"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - E3

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bdcheung
03-28-09, 09:07 AM
Flecha on the move

dmotoguy
03-28-09, 10:10 AM
any live vids?

6k to go with boonen/pozzato up by 40"
fly:yes/land:no
03-28-09, 10:21 AM
well, its over, but you might get a replay of the finish here:

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-rtbf-sport.html

skinnyone
03-28-09, 10:23 AM
any live vids?

6k to go with boonen/pozzato up by 40"

try cyclingfans.com next time.. Usually got a live feed for major races.
fly:yes/land:no
03-28-09, 10:25 AM
^+1

channelsurfing.net

cyclingfans.com

justin tv searches

etc.
botto
03-28-09, 10:38 AM
pippo.
fly:yes/land:no
03-28-09, 10:54 AM
final k:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vEL8lVd1-E
bdcheung
03-28-09, 12:50 PM
@botto: Either my perception is severely off - in which case I ask you and the other veterans on this board to correct it - or this is yet another race where Rabo flubbed the endgame.
botto
03-28-09, 12:58 PM
@botto: Either my perception is severely off - in which case I ask you and the other veterans on this board to correct it - or this is yet another race where Rabo flubbed the endgame.

don't know. by the time i got home from my race, the coverage was over.
bdcheung
03-28-09, 01:01 PM
don't know. by the time i got home from my race, the coverage was over.

Flecha, Nuyens and Langevelde in the final break, along with Boonen, Chavanel and Devolder from QS, plus a smattering of some other solo riders.

Boonen launched the decisive attack on the Knokteberg, followed only by Iglinsky and Pippo.
botto
03-28-09, 01:03 PM
well, erik dekker isn't exactly the sharpest ds out there.
adam
03-28-09, 02:23 PM
What happened to Boonen's final kick?
bdcheung
03-28-09, 02:34 PM
He used it leading out Pippo.
skinnyone
03-28-09, 03:47 PM
He used it leading out Pippo.

Not really.. Pippo started sprinting before Tommy
Yep
03-28-09, 04:06 PM
Boonen must have been whipped. He just didn't look like he had it in the sprint.
fly:yes/land:no
03-28-09, 04:48 PM
boonen put in a huge attack earlier on a climb, but the field eventually came back together. he then instigated the 3 man break after another climb. boonen is tapped as the best sprinter of the guys that were left before the second break, and he had chavenel and devolder there, so i am not sure why he wanted to get away 25k from the finish. it seems to me that he could sit in, let chavenel and develoder clawback any attacks, and then sprint for the win. maybe he was using it more as training. it seemed to me that he was doing more than his fair share of the pulls in the 3 man break, so it isn't surprising that he didn't have his typical kick. pippo is no slouch, and giving him any advantage in a sprint is going to be bad news.
bdcheung
03-28-09, 06:13 PM
I doubt the 4-time winner was treating this as training.
Yep
03-28-09, 08:23 PM
boonen put in a huge attack earlier on a climb, but the field eventually came back together. he then instigated the 3 man break after another climb. boonen is tapped as the best sprinter of the guys that were left before the second break, and he had chavenel and devolder there, so i am not sure why he wanted to get away 25k from the finish. it seems to me that he could sit in, let chavenel and develoder clawback any attacks, and then sprint for the win. maybe he was using it more as training. it seemed to me that he was doing more than his fair share of the pulls in the 3 man break, so it isn't surprising that he didn't have his typical kick. pippo is no slouch, and giving him any advantage in a sprint is going to be bad news.

Hmm, I didn't see the race. Sounds like he did a ton of work. Interesting.