Pro-cycling thread

Did Eurosport even show the finish of the women's race?

Van Baarle looks hugely strong up front. But we all know Valverde is going to win.

Quickstep clearly don’t fancy Asgreen if they’re working on the front.

Van Baarle needs to go all in.

Valverde is going to win.

I'd lose my shit with happiness if this happens !

Can’t see a Sky rider in the second group.

what I can't stand is Rapha content celebrating a win ..

Holy shit, MVDP sideways skid

Why don’t QS put someone on the front to shut the gap given they have numbers?

Yeah I don't know where the fuck Rowe went

Great for Bettiol and his team if he can hang on.

Never thought I would see EF win a classic! Kudos!

No email from rapha yet ..

Stalemate behind Bettiol. Nobody wanted to tow a group with so many fast finishers to the line I suppose.

Vaughter's teams have won 4 monuments in the last 8 years with 3 different riders. They are not the miserable failures that some people would have you believe.

Maybe even rapha dream it ! I am sure by the morning we all will. And will and will .....

But that's almost all they've won really (Vansummeren and Martin I recall, who is the third?). Check their list of "major" wins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wins_by_TIAA_CREF_and_its_successors

Since their "interesting" Giro win, and the few monuments they've won a handful of GT stages and after that it's mostly 2nd tier WT races or below.

For a world tour team it seems quite thin on the ground.

Meh, they've had a couple of lean years but they do ok.
I'm still lost as to the appeal of Flanders though.

The joy of being an outside bet. Nobody marked his move. First pro win and it's a monument

MVP 4th even after stacking it what a machine.

Is Kristoff racing next Sunday? Be cool to see him on the podium for all 3.

Also Terpstra's crash looked awful.

Yeah never good to see someone go down and just not be moving. It's rare that riders from other teams stop and help in a crash, usually they just look to be on their way but their concern was palpable.

Yeah they looked genuinely worried about him. The way he was lying I thought he had broken his leg but I think he was out cold.

Terpstra was out cold for about two minutes.
Nice to see his team give him time off to recover. Concussion needs to be taken seriously.

I was frustrated when the chase group all stopped racing and started looking around like tourists.
All those great riders and they give up.
Van Baarle put a good effort in.

Panache that.