Mar 27 2011: Gent - Wevelgem 210km

[auscyclefan94]

Am sure this race has started, anyone got a ticker feed?

Benson (cyclingnews) will be doing a ticker soon.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Not canc! The in-form sprinter/classics type rider.

I guess then you mean Goss.

I LOVE GOSS!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tuarts]

Hoping to get a chance to watch this. Don't really care who wins, interested to see how well Goss does though.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Hoping to get a chance to watch this. Don't really care who wins, interested to see how well Goss does though.

He will win.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Voeckler hurting the peloton
23 seconds for Thomas

Bram Schmitz and Romain Zingle follow him

 

[The Sheep]

Goss abandoned

Stopped at first feed, coughing up a lung. Need to be at my best the next 2 weekends. Disappointed but need to look at the bigger picture.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Goss abandoned

What a hard man.
Coughs up a lung this Sunday, back riding Flanders next!
Gotta love Google speak.

 

[movingtarget]

Can't see Boonen winnning this. I think Gilbert, Ballan and Goss will fight it out. The Swiss human motorbike to do the Flanders, Roubaix double.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Goss abandoned

I am heartbroken, poor Goss. No reason for me to stay up and watch now. It is just too sad.

 

[joy118118]

Gregor Brown
HTC team-mate Bak celebrates the birth of twins.

a bit off topic

 

[movingtarget]

Not much point Goss killing himself if he is sick. There are plenty of good races coming up but this one seemed to be the more suitable of the classics for him.

 

[El Pistolero]

Good luck I forgot Goss for the prediction game then.

Sporza already on for quite some time. But not the race, but race interviews and footage from criterium International and Harelbeke. Good stuff anyway.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Not much point Goss killing himself if he is sick. There are plenty of good races coming up but this one seemed to be the more suitable of the classics for him.

True, but this race had one very big advantage to it NO CANCELLARA!!!!!!

 

[movingtarget]

Yeah I think Goss was more suited to this course and Cancellara raced yesterday. Can't see Goss winning Flanders or Roubaix or outclimbing other favourites to win the Liege or Fleche. Maybe Amstel Gold race might be best for him now and even that will be very difficult for him.

 

[joy118118]

live stream begins

http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-5.php

 

[El Pistolero]

Jurgen van de Walle apparently paced the peloton for 2 hours. Average speed was around 52km/h.

They want to make the race really hard it seems.

 

[El Pistolero]

BMC have a killer team for G-W.

 

[The Sheep]

Boonen going for Cancellara's tactics?

 

[mombus]

Hey I'm watching this live... just turned it on... WHAT HAPPENED TO BOONEN?

 

[El Pistolero]

Hey I'm watching this live... just turned it on... WHAT HAPPENED TO BOONEN?

Stood still for 45 seconds because he had to wait for his team car to repair his bike. Or he got a new one, I don't know. I think he had a shifting gear problem.

 

[mombus]

ah... he looks like he might be a bit screwed

 

[spalco]

ah... he looks like he might be a bit screwed

I think he'll be ok. It was an awkward spot for a mechanical though, unlucky.

 

[Tuarts]

Ouch to those who had Goss in the Prediction game.

Be interesting to see if Cav can get over those climbs. Who in this race can tear it up aside from Boonen? Nuyens?

 

[killswitch]

From the live ticker:
#
14:38 CEST

Boonen is roughly 30km off the back of the bunch. Van Impe waits for him.
#
14:38 CEST

Boonen has made it back to the bunch. Cancellara came back from things like this yesterday. What can Boonen do?

 

[mombus]

wait a minute, is he back already? I can't tell what's going on