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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: Jon Crofts on February 21, 2019, 11:42:20 AM
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The time is almost upon us, the 2019 'Monuments'.
Milan-San Remo
Monument
When: Saturday 23rd March
Where: Milan to San Remo, Italy
Tour of Flanders
Monument / Cobbled Classic
When: Sunday 7th April
Where: Antwerp to Oudenaarde, Flanders region, Belgium
Paris-Roubaix
Monument / Cobbled Classic
When: Sunday 14th April
Where: (North of) Paris to Roubaix, France
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Monument / Ardennes Classic
When: Sunday 22nd April
Where: Liege to Bastogne and back again, Belgium
And it all starts in 2 weeks in Belgium with the Omloop..........
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Cobbled Classic
When: Saturday 2nd March
Where: Gent, Belgium
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Are you doing any of them as Sportives this year Jon?
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OHN today, Matthews and GVA probable favourites, good outsiders Valgren, van Aert, Colbrelli and Quickstep rider, Gilbert or Lampaert.
That's put the mockers on all of those.
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OHN today, Matthews and GVA probable favourites, good outsiders Valgren, van Aert, Colbrelli and Quickstep rider, Gilbert or Lampaert.
That's put the mockers on all of those.
Well done.
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Well it was a Quickstep rider that won, just not the two I mentioned, although they both finished in the top ten.
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Are you doing any of them as Sportives this year Jon?
Tour of Flanders the Saturday before the pro race. We want to do Strade Bianchi but the logistics and costs look fairly prohibitive. The cobbles are a cheap couple of days away and the post race beers are amazing.
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Quickstep make it 4 from 4 in the classics.
And well done on Van Vleuten on her return from her knee injury.
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Are you doing any of them as Sportives this year Jon?
Tour of Flanders the Saturday before the pro race. We want to do Strade Bianchi but the logistics and costs look fairly prohibitive. The cobbles are a cheap couple of days away and the post race beers are amazing.
I’m out. Been told not to ride it by my coach. A combination of a niggly knee injury and not hitting the numbers I should be by this stage of the season because of a niggly knee.
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Milan - San Remo this Saturday. Quickstep will be bringing a very strong team, hard to see the winner coming from elsewhere. If it's a breakaway then the N shilling will be on Alaphilippe, bunch sprint Viviani.
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Yep, Alan Phillip does it again. Up against the Euro, World, and several national champs in the final km and he won easily.
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Tour of Flanders this Sunday, fancy the cyclo cross converts to do well, Van der Poel and Van Aert
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Tour of Flanders this Sunday, fancy the cyclo cross converts to do well, Van der Poel and Van Aert
Good win the other day for VdP. Did you see the clip of him flicking the stone out of the road with his front tire whilst in the Peloton?
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See, that’s what happens when the chasing group won’t make a decision or ride for one another, great win for Bettiol.
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See, that’s what happens when the chasing group won’t make a decision or ride for one another, great win for Bettiol.
Same thing happened last year when Terpstra won. No one would help Sagan chase.
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Paris Roubaix Sunday, got to fancy Sagan again.
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Paris Roubaix Sunday, got to fancy Sagan again.
If he's 100% fit, otherwise Van Aert, Lampaert or Benoot.
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Lots of fancy suspension bikes on show tomorrow. All of QuickStep and Boring Handgrowers will have FutureShock 2 bikes and Sky will have Dogma FS.
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Quickstep again. Some nasty spills including someone hitting the back of a team car.
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I think Liege is next weekend, Flanders week starts with Amstel Gold, Flèche midweek then LBL.
The time is almost upon us, the 2019 'Monuments'.
Milan-San Remo
Monument
When: Saturday 23rd March
Where: Milan to San Remo, Italy
Tour of Flanders
Monument / Cobbled Classic
When: Sunday 7th April
Where: Antwerp to Oudenaarde, Flanders region, Belgium
Paris-Roubaix
Monument / Cobbled Classic
When: Sunday 14th April
Where: (North of) Paris to Roubaix, France
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Monument / Ardennes Classic
When: Sunday 22nd April
Where: Liege to Bastogne and back again, Belgium
And it all starts in 2 weeks in Belgium with the Omloop..........
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Cobbled Classic
When: Saturday 2nd March
Where: Gent, Belgium
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Amstel Gold today, Quickstep no doubt will have a very strong hand but my money is on van der Poel or GVA.
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Amstel Gold today, Quickstep no doubt will have a very strong hand but my money is on van der Poel or GVA.
What a win by MvdP! Alphillipe and Fuglsang played cat and mouse too long in the end. What are the odds he will be a World Road Champion in the next few years?
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Amstel Gold today, Quickstep no doubt will have a very strong hand but my money is on van der Poel or GVA.
What a win by MvdP! Alphillipe and Fuglsang played cat and mouse too long in the end. What are the odds he will be a World Road Champion in the next few years?
Depends on the course, not sure if he is a genuine climber. But he is a beast and should feature strongly in future Spring classics.
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Amstel Gold today, Quickstep no doubt will have a very strong hand but my money is on van der Poel or GVA.
What a win by MvdP! Alphillipe and Fuglsang played cat and mouse too long in the end. What are the odds he will be a World Road Champion in the next few years?
Depends on the course, not sure if he is a genuine climber. But he is a beast and should feature strongly in future Spring classics.
Yep, but I can see him being the next Sagan at the moment and if the course suits him....
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Fleche Wallonne tomorrow my shirt is on either Valverde or Birmingham's very own Dan Martin.
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Fleche Wallonne tomorrow my shirt is on either Valverde or Birmingham's very own Dan Martin.
Alan Philip if Quickstep team work well with him or even Adam Yates maybe as an outside bet.
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Called it.... just.
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Called it.... just.
Good call, he is some rider, very versatile with a strong team to support him.
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Called it.... just.
Good call, he is some rider, very versatile with a strong team to support him.
The odds were in my favour. He has won every single day race he has entered so far this season unless MdvP has also entered in which case he has won. So as long as Van Der Poel is not around then Alan is your man.
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Alan Philip if Quickstep team work well with him or even Adam Yates maybe as an outside bet.
I'll repeat these predictions for LBL being as Van Der Poel isn't racing.
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I'm going for Gilbert or Kwiatkowski.
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One too many for Alan, although I'm glad Fuglsang got as he has been so close recently.