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Total prize money was supposedly only €91k. Ouch. Think prize money for The Masters this past weekend was $11.5million Not really apples with apples, but certainly gives pause for thought.

This is the important bit. The relationship between WvA and the management of Sniper Cycling deteriorated drastically which prompted the contract cancellation. I think it was an outlier and not indicative of what will happen with MvdP. But time will tell I suppose.

Not until 2021. He is reportedly on a very nice salary and his current team support his CX and road aspirations and he is building towards 2020 Olympics. After that, all bets are off. The Belgian and Dutch teams would kill to have him on their squads. Most teams would obviously, but he is a hot topic in NL and Flanders.

Don't worry about it. WvA and MvdP respective careers are running in parallel rather nicely. You are hardly the first person to confuse them and you won't be the last.

Its fortunately not as bad as Keegan. Tiesj has a cracked collarbone but he is doing alright by the sounds of it.

Rear derailleur was borked. Uran could only ride 53x11 or 39x11

It was a Jumbo-Visma car. Sporza were reporting that it stopped suddenly causing Tiesj Benoot to crash into it, smashing the window.

Phil Gil and Politt play **** about and WvA steals it ahead of Yves?

Stop. I can only get so erect!

Eurosport €19.99 for 12 months is an absolute steal.

Doing the Lord's work

The pace is absolutely relentless this year. Gonna be hard to finish within the time limit for a lot of these riders.

After the race, he will let us know who he thinks will win... ...i think

Gaviria was ill overnight and did not start.

Dry and windy. Not much wet expected.

EBH to win by 50 bike lengths. Fight me.

Katusha manager chewing out Marcel Kittel. Jurgen Van den Broeck saying Kittel is boozing hard and living the party life. Oh boy Marcel, what have you become.

More chance of Tom Danielson winning it

Why? We don't call them Garmin-Slipstream, MTN-Qhubeka, Quickstep Floors or Orica-GreenEdge. People will probably call them Sky for maybe one or two stages and then adapt.

I would love for it to come down to WvA against MvdP. I think it is too much of a pipe dream, but that is what I will be holding out for on the weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHjTjYBBJA Belgium's holy race, The Tour of Flanders with Lisa Brennauer. Nice little video to get you amped for the weekend. https://cyclingtips.com/2017/11/mathieu-van-der-poel-is-most-talented-bike-racer-on-planet/ I might have missed it, but it didn't look like this news piece had been posted. Sorry if I missed it. Nice write up on MvdP, his racing pedigree, his rivalry with WvA and his love for friets.

Yes. SS5 from 09:15

Yes. SS5 from 09:00

the complete and utter abandonment of the idea of being Africa's Team.

Retailing for a cool $1200...you first!