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As were his eternal rival's 2 days on Flemish & Northern French soil. Looking forward to seeing them both in tomorrow's final

Ladies Gent-Wevelgem stream here (Proximus facebook)

Looks about right in this company. If could have sprinted a bit smarter... who knows. Quite the debut!

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Super impressive considering he was in the break (but missed the final selection of 4). Glad for Kristof, he’s a good lad and clearly wanted to make the point that he’s not done yet and he could ride away from Gaviria.

Great racing yesterday, with the Yates brothers bringing some real panache to the weekend at the Volta Catalunya too.

News on the guys they carted off from that? Bardet collarbone and whoever they carried to the car?

I was really hoping Yates could keep that after his 1s loss at ParisTirrenoNiceAdriatico but twas not to be.

Gaviria played a blinder at the finish by blocking Viviani and sitting up rendering all the work by Stybar + Phil null and void.

Turning on the TV and seeing that selection up the road was amazing. Brain couldn't compute how they had been allowed to get away.

They weren’t allowed to get away, they rode the rest of the field off their wheels.

Was a great race to watch. Stybar putting in so much work to try keep Viviani in the mix but is the peloton now figuring out how to deal with DQS? Van Aert covering every move as well was impressive.

It was such a good race. Was Kristoffs earlier move necessary? It seemed some of the other fast guys could hold on in the climbs, but it was good to watch either way.

WVA constantly combative and great to watch

Great day of racing all round.
Excellent result for Kristoff especially considering who else was in the pack, Dege salvaged something for Trek. Breaks, attacks had it all. Good to see Luke Rowe having a go too and looks to be riding well this season.

Shame Yates couldn't hold on but took it to them and brought the race to life.

Bardet suspected fractured ribs and hurt hand. Gallopin a load of injuries to his shoulder. Geschke did his collar bone. Soler broke his hand. Kelderman broken collarbone and neck vertebrae fractures

Nasty.

Managed to catch up with E3 and Gent-Wevelgem, what a pair of cracking races. G-W was fantastic racing, and especially from Kristof and Rowe crossing that gap solo into strong winds. Kristof winning the sprint at the end was mind-blowing after his effort, and so glad Quikstep's dominance was finally broken, after the mobbed the front of the chase and looked like they would set it up for Viviani.

Bring on the Ronde

Also great ride by Trentin.

He’s been riding very well without much luck. Probably hurts not to have Durbridge in the mix, he’s pretty well alone at the pointy end.

Jack Bauer had a dip.

I think the move to Michelton-Scott has suited him because he is riding for the win a lot more than at Quickstep.

I like that Sagan and Rowe made the race really hard for themselves, riding into form for the biggies.

Interesting his comments about how his sprint is basically the same whether it’s hard or easy, whereas the pure sprinters have higher top power but may run out of steam.

I guess that’s the sign of a one day classic versatile sprinter.

That could also be a little boast post from him as well, some fakery for his rivals but he always has had a lot of potential let's see if he delivers. I think more suited to P-R than the Ronde?

Are we talking about Kristoff still? He's won the Ronde, and finished in the top ten four other times, yet his best finish at Roubaix is ninth.

I think he needs a small bunch sprint to win, Paris Roubaix is never normally a bunch sprint I think?

He won Flanders by going with Terpstra from 30 kms out and then beating him in a two up sprint.

His riding style is just not suited to Paris-Roubaix, as the stats show;

2010: DNF
2011: DNF
2012: 57
2013: 9
2014: DNF
2015: 10
2016: 48
2017: DNF
2018: 57

Nope Trentin, oops. I think he is more suited to P-R

I now aware I was answering a Question about Kristoff, my bad

It's fine, it makes way more sense now.

I'm not sure on Trentin, he's a good, solid rider who is tactically pretty smart, but when it comes to a race against the strongest cobbled classics specialists, I think he lacks something.