Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Let's rather call the ladies podium V/D Breggen(hope she recovers well after the ITT)Armistead Prevot In no particular order
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Don't the u23 start soon.. will give us a good indication of how the men's race could unfold
'Dale Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 I'm too scared to even whisper it.. Don't fear when Peter is near... http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tdf15st13-sagan-vanavermaet-920.jpg
tombeej Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Belgium is so strong that they could afford to leave out such Classics stars from Lotto Soudal as Jens Debusschere, Jürgen Roelandts (both former Belgian national champs as well) and of course the lighty with a massive future and who races like a young merckx: Tim Wellens. Any other nation would dream to have these guys in their team. This course - and the weather forecast - may as well have been teleported from the muddy windswept hellengen of Flanders. And anyone not schooled in the art of Northern Classics style racing is going to be at a serious disadvantage. Oh, and... GO TOMMEKE!!
'Dale Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Belgium is so strong that they could afford to leave out such Classics stars from Lotto Soudal as Jens Debusschere, Jürgen Roelandts (both former Belgian national champs as well) and of course the lighty with a massive future and who races like a young merckx: Tim Wellens. Any other nation would dream to have these guys in their team. This course - and the weather forecast - may as well have been teleported from the muddy windswept hellengen of Flanders. And anyone not schooled in the art of Northern Classics style racing is going to be at a serious disadvantage. Oh, and... GO TOMMEKE!! Their collective strength can also be their downfall unless they choose a leader or nr 1 racerOtherwise they can just nullify their impact on the race by neutralising each other.Who will they serve? Many are wondering....
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Don't fear when Peter is near... http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tdf15st13-sagan-vanavermaet-920.jpgHad to he that pic hey..
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 You guys know that Prevot has said she plans on retiring after the Olympics to settle down and start a family.. wtf woman.. like she is 23.. aye.. would be such a shame if she does..
tombeej Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Their collective strength can also be their downfall unless they choose a leader or nr 1 racerOtherwise they can just nullify their impact on the race by neutralising each other.Who will they serve? Many are wondering....Not necessarily. Having a no.1 leader supported by a team is just not the Belgian style of racing. Makes no sense where they come from. On tight, twisty little mud-slicked cobbled lanes that's putting too many eggs in one basket. Too much can - and does - go wrong in those races. With the peloton strung out over a kilometre and more, with the team cars strung single file for another few kays that have zero chance of reaching a rider who has flatted, the only thing to do is have a number of options for the win. If one goes down they just get left behind. That's it. Flandrain one day racing is more like a war on 2 wheels than modern fully supported stage racing. It's about riders going down/falling out/dropping away one by one over 7-odd hours of racing until only a small few of the hardest/most talented/luckiest survivors remain at the end. It's this cycling culture that breeds the type of riders that Belgium always produces: powerful, muscular, aggressive, unsentimental, uncompromising, attacking puncheurs who thrive in that kind of attritional racing in often *** conditions. They fully expect that if they flat or go down, esp. towards the business end of a race, their teammates won't wait for them. But of course the Belgium team does have the big flatlanders like Vandenberge who will be there in support if necessary. For the other big names in that team, they'll have the freedom to race the only way they know how to race. Attack, attack, attack!
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 The support has been great hey.. so many people have been there cheering one.. lekker... Right time for the u23 men.
Mntboy Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 You guys know that Prevot has said she plans on retiring after the Olympics to settle down and start a family.. wtf woman.. like she is 23.. aye.. would be such a shame if she does..She's so good that if she decides four or so years later to race again that she would still whip everyone's behind!
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 She's so good that if she decides four or so years later to race again that she would still whip everyone's behind!Hopefully now that the ladies will also have world tour teams from next year on she will find motivation to continue.. imagine being 23 and being the holder of 3 world titles.. yoh yoh. .Incredible talent.
Mntboy Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Hopefully now that the ladies will also have world tour teams from next year on she will find motivation to continue.. imagine being 23 and being the holder of 3 world titles.. yoh yoh. .Incredible talent.Actually it's four (see the picture attached) but ja I get your point. Until ladies racing get the recognition it deserves it's going to be a big struggle to keep the really talented one's in teams and competing. Ferrand-Prevot and Marianne Vos can justifiably refer to themselves as being the leading 'all round' cyclists. Their palmares across cycling disciplines is that good.
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 There are talks of both Vos and Prevot going for the Olympic double (road & XCO) It makes me so excited I can hardly contain myself.. that prospect of them competing against each other in both those disciplines. . Hope vos is able to come back strong in 2016.. and that that injury hasn't caused too much trouble on her return.
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Yoh yoh.. watching these youngsters go up that lilly climb.. man it's going to be something else come sunday. .
Benjamin Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 These lads going to struggle to keep this pace up for another 114 clips
Gen Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 This Rwandan and Ethrian is the break are riding wee.esp the Rwandan.. hope they will have more in the tanks after they are caught..which will be soon
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