Three days of de Panne - 29th to 31st March

[wirral]

Non-starters on stage 3

Devolder, Pozzato, Sagan, Ballan, Paolini, Helminen, Dall'Antonia

 

[Roland Rat]

Sergent is a one trick pony. He can do a good short flat prologue and maybe a decent longer flat ITT, and that's it.

Give him a chance, he's still young. If one day given a comforting arm around the shoulders from Vaughters and a few Allen Lim rice cakes he might one day get 4th in the TdF. Then Greenedge can buy him for £2m.

 

[Roland Rat]

Apparently Stage 3a is live on Eurosport now.

 

[Boardslide]

Apparently Stage 3a is live on Eurosport now.

And 3b is on at 13.30 BST

 

[wirral]

Westra sitting up in the lead group of around 50. Looking very good for him.

 

[TeoSheva]

Westra sitting up in the lead group of around 50. Looking very good for him.

how many km left?

 

[Jamsque]

Oh man, I am going to subject myself to Kirby for the first time this year. 34km to go, seems to be only one serious group.

 

[stefrees]

As I'm on a train can anybody let me know who's in front group?

 

[theyoungest]

Give him a chance, he's still young. If one day given a comforting arm around the shoulders from Vaughters and a few Allen Lim rice cakes he might one day get 4th in the TdF. Then Greenedge can buy him for £2m.

Surely you mean Bruyneel's comforting arm.

 

[Echoes]

I hope for an top 10 result for Drucker.
He isn't bad in TT.

And won the prologue in the Flèche du sud. Go Jempy. Show 'em what a crosser is capable of !


About Terpstra, the win in the prologue of the Elektro is probably the result Taiwan got.

6th in the 3 Days ITT 2008 is a second one.

But I'm biased. I'm his biggest fan.

 

[Jamsque]

There have been some echelons already according to the ticker, as ever Kirby is not bothering to explain how the race got to this point and who is in the group.

 

[TeoSheva]

There have been some echelons already according to the ticker, as ever Kirby is not bothering to explain how the race got to this point and who is in the group.

WTF is Kirby?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Westra is going to be hard to beat for the overall. He looks not only the best TTer on paper but also the strongest rider in the race. Thought his biggest danger might be a weather lottery but the forecasts seem to indicate the rain will stay away. It will be very windy though - probably quite big time gaps

 

[search]

I've just spotted Roelandts, is Greipel there as well? Or for which reason is Omega leading the bunch?

Edit: okay, he is, according to Sporza

 

[Jamsque]

English Eurosport has two commentary teams, their A team is Dave Harmon and Sean Kelly and their B team is Carlton Kirby and Big Maggie Backstedt. Harmon is bad but bearable, Kirby is awful.

 

[wirral]

De Backer now virtual leader. Gained 2 sec in sprint.

 

[TeoSheva]

English Eurosport has two commentary teams, their A team is Dave Harmon and Sean Kelly and their B team is Carlton Kirby and Big Maggie Backstedt. Harmon is bad but bearable, Kirby is awful.

Finally I understand

 

[Jamsque]

Wiggo got dropped again today. He looked OK at Crit Int but either his form is bad or he just doesn't give a ****.

 

[TeoSheva]

Wiggo got dropped again today. He looked OK at Crit Int but either his form is bad or he just doesn't give a ****.

the debacle was on yesterday: maybe on this morning he's just saving energy for the afternoon

 

[Ferminal]

English Eurosport has two commentary teams, their A team is Dave Harmon and Sean Kelly and their B team is Carlton Kirby and Big Maggie Backstedt. Harmon is bad but bearable, Kirby is awful.

There are Sporza streams.

http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-5.php

 

[wirral]

The wind was very strong for the first 20 km but it seems to have weakened.

 

[Jamsque]

There are Sporza streams.

http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-5.php

Ferminal, you are a life saver. After Rai I think Sporza have my favourite commentary team.

Kerdalerda is on the attack with one other, they have 14 seconds.

[edit] The other is Boy Van Poppel.

CHUTE! Barry of Sky the worst hurt, Brammeier also went down but got right back up.

 

[Ferminal]

Bad crash for the pre-race favourite. The curse of Team Ground strikes again.

 

[wirral]

Barry's down!

 

[search]

As I'm on a train can anybody let me know who's in front group?

02 feillu
08 westra
13 brown
21 renshaw
26 degenkolb
31 greipel
32 roelandts
57 galimzyanov
67 henderson
75 guarnieri
92 vaitkus
102 quinziato
103 kristoff
111 chavanel, syl.
116 terpstra
121 keukeleire
135 ladagnous
141 casper
145 lemoine
152 de backer
171 chavanel, seb.
176 haddou
192 caethoven
211 van poppel

+ ~20 more