Liège - Bastogne - Liège : Sunday April 22th 201é

[spalco]

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm very happy with the result. Hopefully it was an exciting race. Did Gilbert crash or something?

 

[seldon71]

brilliant final

at first i thought it was done and Nibali had won. But I had a feeling all along that they were measuring the time towards the Gilbert group, instead of the 1st chasers (Iglisnky/Rodriguez).
I suspect Iglinsky was a lot closer than 43 seconds at the foot of Saint Nicolas, more like 25-35 seconds.

I measured the time gap between Nibali and Iglinsky in an early part of Saint Nicolas (orange marker on left side of road - maybe 50-100 meters after Max dropped J-Rod). At that point the gap was 26 seconds and I knew for certain that what they were showing in screen was crap.

I am little less certain (missed the count) at the top of hill, but I think it was 21 secs at that point...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm very happy with the result. Hopefully it was an exciting race. Did Gilbert crash or something?

Nah, he just blew up.

The race was pretty meh up until 25 to go save for the visual of Madrazo nearly breaking his teeth on the pavement trying to push Valverde up La Redoute after giving him his bike (The Don had a mechanical halfway up the climb), but from that point on it was absolutely great.

I measured the time gap between Nibali and Iglinsky in an early part of Saint Nicolas (orange marker on left side of road - maybe 50-100 meters after Max dropped J-Rod). At that point the gap was 26 seconds and I knew for certain that what they were showing in screen was crap.

As I noted before, they gave the timegap from Nibali to the chase group, then Iglinskiy and Rodríguez attacked out of it. At some point, for reasons beyond me, they switched the gap they were showing on screen to the gap from Nibali to the main group of chasers, and not to the nearest chasers (Iglinskiy and Rodríguez). Perhaps it's because they still felt Gilbert was the biggest threat to signpost, or maybe they didn't see Iglinskiy and Rodríguez as a threat worth noting, or maybe they just didn't have the screen graphics available to do the Sporza G1-G2-G3 visuals and tell us where both sets of people were. They kept noting the time back to the main group with Gasparotto, Vanendert et al until it was long since clear Iglinskiy was going to catch Nibbles.

 

[jens_attacks]

The mystery with Iglinsky is how he's not been more successful. At times he oozes talent. Strade Bianche, E3. What was the mountains stage in the Tour last year where he was the best in the breakaway ?

stage to galibier

he was uber strong that day.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Nah, he just blew up.

The race was pretty meh up until 25 to go save for the visual of Madrazo nearly breaking his teeth on the pavement trying to push Valverde up La Redoute after giving him his bike (The Don had a mechanical halfway up the climb), but from that point on it was absolutely great.

What? And spoil that enigmatic smile of his! That would have been catastrophic

 

[Red Rick]

Im not even old enough to drink beer. And my exams are around the corner. really sad, just looking forward to romandie.

What country are you from? I've got my exams around the corner and last week we had a party for people who do the exams and many people were drunk, one was stoned

 

[El Pistolero]

What country are you from? I've got my exams around the corner and last week we had a party for people who do the exams and many people were drunk, one was stoned

Singapore. Guess it's a Muslim country which would explain it.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

alp d'huez when contador attacked. he dropped back of the breakaway to wait for contador, pushing him back to the breakaway and dropped most of the riders by pushing the pace.

Looking back the stage I'm thinking of is the Galibier. He was in that break that got caught by Andy Schleck and he was still driving it on Went on to finish 11th. Roche finished next best of the original break and he was over a minute behind Iglinsky

Oh yes just seen the screenshot above

 

[Parrulo]

17 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0:02:11
65 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:05:45
DNQ Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team
DNQ Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team
DNQ Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team

Costa still the better movistar even tho he missed the first group after lá redoute where rojas and visconti where.

i wonder if he had a mechanical on la redoute or something like that. already asked his girl friend on facebook. he won the "sprint" for 17th place easily and the last images we had of him was him dropping frank while making ground on the roche aux faucons

 

[El Pistolero]

I saw Costa at the back of La Redoute I think.

So much for the Valverde hype I guess

 

[Parrulo]

I saw Costa at the back of La Redoute I think.

So much for the Valverde hype I guess

at the back as in "being dropped of the back" back or "being stupidly positioned at the back" back?

oh and indeed we may have outdone ourselves with the piti hype, but you will eat your words as he wins romandie

 

[Fetisoff]

Guess it's a Muslim country which would explain it.

Really????

 

[Peccio89]

Apparently Cunego had a dropped chain right on the Roche aux Faucoun, but said that he was feeling really good

 

[jens_attacks]

Alberto Contador ‏ @albertocontador Close
Enhorabuena Max!!!Grandisima victoria en Lieja.Congratulations Max!!!Greatest victory in Liege.

