Paris Roubaix - Spoilers be here.

[smutchin]

As with Kristoff last week, it's not really a case of what Etixx did wrong but what Degenkolb did right.

 

[thom]

"I was not afraid to fail and that was they key, but also you need a moustache to show some panache" said John Degenkolb

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

"I was not afraid to fail and that was they key, but also you need a moustache to show some panache" said John Degenkolb

The last German winner of Paris Roubaix, Josef Fischer, also had a (more splendid) moustache

 

[Crackle]

Pretty hard to see past Degenkolb once he'd survived to the last few K. Thought Stybar might join and go past but again, Degenkolb would probably have been equal to that.

 

[rliu]

Degenkolb would have probably won regardless, but they didn't have to actually lead out his sprint!


Doubt it, he was at the front pretty much all day.

I wouldn't really call what Lampaert and Stybar was doing a proper lead-out, they were just trying to give Stybar a better chance to start the sprint early, they were slowing the pace of the group. In the end it still got Stybar 2nd ahead of decent sprinters like Van Avermaet and Boom.

 

[Bollo]

Listened to the race on 5live extra but just managed to catch the footage of the train incident.
This....

Not extra extra close, but all it would have taken was a trapped wheel. Any talk yet of potential disqualifications, or is this being quietly brushed under the carpet?

 

[Origamist]

Had a flutter on Stybar but he didn't stand much of a chance with Degenkolb in the group, decent for him to get 2nd though.

His 2nd place - cost me 200 quid in winnings. On the plus side, my brother in law won £200 on Degenkolb and I'm insisting he keeps buying the beers till closing time...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Any talk yet of potential disqualifications, or is this being quietly brushed under the carpet?

No disqualifications according to Race Radio on twitter

 

[Flying_Monkey]

One other conclusion from today: Luke Rowe may well win this race sometime in the future.

Wiggins certainly didn't disgrace himself either, but once they had missed the key move, Rowe was never going to be able to drag them both back up.

 

[ColinJ]

A great race, a great winner, and a great ride by Luke Rowe, but someone should point out a small factual error on the Team Sky site ...

Wiggins tried one last attempt to bridge the gap on the approach to Roubaix, but it was Rowe who pressed on in the velodrome and became the race’s highest-ranked British rider with a solid late burst at the line.

LINK

Except for Roger Hammond's 3rd place in 2004, of course ...

 

[mjr]

Surly they mean this year's race @ColinJ?

 

[ColinJ]

Surly they mean this year's race @ColinJ?

Ah, of course - 'Highest-ranked' NOT 'Highest-ranked EVER' ... As you were!

 

[JoeyB]

I enjoyed that a lot.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Laters, Brad

 

[raindog]