Strade Bianche Saturday March 3rd,

Ah nuts looks like they've lost cameras out on the road.

dermabrasion

MPFGLB wrote: »

Valverde may win....just saying

I hope he doesn't. I find him way more repugnant than Jiffygate.

The look on her face during the last live shots on the road was unreal, totaly calm and relaxed. Like out for a leisurely spin relaxed. One hell of bike rider and the ones chasing were no slouches, serious talent there too.

neris

hope they have a few bottles of persil on the team buses

Moto being a nuisance again.

marvin80

Looks mental there today - some craic to take part in the sportive tomorrow

velo.2010

I can't think of another one day race that manages to have such a mix of top class GC riders and classics specialists. Some line up today!

dastardly00

Shíte... Didn't realise that this would finish so early today.

Less than 24 km to go

DDC1990

Ok im very confused. I watched Kwiatkowski win this an hour ago?

Or was that a replay of last year or something?

Edit: Yup. ****ing Eurosport confusing me.

neris

shut up carlton

marvin80

DDC1990 wrote: »

Ok im very confused. I watched Kwiatkowski win this an hour ago?

Or was that a replay of last year or something?

Yea he won it last year so probably a replay.

Ha yeah they showed the 2017 race earlier.

Come on Van Aert!!!!!!

marvin80

Deleted User wrote: »

Ha yeah they showed the 2017 race earlier.

Come on Van Aert!!!!!!

Hopefully him and Bardet hold the gap, like to see Van Aert win but Bardet's experience will probably be the difference.

retalivity

Id never have pegged bardet to be in the mix for this

marvin80

retalivity wrote: »

Id never have pegged bardet to be in the mix for this

Benoot closed the gap and gone off on his own now, 16 second gap or so

JK.BMC

'Staccato on the Sterrato!'

This is a great race

marvin80

Very enjoyable race

MPFGLB

Stongest man won....great ride by Benoot.....man for the future

CrowdedHouse

Missed this - VanAert seemed to stall on the last hill

https://twitter.com/kingstonwheeler/status/969968381028896768

Was wondering about the gap

marvin80

Don't remember the Eurosport cameras picking that up either

Yeah that would be exactly what would happen to me riding up that after 4 hours on the bike even on a pan flat 180km prior to it :pac:

Glad the live tv cameras didn't pick it up after his effort today didn't deserve to be remembered for that.

TheBlaaMan

MPFGLB wrote: »

Stongest man won....great ride by Benoot.....man for the future

Strongest man won, OK, but Benoot has been a coming success for the past two years and today was a great confirmation of his potential. Performance of the day has to be Van Aert though..........from a limited road history to third in SB2018. Fantastic result and he left some serious contenders in this wake today.

Great race

Only 53 finished inside the time limit rest OTL and about 70 DNF

Bambaata

Great race, pity the camera work was woeful at the end, at least it wasn't as bad as the women's race! No camera on any rider from about 5k to go until the last 100m!! Timed it great today with the turbo hoping tomorrows is even half as good

eeeee

Very frustrating coverage of the women's race on Eurosport. Caught the last few k (there was snooker on for an age) in a friends house. They mentioned Anna Van Der Breggan who was off the front and Elisa Longo Borgini who was trying to bridge across. At no time did they mention any of the names of the 7 riders just behind them, bar Kasia Niewiadoma when she attacked and bridged across to Borgini for second. Even after the race!
The coverage finished with the words 'That was a nice warm up for the men's race'. :mad: ffs :rolleyes:

nee

nee wrote: »

Very frustrating coverage of the women's race on Eurosport. Caught the last few k (there was snooker on for an age) in a friends house. They mentioned Anna Van Der Breggan who was off the front and Elisa Longo Borgini who was trying to bridge across. At no time did they mention any of the names of the 7 riders just behind them, bar Kasia Niewiadoma when she attacked and bridged across to Borgini for second. Even after the race!
The coverage finished with the words 'That was a nice warm up for the men's race'. :mad: ffs :rolleyes:

Not familiar with the lads commentating at all. Was it Jo Rowsell Shand with Kirby for the track champs this week? Could have at least given her the gig to credibly call the ladies race with Rob Hatch maybe, they've made a very good commentary pairing in the past imo.

I don't even think Chantal Blaak got a mention and she was in the group there chasing. Sure she's only a current world champ :rolleyes: and Ellen van Dijk was there too for sunweb, current EU TT champ.

godtabh

Bambaata wrote: »

Great race, pity the camera work was woeful at the end, at least it wasn't as bad as the women's race! No camera on any rider from about 5k to go until the last 100m!! Timed it great today with the turbo hoping tomorrows is even half as good

I watched the women’s race. It was a terrible finish. Had to rely on the local commentator to know what was going on.

godtabh

godtabh wrote: »

I watched the women’s race. It was a terrible finish. Had to rely on the local commentator to know what was going on.

Was a bit of a repeat of the mens race at the worlds last year. Lost cameras out on course due to the weather I think. From reading elsewhere other broadcasters cut to the mens race after a few minutes and never went back :mad:

koutoubia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVgLHYkbPgk

WvA left it all on the road.

Bambaata

Some ride by him, was routing for him. amazing to see that level of exhaustion/pain!