Mr 60% shows how it's done.
The VSP must wearily pack its bags in Northern France and head over to the Netherlands. Hung over, you bet. After the Ronde and Paris-Roubaix, everyone is a little beat up. Those cobbles can wear a person down.
For those riders who can kill the short steep Limburg climbs, this is the beginning of their Spring Classics season. The profile of this race looks like a Japanese handsaw: if you are not going up, you are going down. This is the 50th edition of Amstel Gold and despite the race being named for a not entirely interesting beer, a lot of riders are keen for this.
Perhaps I point this out every year but a look at past winners of Amstel Gold makes it look like a race for the Pot Belge users of the peloton. Crank up every hill at maximum power and after thirty-something of them, gaps open up. When Stephan Schumacher won it in 2007 that should have been a tip off. Didn’t Lance do well in this race? Oh well, let’s not go down that rabbit hole.
Everyone knows the VSP deal: free entry and great prizes. No one has a commanding lead so everything is still up for the taking and bragging.
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it'll seem strange not having krisstoff winning , shirley (sagan) choking and etixx looking at one another whilst someone breaks from the front
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@Michael Heusdens
Modification. Not sure Purito has the punch to challenge Phil. If it's close at the top and Matthews is in it it'll be his.
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Sagan out Mathews in.
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Beautiful, still day here in the Limburg. Seconding the concept of the lighter beer. Being exposed to so many Belgian beers, it is rewarding to occasionally drink a lighter Dutch beer at the turnaround point that doesn't jeopardise the ride home
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Never bet against Gilbert when he's on form. I learned that the hard way a couple of years ago.