Paris-Roubaix 2012 - The Queen of the Classics (257.5km)

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Lars Boom is good. You heard it here

 

[burning]

Rain starting?

 

[Flamin]

Boonen has this.

 

[dlwssonic]

For gods sake.,

Either 3 Sky men have to ride, or 1 can attack and the rest sit on whilst BMC have to take a turn.

Not like BMC is gonna help out They could have killed off boonen.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Crap Sky tactics.

Kelly is calling this right. Flecha should have left Boonen hanging and let his boys keep the pace up. Rabo is hanging on. BOOOOOMMMMM

 

[Azabael]

Boom appears to be surprisingly good. I think he's been holding back considering the amount of kms left.

 

[goggalor]

EBH not struggling after all.

 

[Tyke1968]

RAIN!

10 char

 

[gerundium]

Boom is riding his CX bike for real?

 

[issoisso]

Rain starting?

Who will be the first to pit for wet tyres?

Wait, wrong sport

 

[search]

wah? taken wrong all day then, atleast not Valentin, guess it is Muryayev then

according to the official ticker it's Guarnieri

he did well in de Panne

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

EBH dropping?

No.


So Sky have nicely removed a lot of Chaff sitting on and still have a 3 on 1 to catch Tom whenever they want.

 

[dlwssonic]

Not really now Ballan has to work

Ballan is gonna wheelsuck big time.

 

[Trofinios]

Nope, EBH is still left. Phew!

 

[Gloin22]

Good Sky tactics... who said they were stupid

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Kelly is calling this right. Flecha should have left Boonen hanging and let his boys keep the pace up. Rabo is hanging on. BOOOOOMMMMM

Boonen is still hanging. Flecha just gave the rest of the team a break, forced Ballan to ride and dropped a load of hangers on.

 

[goggalor]

Hushovd in the Chavanel group. OPQS working to bring them back.

 

[dlwssonic]

Good Sky tactics... who said they were stupid

looked stupid when flecha was gonna solo.

 

[maltiv]

Come on Sky, race! Seriously...

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Boom is riding his CX bike for real?

Yep, he is.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Good Sky tactics... who said they were stupid

Lots of enthusiastic folk who forget that calling a race on TV is different to riding in, and that Sean Kelly is much better at the later than the former.

 

[gerundium]

Yep, he is.

yup just spotted the canti's.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

according to the official ticker it's Guarnieri

he did well in de Panne

nr 185? looked like 181 to me hm....
guess u are right

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Boom looking excellent

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Boonen is still hanging. Flecha just gave the rest of the team a break, forced Ballan to ride and dropped a load of hangers on.

Except I highly doubt they are going to catch Boonen this way. Gap keeps growing.