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| Smowz |
Posted on 16-11-2011 18:19
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After a slightly surprising win for
 Damien Gaudin
at the Nokere - Koerse cobbled classic. The specialist cobbled teams will be itching to get a better result at this more selective looking route.
The good news for Bpost and Koppert is that their riders performed very well in the recent Protour classic down the road at Gent Wegelum. In particular
 Pieter Vanspeybrouck
who attacked the really big names of cobbled cycling late on. It was this attacking instinct that won him so many race last year, he really needs to show the others a clean pair of heels again as he is against a number of decent cobbler/sprinters like
 Adam Blythe
 Matti Breschel
 Roger Kluge
and
 Tom Veelers
The Belgian race authorities have been keen to involve a few CDiv2 teams and welcome the likes of Dyson and Samsung Mol to the race who star riders are from Belgium and just may make a nuisance of themselves. Certainly
 Robby Meul
and
 Tijs Crombez
may just sneak a decent result if they can follow the more elevated company.
T.CS Bank, Jayco Red Bull and Trilux may also make an impact with some decent cobbled talent. Rothaus, Venchi and Proximus look a little light of specialist talent and will hope for a surprising breakaway package.
Startlist:
Spoiler Bpost
1. P. Vanspeybrouck
2. N. Albert
3. R. Broers
4. N. Maes
5. J. Polanc
6. G. Van Keirsbulck
7. J. Vansummeren
Rapha Condor
11. A. Blythe
12. A. Bakari
13. T. Grmay
14. M. Hussein
15. H. Kiprotich
16. T. Last
17. E. Van Wyk
Pokerstars
21. F. Nolf
22. D. Boucher
23. J. Engoulvent
24. A. Geslin
25. N. Ingels
26. R. Kluge
27. K. Van Impe
Koppert
31. S. Langeveld
32. H. Dekkers
33. O. Freire
34. A. Kamyshev
35. F. Taillefour
36. B. Traksel
37. T. Veelers
Focus
41. D. Gaudin
42. J. Adams
43. J. Debusschere
44. R. Hardy
45. A. Kirsch
46. C. Pineau
47. T. Skujins
Trilux
51. A. Coyot
52. M. Eichler
53. H. Haussler
54. G. Rast
55. A. Saramotins
56. S. Tronet
57. P. Walsleben
Saab
61. M. Breschel
62. T. Hushovd
63. K. Ista
64. A. Lund
65. J. Pronk
66. M. Van Aelbroeck
67. M. Westling
Tinkoff
71. D. Kozontchuk
72. D. Galimzyanov
73. P. Ignatenko
74. B. Shpilevski
75. A. Timofeev
76. N. Trusov
77. K. Yatsevich
Red Bull
81. J. Giaux
82. A. Hansen
83. A. Jelloul
84. C. Manarelli
85. C. Sutton
86. G. Tzortzakis
87. S. Vanthourenhout
SaMol
91. R. Meul
92. R. Bachraty
93. J. Kasidlo
94. F. Pacheco
95. G. Suray
96. P. Tybor
97. A. Vicioso
Dyson
101. T. Crombez
102. M. Brus
103. M. Gee
104. C. Lemoine
105. R. Lloyd
106. K. Page
107. C. Wegelius
Rothaus
111. M. Velits
112. J. Ariesen
113. A. Krieger
114. J. Novak
115. M. Schachmann
116. D. Vesely
117. F. Willems
Venchi
121. L. Sestili
122. C. Cominelli
123. M. Corti
124. B. Monterastelli
125. A. Santoro
126. N. Tirloni
127. D. Viganò
Proximus
131. K. De Weert
132. J. Claes
133. N. Cohen
134. J. Mouris
135. E. Reekers
136. D. Shatskikh
137. M. Zenagui
Note: Fans hoping to see the Taiwan race have to be patient we are awaiting footage from the Chinese authorities! In the meantime enjoy the cobbled stuff.
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| Heine |
Posted on 16-11-2011 18:32
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Cobble races are boring :-p I'm not participating ;-)
To be more serious, I think it's time to see a Vanspeybrouck victory, afterall he pretty much only had to show up last year to win the cobble races...
