opportunity in years of winning another monument by not going to MSR and in the end gets beaten by his daddy with a bigger margin than the "best ever spring form" Slovenian Pozzato is managing to get on a couple of farmers and plumbers over in Catalunya.

Surely the Slovenian Pozzato is Mohoric?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Slovenien Pozzato?

Honestly comparing Wout and Tadej to Pozzato is a compliment for Pozzato

 

[SafeBet]

Great result for Albanese

Indeed a great result considering he has virtually no experience in cobble classics (possibly only ridden Denain in 2017 before today).