Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2016

Ooooof! The VSP generator and operators need more than a week to recover from that race. Tommeke may never recover, that chance will never come again.

We now move into the Netherlands and the first of three Ardennes races. Whomever did well in Paris-Roubaix probably won’t like all the hills in Amstel. Same with the beer but I’ll leave that beery subject alone this year.

PhilGil has been busy fighting drunk drivers (He Badger’d him!) and is now off the start list then again he is back on as of Wednesday. Sure, the police pay attention when the cyclist in the altercation is Philippe Gilbert, ffs. Matt Hayman and Tony Martin are on the list, ouch, no rest there. So rest, recover, don’t spare the malted rehydrating beverage. No Delgados please.

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234 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2016”

  1. I’m

    too tired from the rock race to think

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Dumoulin
    3. Swift
    4. Weening
    5. alaphillipe
  2. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Sep Vanmarcke
    3. Tom Dumoulin
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Ben Swift
  3. No dutch guys in there. Don’t tell my family

    in NL.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews
    2. Kwiatkowski
    3. Alaphillippe
    4. Felline
    5. Gallopin
  4. VSP PICKS:

    1. KWIATKOWSKI Michal
    2. ALAPHILIPPE Julian
    3. DUMOULIN Tom
    4. ROELANDTS Jurgen
    5. BAKELANTS Jan
  5. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sep Vanmarcke
    2. Michal Kwiatkowski
    3. Tom Dumoulin
    4. Tony Gallopin
    5. Jan Bakelants
  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Bryan Coquard
    2. Michael Matthews
    3. Julian Alaphilippe
    4. Sonny Cobrelli
    5. Tom Dumoulin
  7. Allez les sabots! (Go cloggies…)

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Dumoulin
    2. Michael Matthews
    3. Michael Kwiatkowski
    4. Bauke Mollema
    5. Julian Alaphilippe
  8. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Julian Alaphillipe
    3. Joaquin Rodriguez
    4. Michal Kwiatokowski
    5. Wilco Kelderman
  9. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michal Kwiatkowski
    2. Julian Alaphilippe
    3. Simon Gerrans
    4. Tony Gallopin
    5. Rui Costa
  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. GALLOPIN Tony
    2. GERRANS Simon
    3. KWIATKOWSKI Michal
    4. MATTHEWS Michael
    5. SWIFT Ben
  11. Is Gilbert racing or not? The start list has him in.

    And where is Valverde

    ?

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews, Bling
    2. Gerrans, Simon
    3. Costa, Rui
    4. Gilbert
    5. Kwiatkowski
  12. crap, just saw G

    ilbert might be in jail for the race.  either way he’s got a broken finger.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. kwiatkowski
    2. gallopin
    3. matthews
    4. dumoulin
    5. martin
  13. Been a while, lets have a pop after my each way win on Stannard at PR

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Dumoulin
    3. Swift
    4. Mickey Matthews
    5. Jan Bakelants
  14. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sep Vanmarcke
    2. Michael Matthews
    3. Michal Kwiatkowski
    4. Simon Gerrans
    5. Tony Gallopin
  15. Schleck love!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Gerrans
    2. Kwiatkowski
    3. alaphillipe
    4. samu sanchez
    5. schleck
  16. the field is pretty wide open.  i’ll end up with no VSP points on this one, but after Roubaix, who cares?

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews
    2. Vanmarcke
    3. Kwiatkowski
    4. Swift
    5. Boom
  17. Good lord, sounds like Phil G. maced an angry motorist! And broke his finger. Only in pro cycling are the riders fucked with during “practice.” Imagine Lebron having to mace someone while working on his free throws…

  18. VSP PICKS:

    1. Michael Matthews
    2. Michal Kwiatkowski
    3. Simon Gerrans
    4. Phillips Gilbert
    5. Tony Gallopin
  19. Wow. Tough calls. I think it is wide open. But it is time for a certain EQS rider to break through.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Alaphilippe
    2. Kwiatkowski
    3. Michael Matthews
    4. Hesjedal
    5. Fabio Aru
  20. Once again, another crapshoot. I didn’t pick Gilbert only because it’s unclear whether he’s going to race.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews
    2. Alaphilippe
    3. Kwiatkowski
    4. Gerrans
    5. Gallopin
  21. Changing my number 5 pick. Still a crapshoot.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Matthews
    2. Alaphilippe
    3. Kwiatkowski
    4. Gerrans
    5. Coquard
  22.  

    Picks box is acting weird.  First it only shows one box and after a refresh it shows five boxes but puts numbers in front of some names.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. 3.Kwiatkowski
    2. Gerrans
    3. 3.Dumoulin
    4. Vanmarcke
    5. Matthews
  23. @Ron

    Good lord, sounds like Phil G. maced an angry motorist! And broke his finger. Only in pro cycling are the riders fucked with during “practice.” Imagine Lebron having to mace someone while working on his free throws…

    The odd part is to be carrying that stuff (when not in Bear country) would seem to imply some history of incidents and if not would appear to be a questionable accessory.

  24. VSP PICKS:

    1. RODRIGUEZ Joaquim
    2. MATTHEWS Michael
    3. KREUZIGER Roman
    4. GALLOPIN Tony
    5. COSTA Rui
  25. Gerrans and Matthews riding together, WTF!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. KWIATOWSKI, Michal
    2. ALAPHILIPPE, Julian
    3. GALLOPIN, Tony
    4. GERRANS, Simon
    5. MATTHEWS, Michael
  26. May your crank arms be golden!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Dumoulin
    3. Gerrans
    4. Matthews
    5. Gallopin
  27. VSP PICKS:

    1. MATTHEWS, Michael
    2. KWIATKOWSKI, Michal
    3. GERRANS, Simon
    4. COSTA, Rui
    5. GALLOPIN, Tony
  28. Need some redemption after a big zero in PR.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kwiatkowski
    2. Gallopin
    3. Matthews
    4. Gilbert
    5. Vanmarcke

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