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Ooops/ It seems like cyclingquotes.com [size=30]does not[/size], I repeat, [b]does not![/b] have a full startlist up at http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/the_pressures_off_gilbert_ahead_of_fleche_and_liege/ and I cannot read through an article and not go hopelessly overboard and claim things that aren’t true, much to my dismay, as I have been so emphatically been pointed out to below. Look at the comments section to see for yourself how a grown man is humiliated by a huge dose of reality. #o 🙁 *sigh* My bad.

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[chiv30]

Watching it , it looked
Watching it , it looked nothing like a pedal strike :S

The front wheel slid out from under him as he was out the saddle on a turn …my initial thoughts were gravel but if he says oil it’s just as probable

[allez neg]

Bummer.
Did anyone else fall
Bummer.

Did anyone else fall off on this oil?

[enrique]

allez neg wrote:… was it a

allez neg wrote:

… was it a pedal strike?…

Cyclingquotes.com wrote:

“… Martin told reporters [at] the finish. “You look at the road, I think there’s a batch of oil or something…”

http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/crash_prevents_martin_from_making_history_in_liege/

[allez neg]

You gotta feel for Dan Martin
You gotta feel for Dan Martin – was it a pedal strike? Looked like it.
We’ve all been there, although with me it was at a still half – asleep 5.30 ride to the station on my Brompton and I stayed on. <:P

[VVV73]

19th and had dan martin
19th and had dan martin 🙂

[TERatcliffe26]

15th on stage for purist,
15th on stage for purist, shame I went J-Rod, any other of my usual choices, Moreno or slagter would have seen me top 10. All in all satisfied with that

[Gkam84]

Alan Tullett wrote:44th on

Alan Tullett wrote:

44th on stage and if Dan Martin had stayed upright I would have probably won :”( :”(

Doubtful, quite a number ahead of you also had Martin 😉 😉

[Alan Tullett]

44th on stage and if Dan
44th on stage and if Dan Martin had stayed upright I would have probably won :”( :”(

[chiv30]

Plus point for me….upto
Plus point for me….upto 19th in the fs overall and haven’t got to my GT goals yet 🙂

[VVV73]

I got 6 in top 20 in
I got 6 in top 20 in each.
Stand 1,2,8,11,12,20
Purist 1,2,6,8,11,20
Bugger forgot i didnt have pozzo cause he was at trentino…lol
Denifl up 2 spots on last year 🙂
I did see 2 very good rides for tour de romandie…..Local team riders for IAM Mathais Frank and Reichenbach(yth jersey contender)

[Alan Tullett]

1 2 5 8 11 15 and I had
1 2 5 8 11 15 and I had Martin as well!! If only he’d stayed on his wheels I could have won this one! And I need some new sunglasses!

Still, been better in the last few classics after a terrible start!

1st and 3rd in Podium game.

[chiv30]

I’ll be honest that is the
I’ll be honest that is the most boring race I’ve watched all season (|:

[VVV73]

Gerrans has the biggest heart
Gerrans has the biggest heart of any aussie we have turned out since Phil “the animal ” Anderson…
I AM SO EXCITED 🙂

[Gkam84]

Today’s provisional winner
Today’s provisional winner is

1 Team Crazy macy 156

Overall wont change over 10 points

1 Granny Gear cBaugh 1447
2 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 1427
3 Grupetto chasers Guy Morse 1414

[Gkam84]

1 Simon GERRANS
2 Alejandro
1 Simon GERRANS
2 Alejandro VALVERDE BELMONTE
3 Michal KWIATKOWSKI
4 Giampaolo CARUSO
5 Domenico POZZOVIVO
6 Tom Jelte SLAGTER
7 Roman KREUZIGER
8 Philippe GILBERT
9 Daniel MORENO FERNANDEZ
10 Romain BARDET
11 Jelle VANENDERT
12 Enrico GASPAROTTO
13 Damiano CUNEGO
14 Cyril GAUTIER
15 Bauke MOLLEMA
16 Rudy MOLARD
17 Tiago MACHADO
18 Anthony ROUX
19 Frank SCHLECK
20 Stefan DENIFL

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