Pro-cycling thread

Lefevere should hang himself

no way no way no way

Stannard, great winner

fuckkkkk

Hahahahahaha

Stannard!

Haaaaaaah! Go Ian!

Are you kidding?

Jan Van Der Stannard

Absolutely amazing.

Stannard. The English Valverde. Well done.

Hahahahaa yesss Stannard

lefevere's probably smashing his head into the nearest solid thing

Wow! C'mon Tim.

Oh my days. What a machine that man is.

I've never seen anyone down two bottles of juice like that.

Oof. Why did they start attacking him? Should have taken it to a 4 man sprint. 20/20 hindsight.

How many km has he been beaten up by Quickstep?

40?

I think it's fair to say the strongest rider won!

beaten up? how?

You would have never called Stannard when it was three against one, fucking incredible ride

Because he would to lead any chase obvs. And they had half a team to burn.

I followed it on the twitter. I can't wait to watch it later and see just how Quickstep managed it.

(Without taking anything from Stannard, 3 against 1 should be a victory and nothing less.)

Bloody good job though Ian.

Yeah he just stayed all back of the bus, only took one turn at the front I saw, let EQS do all the work.

Then took a shit on them

about 2km, he sat on till the end, did absolutely no pulling in that 4, same as Stybar with Van Arvermendt and Van Marcke.

Tactically I have no clue why Boonen attacked, leave that to Terpstra and Vandernbergh, leave Stannard to smoke himself chasing whilst sitting on his wheel and then come round him at the end.

How a "classics squad" fucked up that bad is beyond me

As good a win as you will ever see.

Letting a gap develop, letting him pull it back, over and over.

Tactical genius from Sky, who'd have thought it?