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trevim said:
Great effort from Rui Costa but EBH was the strongest and deserved to win. Still another great result for Rui and his first big result in a big classic. It's a nice signal for his monument ambitions.

who else fell down the stairs laughing at this?
 
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So I guess we can bury the speculations about him and longer races as his achilles.

The reasons why a young gun seldom wins the monuments is not the length per se; its because their terrain/surface is so demanding.
It takes time, experience and hardening.
 
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velosiped said:
So I guess we can bury the speculations about him and longer races as his achilles.

The reasons why a young gun seldom wins the monuments is not the length per se; its because their terrain/surface is so demanding.
It takes time, experience and hardening.

this I hope is also a joke right? the race was 200 km long for christsake. and not hard at all either
 
The race was 242 kilometers. EBH has won at that distance before though. It's when it gets close to 260 that he usually cracks.

Hopefully he can get one of the Canadian classics as well, in that case he'll somewhat have saved his season.
 
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maltiv said:
The race was 242 kilometers. EBH has won at that distance before though. It's when it gets close to 260 that he usually cracks.

Hopefully he can get one of the Canadian classics as well, in that case he'll somewhat have saved his season.


I'm pretty sure he'll just ride single-days rest of season.

Canada/worlds and maybe Bourges and Tours.

The last one would be a nice price to end the season with.
 

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