Pezcyclingnews: Lee’s Lowdown: How To Lose A Classic!



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This week Lee Rodgers runs his eye over the debacle of Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The Etixx – Quick-Step team had the upper hand; three riders versus the solo Ian Stannard and what happened… Stannard won. Here is the ‘Lowdown’ on the in’s and the out’s, the excuses and where it all went wrong.Tom Boonen, Stijn Vandenbergh and Niki Terpstra emerged from the darkness with trickles of blood coming from their ears, bodies battered, bruised and thoroughly spanked. Never in their lives had they taken such a thorough pounding. This was not from the race, if thats what youre thinking, but from ten minutes with Patrick Lefevre on the team bus after their disastrous run out at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. “So we are pretty confident in our abilities to be a protagonist,” Wilfried Peeters, EQS DS, said before the race on Saturday when he could naturally be pretty confident, as he figured he had some of the canniest, fittest and toughest Classics riders of their generation under his tutelage and raring to go. “The last time we won this race was 10 years ago with Nick Nuyens, he continued, his little nose twitching with the scent of victory he sensed on the wind, but the finish was still in Lokeren. Tom Boonen was second that day. Now we hope after 10 years that we can do a good race and try to get a win.” He might be calling himself WellFried Peeters after Saturday, so frazzled would he have been...

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