Etoile de Bess?ges (2.1), 04.02 - 08.02 2015

[LaFlorecita]

looking good now, gap up to 1'54" with 61 to go

 

[LaFlorecita]

More echelons?

Break
1'27" first echelon
1'45" peloton

 

[LaFlorecita]

25 riders at 1'10" from the 27 riders on the front

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

More echelons. There's a 25 men counter attack/front echelon from the peloton now 1'10 to the front group.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

composition of the counter attack

Cousin, Gautier (Team Europcar), Pinot, Reza, Sarreau (FDJ), Daniel, Latour (AG2R), Jungels, (Trek), Boeckmans, Monfort, Ligthart (Lotto), Joeaar, Vanbilsen (Cofidis), Quintero (Colombia), Chevalier, Demoiti? (Wallonie-Bruxelles), Leukemans (Wanty), Jakin (Auber 93), Theuns (Topsport), Antomarchi, Planckaert (Roubaix), Groenewegen (Roompot), El Fares, Giraud (Marseille 13-KTM) et Sinner (Arm?e de Terre)

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Strong group!

 

[Wallenquist]

composition of the counter attack

Cousin, Gautier (Team Europcar), Pinot, Reza, Sarreau (FDJ), Daniel, Latour (AG2R), Jungels, (Trek), Boeckmans, Monfort, Ligthart (Lotto), Joeaar, Vanbilsen (Cofidis), Quintero (Colombia), Chevalier, Demoiti? (Wallonie-Bruxelles), Leukemans (Wanty), Jakin (Auber 93), Theuns (Topsport), Antomarchi, Planckaert (Roubaix), Groenewegen (Roompot), El Fares, Giraud (Marseille 13-KTM) et Sinner (Arm?e de Terre)

They will catch the leaders but i doubt peleton will brought them back. So we have around 45 guys for GC. Big fail by CCC again, was working on front and when big guys went for it they were left behind again. Colombia at least managed to add Quintero in the counter attack.

 

[LaFlorecita]

En t?te : Bryan Coquard (Team Europcar), Steve Morabito, Arnaud Courteille (FDJ), Alexis Gougeard (AG2R La Mondiale), Giacomo Nizzolo, Marco Coledan (Trek Factory Racing), Pello Bilbao, Miguel Angel Benito (Caja Rural), Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal), Michael Van Staeyen, Anthony Turgis, Lo?c Chetout, Christophe Laporte (Cofidis), Marco Marcato, Roy Jans (Wanty-Groupe Gobert), Jonathan Hivert, Romain Feillu (Bretagne-S?ch? Environnement), Antoine Warnier (Wallonie-Bruxelles), Bert Van Lerberghe, Floris De Tier, Sander Helven (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise), Brian Van Goethem (Team Roompot), Evaldas Siskevicius, Alexandre Blain, R?my Di Gregorio, Julien Loubet (Team Marseille 13-KTM) et Julien Duval (Arm?e de Terre)

+ 45' J?r?me Cousin, Cyril Gautier (Team Europcar), Thibaut Pinot, K?vin Reza, Marc Sarreau (FDJ), Maxime Daniel, Pierre Latour (AG2R), Bob Jungels, (Trek), Kris Boeckmans, Maxime Monfort, Pim Ligthart (Lotto), Gert Joeaar, Kenneth Vanbilsen (Cofidis), Carlos Quintero (Colombia), Olivier Chevalier, Antoine Demoiti? (Wallonie-Bruxelles), Bj?rn Leukemans (Wanty), Alo Jakin (Auber 93), Dylan Theuns (Topsport), Julien Antomarchi, Baptiste Planckaert (Roubaix), Dylan Groenewegen (Roompot), Julien El Fares, Benjamin Giraud (Marseille 13-KTM) et Benoit Sinner (Arm?e de Terre).

+ 1'25 Peloton

with 40 to go

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

The peloton is now headed by AG2R and it's gaining a little bit of ground.......

Second group still at 46 secs and the peloton is only at 1'18 now.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

whoops... second group at 28 seconds now, peloton still at 1'18

 

[LaFlorecita]

The peloton is now headed by AG2R and it's gaining a little bit of ground.......

Second group still at 46 secs and the peloton is only at 1'18 now.

28 and 1'18 now

edit:

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Gougeard, Siskevicius et Coledan attacking

at 8 seconds the two front groups merged

peloton at 1'10

 

[del1962]

Second group have caught the break except 3 in new attack, peloton about a minute behind main front group,

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

peloton now at 1'30'' with less than 20km to go. It's done for them I guess.

(fortunately all four riders from my cq game team made the front group)

 

[LaFlorecita]

(fortunately all four riders from my cq game team made the front group)

Was hoping for Hivert to get some time on Jungels for the ITT

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

peloton at 1'45 now

Apparently it's raining attacks in the front group, but if I understand it correctly a group of 9 riders bridged to the three attackers. There's a group of 12 with a 20 secs gap now.

EDIT: Yes the group of 12 is Gautier, Courteille, Gougeard, Coledan, Vanendert, Boeckmans, Ligthart, Chetout, Helven, Lietaer, Van Goethem, Siskevicius et Duval.

EDIT except it's 13 and they've got 35 seconds now!

 

[LaFlorecita]

last lap (6.6km) for the front group

 

[Bushman]

Just hoping Boeckmans won't win, should they stay away. Gautier from a late attack.

Edit: Lotto will probably control it. Boeckmans looks the favourite, maybe Siskevicius or Coledan kan surprise.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

looks like they're going to make it.

Pim Ligthart solo attack!

 

[LosBrolin]

Ligthart attacked?

edit. superslow

 

[LaFlorecita]

Just hoping Boeckmans won't win, should they stay away. Gautier from a late attack.

Edit: Lotto will probably control it. Boeckmans looks the favourite, maybe Siskevicius or Coledan kan surprise.

Boeckmans won

 

[Dazed and Confused]

140km of proper racing. Congrats to Kris.

Now awaiting the gaps and hopefully an extended highlight package on the tube.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

yep, looks like it was an awesome race. Good for Lotto that they got several up ahead and played it well.

 

[Bushman]

Boeckmans won

Yes, he was the obvious favourite

It's not that I dislike him though, he was just the obvious pick and a bit of a boring rider so I was hoping for a surprise.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

1. Kris Boeckmans (Lotto-Soudal)
2. Edward Theuns (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise)
3. Marco Coledan (Trek Factory Racing)
4. Cyril Gautier (Team Europcar)
5. Julien Duval (Arm?e de Terre)
6. Evaldas Siskevicius (Marseille 13-KTM)
7. Arnaud Courteille (FDJ)
8. Alexis Gougeard (AG2R-La Mondiale)
9. Loic Chetout (Cofidis)
10. Brian Van Goethem (Roompot)