Cofidis know how to play the game too, Piet Allegaert is about to drop the most dastardly racing schedule we've ever seen, from Turkmenistan to the Hebrides.
Cofidis know how to play the game too, Piet Allegaert is about to drop the most dastardly racing schedule we've ever seen, from Turkmenistan to the Hebrides.
Last year he was hit by a truck while training. Had two fractured vertebrae, broken collarbone and his face was affected too.Moschetti has a big scar on his cheek, chin
Hmmm...I didn't watch the whole thing, but watching the finale, I wondered if the race was less interesting because everyone was waiting until the end to attack.Thank God they changed the finish...
Previous versions have had very small groups reach the finish together, with a lot of attrition, which I prefer.
I guess that depends on how you characterize things. Would you call last year a bunch sprint? https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/nokere-koerse/2024/resultWhere did you get this from? Nokere was always some sort of bunch sprint.
I guess that depends on how you characterize things. Would you call last year a bunch sprint? https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/nokere-koerse/2024/result
Aside from the fact that, as @Samamba has already pointed out, the old finish was usually a sprint too, I would like to add that the group that broke away on the final Doorn was a more potent threat than what we usually see in the finale of this race and would probably have made it if Philipsen wasn't twice as fast on paper as the next-best sprinter in that group.Hmmm...I didn't watch the whole thing, but watching the finale, I wondered if the race was less interesting because everyone was waiting until the end to attack.
Previous versions have had very small groups reach the finish together, with a lot of attrition, which I prefer.
These gaps all came in the final kilometre, either from crashes or positioning being bad and giving upI guess that depends on how you characterize things. Would you call last year a bunch sprint? https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/nokere-koerse/2024/reresult
Just watched the race.
Big, wide, dangerous puncheur Waregemberg was just too bold a statement by the organizers.
So back to good old, narrow, cobbled and much safer Nokeredorpstraat finish next year
No honestly, my first eyes at the crash looking at Philipsen looked like a horror crash, and rewinding in slowmo looked even worse
I'll change my vote for M-SR winner, yet again.
Corresponds quite well to the state of affairs these yearsA horror crash? If that was a horror crash, there are fifty of them in a season...
Corresponds quite well to the state of affairs these years
I'm specifically thinking about the heli view, buttom picture with at first 2-3 riders crashing sideways in domino effect, the latter snapping Philipsen's rear wheel and specifically how he does a very sudden somersault head first straight into the asphalt at sprint speed. Having my eyes on Philipsen already, it looked really bad on the live signal at 1:1 time frame speed.
It's probably just me who has been fooled around here at my older days.It wasn't really at sprint speed, though. It was uphill and they didn't ride particularly fast. If they did, I could have agreed, but you can't call that a horror crash.