Quickstep 2019 Season So Far (SPOILERS)

[GregL]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/le-samyn-2019/results/

We're not even a full week into March and they already have 14 wins this season. They've won three races in four days, each win by a different rider. Amazing!

Greg

[Onion]

seeing Stybar finally take the top step in the spring is really gratifying. The battles between him and Nys were some of the best racing I ever watched in any discipline. He was always a classy dude.

[Keith A]

Sounds like they are picking up where they left off last year. IIRC, that won a bunch of races last year too.

[gavingould]

oddly, Astana has 15 wins already per ProCyclingStats...
https://www.procyclingstats.com/team/astana-pro-team-2019/wins

3 for 3 in the spring classics though is pretty nice for QuickStep.
Is it weird that I still often think of them as OmegaPharma-QuickStep?

[weisan]

Great team, great riders, great leadership, great organization.

But not unbeatable.

No teams or riders are unbeatable.

Need the over-powering dominance of a strong man to break up the pack.

A lion.

A few past examples :

Fabian Cancellera
Phillipe Gilbert

[Mzilliox]

Great team, great riders, great leadership, great organization.

But not unbeatable.

No teams or riders are unbeatable.

Need the over-powering dominance of a strong man to break up the pack.

A lion.

A few past examples :

Fabian Cancellera
Phillipe Gilbert

And Sagan hasnt even started to race yet. i think hes got a season up his sleeve this year.

that being said, these shoes with wolves on em werent because i like watching the lotto sudial guys race...

Go Wolfpack:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4855/39985003913_b3fbd9e79a_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/23VkABc)poweredbywolf (https://flic.kr/p/23VkABc) by Matt.zilliox (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41573599@N06/), on Flickr

[MattTuck]

I love to hate them. :)

I liked it better when they were bungling race tactics and losing to Ian Stannard when they had 3 guys in a 4 man group, or when Paolini won out of a group of 4 (2 Quickstep) at Gent-Wevelgem, or when the Carrefour took out 2 quickstep riders and unfurled the red carpet for cancellara at the velodrome.

Ok, not really that last one, since idiot fans were the result of those crashes, and I do like Stybar.

But I also enjoy them messing up like they did a few years ago. I guess this is how the rest of the country feels about the patriots :help::rolleyes::p

[nooneline]

I think that those mess-ups, Matt, were part of a transition from a team that was built with heavy firepower supporting star riders, to one that's a lot flatter. There's no Boonen, now, and with Gilbert aging and Terpstra gone, it's a lot easier for them to implement their flat strategy. And with a few extra years to hone their abilities, strategies, and culture (they do all seem to like each other and enjoy winning together), I think they've really honed it.

[EDS]

Must be the disc brakes!

I kid . . .