General race thread 2021 **spoilers**

Macy0161

happytramp wrote: »

He couldn't keep anything down, not sure what they could have done.

Once he puked, he might have been able to keep a drink mix down. Would've tried I'm sure. Anyway, a bit of schoolboy mistake to try something new on race day. But great for the future that he was at the front all day and got over the Kemmelberg with WvA.

mr spuckler

Not sure where this best sits but I really enjoyed this read about the MVDP - WVA rivalry.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/mathieu-van-der-poel-and-wout-van-aert-the-anatomy-of-a-rivalry/

retalivity

Van der Poel is the spit of his grandfather

dastardly00

I reckon van Baarle is probably going to hang on and win this

Morris Garren

Dry, warm, dusty in Flanders today.
Sorry to bring it up again but Kirby is up to his usual silliness on comms: keeps calling the race the 'Dwar Door' for some reason; mixed up Kortekeer and the climb after it, calling the Steenbeekdries the 'steinberg' and allegedly the race is climbing the Knokteberg 3 times (it isn't); and we haven't yet hit the Kruisberg, which is NOT the same as the earlier Kluisberg.... all of this is written in the roadbook and on the live feed, he just doesn't seem to read it. I'm half expecting 'Darwin Atapuma' to go on the attack...

mr spuckler

dastardly00 wrote: »

I reckon van Baarle is probably going to hang on and win this

Incredible stuff from Van Baarle.

edit..MVDP :eek:

dastardly00

Initially the thought of van Baarle winning this was a bit of a surprise... but when you look at some of his best results over the years in cobbled classics & semi-classics then it's not really a shock at all.

E3 - 7th (2021), 9th (2017)
Gent-Wevelgem - 8th (2021)
Dwars door Vlaanderen - 3rd (2015), 8th (2017)
De Ronde - 4th (2017), 6th (2016), 8th (2020), 12th (2018)

bazermc

I got a good laugh when the girl reading the RTÉ sports on radio 1 tried to say Dwars door Vlaanderen

dastardly00

bazermc wrote: »

I got a good laugh when the girl reading the RTÉ sports on radio 1 tried to say Dwars door Vlaanderen

I'm amazed that news of the race was even mentioned on RTE! :eek:

nqtfarmer

What are people’s expectations for racing to resume here in Ireland for us non elite folk?

Eamonnator

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/paris-roubaix-postponed-to-october-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-in-france/

Paris-Roubaix is postponed until October, hopefully not a portend for the rest of the early season.

breezy1985

nqtfarmer wrote: »

What are people’s expectations for racing to resume here in Ireland for us non elite folk?

"Non elite folk" sounds like a genre of country music

retalivity

Nacer Bouhanni: If Jake Stewart really saw his life flash before his eyes I'd advise him to give up sprinting

Bouhanni doubling down on the dickishness

retalivity

Some early shenanigans in flanders, the astana and alpecin riders both disqualified for this

https://mobile.twitter.com/sporza_koers/status/1378632510813437952

Inquitus

retalivity wrote: »

Some early shenanigans in flanders, the astana and alpecin riders both disqualified for this

https://mobile.twitter.com/sporza_koers/status/1378632510813437952

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fedorov-and-vergaerde-disqualified-from-tour-of-flanders-for-dangerous-riding/

Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana-Premier Tech) and Otto Vergaerde (Alpecin Fenix) have both been disqualified from the Tour of Flanders after the pair clashed with 240km to go in the race.

The incident happened at the front of the peloton with Federov pulling on his brakes while riding at speed at the head of the bunch. The Astana-Premier Tech rider appeared to be trying to attack from the peloton after an early break had already formed.

Vergaerde was on the Astana rider's wheel at the time and almost rode into the back of Fedorov after the Astana rider became frustrated with not being allowed to ride clear. Vergaerde then retaliated by coming alongside Fedorov and shoulder barging into his right-hand side. Fedorov then tried to follow and appeared to attempt a similar move, although he made no contact.

Was funny when they were told the aplacine rider had some back and forth with the astana Ds.

Steve SilverMint

Ryan Mullen abandoned early.

bazermc

Who is yer man with the full green Bora kit. The rest of the Bora lads have mainly white on top

breezy1985

bazermc wrote: »

Who is yer man with the full green Bora kit. The rest of the Bora lads have mainly white on top

Its the Bora rain/cold gear.

Ah thats rough for Schar. Man had no luck with his bikes today and then DQ'd for throwing a bottle to fans, and he knew it when it he did from the looks of his reaction right after he did it.

dastardly00

Quick-Step upping the pace on the front now

Inquitus

Big crash, people all over the road.

Anyone else getting a lot of buffering from the app and chromecast?

Inquitus

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone else getting a lot of buffering from the app and chromecast?

Nope, streaming to my laptop and no issues.

My end so , best I get stuff restarted before it kicks off.

retalivity

MVDP & Van Aert too busy looking at each other and let Alaphillipe up the road

breezy1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Anyone else getting a lot of buffering from the app and chromecast?

The Eurosport app is always crap for me on Chromecast.

I gave up and went for the laptop

retalivity

Alaphilllipe, MVDP & WVA in the front 6 now, this is great racing

dastardly00

Carlton is really annoying me today. Even more than usual

Good for Turgis getting over there. Love to see him go well here.

Edit think I cursed him there