Agreed, Asgreen was definitely in good form, he won earlier this Classics campaign. I was still shocked to see him outsprint MDVP and ride WVA and Alaphillippe off his wheel though.
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It really drives home the point of training specificity... The perfect fitness window is small and fragile...
That finish shocked me! It also looked like maybe WvdP knew his legs were shot as he was caught in a smaller gear?
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Agree. He definitely sat up and I've never really seen him do anything like that during a sprint finish in cyclocross, road or MTB. Not sure what happened, but my guess is his legs just didn't have it for such a long sprint after all they had been through.
Valverde definitely looks good right now. Alpecin Fenix are not going to be able to hold on to Philipsen for long if he keeps doing things like this.
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Jasper Philipsen overpowers Sam Bennett and Mark Cavendish after brutal day in Scheldeprijs 2021
Deceuninck - Quick-Step looked nailed on to take the victory, but it was Alpecin-Fenix rider Philipsen who emerged on top
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One for the old(er) folks.... Happy for him.
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Congrats to Tom Pidcock on his first big win, another great new rider.
Can't wait to get a healthy Remco back in the mix with this amazing new lead group.
Can't wait to get a healthy Remco back in the mix with this amazing new lead group.
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Love that sprint today at Amstel Gold! Kinda looks indeterminate to me. But the broadcast and CN did not show the photo finish camera images yet! Is the UCI suppressing this? The broadcast did show the image of an official's ipad, but that is even more ambiguous. of course both deserved the win!!
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Thankfully Alaphilippe did NOT win LBL, thank you Pogacar for preventing that.
Valverde is at best on his 2019 level and it's obvious that's the best he's going to manage again and at 41 he's never learned to how to be tactically smart. When Valverde retires, I'm fully done with the sport. There's no one else in the peloton I care enough about to look for races to watch (and that requires they win for me to actually look for the race). Once Valverde retires the entire rest of the field I either don't like at all or don't care one way or the other about.
Valverde is at best on his 2019 level and it's obvious that's the best he's going to manage again and at 41 he's never learned to how to be tactically smart. When Valverde retires, I'm fully done with the sport. There's no one else in the peloton I care enough about to look for races to watch (and that requires they win for me to actually look for the race). Once Valverde retires the entire rest of the field I either don't like at all or don't care one way or the other about.
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Cracks me up how much you don't like Alaphilippe. 🙂
Valverde birthday win would have been a nice story but oh well.
I was hoping Gaudi would steal it, he came in second so many times last year.
For a second while they were playing cat and mouse I thought they might get caught there.
Valverde birthday win would have been a nice story but oh well.
I was hoping Gaudi would steal it, he came in second so many times last year.
For a second while they were playing cat and mouse I thought they might get caught there.
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