G. P. Plouay 26.08.2012 WT

[ingsve]

Not as hard and long as the real classics but still nice to see EBH win a race that's 243km long.

 

[trevim]

What? I rate this even lower than the Canadian races or the Brabantse Pijl.

I forgot Canada. Still, another good result for him. Maybe next year he'll top10 somewhere in the Ardennes.

 

[cineteq]

What does Haussler have to do to win this year?

 

[ingsve]

What? I rate this even lower than the Canadian races or the Brabantse Pijl.

Below Brabantse Pilj for sure but I'm still not sure how to rate the canadian races. I think they still needs a few more years to really know their status.

 

[Ruudz0r]

1 Hagen
2 Costa
3 Haussler
4 Goss
5 Roelandts
6 Marcato
7 Nizzolo
8 Bozic
9 Dumoulin
10 Paolini

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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?

 

[velosiped]

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.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

who else fell down the stairs laughing at this?

Man, you are on fire today

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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

 

[dlwssonic]

this I hope is also a joke right? the race was 200 km long for christsake. and not hard at all either

around 230km actually.
But the race wasn't raced hard like it would in RVV or PR.

 

[burning]

this I hope is also a joke right? the race was 200 km long for christsake. and not hard at all either

27*9 is not equal to 200 I'd say

 

[hrotha]

That's roughly the distance at which he started having problems in the big classics this year. This is just proof of what we already knew: that he's a great rider for the semiclassics.

 

[maltiv]

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.

 

[velosiped]

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.

 

[jens_attacks]

enjoyed the race.tommy voeckler as always fun to watch and damn strong,rui costa too.
nice finish by eddy boss.kerrison,you have my approval to make him a beast for next year's spring classics.stannard,thomas,hagen...damn.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I wonder what Valverde thought of the result.

 

[Velo_vicar]

http://youtu.be/j_wSD_I9bKE

If anyone is interested here is a short vid from this race. I thought it was a great day and a good race for spectators as you could cover quite a lot of the course to watch the race from differnet places as well as amking it back for the finish.