Ah, okay. Was a bit unsure about the spelling.
Looked like Philipsen won in Flanders. He did.
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Ah, okay. Was a bit unsure about the spelling.
Looked like Philipsen won in Flanders. He did.
But the contrapositive statement is absurd, and so trivially is the original statement (if I understood it right).
Bad luck for Sagan to have Steimle with him. Bora still getting no help
Bol slid out in the final corner, and a few others followed. Looked like the Uno-X guy was independant of Bol's crash, just... crashed as well.
Looked like that meant a lot to Steimle.
Looked like that meant a lot to Steimle.
Steimle was sitting on his wheel for the last 20 km and when the crash happened he just bolted first.
DQS, the only team where random riders win all the time
Really, it looked like Sagan had to correct his line and lost Steimle's wheel as a result.
He messed up the last corner a bit, but he still had the perfect position to win, especially when all the others crashed.
Looked like the road was really slippery there, with two independent crashes?
Steimle had a lot more speed coming out of the last corner.
But if he messed it up, that means he exits the bend at a slower pace than Steimle, and then he could have been prime Cavendish and still wouldn't have been able to close that gap again.
But a curve inside the final 200 metres in a stage that ends in a bunch sprint is probably not the best idea (even if I didn't complain about that back when Sagan won his stage in the Giro
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And QS gets stage win plus yellow with two different riders twice in a day in different countries.
I'm not sure. Taking that corner correctly looked like key to victory. Very little road left after that.
Just to rub salt in the wound, Steimle overtakes him on GC to go second
On the bright side, seeing Sagan shred the peloton on that climb was encouraging.
You guys are probably right, but I was just thinking there was no way he would mess that up when Steimle did a long leadout for no one.
I thought the same but didn't know about the bend. So he was not doing a lead-out, he knew it was necessary to be first going into that corner.
At least it wasn't as bad as the Tour de Suisse finish where Richeze won in 2016. That one was quite comical.But if he messed it up, that means he exits the bend at a slower pace than Steimle, and then he could have been prime Cavendish and still wouldn't have been able to close that gap again.
But a curve inside the final 200 metres in a stage that ends in a bunch sprint is probably not the best idea (even if I didn't complain about that back when Sagan won his stage in the Giro
Around 15 km before the final line, Sagan went for breakaway and only Steimle could follow him. However, he wasn´t working with Sagan, so eventually the breakaway had been caught. As a result of this, Sagan did not have the legs to outsprint Steimle in the final metres.
Was it Lutsenko who was on his wheel at the top of the climb? He had a tiny gap on Steimle until he hesitated.
Overall, it was a great stage to watch. I enjoyed it a lot. Always fun to see Sagan make the race interesting.
It´s totally possible. Not sure, but I think the whole breakaway started with Lutsenko pacing. Maybe later he decided that it would be much better for him to go with "poursuivants".
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