Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2016

2014, Amstel Gold Race, Gilbert Philippe, Valkenburg (pic: ©Sirotti)

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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Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 17 2016 at 9:07 pm

Anyone see the footage of Felline crashing out in the neutral zone? Talk is he was using his hand to remove some glass in his tyre & then got the hand jammed between fork & wheel.

Unfortunately it looks like he'll be out for a while has he broken his nose & they've also found a small skull fracture (landed face first).
Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 17 2016 at 9:10 pm

@Oli

Nice emotional win by Gasparotto in the end there, but was that the most boring hilly classic ever otherwise?

I reckon it suffers from the fact that it directly follows P-R (and especially in comparison to this year's), but when one of the little fellas spent most of Saturday night keeping us up, I wasn't too upset in having to sacrifice watching it last night. Was pretty sure I could happily find the last 10k online this morning for review before looking at results.
chris says:

Apr 17 2016 at 11:11 pm

@frank

153. chris (0 points)

'rse
Teocalli says:

Apr 18 2016 at 2:44 am

@chris

Good news - I tied with someone.

Bad news - with you!
PT says:

Apr 18 2016 at 3:17 am

@Mikael Liddy

Anyone see the footage of Felline crashing out in the neutral zone? Talk is he was using his hand to remove some glass in his tyre & then got the hand jammed between fork & wheel.

Unfortunately it looks like he’ll be out for a while has he broken his nose & they’ve also found a small skull fracture (landed face first).

Ouch!

Could probably have been avoided if he'd read the post (& discussion) about cleaning tyres on the go by Gianni last year.
Oli says:

Apr 18 2016 at 5:26 am

@Mikael Liddy

Fucking OUCH
wiscot says:

Apr 18 2016 at 6:34 am

@frank

Denti with a rockin’ 7 points!

Final Race Results

1. GASPAROTTO Enrico

2. VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael

3. COLBRELLI Sonny

4. COQUARD Bryan

5. MATTHEWS Michael

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THREE points! I'm so stoked. Merckx bless you Bryan Coquard. The comeback starts here . . . cough, splutter, choke . . .
wiscot says:

Apr 18 2016 at 6:38 am

@Mikael Liddy

Anyone see the footage of Felline crashing out in the neutral zone? Talk is he was using his hand to remove some glass in his tyre & then got the hand jammed between fork & wheel.

Unfortunately it looks like he’ll be out for a while has he broken his nose & they’ve also found a small skull fracture (landed face first).

Ouch is right. Who needs disc brakes when a human hand stops you so much better? It was like he hit an invisible wall!

Happy to see Gasparotto win and win it for a small team. Wins like this really help keep the smaller teams in the sport because it keeps their sponsors happy.
Chickenmcnasty says:

Apr 18 2016 at 7:29 am

If only I would've picked Gasparotto for the win and not 2nd...

Oh well, at least I finally got on the board.
DVMR says:

Apr 18 2016 at 9:45 am

Gasparotto and colbrelli were on my shortlist, but then again so was felline! Ouchers! Poor man, that was some whack!