Thursday, April 9, 2015

Tour of Flanders and Scheldeprijs - Kristoff Krushes all Kompetition

Another late race report, and I'm going to bundle two together to save a bit of time. There's only been one man winning races in Belgium recently - unless you count Wiggo's ITT win at De Panne -  and that's Alexander Kristoff. First, he won all three road stages at De Panne. Then he took the Tour of Flanders, and to cap it all off, he won Scheldeprijs yesterday. Here's a picture of him winning some race or other recently.

Here are the league scores at Flanders.

Stage 5


 And here's the Scheldeprijs points.

Stage 6


 With his incredible form of late, you'd have to be some kind of moron not to have Kristoff in your team by now, (sorry WACA). The Norwegian is sure to be one of the favourites at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. But there's plenty of others in with a shout. Bradley Wiggins has made no secret of the fact he's out to do well in what will be his final race for the Team Sky. And I wouldn't be surprised if an interview with a delusional Pippo Pozzato shows up on CyclingNews, about how he's going to be up there in the finale too. It looks like the weather forecast is a bit short on rain for the weekend, but this puddle was spotted on the course yesterday, so there could still be some muddy fun.

We're now over half-way through the Fantasy Classics season and the Bile Beans have been underperforming in the last few races, leaving the way open for Enrico 666 to surge ahead in the overall. I'll have to hope for a change in fortunes when we head into the Ardennes Classics.

Overall

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