Flanders Preview: The Hard Part
March 31st, 2010 admin
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Message by Jered Gruber If you ask anyone worth their salt where the De Ronde van Vlaanderen, the Tour of Flanders, will most likely be won on April 4th, 2010, Easter Sunday, they’ll say the Muur or the Bosberg. They’re most likely right. Why though? Why do those climbs always decide the race? I think it has a little something to do with a six-climb section early on in the hellingen sweepstakes. After these crucial monsters, only the toughest and
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Message by NONE The Cobbled Classics are a hard act to follow, and opening the show for Fleche and La Doyenne might be too much for some. But the Amstel Gold Race is tough enough to stand alone amongst the Spring races, and with 31 climbs peppered over 257kms, a win here ensures lifetime membership in an exclusive club. PEZ rode the key climbs today...
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Foul weather and landslides are threatening to throw a kink into what’s promising to be an exciting showdown for the 2010 Giro d’Italia. Saturday's route as planned. Will it happen? Stay tuned. Race organizers will decide by 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning if they can take the peloton over the 2618m Passo di Gavia climb and the 2315m Forcola...
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson Of all the major classics, the Amstel Gold Race is the most difficult to predict — and one of the hardest to win. Only three riders have won the Dutch classic more than once: Eddy Merckx (of course), who took it twice in the 1970s, and the Dutchmen Gerrie Knetemann (1974 and 1985) and Jan Raas, who had five...
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Message by NONE Analysis St. 18: After 19 days of racing Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador are separated by just 8 seconds. These two have not been any more than 42 seconds apart in the overall standings since the prologue. So if theyre so even in terms of strength, how is that were so quick to give Alberto Contador a huge advantage in tomorrows 52-kilometer...
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Message by NONE After two weeks of racing in the upcoming Tour de Frnace, the GC should still be up in the air, but a little trip to the Pyrenees should settle any and all GC issues. Ask any experienced Grand Tour rider and theyll tell you that the race is won in the last week and the closing week of the 2010 Tour is not for the faint hearted!
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Message by Matt Conn It’s finally here. My favourite race of the season, and when a country is as crazy about cycling as the people of Belgium are, being there when their big race is on, really is something special. Get ready for a Mattentaart fuelled ride around the back roads of Flanders as PEZ does the 2010 Ronde van Vlaanderen!
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