Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres 2023, one day monument, April 2 (men's)

[Netserk]

Pogacar is in the second group.

Van der Poel too? Nope.

 

[MartinGT]

Danny Van Poppel DNF

 

[Filippo_3467]

van Poppel crashed out. Another really bad day for Bora in 2023 like most of them already were.

 

[Red Rick]

I have no idea what is happening, and I won't find out cause they have to let Gilbert talk again

 

[Didinho]

Van der Poel too?

Nope. He’s in the peloton.

 

[DNP-Old]

Van der Poel too?

No.

 

[Didinho]

Pogi smiling. He’s gonna stomp these cobbles to a normal road.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I like that Bahrain rain-kit colour scheme: black and light blue is very smart.

 

[KZD]

35 seconds, this is a pretty big gap, UAE needs to close this as soon as possible.

Mohorič also in the second group.

 

[Netserk]

Affini near the front.

 

[ice&fire]

Pogi smiling. He’s gonna stomp these cobbles to a normale road.

He's lucky that Soler isn't attacking at the front

 

[Volderke]

It’s indeed a big gap, but they allowed the cars to stay behind the peloton, so a bit easier to come back.

 

[Netserk]

Mohoric in the Pogi group.

 

[Samamba]

No reason to panic. Cars are there. Lots of favorites behind (Pedersen, Powless, Mohoric, ... too). They'll come back easily.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

A responsible Belgian: "10 am is too early to start drinking: I'll wait until the break is established."
Now a very thirsty Belgian...

 

[Didinho]

Already behind the cars. Now it’s time for Wout to be behind so we’re even with the big 3.

 

[Netserk]

Mostly headwind the next 20 km.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why do they start the race so early man. Not everybody get up at 7am and I have training to do, now I missed all the crosswind

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Chzhan in the asian jersey...which is a great jersey. nice to see it.

Fedorov should have the time trial one if you ever see him.

 

[Salvarani]

Wind making it super-hard

 

[Red Rick]

UAE aren't teammates when Pogacar isn't in the race

But when Pogacar is in the race he has 180 teammates

 

[MartinGT]

Looks like the break is done

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Why do they start the race so early man. Not everybody get up at 7am and I have training to do, now I missed all the crosswind

Didn't think we needed to explain that monuments are long on this forum but here we are.

Also, the women finish after the men which requires time to be built in.

 

[Filippo_3467]

At the moment I don't understand why the big teams just let a break go. Only the small teams are trying at the moment and no real danger riders.

 

[hayneplane]

Why do they start the race so early man. Not everybody get up at 7am and I have training to do, now I missed all the crosswind

You didn’t have to go training