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johnxjsc1985 said:
How did he beat a three man team riding against him that was awesome.
Agree. Etixx were clearly setting it up for a Boonen sprint but when Boonen broke away at 5km or so to go they expected Stannard to try and cover it and wear himself out.
By Stannard keeping calm and slowly reeling him back it not onto saved his legs but left Boonen exposed and tired.
Vandenburgh had done most of the work for them so was cooked and then Terpstra went onto the front and basically gave Stannard a nice lead out!
He played them superbly, chapeau.
Jonnny said:
To be fair, Stannard said himself.. If the chasing pack wasn't so fast he'd have had no chance as Etixx would have repeatedly attacked him, but with the pack only 25s behind they pretty much had to carry him along.
he was being attacked all the time while two of them rested.Looking forward to todays race I think highlights are on Eurosport later.
It was interesting to watch the final 200m, Cav hunches down but is looking firmly at the finish, Kristoff is bigger so has to tuck down, but then look up, then tuck down, then look up.... Cav played that one superbly though, he saw Kristoff go early and went all the way round to get his wheel, fair play to Viviani too, he will win some stages this year. Honestly thought Bouhanni was going to bin it when he veered to the barriers, no idea what gap he thought he saw there!...
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