Vattenfall Cyclassics - Sunday the 21 of August

[Fetisoff]

Wow, that was a looooooong sprint

 

[Ferminal]

Great, stream completely failed in the last km.

Chicchi or Ciolek?

 

[Cobblestoned]

Congrats Eddie - Ciolek shows....something

 

[canyonball]

I thought Sky had lost the race on the leadout. But they picked it up. Hagen never looked like it would loose the sprint.

 

[Jamsque]

Super G could not lead out EBH any better and a strong finish from Eddy Bos as always.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Great, stream completely failed in the last km.

Chicchi or Ciolek?

That was nodding Ciolek - no doubt

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Did I see Boom outsprinting Kristoff?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

That was more exciting than it had any right to be.

Still wasn't particularly exciting.

Good sprint from EBH though, Rojas typically boxed in, he's very good at coming 5th it seems.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Good kick from Eddy, pulled out a gap, then came back to the field at the end after Ciolek had gone back in behind for a shelter somewhere in the 3000km sprint.

 

[PedalCastro]

Good win by Eddy Bos, the kid is good, very good

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Did I see Boom outsprinting Kristoff?

Has AK ever done anything? I'm surprised he's got such a prominant new team really, he seems conti talent at best.

 

[maltiv]

Wow what a long sprint by EBH and what a long leadout by super G!

 

[sublimit]

My stream lagging so bad.

Sky did OK but not perfect but the gorrila will have the hump. I dont know how that split but anyway.

 

[jens_attacks]

gotta say simon clarke is very consistent,sprints,semi-classics...nice ride by him.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Wow what a long sprint by EBH and what a long leadout by super G!

That it was.
EBH's season took a long time starting, but he's in full flow, now.

Talking of slow, Kreder has finally started to make a contribution to my CQ account.
10th today and the Coppa Bernocchi earlier in the week.

Where did Boom finish?

 

[roundabout]

That was better than expected.

 

[Cobblestoned]

That was more exciting than it had any right to be.

Still wasn't particularly exciting.

Good sprint from EBH though, Rojas typically boxed in, he's very good at coming 5th it seems.

Libertine always moaning and suffering - for whatever reason
Cycling is a cruel sport.
It should be just designed for Libertine. I think we can all agree on that.
We would see some awesome, but meaningless racing day by day.

 

[ingsve]

Has AK ever done anything? I'm surprised he's got such a prominant new team really, he seems conti talent at best.

Well, what he's missing is the wins but other than that his results aren't really worse than a lot of other lower tier WT sprinters.

 

[Havetts]

It should be just designed for Libertine. I think we can all agree on that.

Yes cause actually that would lead to variation and exciting racing, instead of this stuff.

 

[cineteq]

Libertine always moaning and suffering - for whatever reason
Cycling is a cruel sport.
It should be just designed for Libertine. I think we can all agree on that.
We would see some awesome, but meaningless racing day by day.

Maybe that's the way he enjoys racing: "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

 

[sublimit]

Yes cause actually that would lead to variation and exciting racing, instead of this stuff.

Ending in an inevitable walkover by Phil Gilbert on the the uphill finish.
At least this was kind of unpredictable. Though If Greipel had stayed in there he would of probably won.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Yes cause actually that would lead to variation and exciting racing, instead of this stuff.

Each breakaway would be successful and teams forbidden to chase. Sprinters and sprinterteams banned.
A 3th row unknown spanish rider would of course win in perfect and epic style, on roads and mountains no one has ever heard of before.

That would add a random factor of awesomeness.

 

[hatcher]

There would be less moaning though.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Each breakaway would be successful and teams forbidden to chase. Sprinters and sprinterteams banned.
A 3th row unknown spanish rider would of course win in perfect and epic style, on roads and mountains no one has ever heard of before.

That would add a random factor of awesomeness.

Sprinters and their teams wouldn't be banned.

Flat stages would be, however, so having them would be a bit pointless.

 

[zapata]

Well, it's not the best race in the world, but I'm easy to please. At least the waseberg was enough to take out hushovd and greipel. Bet it was better than todays vuelta stage, but as long as there's two races on my TV on the same day, and I'm free to watch them, I'm not complaining.