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For those that are interested, the Classics season starts this weekend with Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. Should be shown on Eurosport fingers crossed.
Wiggins is racing Saturday so hopefully some indication of his form prior to the Roubaix. Really want to Boonen to win it though, he's tres ossum
http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/search.shtml?query=Cycling
no Het Nieuwsblad according to this.
but Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne is on...
At last the season starts!
Saturday should be very very interesting. The 2014 edition is well worth re-watching on YouTube
Can't believe Het Nieuwsblad isn't on. Rubbish!
cyclingfans.com is always a good bet for finding feeds. Sometimes they even have English commentary...
Most excited about this. Should be a great start. Curious about it not being on telly, sure it was on last year as I remember watching Stannard win it.
Will be interesting to see how Wiggins gets on. Not long till P-R, though I really can't see him winning it. Sagan under big pressure to get some big results not too.
Also got Paris Nice and Tirreno Adriatico for the GC boys coming up. Given the action at the Ruta del Sol and having seen the courses these should be top races too.
My Eurosport sub is renewed in readiness!
I know!
****ing woot!
Het is normally on sporza. Don't think Eurosport ever do it (?)
Looking forward to it. Got some good excuses for staying in and watching for the next few weeks as well.
Yay for proper racing again !!
ooo, time to fire up the Eurosport sub again - thanks 🙂
Looks like rtbf.be will have it as well from 14:10 on so maybe it will appear on cyclingfansHet is normally on sporza.
Always been a fan of http://www.steephill.tv/
See RHS menu for links to classics. Each usually has online clips of the highlights.
My favourite time of the racing season!!
Fantastic racing, what a result! 🙂
Excellent. That was brilliant riding. A well deserved win.
Semi Classics....
First true classic is Milan San Remo.Although I do have a soft spot for Gent Welvegem and E3
Wasn't expecting that...well done!
Anyone watching it live? What were Etixx up to? Bit of a shambles.
Epic ride from stannard.. wouldn't like to be on the E-QS bus tonight! never knew the big guy had a sprint in him..!
Etixx miss-step 😆
In fairness they had worked hard to stay away...
Yes, he had done zero work for previous 40km, but to mug the three of them like that was class.
The footage would make a good training video on how to lose a race.
Not taking anything away from the winner was well deserved. Its the old adage, legs decide tactics.
I nearly fell off my rollers at the end 🙂
My brother in law has our laptop registered as his second mobile device on his Sky subscription. 8)
Need to get my Mums birthday lunch out the way early tomorrow and then choose whether to watch the cycling or the mighty Ipswich
Wow! Was following that via cyclingnews.com text feed, how did they manage to throw that away! Gotta be worse than Gilbert V the Schelk's a few years ago.
Can't wait to watch it in full when someone uploads it.
Love Stannard, pure class, guy's just built for that kinda racing.
KBK tomorrow, Kristoff for the win?
Would be a good bet, usually a bigger bunch at the finish.
Disappointing it wasn't on TV, pretty sure it was last year and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne wasn't, oh well, I'll enjoy the live racing tomorrow!
Final KM's here,
Not in English unfortunately but I don't think you need much of a handle on Dutch to work out what the commentators are saying at the end!
Brilliant finish by Stannard, I def thought he was finished when Boonen went!
OT shame about Sarah Storey's hour attempt, amazing performance all the same!!
Great finish - thanks for the link
Stannard has some bottle, and/or else he's a great judge of when people are finished, leaving Boonen to go out & fry with hardly any time left
Yeah that was brilliant, no panic what so ever just slowly reeled him back in!!
Ha! Dude!!
Ahh what a great game of "no, after you, no...after you..."
Gotta love the classics, gotta love the bikes too. Nothing better than cream walled Tubs.
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I love the sprints at the end of classics, it's like a grand tour stage in slow motion.
Awesome ride by Stannard, can't believe he got one over when outnumbered 3:1. Surprised Terpstra(?) opened the sprint though - thought he'd just leave Stannard out front to flounder.
More interested in Boonans ever increasing tumble into obscurity.
Damn if I still love his riding and style too 😕
Surprised Terpstra(?) opened the sprint though - thought he'd just leave Stannard out front to flounder.
gifted it to Stannard I thought - perfectly placed but didn't have the punch and died in the last 50m.
bet Boonen's fuming that Terpstra attacked and left him languishing rather than leading him out for the sprint.
Very amused by Patrick Lefevere's comments. He complained that a "a team leader like Stannard should not stay on the wheels for 40 kilometres".
Err, don't want to break it you Patrick but I have just described the position Stannard found himself in and asked what his tactics should be. His response "well obviously sit at the back, do as little work as possible and chase down riders if necessary". If a 15 year old can figure that one out then it shouldbt have been beyond you Patrick.
I think he meant it in the context of helping to hold off Gilbert and Vanmarke, gap was down to 20secs at one point, Stannard held his nerve, and quick step rode each other into the ground.He complained that a "a team leader like Stannard should not stay on the wheels for 40 kilometres".
bet Boonen's fuming that Terpstra attacked and left him languishing rather than leading him out for the sprint.
Boonen couldn't hold Terpstra's wheel - see at 8.50 on this clip. Boonen was shot, as was VDB.
People talk about tactics but you may be missing the point. Only Terpstra looked like he had anything left. And that wasn't quite enough.