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| jaxika |
Posted on 16-11-2011 18:34
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Ohhh, great, we are there and hoping for some results For us, a top20 its a result too |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 16-11-2011 18:48
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More Div2 teams getting wildcards, cool.
Really love these cobbled classics, too bad my teams sucks in them. 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 16-11-2011 18:55
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Can we take another podium place but with Breschel and not Hushovd this time? Maybe to much to hope for, would be very pleased even with top 5.
Maybe to much hills on this course to fit Breschel/Hushovd perfectly. |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 16-11-2011 19:47
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Maybe Rast can surprise here with his good hill stat. Anyway, at least one rider of Trilux have to finish in the Top10, or this is a disaster for me.
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| roturn |
Posted on 16-11-2011 20:34
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Ariesen better wins this race. 
Probably my weakest squad in the whole calendar.
I expect Blythe to win in a sprint of less than 10 riders or Vanspeybrouck attacking. |
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| beagle |
Posted on 16-11-2011 20:59
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I better don´t expect much, just hope for normal cobble race, when riders with most skill under 60 won´t be able to stay in peloton until finish...
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| CountArach |
Posted on 16-11-2011 21:16
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Well this is my win goal so it is really a make or break race for us - Vanspeybrouck better show what he can do!
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| ember |
Posted on 16-11-2011 22:38
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After a slightly disappointing Nokere - Koerse, I'm really hoping for a great race now. Hard to predict the winner, Blythe is probably the favourite, thanks to his solid sprint, but he might get isolated a bit too quick if Bpost, Koppert and Pokerstars.com makes it a hard race early on.
Edited by ember on 16-11-2011 22:39
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| roturn |
Posted on 17-11-2011 12:05
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 17-11-2011 12:20
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Hopefully the curse of cobble races that seems to have befallen much of this season will give way, and we'll have a non-shock winner. Personally, I'm rooting for BPost or Koppert to put in a good show.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 17-11-2011 18:31
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 17-11-2011 19:33
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Great report, good results, that´s what i want to see. Congrats to Koppert, Bpost might not be too happy with the sprint.
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| ember |
Posted on 17-11-2011 19:37
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That was a good race I think, an early selection, and then Bpost really hammered it on the final cobbled sections. Albert showed great strength over several cobbled sections. CountArach can't be happy how they messed up the sprint though. They better hope they finish it off in a better way in E3 Prijs.
On the other hand, that was a very nice win for Koppert, looks like they definitely will be a force in E3 aswell.
And I enjoyed the report Smowz, nice reading! |
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| viking90 |
Posted on 17-11-2011 19:38
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Great report, nice with a 4th by Breschel. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 17-11-2011 19:45
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Nice report, Smowz.
Just hoped that Velits, Willems or Ariesen would have been in the break to get a a top30 in the end. Novak wasn`t the best solution.
So it took ~5 pics before all my riders lost contact to the peloton. 
Koppert with a nice win, Van Impe with a great ride and Bpost very dominant but too less in the end as also Breschel, who went too early.
Btw: Any influence of not finishing a race for the XP system? Especially for GT`s it would be interesting.
Edited by roturn on 17-11-2011 19:47
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| beagle |
Posted on 17-11-2011 21:10
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roturn wrote:
Btw: Any influence of not finishing a race for the XP system? Especially for GT`s it would be interesting.
last season Kluge crashed at 1st stage of Irish Tour (PT) and received XPs for whole race (if I remember well )
I guess much better gameplay here, congrats to Koppert for fantastic win
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| CountArach |
Posted on 17-11-2011 21:17
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Well this can only be considered an unmitigated disaster. The race was in the palm of our hand and all we had to do was attack with Vanspeybrouck or Maes in the finale. None of the remaining riders could have followed them at that point but sprinting it out at the end put everyone back in the game.
Congrats to the Koppert guys though and comiserations to Blythe.
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| BoogieBoogie |
Posted on 21-11-2011 13:56
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Whoohoo my first win ever Thnx guys. Looking forward to the other cobbles races.
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