Shocking win, really! Big congratulations, knockout
And aaah, that I must admit was anticlimatic. After such a perfect start on the cobbles, we hoped for more here when it really counted. Wisniowski in fourth isn't ideal, but it's not too bad, but we lacked the depth we proved earlier, both from Anderberg and the next domestique.
Must admit I got a bad feeling seeing us passive from the start, and especially when we kind of were on the back foot when all things came together, with only Wisniowski staying attentive. Hopefully that's lesson learnt before Roubaix, as we go again there
Wow, congrats to knockout! Polanc is just going absolutely wild this year. Dominating performance, I guess that mountain stat was helping or something!
Mildly rough race for Per, losing to several inferior riders. Missing that first split was rough, and it seemed like it might have been the reason he dropped early after originally making the final selection. It's tough to have the worse result when more points are on the line, especially for a team in our position. But 6th place is not catastrophic by any means, just a tick under where we wanted after all that training.
But hey, at least we passed our first goal of the year though!
Thanks for the report!
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Big congrats to knockout, both Per and Polanc are now monument winners!!
But I gotta talk about my own guy, Ivan Siric. I was a bit worried since he didn't crack the top 50 and top 30 in both Appia and Macskako, clearly he was building his form for the Ronde
10th place is stupendous! It really gives me some confidence for his long term prospects and even with E3 and Roubaix still to come, I can say it's been a successful cobbled campaign
11th for Salzmann and 23rd for Dekker are both fantastic results, meaning even with a poor result for Vermeersch this looks to have been a good race for the team. Thanks for the report!