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A point made either on PdC or Inrng was that riders who are in top form for Omloop are not necessarily the riders who are the top boys in the Ronde and Roubaix who are still that much further from peaking. That said I agree that if he wasn't after last year (and after that long range attack in MSR) he's surely considered a big danger in all the spring races.
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I wish did understand the language of the spring classics, no better races in the world methinks, especially on today's evidence. Thanks for clearing that up.
I didn't think Stannard had a chance today, I thought the conditions were too good for him, not freezing cold and pissing with rain. But if he wasn't considered a proper classics rider before, he must be now. When he won last year I think we were talking about him as someone with a very strong engine but perhaps without the weapons needed to force selections and win a race, but the way he put the hurt on EQS, and 3 of the best classics riders in the world, wow just wow.
He may not be as dreamy as Petey K, but I love him nonetheless.