Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2015

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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160 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2015”

  2. VSP PICKS:

    1. VALVERDE Alejandro
    2. GILBERT Philippe
    3. KWIATKOWSKI Michal
    4. MATTHEWS Michael
    5. MORENO Daniel

  3. Totally guessing on this one, gone with heart over head and hoping my favourite team OGE can get the win.

    Off to get drunk now and hopefully see my football team win the title!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Philippe Gilbert
    3. Alejandro Valverde
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Tony Gallopin

  4. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michal Kwiatowski
    2. Jelle Vanendert
    3. Daniel Moreno
    4. Lars Boom
    5. Enrico Gasparotto

  5. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michal Kwiatkowski
    2. Jelle Vanendert
    3. Daniel Moreno
    4. Lars Boom
    5. Enrico Gasparotto

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michal Kwiatkowski
    2. Alejandro Valverde
    3. Michael Matthews
    4. Philippe Gilbert
    5. Daniel Martin

  7. VSP PICKS:

    1. Al Valverde
    2. Mick Kwiatkowski
    3. Phil Gilbert
    4. Pedro Sagan
    5. Dan Martin

  8. Correction

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Al Valverde
    2. Mick Kwiatkowski
    3. Phil Gilbert
    4. Pedro Sagan
    5. Mick Matthews

  11. VSP PICKS:

    1. Valverde, Alejandro
    2. Ktiatkowski, Michal
    3. Gilbert, Phillipe
    4. Martin, Dan
    5. Mathhews, Michael

  12. VSP PICKS:

    1. Alejandro Valverde
    2. Michael Matthews
    3. Tom Dumoulin
    4. Philippe Gilbert
    5. Michael Valgren

  13. VSP PICKS:

    1. Gilbert, Philippe
    2. Valverde, Alejandro
    3. Matthews, Michael
    4. Kwiatkowski, Michal
    5. Rodriguez, Joaquim

  14. VSP PICKS:

    1. Domoulin, tom
    2. Gilbert, Phillippe
    3. Matthews, Michael
    4. Martin, Dan
    5. Sagan, Peter

  15. Random darts reveal…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Sagan
    3. Martin
    4. Van Avermaet
    5. Boom

  19. VSP PICKS:

    1. Dumoulin, dare I say rouge
    2. Gilbert
    3. Valverde, for tis himself
    4. Kennaugh
    5. Gallopin

  20. VSP PICKS:

    1. Philippe Gilbert
    2. Michal Kwiatkowski
    3. Michael Matthews
    4. Dan Martin
    5. Tom Dumoulin

  24. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michal Kwiatkowski
    2. Phillippe Gilbert
    3. Alejandro Valverde
    4. Dan Martin
    5. Michael Mathews

  25. BMC and Gilbert will ride the same race this year, but with everyone watching Gilbert maybe their sacrificial lamb will escape with the rainbows and a couple of dutchmen and spaniards on his wheel? I can’t see OGE letting that happen though.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews
    2. Gilbert
    3. Kwiatowski
    4. Valverde
    5. Rodriguez

  26. VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Gilbert
    3. Valverde
    4. Martin, Dan
    5. Mollema

  27. VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Dumoulin
    2. Michael Matthews
    3. Michal Kwiatkowski
    4. Joaquim Rodriguez
    5. Alejandro Valverde

  32. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Philippe Gilbert
    3. Michal Kwiatkowski
    4. Tom Dumoulin
    5. Rui Costa

  33. First win in the rainbows for Kwiatkrush, hoping Bling can follow the same formula that worked for Gerro last year & win big next week.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Flower Power
    2. Phast Phil
    3. Bling
    4. Danny Boy
    5. Purito

  36. If Sagan places that would doubly impressive since he’s not listed to race. Just sayin.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Dan Martin
    3. Gilbert
    4. Kelderman
    5. Rui Costa

  38. Shots in the dark…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Philippe Gilbert
    2. Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
    3. Michal Kwiatkowski
    4. Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver
    5. Dan Martin

  46. VSP PICKS:

    1. Philippe Gilbert
    2. Alejandro Valverde
    3. Michael Matthews
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Daniel Martin

  50. Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team) is posed to defend his title at Amstel Gold on Sunday after a podium finish at Brabantse Pijl on Wednesday, which he will unless Michael Mathews (Orica-GreenEdge) still has something left in the tank on the final turn up the Cauberg. Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx – Quick-Step), however, hasn’t shown much better form since Paris-Nice than Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) has.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Philippe Gilbert
    2. Alejandro Valverde
    3. Michael Matthews
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Joaquim Rodriguez

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