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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-05-2008 01:21
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The cobbles are approaching in the continental tour. There are 6 cobbled races this season:
Omloop Het Volk
Nokere-Koerse
E3 Prijs
GP Herning
Slagelse CC
Cougar Mountain Classic
But who are the favourites?
Of last years big guns. Mattan and Merihaeghe have retired. Hammond has had a stat decrease and both Franzoi and Hoste are back in the ProTour. Riders moving down from the ProTour seem to be the best placed.
Geraint Thomas - Joining British Airways from Accumalux, the Brit is tipped to dominate many of the cobbled races, with a particular eye on Slagelse CC - Waghlon's home race. With Niels Albert, he has a great right hand man.
Magnus Backstedt - Procycling-BBC took the Big Swede on for his last season at the top and he has good support from Blythe and Hammond.
George Hincapie - Winner of last years Ronde van Vlaanderen, Hincapie is a threat but is only riding in America, so is limited to the Cougar Mountain Classic for NVidia.
Pieter Jacobs - Fed-Ex have the strongest cobbled rider who was in the continental tour last year but Jacobs has developed since his season at HealthNet where he was 9th in Omloop Het Volk and 14th in the E3 Prijs.
Tom Veelers - Armed with the strongest sprint of the cobbled riders, B&O's dutchman should use it well to score some strong results. He signed from La Gazetta and has support from Jempy Ducker, who signed from Accumalux.
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| Macquet |
Posted on 24-05-2008 01:44
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Watch out for my 4 Cobble leaders:
Kavsek, Simunek, Joachim and Ingels
Yeah Hoping for a breakaway to stay out all day or a mass crash taking out the favorites in the las few Km...but it will be fun either way
Edited by Macquet on 24-05-2008 01:45
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 24-05-2008 01:54
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And this is again where i kick myself for signing away Hoste for 3 so far useless talents. Great. *kick* 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 24-05-2008 02:11
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Dave has a very good squad for a budget that was less than spectacular.
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| dave92 |
Posted on 24-05-2008 04:38
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Big George really should have ridden the other classics 
Hope Jacobs does well seeing as Dave Z worked out pretty well for me 
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| niconico |
Posted on 24-05-2008 16:24
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Time for the Veelers-Drucker-Breschel trio to shine 
But mostly Veelers 
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| stemple |
Posted on 24-05-2008 17:07
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Yeah why is big george not riding some of the other cobbled races, he surely would have been the favorite.
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 24-05-2008 17:25
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Big fat George will most likely take Cougar Mountain Classic as Thomas wont be there. Thomas will of course win the rest 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 25-05-2008 00:12
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Ive just raced Omloop Het Volk and its fair to saty that it was an unusual race, with a surprise result
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 25-05-2008 00:29
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Maybe I can steal something with Portal in the CMC... |
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| niconico |
Posted on 25-05-2008 16:22
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The ProTour riders I have signed has really been doing great. Great 3rd by Drucker And awesome effort by Hammond to take back-to-back wins in Het Volk
Was Veelers caught in the split when Thomas hit the front or something?
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 25-05-2008 16:42
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Thomas appears to be a worthy sucessor to Mattan. "If only he'd put some more effort in (tm)"
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 25-05-2008 16:44
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hammond and thomas - go britain
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 25-05-2008 17:01
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A_Schleck wrote:
Was Veelers caught in the split when Thomas hit the front or something?
Yup, British Airways and Fed-Ex were controlling the pace while the likes of Backstedt and Veelers were just too far down in the peleton. The gap appeared and was almost immediately at 2 minutesish.
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| niconico |
Posted on 25-05-2008 17:13
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Oh well, better luck next time I guess.
Also I been wanted to ask, the points system for this season, is that the same as the one stated in the 'Scoring' thread in the Results forum?
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| SotD |
Posted on 25-05-2008 17:15
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Great race, will the PT cobbles also start tonight? |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 25-05-2008 17:18
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A_Schleck wrote:
Oh well, better luck next time I guess.
Also I been wanted to ask, the points system for this season, is that the same as the one stated in the 'Scoring' thread in the Results forum?
No, its changed a little - that thread needs updating
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| p3druh |
Posted on 25-05-2008 17:26
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Well... 5th... Better than I expected...
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| niconico |
Posted on 15-06-2008 23:15
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With Tirreno and Paris-Nice coming to a close, Nokere-Koerse is edging nearer and nearer. I just hope Veelers won't be caught in a split again, eventhough I have a feeling that will happen on the cobbled climbs. If he fails then I still have Drucker and Breschel
Geraint is going down! B)
Edited by niconico on 15-06-2008 23:16
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 15-06-2008 23:20
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I'd be surprised if Veelers didn't win something this season, he was certainly unlucky in the last races. Its a shame Irn Bru can't compete in the cobbled races, because I like them so much personally, but my best cobble rider is Meersman on 71 
I think Nikki Terpstra is well underated in the man-game (he only has 63 cob) but I suppose he only really broke through this year |
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