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Cobbles 2018: De Panne - E3 - Wevelgem - Dwars Door - Scheldeprijs
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 28-03-2018 15:45
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Very worthy winner there. Lampaert easily the strongest (and smartest) of the 5. Happy to see EBH back in some form aswell.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 28-03-2018 15:53
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"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 28-03-2018 16:03
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Quick Step looks almost unbeateable in the cobbled classics this season
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-03-2018 16:06
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Winning a GT Stage, National Championship and the same race last year wasn't enough for a breakout year?
We're certainly setting high standards these days for people that won the old 3-Days De Panne and were in the Top10 of Roubaix in 2015.
Granted his 2016 was lacking anything of note outside his Top10 in the Worlds ITT.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 28-03-2018 16:12
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Right move, right timing, great win
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| Shonak |
Posted on 28-03-2018 17:07
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Winning a GT Stage, National Championship and the same race last year wasn't enough for a breakout year?
We're certainly setting high standards these days for people that won the old 3-Days De Panne and were in the Top10 of Roubaix in 2015.
Granted his 2016 was lacking anything of note outside his Top10 in the Worlds ITT.
Not really, because the GT was the Vuelta, the NC were the ITT (literally, who cares about that?) and Dwaars could have been considered a fluke. Now we have confirmation.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 28-03-2018 17:12
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Where did my poll go?
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 28-03-2018 17:54
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Great win for Yves. This is what he is all about, great engine and can sprint when required too. I honestly cant see anyone beating Phil on sunday with this team around him.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 28-03-2018 23:20
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Smooth as hell from Lampaert, deserved for sure. As Krichen said above Quick-Step are top class (as usual) and functional (watched Omloop 15 HTRWW the other day  ) this year and look really good.
And Valverde is indeed amazing 
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[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
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| Shonak |
Posted on 29-03-2018 00:25
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I think they are stronger because they are no more doms to Boonen. Instead they can use all that power now of great specialists. With Boonen, they ended up working for the 3rd, 4th best rider and saw others snatch the win. Agree?
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 29-03-2018 10:52
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Shonak wrote:
I think they are stronger because they are no more doms to Boonen. Instead they can use all that power now of great specialists. With Boonen, they ended up working for the 3rd, 4th best rider and saw others snatch the win. Agree?
QS always had the problem to merge a team made by top class riders, but yes, after Boonen retirement looks like having all free role allows to have more arrows in the quiver, and until now they tapped at best their opportunities
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 29-03-2018 10:59
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Lampaert likes to think so 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 29-03-2018 11:35
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I think the biggest issue is that they're not facing Cancellara anymore.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 29-03-2018 12:07
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Also that all the pressure in this campaign has been on Sagan and GVA.. I think that if the Pressure was on Quickstep they wouldn't have it so easily.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 29-03-2018 15:48
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It's quite impossible to watch every QS man for other teams, they have too many alternatives
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Posted on 29-03-2018 16:55
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df_Trek wrote:
It's quite impossible to watch every QS man for other teams, they have too many alternatives
Agree but it's a fact that GVA and Sagan have the most pressure, i believe QS will win both Flandres and Roubaix because at this point they've won basically everything, there's no pressure on their shoulders (ignoring the fact that they have 3 riders strong enough to match them). But whatever happens those two will be heavily marked as they've been so far and QS will play with their numbers but several outsiders will be ignored and may surprise QS bigtime.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 30-03-2018 00:26
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not sure if QS still have not pressure, teams like BMC and Bora can't allow them win everything in the same way. I hope they caught attention from other teams too, because if before was good to see someone else win, now is becoming a bit boring everyone on GVA and Sagan and none make something because QS kill the race.
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 30-03-2018 15:51
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Benoot is preety strong but his team doesn't seem to be up for it. Sep and Oli are prone to bad luck and don't have very strong back-ups this year. Sky look preety strong but they've had barely no results on the cobbles this year, and then many of the other outsiders are sprinters (as Kristoff, Démare, Stuyven, Trentin) who have a legitimate shot at a podium but I don't see being very agressive.
BMC, Bora and Sky will have to work together if they wanna beat Quickstep, and literally have to play their game if they wanna win.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 30-03-2018 16:07
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I hope this is Vanmarcke big win year, he really deserves it
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Posted on 30-03-2018 16:19
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Absolutely, crushed me last year to see him in the right move and with good legs and crash in... nothing 
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