Annnnd a bump for the afternoon crowd.
If you've already been riding and crashed on the sofa like me then K-B-K is on Eurosport in 1/2 an hour.. (13.45)
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Cav orrrrr...??
Cav orrrrr...??
Etixx-QS will be under a bit of pressure to perform today after yesterday!
Should be a good one regardless.
Cav on "O-symetric" rings, that's circular ones then? 🙂
Seen the highlights from yesterday. After the Jens' retirement Stannard is my new riding hero 8) The Ettix lot messed up, surprising given their pedigree but watching Stannard seemingly ride them off his wheel and then overcome them in the sprint was damn impressive.
I was hoping that the break would stay away, this might be one hell of a messy sprint now!
Nice to see Oude Kwaremont and Nokereberg, I've ridden those. 🙂
Oh this is nail biting now!
Get in!!!
Wow, what a finish!
ace finish!
Ooouuuf!
Gotta love Gilbert, if only!!
😆
Great weekend of racing!
I thought Kristof had that then but a fine win for Cav. Enjoyed Gilberts late attack but he never quite got queer.
Bouhani barely stayed on there. A good weekend for the brits after the track worlds.
Cavendish: 'We talked this morning: I don't think Wilfried Peeters thought I could make it today. At least the riders believed in me.
ouch
Contract ends this year for him so I expect it'll be like this throughout the the year with Peeters trying to get in a side swipe to keep costs down and Cav putting on a show of winning and wanting more $'s..
Some good showing from Viviani.. perhaps if Sky perfect some sort of lead out he might have a wheel out front too.
Last 10km
just going to watch, while keeping a eye on the rugby.....
Hope the next 8 weeks or so are as good as this weekend, as that was some true classic racing.
2 nill to the Brits then 😀
Good stuff! Viviani's jump onto the back of Cav was huge! MTN must have worked like dogs to bring that back, kinda wanted to see Bousen Hagen at the finish. Apparently he's put on a fair bit of weight (muscle) so here's hoping he'll have a good Paris-Roubaix.
Massive win for Cav, to get Kristoff beat so convincingly and so early in the year will boost him no end.
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Strade Bianche this Saturday! Then I'm off to see 'love of mud' CX film in the evening. Roll on the weekend!
Great race that.
Good race, good result!
Report back on Love of Mud tang, interested in getting to see that somehow.
Yes, pleasing that the other two didn't win it.
😀 yeah quite
Shame Valverde popped on the last 20mtrs of the climb IMO, but hey great finish that and well deserved.
Stybar is a class rider. Right now I'm hoping I can make the film, down to one car today and I don't get dibs...hoping for a lift.
Looks bad for Boonen in Paris - Nice, slow speed tumble at the back of the peleton and it might be collar bone broken 😥
Yup Boonan out.
Typical Boonan.
Call it a fall from Grace.
I do feel sorry for him, over the last few years he's been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gutted for Boonen 🙁 , Voeckler is doing a shift though.
Shame for Boonen. 2012 seems a long time ago now.
Good sprint today.
Well for me the stage wasn't about the finish, more about Tommy and DeLaPlace. 2 epic Frenchmen doing what they do best.. Pop off the front and ride until you get caught.
Perfect.
And pan flat too, no wind but plenty of tree lined roads only the French do best.
Great to see Bradley gesticulating wildly to the Bunch too.. 8)
Arghhhh FFS!!! I'm bloody gutted for Boonen or more what he'd bring to the races coming up, what a complete ****!
A well timed and much needed win today in TA ahead of Milan Sanremo this weekend. Much anticipation here 🙂
(^^^ hopefully avoiding spoilers)
That was a strong finish! Bloody grim, would have been a DNF from me haha!
http://inrng.com/2015/03/milan-sanremo-preview-2015/
Re-watched 2014 last night to get in the mood, forecast looks grim again 😀
Yup gonna be a good one this year.
Really hard to look past the obvious choice of Kristoff if the weather is shite.
Really hard to look past the obvious choice of Kristoff if the weather is shite.
I think the forecast is pretty shite.
Kristoff is an obvious choice until you check out the [url= http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/milan-san-remo-2015/start-list ]start list[/url]. A bit spoilt for choice with potential winners. Should be a cracking race.
i would have said cavendish if he hadn't had his south africa incident. Don't know now. Stybar maybe. Stannard to drop swift at the finish?
Stannard's a good outside bet but it'll definitely be a sprinter this year with the parcours being a little less lumpy that in recent years. Depending on how Cav recovered from his South African bug, he has to be one of the favourites. If he can stick with Sagan who'll be shepherded over the Cipressa and up the Poggio then he'll beat him. He was climbing well in Oman(?) before that and had the beating of Kristoff in KBK.
Jens Debusschere as another outside bet?
I need 5 choices, I know it's not in the rules but I need 5, not a top 5 just a spread - just in case.
Philippe Gilbert
Greg Van Avermart
Zdenek Stybar
Juan Jose Lobato
Stefano Pirazzi (or Enrico Battaglin)
Ok so thats 6, so what...
Don't forget the Rapha comp, guess the winning time:
http://pages.rapha.cc/milan-san-remo-comp
6:44:13
I need 5 choices,
Cancellara
Eddie B H
Kwiatkowski
Matthews
Cav
All behind Kristoff
As said, Kristoff must be the favourite but I have a feeling Sagan will finally bag it.