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Defending champion Kwiatkowski is in the breakaway, as are Stannard and Viviani.
This race will finish before 8:30pm. |
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Been an odd race, I watched an hour between 14:00-15:00 our time, seems a day ago. Pace seems to have been at 40km througout, which will take its toll when it ramps up to 50+ on the last lap. If the break holds, I'd fancy Viviani. Presume Sagan, Van Avermaet and Degenkolb are still there. Cheering for Stannard.
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VanMarcke and Gesink must be knackered been out front all race. Opposite of Cummins!
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More riders have joined the breakaway group - just over a lap to go now.
Weather is better than supposedly forecast. They're coming back together. Race to finish just before 8:15pm, I think. Actually, make that 8:25pm. |
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Hard to know who is riding for who with the Dutch.
Both my two outside bets, Dumoulin and Boassen Hagen still up there. |
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More riders have joined the breakaway group - just over a lap to go now.
Weather is better than supposedly forecast. They're coming back together. Race to finish just before 8:15pm, I think. |
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Yeah, just realised that. Actually meant to say race duration will be around 6 and a quarter hours...
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Nobody will get away until 4km to go or less, waste of time trying. It will be won on the hill.
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Plenty of Aussies still there, look quite dominant with Italy.
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Here come the final ascents...
...Sagan is going for it! Final km for Sagan! The peloton is coming back! |
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The world champion is...Peter Sagan (SVK)!! What a finish!
Michael Matthews won the sprint for silver (AUS), and Ramunas Navardauskas (LTU) took the bronze! Who'd have thought that Mr Second Place would claim the stripes?!
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Can't argue with that. His odds were never less than 6/1, which for the best in the world, makes you wonder why you didn't back him.
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Two Aussies in the Top 6
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Valverde Top 5 again.
Former winners 8th and 9th. |
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Swift top Briton in 22nd. Disappointing for Yates.
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Both the Estonians got around in the Top 20.
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Swift top Briton in 22nd. Disappointing for Yates.
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Those two climbs in the final 3K look fairly steep even though they're not long.......and one of them is cobbled
I think Cav might have struggled on that finish.........it looks more like a finish for Gilbert, Sagan or someone like that
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The women's race was definitely the more enthralling of the two WCs. The explosive last 4km of the men's race did not make up for the general lack of tension of those preceding laps.
Rewatching, Sagan took it on the descent from the second cobbled climb. He dropped onto his crossbar freewheeling while recovering. The vital three seconds were banked at that point before he struggled on his extreme limit on the final rise towards the finish line. In the previous lap, the escapees spent time recovering, allowing the catch. That was the point Viviani retched up from over-exertion? |
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Sagan's shoe cleat pulled out of the pedal on the final rise: https://instagram.com/p/8JVPhuKRSF/
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Finally comes out on top!
The relief and delight was so clear to see from Sagan. |
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Only one more world tour event to come.........Lombardy next weekend
That Tour of Beijing appears to have been scrapped or demoted Eurosport have a few more races scheduled over the next couple of weeks.....October events......this schedule was published months ago so might be subject to change 1 Milano - Torino 4 Giro d'Lombardia 4 Tour de Eurometropole 6 Binche-Chimay-Binche 11 Paris-Tours TBC Saitama Criterium another season winding down ! |
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I don't think anyone would begrudge Sagan that. He was all out I think. Emptied the tank.
Was the lady his wife or girlfriend? |
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The Richmond course was uninteresting, which didn't help. A bit like the TDF final stage criterium without any of the glamour.
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4 Tour de Eurometropole
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