Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Gent – Wevelgem 2016

Deinze – Wevelgem really but Gent sounds correct, like Het Volk. Last year’s windy wet edition was a pretty awesome race except Luca Paolini won it wearing tights (FFS!?) and maybe high on Italian marching powder. Riders were leaning into the wind and being blown off the road. It was awesome to watch maybe not so awesome to race.

Tony Martin will be lining up as he prepares for a Spring Classics campaign. If you have Ronde van Vlaanderen dreams you best ride this and see how the gun prep has gone. Tomeke, Faboo, it should be a proper battle.

Here is the start list and it is impressive. Let us hope the Belgian weather is true to form. The prize list is equally impressive and after that weird Milan-Sanremo finish, no VSP savants are crushing it yet. So do some stretches, limber up, if you need to unload some bad choices (H. Haussler), get those out of your system now before the real races begin.

To review:


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295 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Gent – Wevelgem 2016”

  1. picks are in, fingers crossed for bad weather :-)

    VSP PICKS:

    1. MARTIN Tony
    2. CANCELLARA Fabian
    3. KRISTOFF Alexander
    4. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    5. VANMARCKE Sep

  2. Stan the Man in a breakaway with Matti B. Sprinters scrabbling for third step.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Stannard
    2. Breschel
    3. Van Avermaet
    4. Boonen
    5. Cavendish

  3. VSP PICKS:

    1. Alexander Kristoff
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Mark Cavendish
    4. Jurgen Roelandts
    5. Edvald Boasson Hagen

  4. Weather looks properly foul, but not quite as epic as last year’s conditions.  Sagan is ready for a change in luck I think.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Greg Van Avermaet
    3. Tom Boonen
    4. Der Panzerwagen
    5. Nikki Terpstra

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Greg Van Avermaet
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Alexander Kristoff
    4. Stybar Zdenek
    5. Fabian Cancellara

  9. Love the header.  Gent Wevelgem produced one of my all time favorite cycling photos last year.  #9 in this with a bike floating down the aqueduct and the two stunned riders on the grass.  Cannot wait to see how it unfolds this year.

     

  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. GAVIRIA, Fernando
    2. WIPPERT, Wouter
    3. CAVENDISH, Mark
    4. KRISTOFF, Alexander
    5. SAGAN, Peter

  11. Until proven other otherwise he will always be Greg Van Almost.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Van Avermet
    3. Stybar
    4. Martin
    5. Sagan

  13. VSP PICKS:

    1. Gaviria, Fernando
    2. Sagan, Peter
    3. Van Avermaet, Greg
    4. Debusschere, Jens
    5. Benoot, Tiesj

  14. Do you think Cancellara is having nightmares all week after his lock-up at MSR, seeing his entire final Classics campaign flash before his front wheel?

    Also, hope to not curse him…but has Sagan ever fucking gone done, aside from being hit by the moto? It seems like hitting the deck is not in his vocabulary. Maybe all roadies should be forced to mtn. bike first. Cadel also seemed good at not going down.

  15. VSP PICKS:

    1. SAGAN, Peter
    2. KRISTOFF, Alexander
    3. CANCELLARA Fabian
    4. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    5. BOONEN Tom

  17. Good luck to all

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Van Avermaet
    2. Tom Boonen
    3. Alexander Kristoff
    4. Cancellara
    5. Ian Stannard

  20. Picks not showing up after I am posting.  Hopefully they are in.  Any way to confirm?

  21. @Buck Rogers

    Picks not showing up after I am posting. Hopefully they are in. Any way to confirm?

    If you see them in the VSP Picks boxes after reloading, you should be good.

    Very strange that some of you are still having this problem. Please PM me your browser/computer details.

  22. Banking on a bunch sprint at the finish.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Gaviria
    2. Kristoff
    3. Demare
    4. Sagan
    5. Boasson Hagen

  23. VSP PICKS:

    1. Ian Stannard
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Eddy Boassen Hagen
    4. Lars Boom
    5. Boy van Poppel

  24. I don’t think Tommeke has the form right now.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff
    2. Sagan
    3. Cancellara
    4. van Avermaet
    5. gaviria

  26. VSP PICKS:

    1. Alexander Kristoff
    2. Greg Van Avermaet
    3. Peter Sagan
    4. Fabian Cancellara
    5. Fernanado Gaviria

  28. @BenAndo

    I don’t think Tommeke has the form right now.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff
    2. Sagan
    3. Cancellara
    4. van Avermaet
    5. gaviria

    I think Tommeke is going to give it some gas and stay out of trouble. If he gets in the mix at the end, all well and good. Flanders and Roubaix are what he’s looking at.

