That kind of stuff is just lame sports psychology, of course there was pressure, why did you think they led the chase for most of the race?stefrees said:
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dimspace said:Good team spirit, and spot on DSing by sunderland.
Downing, sutton and stannard worked their butts off for the first half of the race keeping the pressure up, protecting ebh and flecha, downing especially was a monster.
When flecha punctured hayman was right by his side ready with a wheel, unlike boonens teammates when he punctured, maybe QS instead of taking goes at attacking should have supported Tom, Chavenel could have supported rather than attacking. Sky then kept flecha and ebh rested for the end.
Good team spirit, excellent tactics. but its easier to have good team spirit when youre winning.
Little Details..
I dont think sky so much got it right, as quickstep and a few others got it very wrong.
Thanks for the video link dim, maybe tomorrow I'll go straight to that page so I don't have to read who won.
Haussler got caught, then kind of lead out by EBH, Farrar looked quick.
Well done to Flecha and Sky, maybe it's time to jump on the bandwagon?
Hats off to Ferrar, I think he was the big surprise of the day. I certainly didnt even consider him for contention. In fact, like most people i didnt even know he was in that lead group.
craig1985 said:
Flecha didn't have bad luck. The other riders who he caused to crash had bad luck!
dimspace said:Good team spirit, and spot on DSing by sunderland.
Downing, sutton and stannard worked their butts off for the first half of the race keeping the pressure up, protecting ebh and flecha, downing especially was a monster.
When flecha punctured hayman was right by his side ready with a wheel, unlike boonens teammates when he punctured, maybe QS instead of taking goes at attacking should have supported Tom, Chavenel could have supported rather than attacking. Sky then kept flecha and ebh rested for the end.
Good team spirit, excellent tactics. but its easier to have good team spirit when youre winning.
Little Details..
I dont think sky so much got it right, as quickstep and a few others got it very wrong.
My comment was meant with sarcasm, Dim... Sky have been very impressive! BMC were pretty dismal and QS weren't great either but at least showed themselves a bit.
18th Schar (came home in Farrar's group)+18
27th burghardt +26
60th Kroon 3:50
67th Hincapie 4:59
68th ballan 4:59
Hopefully a much better peformance in Kuurne but ballan isn't riding kuurne.
happy for flecha, suprised by farrar and haussler is looking good for RVV.
zapata said:
Not intentionally but I felt he wrecked the race personally and his crash was bad luck for everyone else excpet boonen. Boonen basically rode away into the sunset. I would of preferred an attacking finish right down to the wire.
Flecha crashed, it was bad luck, not least for himself. Crashes happen. Especially in Paris-Roubaix.
zapata said:
Still, he screwed the race up which would of been an exciting thrilling finish! Too be honest I felt robbed after staying up till 2:30am in the morn to watch that race.
auscyclefan94 said:
I really wanted Pozzato to bridge the gap up to him. Although if Pozzato did, he would had to attack Boonen straight away to have stood a chance.
You can get the race from cyclingtorrents. It's in Dutch BTW, but you know what is going and who is who anyway.
I thought it beautiful that Flecha partially dedicated the race to Frankie VDB...moving stuff...
In Flanders, is their a slight variation in how words are pronounced when people speak Dutch (since from what I understand, Flemish is a dialect)? Because I have listened to Dutch speaking to each other in Dutch, and then listening to the commentary on Sporza, and there seems to me, that the accents are a little different. Or maybe they are speaking in Flemish.
craig1985 said:
It's just an accent, same words. Flemish is a bit softer (zachte G), people from the south of Holland talk a lot like that to.
Sounds way more pleasant than most Dutch accents.
dimspace said:Good team spirit, and spot on DSing by sunderland.
Downing, sutton and stannard worked their butts off for the first half of the race keeping the pressure up, protecting ebh and flecha, downing especially was a monster.
When flecha punctured hayman was right by his side ready with a wheel, unlike boonens teammates when he punctured, maybe QS instead of taking goes at attacking should have supported Tom, Chavenel could have supported rather than attacking. Sky then kept flecha and ebh rested for the end.
Good team spirit, excellent tactics. but its easier to have good team spirit when youre winning.
Little Details..
I dont think sky so much got it right, as quickstep and a few others got it very wrong.
What no premiere league analogy? Your losing your touch mate
How about this, aw those brits they sure can pay the best to play for them but....
Seriously, great job and about time he won one of the big ones.
Only just saw the race. Very nice to see Flecha win something again after so many years
He was quite strong, too. Let's see if he hasn't peaked too early.
He was quite strong, too. Let's see if he hasn't peaked too early.
Standard Dutch vs. Flemish is comparable to British English vs. American English: same language, different accent, and occasionally different words.craig1985 said:
I was there too!
Here are my bits and pieces from the Omloop (the Muur and the Molenberg):
http://www.mikepadgett.com/editorial/omloop-het-nieuwsblad/
KBK (Oude Kwaremont) - totally horrendous conditions:
http://www.mikepadgett.com/editorial/kuurne-brussel-kuurne/
Thanks to everyone on this thread for their advice!
Here are my bits and pieces from the Omloop (the Muur and the Molenberg):
http://www.mikepadgett.com/editorial/omloop-het-nieuwsblad/
KBK (Oude Kwaremont) - totally horrendous conditions:
http://www.mikepadgett.com/editorial/kuurne-brussel-kuurne/
Thanks to everyone on this thread for their advice!
OMFG. It looked brutal. I only saw it on TV.
Do you know approximately how many riders were left at Kwaremont. At that point the peloton could have chased the lead group down, had they not been so lazy. Pff. Abandoning the race just because of a little rain and wind.
Do you know approximately how many riders were left at Kwaremont. At that point the peloton could have chased the lead group down, had they not been so lazy. Pff. Abandoning the race just because of a little rain and wind.
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