Eneco Tour 2014 (2.WT), 11.08 - 17/08

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manafana

manafana

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yeah cancellara is really grinding my gears does more complaining than races, talk about the parcours yes but don't call it amueteur or critcise something that the weather affected.

Dumoulin lucky I suppose in those situations I am always reluctant to punish more than a fine and a few seconds however and it will keep happening.
 
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barmaher

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Very good profile alright!
 
Maaaaaaaarten

Maaaaaaaarten

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Dumoulin normally the favourite; everybody raced yesterday, not just Dumoulin. Boom could do very well too. TT is short enoug for him to do well. He seems to be in good shape. Wet roads will be good for Boom as well.

Just hoping Stybar is distanced a bit, though he probably won't be. I just hope he finally has to work a bit. Last year he also won a flat stage by sucking Boom's wheel in a late attack IIRC, just like yesterday and he did an epic wheelsuck on Dumoulin in the Ardennes stage. He was good on the Geraardsbergen stage though. I don't mean to discredit Styby by this btw, he has just been more tactically apt in those late attack sprint stages than Boom/Belkin and last year in the Ardennes he had a good excuse for his Levi Leipheimer imitation. Because yesterday Stybar didn't do anything till the sprint, whereas Boom, Vanmarcke and Mollema who all have a decent sprint normally were driving the break and attacking, where Styby was just following wheels. Again, just poor tactics by Belkin, nothing wrong with Stybarr's ride, but I'd like to see Styby forced to make the race.
 
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Echoes

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Cance > TheRest said:
Obviously the dutch roads are very dangerous when it's raining. The timeloss today was caused by a crash, also. Anyhow, he's exaggerating when he calls it "amateur parcours" on Twitter.
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No he isn't exaggerating.

Remember the first edition of the "Low Countries" edition, in 2005. First stage in line, Max Van Heeswijk winning ... on a speed bump! :D

And then the Ardennes stage, think it was the same year when the whole peloton was sent off-route. Jussi Veikkanen who was dropped from the peloton suddenly found himself ahead of it :p and these tools would stop the breakaway just because of their mistake. Bart Dockx was in that break and was p*ssed.

Not much has changed in 9 years. The Tour of the Netherlands was far better organized.
 
Akuryo

Akuryo

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Maaaaaaaarten said:
Dumoulin normally the favourite; everybody raced yesterday, not just Dumoulin. Boom could do very well too. TT is short enoug for him to do well. He seems to be in good shape. Wet roads will be good for Boom as well.

Just hoping Stybar is distanced a bit, though he probably won't be. I just hope he finally has to work a bit. Last year he also won a flat stage by sucking Boom's wheel in a late attack IIRC, just like yesterday and he did an epic wheelsuck on Dumoulin in the Ardennes stage. He was good on the Geraardsbergen stage though. I don't mean to discredit Styby by this btw, he has just been more tactically apt in those late attack sprint stages than Boom/Belkin and last year in the Ardennes he had a good excuse for his Levi Leipheimer imitation. Because yesterday Stybar didn't do anything till the sprint, whereas Boom, Vanmarcke and Mollema who all have a decent sprint normally were driving the break and attacking, where Styby was just following wheels. Again, just poor tactics by Belkin, nothing wrong with Stybarr's ride, but I'd like to see Styby forced to make the race.
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Well, that is the luxury when riding for OPQS. He always has someone like Boonen, Trentin etc. in a group behind as an excuse for not working in a break. That was one of the main reasons Meersman was able to win Tour de Wallonie. Stybar covered all late race attacks and other teams chased them down. So Quickstep did not have to work. It is simple but you need multiple strong riders on your squad.

Peter Sagan has the opposite problem. His team is almost everytime finished when the late attacks come and he always has to cover them himself. But nobody would work with him/drag him to the line. I'm curious to see how Tinkov will handle these situations in the classics next year.
 
Kwibus

Kwibus

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Mayomaniac said:
Nothing new, he's by far the biggest whiner and hypocite in the peleton....
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Remember the TdF, the cobbled stage? Before the stage he said the GC man shouldn't whine about it, because he has to climb mountains which doesn't suit him. After the stage in which he was quite invisible, only following until it was too late he said that it was too dangerous and that with the wet cobbles he couldn't really ride the cobbles like he nornally does.

So what he meant was " i suck at wet cobbles and now I have to cry"
I used to be a fan of him as well, but he's acting like a little b*tch lately.
 
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