  30. @Ron

    Do you think Cancellara is having nightmares all week after his lock-up at MSR, seeing his entire final Classics campaign flash before his front wheel?

    Also, hope to not curse him…but has Sagan ever fucking gone done, aside from being hit by the moto? It seems like hitting the deck is not in his vocabulary. Maybe all roadies should be forced to mtn. bike first. Cadel also seemed good at not going down.

    I’m pretty sure I asked myself that question about Sagan, theorizing the exact same thing, and actually did find ex’s of him going down. And we recall him failing a wheelie in a late season crit. But make no mistake… getting comfortable with your wheels moving laterally, or getting a little squirrley, is not a bad thing for sure. And mtn bikes and cross races sure do help in that regard. Still, Sagan is one of a kind.

  32. Getting in on the action fairly early today!

    I’m also pretty psyched for E3 tomorrow as well.

     

     

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Van Avermaet
    2. Sagan
    3. Spartacus
    4. Eddy Boss
    5. Stannard

  34. @frank

    @Buck Rogers

    Picks not showing up after I am posting. Hopefully they are in. Any way to confirm?

    If you see them in the VSP Picks boxes after reloading, you should be good.

    Very strange that some of you are still having this problem. Please PM me your browser/computer details.

    Thanks, Mate.  They show up at the bottom of the page when I reload but the MSR and the Women’s Race do not show that I received any points for them and the same was happening with them.  I should have had one point for MSR and I only had Lizzie for the win in the Women’s race.  I am using Safari for my browser on a MacBook Pro (not sure if that is what you need???  I am a computer idiot).

  35. VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Greg Van Avermaet
    3. Tiesj Benoot
    4. Zdenek Stybar
    5. Edvald Boasson Hagen

  36. VSP PICKS:

    1. DEMARE Arnaud
    2. GAVIRIA Fernando
    3. VIVIANI Elia
    4. NIZZOLO Giacomo
    5. GREIPEL Andre

  37. VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Boonen
    2. Tiesj Boonen
    3. Zdenek Stybar
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Peter Sagan

  38. ha Benoot

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Boonen
    2. Tiesj Benoot
    3. Zdenek Stybar
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Peter Sagan

  39. Lotto Soudal take down another classic, while the big guns keep their powder dry.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. T. Benoot
    2. N. Terpstra
    3. E. Boasson Hagen
    4. J. Roelandts
    5. G. Van Avermaet

  40. My heart goes out to the people of Belgium in this sorrowful time. I truly hope that the upcoming bike racing, that is so woven into their culture, will help ease the burden of their loss. The power of the bike is undeniable.

     

     

     

    VSP PICKS:

    1. P. Sagan
    2. F. Gaviria
    3. G. van Avermaet
    4. I. Stannard
    5. F.Cancellara

  41. Keep the rubber side down this time, boyo.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. GAVIRIA, Fernando
    2. SAGAN, Peter
    3. STANNARD, Ian
    4. DEMARE, Arnaud
    5. KRISTOFF, Alexander

  43. VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Tiesj Benoot
    3. Greg van Avermaet
    4. Sepp Vanmarcke
    5. Lars Boom

  45. A technical descent on the Kemmelberg and the final 20 miles makes me hope that some of the gifted bike handlers grind it out after dispatching the purer sprinters. Given my miserable Milan-San Remo picks, this likely means that Gaviria wins the top four spots with the fifth awarded to Cav based on what he might have done had he not withdrawn.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Kristoff
    3. Cancellara
    4. Stybar
    5. VanMarcke

  46. No idea what I am doing here

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Boom
    2. vanmarcke
    3. Hayman
    4. Boonen
    5. Devolder

  48. Just altering slightly in the hope they auto map and save Frank some work.

     

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Yogi Stannard
    2. Sparty
    3. Pinchy Sagan
    4. Greg Van Avermaet
    5. Eddy Boasson the Garden

  49. What an incredible race that was last year, lets hope for another great one. Definitely missing Paolini, that guy was great.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. CANCELLARA Fabian
    2. BOONEN Tom
    3. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    4. KRISTOFF Alexander
    5. STANNARD Ian

  50. VSP PICKS:

    1. sep vanmarcke
    2. tom boonen
    3. alexander kristoff
    4. zydenek stybar
    5. peter sagan

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