Velominati Super Prestige: Gent – Wevelgem 2016

The bicycle of Gert Steegmans in the 2015 Ghent-Wevelgem

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.

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frank says:

Mar 24 2016 at 12:24 pm

@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.
TheVid says:

Mar 24 2016 at 12:47 pm
Banking on a bunch sprint at the finish.

VSP PICKS:
1. Gaviria
2. Kristoff
3. Demare
4. Sagan
5. Boasson Hagen
Monti Martani says:

Mar 24 2016 at 1:07 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Ian Stannard
2. Peter Sagan
3. Eddy Boassen Hagen
4. Lars Boom
5. Boy van Poppel
BenAndo says:

Mar 24 2016 at 1:45 pm
I don't think Tommeke has the form right now.

VSP PICKS:
1. Kristoff
2. Sagan
3. Cancellara
4. van Avermaet
5. gaviria
Minnesota Expat says:

Mar 24 2016 at 1:54 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Alexander Kristoff
2. Greg Van Avermaet
Minnesota Expat says:

Mar 24 2016 at 1:58 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Alexander Kristoff
2. Greg Van Avermaet
3. Peter Sagan
4. Fabian Cancellara
5. Fernanado Gaviria
Guy says:

Mar 24 2016 at 1:58 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Stannard
2. Van Avermaert
3. Sagan
4. Greipel
5. Kristoff
wiscot says:

Mar 24 2016 at 2:41 pm
@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.
chui says:

Mar 24 2016 at 2:46 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Stybar
2. Sagan
3. Cancellara
4. Stannard
5. Kristoff
wilburrox says:

Mar 24 2016 at 2:52 pm

@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.