There’s Laporte again showing his greatness by pushing WVA forward so he could win. When Laporte retires other riders will find out how hard it is to win without him.Wout: "Haha, go ahead, you win"
Laporte: "Haha, no, you go ahead and win"
He is fresher than last year...not necessarily stronger. He isn't racing as much so he's able to be fresh and taper properly for his big targets. If you are motivated and have a good training plan, you can get fit better training versus racing. People who need racing to get fit just aren't motivated to push themselves hard enough in training on certain days.
Pretty impressive.
He looked so much stronger than Laporte at the end of Harelbeke the other day but then the opposite happened today, was this just positioning or a bad day?
I wish he wouldn't deny to sprint for a placement so often. Find it bordering on distasteful at this point.
I think the plan was to let somebody else go for it, and manage his own energy reserves. E3 was more of a target than today's race, and of course the next two weekends are huge.
Well, JV couldn’t very well chase down Laporte, so Wout was a bit at the mercy of other teams. I thought he looked as strong as anybody today, too.
He was stronger on Kemmelberg today compared to Laporte then he was on Paterberg on Friday. Poor positiong cost him a few seconds, but still I don't think he would have stayed clear for the whole distance. It would have been to many men chasing him.
Yep, I can see that. RVV is usually about being the strongest rider, and right now I think Pog very well might be as strong as any of the classic specialists save for the two Vans.
Yar, forgot about that! I don't think it changes too much, as I don't think this race was a massive target for him and JV wanted to distribute the possibility of wins to other people in the team. Laporte got away with the break, and they certainly wanted to give him his own chance.
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