Gent (Deinze)-Wevelgem, it starts with 130 km of cruising around Belgium and Northern France followed by a flurry of bergs and then a final 38 km of flatter riding to the inevitable sprint finish. How hard can the climbing be if Super Mario got over them? Ask the riders from KT 2012, (the ones not in the following car) and they will tell you the Kemmelberg, for one, is a steep beast of a climb. It does not go up too far but it goes. And all these bergs seem to have some climbing just to get to the named climb, so yes, one can be gassed real fast in this area. Luckily there is the chance of catching back on each descent too, something sprinters like Cipo must have been good at.
This is one of the final tune up races for Ronde van Vlaanderen. The Velominati banner shall be flying in Flanders in a week from this Sunday’s race. Whomever is fit and fast into Wevelgem shall be on the short list for the Ronde.
Here is a provisional start list and here is the race profile. The start list shall be updated by Saturday so double check your picks before start time. No whining, no delgados.
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The Cycling Gods have blessed us with an Epic Spring campaign methinks!
VSP PICKS:
1. Billions and Billions
2. Cavendouche
3. Tommy Blow (Tomeke)
4. Cancellara
5. Stannard
VSP PICKS:
1. Cavendish
2. Greipel
3. Boassen Hagen
4. Cancellara
5. Phinney
VSP PICKS:
1. Sagan
2. Hushovd
3. Chavanel
4. Boonen
5. Phinney
VSP PICKS:
1. Cavendish
2. Hushovd
3. Sagan
4. Boonen
5. Greipel
VSP PICKS:
1. Boonen
2. Chavanel
3. Hushovd
4. Sagan
5. Cavendish
VSP PICKS:
1. Cav
2. Greipel
3. Sagan
4. Renshaw
5. Boasson Hagen
VSP PICKS:
1. Sagan
2. Boonen
3. Cancellara
4. Boasson Hagen
5. Gilbert
Fucking Tomeke laying down the LAW in the E3 race right now!!! Early days yet but the Dude is STRONG!
Cannondale vs Omega at the E3 with 47 k's to go. Preview of the next three weeks?
@Buck Rogers Sky look like their building some real strength in depth for the classics. Stannard and and Hayman have been going well and it now looks like EBH is comming into a bit of form. Not sure that Stannard has a finish so he'd need to go it alone from a good distance out but he's not ruling that out.