Pro-cycling thread

"IAM Cycling confirms that they had two riders in the serious looking pile-up near the start. One of them could be seen in what looked like a serious condition, possibly having hit his head in the incident. Pineau and Aregger were the two involved, although it's not clear which of the two was on the ground. "

Aregger was the man down. Conscious in hospital apparently.

Ouchies

EQS have got Kwiatkowski off the front in a group of four and Cavendidh in the main bunch of 20 or so behind.

You'd think they'd win this one way or another.

You'd think.

Quintana's waaaay off the back, on his own and slipping around badly.

Mega respect if he doesn't climb off/fall off.

Ouch!

Did the moto crash or just stop?

Yeah, it crashed.

Boom chasing the leading four, fell on wet tarmac, then the following motorbike did.

Then Devolder in the chase group and one more person did too.

Yeah, got it on the replay. Devolder was moving but didn't too hot.

Close call for Kwiato...

where can i stream?

http://bvls2013.com/stream4.html

thank you

Kwiatkowski must be using this as a training ride - he sat on the front for ages. Locals having a crack..

I'm on the second sporza one http://www.steephill.tv/classics/dwars-door-vlaanderen/

Devolder should be fine, he crashed 5 times at last years roubaix, a fall into some wet mud ain't nuthin but a thang to him

Kwiatkowski's doing a lot of work though, wonder if he'll be cooked by the end?

"Devolder should be fine, he crashed 5 times at last years roubaix"

That's kind of my point. Why didn't he get up? He's supposed to be one of the hard men.

They all look wrecked. Recon someone could go off solo and win this.

Ah right, didn't get the "too hot" bit

I'm gonna go for a bit of an outsider here, Van Baarle, he'll be under pressure to get the teams 1st win

edit:

Trek twitter

#DDV @stijndevolder79 is pretty banged up from crash but has continued in the race. Hardman. Especially since the rain is coming down again.

I'm gonna play safe and say Kwiatkowski (sp?).

Kwiato might've done too much. But if he's got them enough of a gap and they do more now, he might freshen up a bit. No idea what the others are like in a sprint. Why don't thye show the gap?

Perhaps, but he's the only one in that lead group who doesn't look on the edge to me.

I'm only flicking to the TV window now and then (at work) so I can't tell anything about them since I don't speak Dutch. I just wait until the commentators get excited and flip back to look.

1km to go!

Yep, Kwiato could only drop the other two and didn't have the legs. Training ride.