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Let's get one going for these races as well. Strade Bianche was on the weekend, and Eurosport only showed the last 30 minutes because they went too fast. But what we saw would have got the peloton worried: Spartacus smashed it, holding off a decent four man chasing group for the last 5-6 km. The chase wasn't helped by Ballan deciding to ride off the course for a while. Gilbert didn't show much in this race.

Milan-San Remo is coming up soon. Cav, Gilbert, Boonen, Sagan and Cancellara the ones to look for? Tirreno-Adriatico will show some form.
 
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Ripper win by Gerrans in Milan San Remo.
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EFA :cool:

Great finish to the race. Expected Nibali to streak ahead in the downhill section, probably wasnt technical enough for him.
 

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Great result for Gerrans and GreenEdge. What a start the squad is having, this season will be remembered as a success no matter what their results are for the remainder of the season.

On to the race, and Cavendish was Northern Italy's first big scalp. He showed strong form in Qatar and TA, but it deserted him here. Traditionally not a sprinters race, MSR looked sure to be going to more of an all-rounder. The last fifteen km were fantastic viewing, with many attacks from cyclists like Barbed Wire and the Shark. There was also the compulsory bleeding carrot, and Gilbert's poor start to the season continued with a fall. Nibali's attack proved to be critical, and Gerrans and Spartacus joining him made it The Move. Spartacus ripped out a great descent before going into TT mode. Surprisingly, The Shark appeared to be the weakest of the three and it looks like his attack took too much out of him. Sagan being in the group he attacked from may have lead to some questions in the team bus after the race. But Gerrans let Spartacus do most of the work before nipping by him with 100m to go and delivering a great victory for Australia and GreenEdge. Unfortunately nobody here would know about it as it was not seen on any of the Sunday night sports bulletins.
 
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Great result for Gerrans and GreenEdge. What a start the squad is having, this season will be remembered as a success no matter what their results are for the remainder of the season.

On to the race, and Cavendish was Northern Italy's first big scalp. He showed strong form in Qatar and TA, but it deserted him here. Traditionally not a sprinters race, MSR looked sure to be going to more of an all-rounder. The last fifteen km were fantastic viewing, with many attacks from cyclists like Barbed Wire and the Shark. There was also the compulsory bleeding carrot, and Gilbert's poor start to the season continued with a fall. Nibali's attack proved to be critical, and Gerrans and Spartacus joining him made it The Move. Spartacus ripped out a great descent before going into TT mode. Surprisingly, The Shark appeared to be the weakest of the three and it looks like his attack took too much out of him. Sagan being in the group he attacked from may have lead to some questions in the team bus after the race. But Gerrans let Spartacus do most of the work before nipping by him with 100m to go and delivering a great victory for Australia and GreenEdge. Unfortunately nobody here would no about it as it was not seen on any of the Sunday night sports bulletins.
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So frustrating!
 
Johan B is perfectly correct.

But Gerrans knows how to win. Analogy of sniffing out a victory is: The guy is like a police drug dog, he can sniff one gram of coke in a business class guys brioni suit at twenty paces, and the residue in his louis vuitton suit

LV luggage I meant, suitcase not suit
 
Nobody is saying he wasn't correct, it was obvious to everybody watching. In hindsight Cancellara just didn't ride it intelligently. Good chance we will have a 2011 repeat where he is so strong other riders just let him do all the work. I reckon he would be a terrible poker player.

Bruyneel is still a douche who has zero class.
 
Boonen won E3 Prijs last night. I didn't watch it so won't be writing about it, but it is an important result in confirming the Tornado's form ahead of Flanders and PR. With Gilbert nowhere, it looks like Tom and Spartacus are going to gift us with some beautiful racing in the first week of April.
 

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Flanders (RVV) tonight, it is on SBS and Eurosport so no excuse not to watch what many regard as the best race of the year. A change to the course has been met with much debate, consensus seems to be it will make the race tougher. It looks like it was be a massive battle with the two form men, Boonen and Cancellara. Cancellara will have to show some racing smarts that he hasn't really shown for two years to drop Boonen, who has the best team behind him. Sagan, Chavanel or EBH to round out the podium. Gilbert seems to be a non-factor at this stage.

Get the **** around this race people, it will be epic.
 
Anyone got a link to a Flanders stream with english commentary? SBS' cycling central has one but no commantary.
 

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Shame about Langeveld (sp?) was looking nice.

I did laugh about the scuffle at the end.
 

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