Gent - Wevelgem: March 31st, 2019

[Salvarani]

The race gonna be brutal, I love it

 

[Robert5091]

Chapeau to Magnus Backstedt's daughter Zoë for winning the U-17's race - wonder if he's doing Eurosport commentating today.

 

[DNP-Old]

Quinn Simmons beats Askey in the junior race.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Quinn Simmons beats Askey in the junior race.

Men?
So we got the U17 women finished, and the U19 men?
Why aren't they all being shown live? Surely we can keep track of seven races at once!

 

[DNP-Old]

Echelons in the men's race. Sagan, Ackermann, Selig, Declercq, Trentin, Van Aert, Wynants, Teunissen, Van Der Hoorn, Van Poppel, Rowe, Bol, Degenkolb, Stuyven, Pedersen, Theuns, Gaviria, Van der Poel, Van Schip, Terpstra is in the first group.

Quick-step messed up. Only Declerq is there.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gap is 30 seconds.

 

[Laplaz]

Sounds great. Unfortunately no live pictures yet

 

[Valv.Piti]

Oh well, Im heading to work now. Bye Catalunya and G-W. Hate missing sundays like these.

Could be worse the many next sundays tho.

 

[tobydawq]

Insane group. But very, very early in the race. It seems a bit unrealistic that they will last. Who is missing? Deceuninck*, Greg, EF boys.

*Please don't tell me that Tim Declercq is laughing his butt off right now...

 

[Robert5091]

That's some group but it can n't surely last long?

 

[DNP-Old]

The second group has split as well and the third is at 1:10. Even if group 1 and 2 come back together, there’s only like 80 riders left.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gap between group 1 and 2 has increased to 50 seconds.

 

[MartinGT]

Any news on the U23 mens?

 

[tomorrow]

any idea who orchestrated the split? It seems it wasn't bora, because then there would be Oss and Bodnar in the group. Trek maybe? They basically have their top guys there

EDIT: ok, so according to CN ticker, it's the Jumbo guys who caught quicksteppers napping, they have pretty impresive lineup too there. Sagan vs. WVA vs. Degenkolb head to head, that could be nice finale

 

[repre]

Re:

Gap between group 1 and 2 has increased to 50 seconds.

Wow, sounds like a great race without all QS boys)))

 

[DNP-Old]

Re:

any idea who orchestrated the split? It seems it wasn't bora, because then there would be Oss and Bodnar in the group. Trek maybe? They basically have their top guys there

Jumbo

 

[Salvarani]

Re:

The second group has split as well and the third is at 1:10. Even if group 1 and 2 come back together, there’s only like 80 riders left.

Sweet, and if the second group wanna come back they gonna have to spend a lot of energy and put in a shift.

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

any idea who orchestrated the split? It seems it wasn't bora, because then there would be Oss and Bodnar in the group. Trek maybe? They basically have their top guys there

Maybe Jumbo-Visma. They have five men in front and are the most well-represented.

 

[DNP-Old]

Van Poppel punctered.

 

[tomorrow]

why the hell have we no pictures, I have no problem if the whole race is covered in the tv, but they could have at least moto footage placed online exactly for this reason, that for once, we have some action early

 

[Robert5091]

QS must be hoping to reel in the break with the help of the headwinds.

 

[Robert5091]

Whoever is doing the CN Catalunya live webpage has GW race updates too in the reporting - confusing!

 

[tobydawq]

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QS must be hoping to reel in the break with the help of the headwinds.

The wind blows against the peloton as well.

 

[Laplaz]

54 km in the second hour, holy s***!

 

[tomorrow]

Re:

54 km in the second hour, holy s***!

well, after this racing, even if it comes back together, we will not have a sprint in the end, that's for sure. The chase groups will have to be flying over the hills, all of them.