 

[El Pistolero]

Really????

Well Indonesia is a Muslim country and Singapore is on the same island archipello. Probably a mix of religions like Boedhism, Thaoism, Christianity, Islam, etc there as it has a lot of foreign influences.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

Alberto Contador ‏ @albertocontador Close
Enhorabuena Max!!!Grandisima victoria en Lieja.Congratulations Max!!!Greatest victory in Liege.

Hey, hey, hey Bertie, let's not get carried away.

What about 2010?.. Unless he doesn't count that because he hasn't actually seen that win being back in the group and securing Vino's chances.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

17 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0:02:11
65 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:05:45
DNQ Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team
DNQ Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team
DNQ Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team

Costa still the better movistar even tho he missed the first group after lá redoute where rojas and visconti where.

i wonder if he had a mechanical on la redoute or something like that. already asked his girl friend on facebook. he won the "sprint" for 17th place easily and the last images we had of him was him dropping frank while making ground on the roche aux faucons

No idea what happened to Visconti, but Rojas crashed, Madrazo was DQed for not following the racecourse (think he and Martínez took a shortcut like people do into Sanremo rather than ride the Poggio) and Valverde gave up the ghost after he couldn't get back on again after the mechanical.

I saw Costa at the back of La Redoute I think.

So much for the Valverde hype I guess

Not that I think he'd have been a major contender in any event, but we can't really tell given that a mechanical ruined his race.

A lot of the Valverde hype was optimistic based on the assumption that Gilbert would stomp everybody, and Valverde was a major contender who was absent last year, hence the feeling that he might be the only straw we had to clutch at for someone to challenge Gilbert. In the end, we didn't need that straw, since Gilbert wasn't in the same kind of untouchable shape.

Ally Vally's still a very good rider, he just needs some more time to settle in again. His explosive start to the season raised our expectations a bit too high, I fear.

 

[Arnout]

Lol you know where Singapore is? Located on on mainland Asia. I know some people from Singapore and let me tell you, they're not muslim and nor is Singapore itself.

 

[maltiv]

So in a little more than one year, we've had those monument winners: Goss, Nuyens, Vansummeren, Zaugg, Gerrans and Iglinskij. Who'd have thought? Certainly seems like we get a surprise winner more often than not nowadays.

 

[Parrulo]

So in a little more than one year, we've had those monument winners: Goss, Nuyens, Vansummeren, Zaugg, Gerrans and Iglinskij. Who'd have thought? Certainly seems like we get a surprise winner more often than not nowadays.

in the last year we have had a surprise winner for every single one of the five monuments, weird

 

[Fetisoff]

Lol you know where Singapore is? Located on on mainland Asia. I know some people from Singapore and let me tell you, they're not muslim and nor is Singapore itself.

Well, I was trying not to be too ****-ish and let Pistoleto correct himself.
Maybe he got thrown off by their flag, which looks like one of a muslim country. But yeah, mostly buddhism and christianity in Singapour, I think.

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol you know where Singapore is? Located on on mainland Asia. I know some people from Singapore and let me tell you, they're not muslim and nor is Singapore itself.

15% is Muslim, just looked up. Second biggest religion of the country

Het land beslaat een groep van in totaal 63 eilanden die van Indonesië wordt gescheiden door de Straat Singapore en van Maleisië door de Straat Johore.

Like I said, I took a guess, pretty good one at that.

 

[Arnout]

15% is Muslim, just looked up.

So that's a muslim country then? Malaysia is and Indonesia is and Singapore is incredibly international, so naturally there will be lots of different religions, but the biggest are christianity first and then Buddhism I think.

 

[El Pistolero]

I never said it was a Muslim country, I said I guessed.

Religie
Het land kent een veelheid aan godsdiensten[1]:
boeddhisme (42,5%)
islam (14,9%; voornamelijk etnische Maleisiërs)
christendom (14,6%)
taoïsme (8,5%; voornamelijk etnische Chinezen)
hindoeïsme (4%; voornamelijk etnische Indiërs)
overig (0,7%)
geen religie (14,8%).

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Well Indonesia is a Muslim country and Singapore is on the same island archipello. Probably a mix of religions like Boedhism, Thaoism, Christianity, Islam, etc there as it has a lot of foreign influences.

lol @ you. you never cease to amaze me with idiotic posts northern germany economy >>>> south germany economy was hilarious and now you call singapore a muslimcountry

and oh yeah. where was gilbert today?

pls continue on. you are a good comic relief here