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

[Tuarts]

Yeh, but the picture quality of DD is superb.

Yeah and its extremely smooth compared to streams! Thanks for all the links about it.

 

[Tuarts]

Nice to see Brammier and the Irish nat jersey

 

[The Sheep]

Van Emden doesn't look very good. Collarbone?

No it was his hip

 

[Jamsque]

replay...carlton "no nothing" kirby doing your head in???

I have managed to avoid Kirby all year so far!

I have a standing policy of trying to watch races in their local language (or close to it. That means watching all of the cobbled season on Sporza. I don't speak the language but it's pretty easy to understand most of what is going on, and I think it adds a flavour to the race.

I have it on mute occasionally because I am at work.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Gusev has attacked

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Does DD have any commentary (in any language) with it? If it does, I can't get the damn sound to work.

Edited to add: I am a moron. Clicking actually on the speaker symbol turned the sound on!

 

[nvpacchi]

Gusev has attacked

He looks at ease right now. Certainly motivated today

 

[The Hitch]

Greipels not that bad a tter, he won the TOur of Turkey tt didnt he, short though it may have been.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Grabsch attack

 

[Jamsque]

Greipel does seem to love getting in these mid-race moves, but I can't think of a time it has worked out for him.

 

[The Sheep]

Matthews with Grabsch

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Greipel does seem to love getting in these mid-race moves, but I can't think of a time it has worked out for him.

That's because the kind of riders who'd normally go in a break would have to be lobotomised to work with him to the end.

 

[Jamsque]

Matthews with Grabsch

Appollonio in there too. This move has a lot of teams in it, could be dangerous.

No quick-steppers that I have seen yet, that could be decisive.

Fall at the back of the pack, Leif Hoste on the deck and he has smashed his face up.

 

[superconfex]

crash 4 riders involed

 

[nvpacchi]

Hoste down

 

[Mellow Velo]

Hoste out for the count.............during an ad break.
Kirby reckons eye socket.

 

[Highlander]

Hoste has been bloodied. This can't be the warm up that he wanted for Flanders.

 

[The Sheep]

Probably not too bad just a lot of blood

 

[Jamsque]

Hoste almost certainly out of the race.

 

[Jamsque]

Steegmans on the attack now, that means pretty much all the teams have someone up the road.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

No quick-steppers that I have seen yet, that could be decisive.

Steegmans trying now.

 

[Moondance]

Gusev looks strong

Steeg and Devolder on the attack. Peloton is decimated.

 

[Tuarts]

Ooo, that's nasty. Pedal to the eye?

 

[Ferminal]

So the Gusev group is G1, G2 is Matthews?

 

[TeoSheva]

who is in which group?