Ronde van Vlaanderen: April 7th, 2019

[MartinGT]

Why do the Eurosport commentators say that WVA and MVdP would prefer rain and mud? They have proven they are both competent on the road. They never say that 'G' or Wiggins etc would prefer boards and bankings. Fools.

 

[MartinGT]

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Lampaert wearing his team's No1 jersey. Do they really think other teams will believe that he is DQS's main man for the day? Or a double bluff? Or a token of respect for Belgian Champ's jersey?

Double bluff. Lampaert will attack and the big names won't react, because he's only their fourth man.

Think it's a nice touch by DQS for respect for the Belgium Champs jersey.

 

[AQETUYIOI]

Re:

Why do the Eurosport commentators say that WVA and MVdP would prefer rain and mud? They have proven they are both competent on the road. They never say that 'G' or Wiggins etc would prefer boards and bankings. Fools.

They have an upper hand on wet/muddy conditions, like Wiggins does poorly in the wet?

 

[MartinGT]

Re: Re:

Why do the Eurosport commentators say that WVA and MVdP would prefer rain and mud? They have proven they are both competent on the road. They never say that 'G' or Wiggins etc would prefer boards and bankings. Fools.

They have an upper hand on wet/muddy conditions, like Wiggins does poorly in the wet?

It's lazyness from them. Any easy whip. They have just mentioned how Terpstra was the first Dutch winner in x amount of years. Yet fail to mention the last Dutch winner was MVdP father. Lazyness.

 

[RedheadDane]

Re:

Why do the Eurosport commentators say that WVA and MVdP would prefer rain and mud? They have proven they are both competent on the road. They never say that 'G' or Wiggins etc would prefer boards and bankings. Fools.

To be fair, the chances for rain during RvV are… somewhat bigger than boards and bankings.

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Any help with a good live feed of the race please?

 

[fuiers]

Re:

Am I the only one with a bad signal?

No. The signal has been on/off in my end (Finland) pretty bad from the start.

 

[Simurgh]

Re:

Any help with a good live feed of the race please?

Try to have a go at tiz. Can't say if the stream is smooth at the moment or not though.

tiz-cycling.live/

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Re: Re:

Any help with a good live feed of the race please?

Try to have a go at tiz. Can't say if the stream is smooth at the moment or not though.

tiz-cycling.live/

Thank you.....I’ll give it a try!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re: Re:

Lampaert wearing his team's No1 jersey. Do they really think other teams will believe that he is DQS's main man for the day? Or a double bluff? Or a token of respect for Belgian Champ's jersey?

Double bluff. Lampaert will attack and the big names won't react, because he's only their fourth man.

Think it's a nice touch by DQS for respect for the Belgium Champs jersey.

I think it's a friendly reminder by Lefevre that Yves has certain responsibilities he needs to live up to.

 

[JackRabbitSlims]

Re: Re:

Any help with a good live feed of the race please?

Try to have a go at tiz. Can't say if the stream is smooth at the moment or not though.

tiz-cycling.live/

Wow! Great live feed off Tiz....thanks so much!

I’m in Uyuni, Bolivia (Cycle Touring) right now and wifi is a luxury....nice to wake up Sunday morning and be able to watch this live....cheers!!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Terpstra crash! Race seems over...

 

[Laplaz]

Definitely race over for him

 

[Hayabusa]

Yep that looks like a bad one. Hoping he's not too badly hurt and he recovers quickly.

 

[TomLPC]

Looks to be in trouble there, breathing/moving at least

 

[rick james]

Looked to be moving which is a good sign

 

[LPP68!]

That looked scrary for a minute, with closed eyes and not moving at all.

 

[ppanther92]

Off Topic: Jens Voigt is commenting the race on German Eurosport. Why? Just why? Can't stand this guy...

 

[TomLPC]

Not to go all think of the children on the situation, but lingering on someone motionless on the tarmac at 12.22, with respect to cycling history dosent seem to be the most tasteful of broadcasting practice. Roll some footage of him moving about fair enough but 12 different angles sensationalises it far too much for my liking.

 

[Lequack]

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Off Topic: Jens Voigt is commenting the race on German Eurosport. Why? Just why? Can't stand this guy...

How can you now like Jens Voigt. I wish he was commentating in English.

 

[Pharazon]

can anyone explain the significance of the white shorts that Matt Stevens was talking about?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re:

Not to go all think of the children on the situation, but lingering on someone motionless on the tarmac at 12.22, with respect to cycling history dosent seem to be the most tasteful of broadcasting practice. Roll some footage of him moving about fair enough but 12 different angles sensationalises it far too much for my liking.

Can't really agree here. They waited until he started moving. It's an important race fact, so they have to film it in the context of "former winner / favorite has crashed" and it took a while before there was confirmation it was Terpstra. Then he seems unconscious. If they cut away there, it seems they don't think it's important, and many people will just be even more woried, because the only thing they've seen is the fact that he fell and isn't moving.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re: Re:

Off Topic: Jens Voigt is commenting the race on German Eurosport. Why? Just why? Can't stand this guy...

How can you now like Jens Voigt. I wish he was commentating in English.

Shut Up Jens

 

[Valv.Piti]

Very easy Flanders so far it seems.. just inbetween Sky picks up the pace.

 

[Salvarani]

Signal is trash

Broadcast keep going out every other minute