E3 Harelbeke

Dr. Bre

looking at the race history its seems its only Boonen or Cancellara whoever wins this ha!

Here's the start list-

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/e3-harelbeke-2014/start-list

letape

Dr. Bre wrote: »

looking at the race history its seems its only Boonen or Cancellara whoever wins this ha!

Here's the start list-

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/e3-harelbeke-2014/start-list

Hope that's the case this year as they're both on my velogames team!

dastardly00

At least this should be a bit more watch-able than the Tour of Catalunya!!

TheBlaaMan

Dont forget this race is on TODAY, Friday..............

The riders will tackle a total of 17 climbs or bergs during the 211km race.

Some are steep and include cobbles, others are on normal roads but are long. Each one will spark some kind of selection and attack.

These are the 17 climbs, with their name, position in the race and the distance left to race, length and gradient.

1 Katteberg 33,7 / 178,5 600m 6,7%
2 Leberg 43,1 / 169,1 700m 6,1%
3 La Houppe 101,7 / 110,5 3440m 3,32%
4 Berg Stene 110,3 / 101,9 1560m 7,3%
5 Boigneberg 114,9 / 97,3 2180m 6%
6 Eikenberg 119,1 / 93,1 1200m 6% in pavé
7 Stationberg 124,8 / 87,4 460m 3,2% in pavé
8 Taaienberg 129,4 / 82,8 650m 9,5% in pavé
9 Knokteberg 144,4 / 67,8 1530m 5,3%
10 Hotondberg 148,4 / 63,8 1200m 4%
11 Rotelenberg 156,8 / 55,4 1100m 3%
12 Kortekeer 158,4 / 53,8 1000m 6,4%
13 Kapelberg 170,8 / 41,4 900m 4%
14 Paterberg 174,9 / 37,3 700m 12%
15 Oude Kwaremont 179,1 / 33,1 2200m 4,2% in pavé
16 Karnemelkbeek 185,5 / 26,7 1530m 4,9%
17 Tiegemberg 196,5 / 15,7 1000m 7%

Current situation:
143km remaining from 213km

The 5-man break has extended its lead to close to seven minutes. The peloton seems happy to let the five riders enjoy a long spell out front, confident that an organised chase and the 15 remaining climbs will mean they are caught.
The five are: Maxime Daniel (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Jerome Cousin (Europcar), Sénéchal (Cofidis), Jay Thomson (MTN-Qhubeka) and Laurens De Vreese (Wanty Groupe Gobert).

The Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali is also on in Italy today

dastardly00

27km left. Live on Eurosport1 at the moment.

dastardly00

14km left. Great action at the moment!!

MPFG

Great race ...wow

killalanerr

ah dont stop now guys, interesting one just now for sure.33sec

Darkglasses

What's happening?

MPFG

4 up front including Thomas and Sagan....Cancelera has been chasing back with only Develour for help for about 30km after a crash ......30 secs between 2 groups , lots sitting behind but not helping...maybe haven't the legs or don't want to help Fabs

Brian?

Darkglasses wrote: »

What's happening?

http://live.cyclingnews.com/?mobile

dastardly00

Darkglasses wrote: »

What's happening?

A lot!

Darkglasses

Thanks! Btw guys, you don't have to use spoiler tags in classics and stage-specific threads

MPFG

Vandenberg & Tempestra against Sagan against Thomas .....all going and stoping ( terrible spelling)


Sagan wins.......Thomas should have gone earlier but maybe hadn't the legs

neris

That was good

TheBlaaMan

What a fantastic race this has been over the past few years - no different today !

nolinejudge

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

What a fantastic race this has been over the past few years - no different today !

Great final 20k.enjoyable telly.

MPFG

Fabs is not going to be happy that no one helped him and sat on ,.....must have been at least 10 riders !!
But he looked so strong the way he flew past all those groups on the road, wouldn't bet against him for Flanders/ParisRoubaix

dastardly00

OPQS have got to be annoyed that they didn't win... 2 guys in the group with Sagan and Thomas, and then Boonen and Stybar in the Cancellara group.

MPFG

Reports Boonen broke his thumb....didn't look top

Dr. Bre

Sagan's first Harelbeke. goin to win a lot of these classics in his career