March 27-29: 36th KBC Driedaagse van De Panne - Koksijde (2.HC)

[wirral]

If anyone should wonder, Kristoff is a terrible TT'er. I don't think he has ever been training on his TT bike.

"You can do it, man."

 

[Mellow Velo]

BMC is the new Rabobank? Kristoff leaves the team and lo and behold, he wins a race!

Van Hummel his old, super ugly self again in the sprint. If only he could turn all that lateral energy into forward movement...

Damn, I was about to post the same thing!
Sacha Modolo one of the riders that came down according to Rai.
Not sure if Demare was the FDJ rider.

As a sprint, at bit of a one sided non-event.
Not exactly your who's who of sprinting.

 

[Kazistuta]

The Danish commentators said it was Demare - and with Huta and Haddou in the top10 it could very well be true.

Finally TOAK delivered, good on him!

Now for the deciding time trial in two hours.....

 

[auscyclefan94]

I know some people are going to be talking some smack about me on here about TGAK so I'll just say that you are allowed to open fire on me!

Kristoff is absolutely useless without a train. He can't position himself. Even when he occasionally gets into a good position he'll be exhausted from the effort. BMC never had anyone decent to assist him.

But with a HTC-like train, as we saw Katusha pulling of today, he's a top sprinter for sure.

That is true. He can't position for crap without a leadout but when he does get it right (which is rare) he is very quick.

BMC is the new Rabobank? Kristoff leaves the team and lo and behold, he wins a race!

Van Hummel his old, super ugly self again in the sprint. If only he could turn all that lateral energy into forward movement...

He won one race. At BMC last year he won a race and had multiple podiums so he hasn't proven that theory yet!

 

[LaFlorecita]

I come home and guess what's waiting for me? MOAR POINTS! MWUAHAHA!

 

[boomcie]

I come home and guess what's waiting for me?

A creepy old man with a unicorn tattooed on his chest?

 

[Kazistuta]

I know some people are going to be talking some smack about me on here about TGAK so I'll just say that you are allowed to open fire on me!That is true. He can't position for crap without a leadout but when he does get it right (which is rare) he is very quick.




He won one race. At BMC last year he won a race and had multiple podiums so he hasn't proven that theory yet!

OK, ACF - you're walking right into this one

The only race Kristoff won in two years at BMC was the Norwegian road race (oh wait, is there any other BMC riders there???) and got six podiums besides that - he just got a win and a podium (and a fourth place) in 1½ day with the support of Katusha.... We're still just a around 1/3 into the cycling season.

Btw. who is BMC's best (most promising) sprinter now, disregarding Thor? Do they have another "amazing talent" like TOAK???

 

[LaFlorecita]

A creepy old man with a unicorn tattooed on his chest?

Try again, you're close.

 

[boomcie]

Try again, you're close.

A creepy old unicorn with an old man tattooed on its chest?

 

[search]

The Danish commentators said it was Demare - and with Huta and Haddou in the top10 it could very well be true.

Haddou is riding for Europcar so that's not much of an indicator, but according to the result is must have been Demare who did hit the deck

156 Preben VAN HECKE Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 00:02:01
157 Hugo HOULE Team Spidertech Powered by C10 00:00:00
158 William BONNET FDJ-BigMat 00:03:02
159 Alfredo BALLONI Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 00:00:00
160 Roger KLUGE Project 1t4i 00:00:00
161 Sacha MODOLO Colnago - CSF Inox 00:00:00
162 Arnaud DEMARE FDJ-BigMat 00:00:00
163 Davide VIGANO Lampre - ISD 00:00:00
164 Markus EICHLER Team NetApp 00:00:00

 

[Zam_Olyas]

I come home and guess what's waiting for me? MOAR POINTS! MWUAHAHA!

This guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua28ArOg8dA&feature=related

start at min 0:43

 

[Kazistuta]

Haddou is riding for Europcar so that's not much of an indicator, but according to the result is must have been Demare who did hit the deck

Oh yeah....for some reason I mixed him up wth Bouhanni.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

FJD twitter confirms it was Demare. But he should be ok.
Arnaud Démare est tombé dans le final : ecchymoses aux fesses et au tibia. Mais ça va.

 

[theyoungest]

A creepy old man with a unicorn tattooed on his chest?

Alberto Contador has a unicorn tattoo?

 

[Machu Picchu]

I come home and guess what's waiting for me?

 

[ingsve]

If anyone should wonder, Kristoff is a terrible TT'er. I don't think he has ever been training on his TT bike.

I wouldn't be so quick to call him terrible. Completely untested would probably be a better word. Like he said after the win, he's never really ridden an ITT on max effort before so who knows. Sprinters can usually pull out pretty decent ITTs at time though this one is perhaps a little too long for that to come into play.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Alberto Contador has a unicorn tattoo?

