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  1. WBA2_QPR3

    WBA2_QPR3 Well-Known Member

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    On Eurosport now. Anyone else watching one of the best Classics races of the season?

    I couldn't get over there this year but my dad & brothers are there sampling plenty of Belgian hospitality

    Id like to see Thomas win this but can't see past a cancellara or Sagan victory .

    Time to crack open a Westmalle Triple and watch the cobbled hell
     
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    They've got the weather for it this year...:grin:
     
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    Boonen crashed out early, will put him out of Paris-Roubaix next week
     
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    Cold but dry which makes the pavé less lethal.
     
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    Fast pace. Trying to blow Sagan out of the mix
     
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  6. Azmi

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    Everything looks blocked up for Sagan and Cancellara so far. 37kms to go.
     
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    Thomas down, probably that puts him out of things at this point.
     
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    Good race, wish I'd gone now, still I'll be on the arenberg next week
     
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  9. Azmi

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    If the weather stays like this the dust will be tremendous there.
     
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    Cancellara vs Sagan. Can't shift him, Sagan too strong and has a better finish.
     
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    Sagan's got the edge
     
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    Here we go, last wall.
     
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    Cancellara drops him...
     
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    Cancellara so strong
     
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    Well deserved victory.
     
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    He's well set up for a third Paris-Roubaix win next week.

    I don't mind cancellara tbh but surprised he destroyed Sagan so easily
     
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    In the opinion of Italian TV Sagan over did it on the penultimate wall and paid the price on the last one. Amazing how C pulled out a 1 km gap in less than 10 kms out there on his own.

    One day classics are were it's at now. The Tours have become a farce with the Froome waiting for you know who act at the TdF summing up all that's gone wrong in cycling. There's still doping in the one day events but somehow it doesn't make things look so fake.
     
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    Agree Imaz the one day classics are great . I'm doing Paris-Roubaix and the Amstel gold, a couple of weekends of cycling beer & frites

    Giving the tour a miss this year doing the vuelta instead
     
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    The climbs are better on the Giro and Vuelta imho. Moving the Vuelta to later in the season has turned out positive. Thought it was a mistake at the time but I was wrong.

    TdF has taken well hell of a knock with Armstrong as the doped up winners of the other tours didn't have the same profile nor that run of victories in the same event. Whether or not Wiggins was clean last year opinion outside the UK isn't convinced at all. Sad really, TdF has lost credibility.
     
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    I'm in Spain during the vuelta so makes sense

    I'm dropping tour until next years Yorkshire stages which finishes in my adopted home town of Sheffield. Big party weekend for that one

    Tdf has lost a lot of credibility and if sky are dominant again it will lessen the appeal

    Time to get some Italian classics in? Milan-San remo??
     
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