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CX dudes in Road Racing (Dauphine spoilers)
So Wout van Aert now his first two road stage victories:
1) Dusts the likes of Tom Dumoulin to win a 26k TT (yesterday) 2) Dusts the likes of Alaphillipe and Sam Bennett to win a straight up group sprint. I guess some of this isn't too surprising - for TT purposes, he is pretty used to riding at or near the redline for an extended period. And today's sprint was kinda false-flat with a lot of tricky corners, which you can imagine playing in to his CX handling skills. Still, what an impressive 2 days (3, really, as he almost won the sprint the day before the TT) of bike riding by WvA. |
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Quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huX480jsqlw Very excited for he and Van Der Poel in the near future, duking it out once again but on tarmac instead of dirt/grass/sand/mud. |
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I am loving watching Wout and MVP do so well. Watching them race cross is just inspired and to see them both be successful in other forms of cycling is great. Plus I don’t think MVP can be stopped on dirt for much longer, his mob skills are impressive.
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Alaphillipe was passed by MVDP a couple of times in the spring classics as well so he knows how fast they are.
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BTW Alaphilippe started cycling in the CX category before he went to road cycling.
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CX riders usually do ok in road, but not necessarily a road rider will do ok in CX.
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Guess who?
Cyclo-cross
UCI World Cup - Overall Winner (2009–10) Superprestige - Overall Winner (2009–10) World Championships (2nd 2008, 2009, 1st 2010, 2011, 2014) National Championships (2008–2013) Road 2006 1st Stage 6 Volta a Lleida 1st Stage 3 Tour des Pyrénées 2010 1st Prologue Okolo Slovenska 2011 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 2012 1st Stage 3 Tour de Pologne 2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Stage 4 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 10th Paris–Tours 2013 1st Jersey white.svg Overall Eneco Tour 1st Stages 3 & 7 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico 6th Paris–Roubaix 2014 National Road Championships 1st MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Road race 3rd Time trial 1st Binche–Chimay–Binche 1st Stage 2 Eneco Tour 5th Paris–Roubaix 7th Milan–San Remo 10th Clásica de San Sebastián 2015 1st Strade Bianche 1st Stage 6 Tour de France 2nd E3 Harelbeke 2nd Paris–Roubaix 3rd Overall Czech Cycling Tour 1st Jersey orange.svg Points classification 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 4 3rd Vuelta a Murcia 5th Overall Tour of Britain 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 9th Tour of Flanders 2016 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Strade Bianche 2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche 3rd Trofeo Pollenca–Port de Andratx 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 2 7th Overall Eneco Tour 8th Tour of Flanders 8th Gran Piemonte 2017 1st MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Paris–Roubaix 4th Strade Bianche 9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 2018 1st Jersey red.svg Points classification BinckBank Tour 6th Bretagne Classic 6th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen 7th Strade Bianche 8th Gent–Wevelgem 9th Paris–Roubaix 9th E3 Harelbeke 10th Tour of Flanders 2019 1st E3 BinckBank Classic 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 4th Strade Bianche 6th Overall Volta ao Algarve 1st Stage 5 8th Paris–Roubaix
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Stybarrrrrrrr
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I was going to say froome... or Andy Schleck , but I got it wrong :P
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