Alberto Contador is a creepy old man?

 

[LaFlorecita]

I wouldn't be so quick to call him terrible. Completely untested would probably be a better word. Like he said after the win, he's never really ridden an ITT on max effort before so who knows. Sprinters can usually pull out pretty decent ITTs at time though this one is perhaps a little too long for that to come into play.

I hope he can pull off a decent result.

 

[boomcie]

Alberto Contador is a creepy old man?

Nah, I wouldn't go so far as to call him a man.

 

[TeoSheva]

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2 77 ITA19870814 GUARNIERI Jacopo AST ITA 11h47'49" 06"
3 92 POL19850307 BODNAR Maciej LIQ POL 11h47'50" 07"
4 94 ITA19850218 SABATINI Fabio LIQ ITA 11h47'51" 08"
5 81 FRA19830906 CHAINEL Steve FDJ FRA 11h47'53" 10"
6 136 ITA19890131 FAVILLI Elia FAR ITA 11h47'55" 12"
7 86 BLR19831129 HUTAROVICH Yauheni FDJ BLR ' ' ' '
8 165 BEL19900419 VAN ASBROECK Tom TSV BEL ' ' ' '
9 191 FRA19840411 TURGOT Sébastien EUC FRA ' ' ' '
10 188 LTU19880408 JUODVALKIS Egidijus LAN LTU ' ' ' '
11 72 KAZ19840512 IGLINSKIY Valentin AST KAZ ' ' ' '
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13 178 BEL19780826 VAN LANDSCHOOT James ACC BEL ' ' ' '
14 104 BEL19840402 DE BACKER Bert PRO BEL ' ' ' '
15 135 ITA19860605 DE NEGRI Pier Paolo FAR ITA ' ' ' '
16 145 GER19870423 SEUBERT Timon APP GER ' ' ' '
17 61 GER19740104 HONDO Danilo LAM GER ' ' ' '
18 21 FRA19790630 CHAVANEL Sylvain OPQ FRA ' ' ' '
19 53 BEL19860308 VANTOMME Maxime KAT BEL ' ' ' '
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21 12 GER19820430 SIEBERG Marcel LTB GER ' ' ' '
22 197 FRA19841126 JEROME Vincent EUC FRA ' ' ' '
23 97 ITA19840716 MARANGONI Alan LIQ ITA ' ' ' '
24 2 NZL19880708 SERGENT Jesse RNT NZL ' ' ' '
25 174 BEL19770717 HOSTE Leif ACC BEL ' ' ' '
26 108 NED19850515 STAMSNIJDER Tom PRO NED ' ' ' '
27 148 SUI19850822 HOLLENSTEIN Reto APP SUI ' ' ' '
28 41 BEL19790829 DEVOLDER Stijn VCD BEL ' ' ' '
29 52 RUS19850507 IGNATYEV Mikhail KAT RUS ' ' ' '
30 4 BEL19860608 HERMANS Ben RNT BEL ' ' ' '
31 162 BEL19860606 JACOBS Pieter TSV BEL ' ' ' '
32 71 KAZ19810222 BAZAYEV Assan AST KAZ ' ' ' '
33 134 ITA19830629 ASCANI Luca FAR ITA ' ' ' '
34 23 NED19840518 TERPSTRA Niki OPQ NED ' ' ' '
35 185 NED19840119 BELLEMAKERS Dirk LAN NED ' ' ' '
36 75 ITA19870117 PONZI Simone AST ITA ' ' ' '
37 164 BEL19890321 DECLERCQ Tim TSV BEL ' ' ' '
38 7 ESP19800205 IRIZAR ARRANBURU Markel RNT ESP ' ' ' '
39 95 USA19830131 KING Edward LIQ USA ' ' ' '
40 198 CAN19871126 VEILLEUX David EUC CAN ' ' ' '
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43 35 CAN19770509 TUFT Svein GEC CAN ' ' '

these guys will ride the ITT for the victory

Westra and Durbridge the most favorite, then Sergent, Chavanel and Tuft...

EDIT: also Bodnar is a good pick

 

[LaFlorecita]

When will the TT start?

 

[TeoSheva]

When will the TT start?

in half an hour

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=49390

 

[LaFlorecita]

in half an hour

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=49390

Okay thanks.

 

[Fetisoff]

Damnit. I missed TGAK's first win for Katusha... Oh well, Ignatyev will rip the field in the Time Trial to take the overall (Yep, you heard it here first), and I WILL be there to witness it.

But seriously though, I'll go with Westra

 

[will10]

Sergent - Durbridge - Westra is my prediction. Although I hope to see Leif roll back the clock to 2006 and take stage + GC