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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 14-05-2014 13:16
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Selwink - That's the plan! 
Jakstar22 - Me neither!
Martial1 - Let's hope he can pull it off!
FonsDeSpons - Well after an injury, I thought it might be better to delay the return by another 2 weeks and then drop a bomb
TimoCycling - Without a strong team to back him up, we had to come up with a way we could do the Ronde without having to carry the race.
the_hoyle - Glad you like it his form is not very high, though, so I was rather surprised I managed to hold on and sprint for the win!
sutty68 - Always nice to see, right |
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Posted on 14-05-2014 13:24
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Wow. Matt really writes history now. But perhaps it wasnt too clever to make that interview already before Roubaix. Now Bradley and Bradley have to work so hard at the next race to prepare the double for Matt
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 14-05-2014 13:26
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You may be right  The other teams will be wanting revenge. I'm afraid Roubaix won't come easy. The team will have to work hard and we no longer have the best cobbled team and Matt's form is good but not good enough that he can solo for 60 km...
Hope it works, but it'll be a hard, hard race  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 14-05-2014 15:22
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 Paris - Roubaix 2017
Okay, the masks have fallen off now. I played a dangerous game with De Ronde and I won. It was close to a miracle, but I did it. I only have 6 race days on my counter so far, including 2 victories. You can't say my legs are in bad shape! But Roubaix never lies for a second. In the Ronde I was able to drift along with Vanbilsen and Vanmarcke. Today I'll have to make the race myself.
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 Today we didn't have a specific battle plan. Just to do our best. Let's hope that would be enough.
Today we saw a pretty large break of 14 riders, including Caleb Ewan.
The weather conditions were awful.
Which was good for me, actually, I like it this way!
And then, when the final breakaway member was caught (Ewan), the attacks came!
The first ones were fake, I could see it. Just some guys testing their legs and our reaction. I stayed cool. When Vanmarcke went again, I decided to follow.
And then, it was back to the three of us: Vanbilsen, Vanmarcke, Vleminckx. It's getting to be a habbit!
But they had no intention of riding with me today. Obviously holding a grudge from last week, we got caught by a rather large group. Vandenbergh sneaked off alone.
Meanwhile, I wasn't feeling too strong. For the second year in a row, Roubaix sapped my strength near the final 10 kilometers... Luckily it wasn't as bad as last year.
Still, I was driven to get a good result here. Even if I couldn't win, I wanted to finish high up! So I made the jump forward, my legs burning like hell.
We clutched together in a small group. Three guys were gone, so we'd sprint for place 4. A larger group had already started the sprint behind us, though!
Vandenbergh took the victory of his career, what a performance from him!
I managed to win the sprint for the 4th place! I'm happy, not overjoyed, but content.
| 1 | Stijn Vandenbergh | Team Katusha | 6h23'52 | | 2 | Niki Terpstra | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 3 | Sébastien Turgot | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 4 | Matthias Vleminckx | Orica GreenEdge | + 55 | | 5 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 6 | Alexander Kristoff | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Heinrich Haussler | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 8 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 9 | Oscar Gatto | Cannondale | s.t. | | 10 | Zdenek Stybar | ASUS | s.t. | | 11 | Jens Keukeleire | RusVelo | s.t. | | 12 | Taylor Phinney | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 13 | Sebastian Langeveld | Garmin Sharp | s.t. | | 14 | Sep Vanmarcke | ASUS | s.t. | | 15 | Geraint Thomas | Team Sky | s.t. |
Spoiler | 16 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 17 | Lars Boom | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 18 | Damien Gaudin | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 19 | Matthieu Ladagnous | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 2'17 | | 20 | Rick Zabel | TEAM Cube | + 3'09 | | 21 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 22 | Elia Viviani | Cannondale | + 4'21 | | 23 | Marco Bandiera | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 24 | Maxime Vantomme | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 25 | Tony Gallopin | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 26 | Marco Marcato | Cannondale | s.t. | | 27 | Bert De Backer | ASUS | s.t. | | 28 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 29 | Jean-Lou Paiani | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 30 | Caleb Ewan | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 31 | Gaël Malacarne | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 32 | Bradley Carroll | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 33 | Maarten Wynants | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 34 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 35 | Mickaël Delage | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 36 | Elia Favilli | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 37 | Bradley Wiggins | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 38 | Mitchell Docker | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 39 | Fabio Sabatini | Cannondale | s.t. | | 40 | Jempy Drucker | Schuller | + 7'12 | | 41 | Yohan Offredo | Tinkoff - Saxo | + 7'55 | | 42 | Marcel Sieberg | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 43 | Jérôme Cousin | FDJ.fr | + 9'29 | | 44 | Adam Blythe | Team Sky | + 11'00 | | 45 | Julien Duval | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 46 | Jarl Salomein | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 47 | Tom Veelers | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 48 | Marcus Burghardt | BMC Racing Team | + 12'12 | | 49 | Dennis Vanendert | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 50 | Jakob Rathe | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 51 | Rolando de Santos | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 52 | Benoît Vaugrenard | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 53 | Julien Fouchard | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 54 | Martin Velits | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 55 | Dennis Coenen | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 56 | Dylan van Baarle | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 13'12 | | 57 | Mirko Selvaggi | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | + 13'54 | | 58 | Roy Jans | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 59 | Jos Van Emden | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 60 | Toms Skujins | Schuller | s.t. | | 61 | Pieter Serry | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 62 | Alexis Vuillermoz | Schuller | s.t. | | 63 | Niels Albert | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 64 | Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 65 | Salvatore Puccio | Lampre - Merida | + 15'02 | | 66 | Roger Kluge | TEAM Cube | s.t. | | 67 | Elmar Reinders | ASUS | s.t. | | 68 | Kris Boeckmans | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 69 | Andrea Guardini | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 70 | Joeri Stallaert | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 71 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | s.t. | | 72 | Magnus Cort | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 73 | Sven Jodts | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 74 | Pim Ligthart | Schuller | s.t. | | 75 | Preben Van Hecke | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 76 | Dries Devenyns | ASUS | s.t. | | 77 | Alexey Tsatevitch | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 78 | Marcel Meisen | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 79 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 80 | Jesse Sergent | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 81 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 82 | Barry Markus | ASUS | s.t. | | 83 | Flavien Dassonville | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 84 | Julien Simon | Garmin Sharp | s.t. | | 85 | Steven Kruijswijk | ASUS | s.t. | | 86 | Jonathan Hivert | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 87 | Alexis Gougeard | TEAM Vittel - Nestlé | s.t. | | 88 | Simone Ponzi | Team Sky | + 16'47 | | 89 | Sibrecht Pieters | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 90 | Benoit Jarrier | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 91 | Romain Feillu | Team Sky | s.t. | | 92 | Ben Hermans | TEAM Soleco | s.t. | | 93 | Joshua Edmondson | Garmin Sharp | s.t. | | 94 | Fredrik Ludvigsson | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 95 | Roberto Ferrari | Lampre - Merida | + 17'32 | | 96 | Julian Alaphilippe | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 97 | Chris Barton | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 98 | Mikhail Ignatiev | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 99 | Sander Armee | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 100 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 101 | Bart De Clercq | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 102 | Niklas Karl | TEAM Cube | s.t. | | 103 | Stéphane Poulhiès | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 19'18 | | 104 | Gianluca Brambilla | Cannondale | s.t. | | 105 | Bjorn Selander | Trek Factory Racing | + 21'01 | | 106 | Tiesj Benoot | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 107 | Andreas Stauff | TEAM Cube | s.t. | | 108 | Sébastien Chavanel | TEAM Vittel - Nestlé | s.t. | | 109 | Jay McCarthy | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 110 | Jesús Herrada | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 111 | Kenny Elissonde | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 112 | Thomas Degand | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 113 | Axel Anné | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 114 | Linus Gerdemann | TEAM Cube | s.t. | | 115 | Maxime Monfort | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 116 | Cyril Gautier | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 117 | Reto Hollenstein | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 118 | Thomas Damuseau | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 119 | Ilnur Zakarin | RusVelo | s.t. | | 120 | Peter Kennaugh | TEAM Cube | s.t. | | 121 | Michael Hepburn | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 122 | Alexander Khatuntsev | RusVelo | + 24'31 | | 123 | Nadir Haddou | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 124 | Kirk Carlsen | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 125 | Dylan Teuns | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 126 | Damien Monier | TEAM Vittel - Nestlé | s.t. |
Today wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as I hoped, too.
I definitely wasn't the strongest in this year's cobbled campaign, but still I managed to take home the big one, De Ronde, by much cunning and tactical game. I guess I can be happy about that. Even in a lesser early season, I took home a major victory.
