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

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Good, Steegmans finally out of wheelsucking power. Bye bye Gertje

 

[Sasquatch]

Sky should really bring this back together.

 

[Jamsque]

Time gaps have vanished from Sporza

 

[Roland Rat]

Gah, this sounds fantastic. Talk of brainless idiots, every man for himself racing... and I'm stuck at work. I *heart* the radio ban.

 

[Tuarts]

4 guys with a decent split now. Gusev with an ownage turn on the front.

 

[Jamsque]

And then there were two.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

How many energy reserves does Westra have????
Gusev can't follow.

 

[superconfex]

the silverback struggling up this molehill

 

[Francois the Postman]

Make that radio ban and Vacansoleil, who don't seem to care too much about conserving energy for the finale.

 

[roundabout]

at least Westra is genuinly strong so he can be forgiven for racing like that in the front group

 

[Sasquatch]

Peloton losing time now.

 

[Jamsque]

The peloton is not quite out of this but they are dropping further back. Sky have screwed the pooch today, they have no-one for the GC now.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

It can still go wrong, the gaps are small.

 

[joy118118]

from Gregor Brown: Leif Hoste was taken to the hospital Zottegem. Head injury, broken teeth and pain in his jaw.

 

[The Hitch]

Where is Steegmans?

Also Kwiatkowski is a good tter. Young so they dont know it, but good. If he can stay away even if only in g2 he could do some damage on thursday.

 

[Sasquatch]

The peloton is not quite out of this but they are dropping further back. Sky have screwed the pooch today, they have no-one for the GC now.

For all we know a Sky rider jumped the peloton and is in G3 or a small group off the front. Hard to tell.

 

[superconfex]

gap down to 1.18 peteton now chasing

 

[cineteq]

The chase is on!

 

[Ferminal]

Gusev still seems OK, just couldn't handle the punch.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gusev still seems OK, just couldn't handle the punch.

Still a bad sign with still a climb to come.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The lead group is ****ing up. Group with Wallays/Saramotins/Ligthart is closing in. Chavanel is also coming closer

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Steegmans around the middle chase pack. The leaders will stay away from the peloton, but only becuase its disintegrating into small breaks.

They will have to try to drop greipel on one of these upcoming climbs, or concede to fighting for second

 

[roundabout]

Still a bad sign with still a climb to come.

Wasn't that the steepest of the climbs though?

Interesting composition where Greipel is the stage favorite and Westra is the GC favorite so nobody wants to ride really hard atm

 

[superconfex]

lol...no one wants to win

 

[TeoSheva]

still 13 in the front?