Can we get to the point? This circuit !@#$ and skipping the Muur just sucks. Why not just let the peloton have a nice relaxing brunch the first 5 hours then start from 20k out? Anyway, it is still Flanders, so let's recap:
1. !@#$!: Tom Boonen down, stitches impending, and his Classics totally !@$#ed at 30K. Despite the fact that I was rooting for Boonen anyway after his crap season-so-far, and 80% of Boonen is still 120% of anyone else, am I the only one thinking that the Classics just ain't the Classics if Tom and Fabian can't slug it out in full form? Here, Belgium breaks its heart:
2. Notable Mechanicals: Rear wheel puncture for Fabian at 53k out. Flecha mechancial at 34k. Really, is that gonna take either one of 'em out?
3. Yep, It's Flanders All Right: walkin' on the Koppenburg.
4. The End is Near: Fabian and Sagan are marking at 34k! Argy-bargy at the foot of the Kwaremont! Roelandts ditches Hinault at 18K! Chavanel falling back!
5. Okay, You Can Turn Off the TV Now: Cancellara jumps again as Sagan hits the hurt locker at 17k! All over at 13k as Sagan and Roelandts settle for a slugfest for second.
6. Vooooos!: yep, it's Marianne Vos for the women. Damn, does she even need a bike to ride on--that woman could just win races walking and pickin' daises!
Well, that's what you missed, unless seeing Fabian Cancellara--who is brilliant, yap yap yap--pull the same one-length-and-he's-gone trick can keep you entertained for every race on the planet. Me, not so much. Bring on Roubaix, and for God's sake, some other freakin' tactic!
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Too true. Once Fabbo gets away it's sayonara, and the snoozefest begins. It's no fun watching the chasers watch each other. Bike racing can be pretty boring. Lately it's Sky on the front all day, or Fabbo TT'ing away solo. Sigh.
Love that after Cancellara's win, the Eurosport guys mentioned Vos' win and said she was the best cyclist in history!
Leave it to Sagan to light up Twitter with his bum pinch of the podium gal. Personally, I think he should stick to wheelies. (Someone posted in a forum that maybe it was pre-planned between Sagan and Podium Miss...perhaps explaining why she was kissing Fabian for 5 minutes)
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