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Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?
No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders & UAE 2.
Gap isn’t very big though.
I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.
I need De Marchi to rack some pts up to have a chance at the purist
He has picked up 3+3+3+1 so far
but will probably drop down to 3rd overall by the end of the day.
My team for the final day –
My team for the final day –
YATES A.
IZAGIRRE I.
BUCHMANN
FUGLSANG
MARTIN D.
LANDA
POGACAR
QUINTERODropped Martinez for Landa & brought Quintero in for Bravo.
Still have one transfer left.
Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders & UAE 2.
Gap isn’t very big though.
I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.
KoM points stage 5The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.
Van Rensberg was knowhere in sight, it was actually Pogacar.
They took the KoM as shown in the pic
Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu
Roger that, I’ll keep my eye on it and update later.
It looks like Van Rensberg is keeping his KoM points, the race site and UCI have him still listed as 4th on that climb.
I guess someone wrote the numbers down wrong, 134 instead of 104.
Just looking at the Roubaix line up. Does anybody else think it looks a bit thin on major riders this time?I was thinking the same thing, my team seemed to pick itself.
I have 5 definites then a list of 8 for the final 3 places.
Not sure about QS as Gilbert & Stybar have both been ill.
What’s been wrong with them?…I seem to remember dodging Naesens points at the last race when he had been ‘ill”…he looked anything but “ill” on the day…
Gilbert had that stomach bug and apparently Stybar has been ill too, which is why he struggled in Ronde.
I’m not sure about picking either of them.
Just looking at the Roubaix line up. Does anybody else think it looks a bit thin on major riders this time?I was thinking the same thing, my team seemed to pick itself.
I have 5 definites then a list of 8 for the final 3 places.
Not sure about QS as Gilbert & Stybar have both been ill.
Missed the Buchmann opportnity.In reality holding Schachmann for the day won’t be a bad decision. GC points for 3rd, must still be holding points jersey, best young rider to go with 9th on the stage and a team mate bonus.
I did consider Buchmann, but went Fuglsang and Pogacar instead. The best play would have been dropping Martinez, but I doubt many would have done that.
I never considered dropping Martinez, he was unfortunate at the end, he got left behind by the front few and dragged everybody else to the finish before they all jumped him.
Working out what to do with my 3 remaining transfers isn’t going to be easy.
KoM points stage 5
KoM points stage 5
The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.
Van Rensberg was knowhere in site, it was actually Pogacar.
They took the KoM as shown in the pic
Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu
Did he puncture?..i thought he was just called back. Looks like quite a few avoided Buchmann possibly due to confusion about how Bora would play it…or maybe already booked up wih Schachmann and Konrad. Landa was definitely the less confused pick. I’m absolutely mazed that the peleton just let Buchmann ride away from them like that….maybe, like, me, they just had him tagged a grinder on climbs and not a danger in the way he was today.I just saw him slow up and thought his back tyre looked flat but was probably wrong.
Did Astana and Sanchez think it was Muhlberger and not Buchmann until too late?
I chose Buchmann over Landa because the final climb wasn’t from the difficult direction and I thought Buchmann would hang on.
On reflection I should have dropped Martinez too.
Astana getting this wrong.They should have attacked with Fuglsang earlier.
Looks like Bora have got their tactics right as Buchmann goes solo.
Never even entered my head that he would go solo. Never seen him do that before.
I don’t think it was tactics by Bora, just bad by all the other teams letting a leading competitor ride away from them without chasing until it was too late.
I think Buchmann was just marking Sanchez and nobody followed them & Sanchez helped him get away, then had a puncture.
Well they won’t bring back 1’30 on a climb against Buchmann. Astana have blown this.A complete mess up by Astana. Looks like bringing Buchmann in was a good decision for me but for completely different reasons.
At least it means Astana will have to go crazy tomorrow.
Astana getting this wrong.
Astana getting this wrong.
They should have attacked with Fuglsang earlier.
Can’t see Landa…has he gone already?All the main contenders there I think.
The next climb will probably thin things down a bit.
Crazy start, 50km & break hasn’t gone yet.Demarchi picking up mountain points as they go along.
I thought it may turn out to be a strange one today. That Cat1 is very well placed and really tough. That’s where they try to ditch Schachmann and maybe the end of De Marchi’s fun for today.
Looks like the fun has begun even earlier, QS going hard on the Cat3 before the first Cat1
Crazy start, 50km & break
Crazy start, 50km & break hasn’t gone yet.
Demarchi picking up mountain points as they go along.