Because of my injury and my late season start, I still have a large margin to improve in form. The team decided to send me to the Giro d'Italia this year. I'm quite excited about that, I think I'll like it better than the Tour de France.
This also means I'll probably get a shot at starting in the Tour de Pologne!
See you next week, for the Amstel,
Matthias |
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| NTTHRASH |
Posted on 14-05-2014 15:27
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Shame he couldn't deliver in Roubaix. Good luck in Italy!
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 14-05-2014 15:57
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Giro points jersey? |
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| VoetsT |
Posted on 14-05-2014 16:26
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Fantastic win in Vlaanderen 
We just forget P-R, or maybe not, a top 5 is still an amazing result
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| Shonak |
Posted on 14-05-2014 16:27
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Vandenbergh ROFL
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-05-2014 23:38
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A Really good ride on the cobbles from Matthias |
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Posted on 14-05-2014 23:48
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No double this year. But Matt still has ten years to achieve that
Looking forward to the Giro. Should be a nice challenge against the top sprinters. I predict more stage wins than in the TdF last year. (at least if no more story twists occur till then )
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 15-05-2014 06:45
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A good Paris Roubaix from Matt. He will get the double. Just not yet.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 15-05-2014 14:08
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NTTHRASH - Thanks, I didn't think you'd still be following this
Martial1 - Hmm, it's a very mountainous profile, points jersey will probably go to a GC contender, but Matt might go his chance!
VoetsT - Thanks! Well, Roubaix was good, but to be honest I couldn't expect a win there. After such a late season start, I was more than happy to take De Ronde!
Shonak - Though note he didn't win in a sprint. They just caught up with him a bit too late, but he didn't outsprint anyone
sutty68 - Thanks!
knockout - He sure has. The Giro will be interesting, I'm curious to see what sprinters will start there.
Jakstar22 - Thanks yeah, I hope so.
As I thought, I've slowed down a lot. Like I said before, admin duties come first. I haven't been up to playing PCM a lot lately.
Hope to get the Amstel out tomorrow, though! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-05-2014 14:34
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Don't worry too much about slowing the pace and Good Luck at the Amstel |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 15-05-2014 15:35
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Haven't posted here before of one simple reason: I missed the first week and wanted to get it from the start to avoid spoilers.
Due to having a work day today mainly consisting of sitting and waiting I'm now up to date with Vlaeminckx's amazing first seasons.
Some very strong results from the start but he is far from being a world-dominator as his ups and downs prove. I will look forward to follow where he goes on from here. Hopefully it's the last time I'll have 36 pages to catch up with
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| jona500 |
Posted on 15-05-2014 15:56
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Don't feel bad the uploading pace might dwindle a bit as I couldn't keep up anyway with your speed Very miraculous win in Vlaanderen, the comparison with Boonen seems to end as you seem to like Vlaanderen more then Roubaix! Good luck in Limburg and supernice to see Matt returning to one of his favorite stageraces: Poland!
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 16-05-2014 12:08
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Don't worry about the pace. You're probably the fastest story writer PCM Daily has ever had (and one of the best). I will miss reports everyday, but your admin duties surely come first. |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 17-05-2014 00:15
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4th is still a great result in P-R
YEAH!!! The Giro
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 17-05-2014 09:40
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sutty68 - Thanks
Atlantius - So glad to see you've caught up! He's surely not a world dominator, though I think that on an up-day, he's almost unbeatable on the cobblestones
jona500 - Yeah, I didn't expect Matt to like de Ronde better than Roubaix, but it turns out he does
Martial1 - Thanks a lot, mate
the_hoyle - Giro is a great race, and it'll be interesting to see Matthias racing there.
I really have a lot to do. So I'm afraid I'm gonna have to change something here. Let me think this over, how I can keep doing the story and cope with the limited time.
I might do less updates about more races and only to one-report-per-race when they are really, really important. What would you think about that?
For example, now I'd race the three Ardennes Classics and I'd only report on them in 1 single update, maybe without screenshots even.
I'm just thinking how I can continue the story all the way thrrough with a lot of stuff going on. |
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| baia |
Posted on 17-05-2014 09:48
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Good 4th in PR.. you could post only a screen from the most important result of those 3.
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 17-05-2014 20:48
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Do what you feel best, Ian. If you want your (legendary) story to continue, do what you feel is best, because in the end everyone here will follow it no matter what
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