Heh, yeah. Can't imagine it to be easy to warm up your muscles that way.
I am rather dissapointed by the Dutch performances though. Van der Poel suddenly lost half a minute, Van Poppel was nowhere to be seen, and Bosman couldn't pull it off either.
While those three where actually thought to possibly make up an all Dutch podium... And now it's only Dolfsma on third. Good ride by him though. He seemed more pleased with his third place then Paprtska with his victory
Well, if after the Juniors race you thought you had enough suprizer; Polish domination in the U23
Brothers Szczepaniak take one and two, French top talent goed third, while the man to beat Tom Meeuwen is only 4th. The guy came for the rainbow jersey and nothing else, and now he hasnt even got a medal.
But man, he is still technically superior to everybody around today, and probably better then most pro's as well. The way he jumped over the beams is just magnificent.
like this;
Results U23:
1 Pawel Szczepaniak Polen BAB 00u00'00''
2 Kacper Szczepaniak Polen FID z.t
3 Arnaud Jouffroy Frankrijk BKP z.t
4 Tom Meeusen België FID z.t
5 Marek Konwa Polen z.t
6 Arnaud Grand Zwitserland z.t
7 Róbert Gavenda Slowakije FID z.t
8 Tijmen Eising Nederland SUN z.t
9 Elia Silvestri Italië z.t
10 Matteo Trentin Italië z.t
11 Lars van der Haar Nederland AAD z.t
12 Kenneth Van Compernolle België SUN z.t
13 Vincent Baestaens België FID z.t
14 Jiri Polnický Tsjechië SUN z.t
15 Micki van Empel Nederland z.t
16 Lubomir Petrus Tsjechië BKP z.t
17 Marcel Meisen Duitsland TRS z.t
18 David Lozano Riba Spanje z.t
19 David Lozano Riba Spanje z.t
20 Corné Van Kessel Nederland FID z.t
And juniors:
1 Tomas Paprstka Tsjechië 00u40'30''
2 Juan Alaphilippe Frankrijk z.t
3 Emiel Dolfsma Nederland op 0'09''
4 Matej Lasak Tsjechië op 0'19''
5 Gianni Vermeersch België op 0'20''
6 Gert-Jan Bosman Nederland op 0'39''
7 David Menut Frankrijk op 0'48''
8 David Van der Poel Nederland z.t
9 Laurens Sweeck België op 0'56''
10 Michiel van der Heijden Nederland op 1'00''
11 Radek Polnický Tsjechië op 1'01''
12 Tim Merlier België op 1'09''
13 Clement Le Bras Frankrijk z.t
14 Yannick Eckmann Duitsland op 1'11''
15 Clément Venturini Frankrijk op 1'14''
16 Michael Boros Tsjechië op 1'31''
17 Bob Jungels Luxemburg op 1'33''
18 Jan Klabouch Tsjechië op 1'40''
19 Emilien Viennet Frankrijk op 1'49''
20 Diether Sweeck België op 1'53''
yeah and it looked like they were going to do 1 2 3 for a very long time
I heard it's going to freeze badly tonight and that the parcours will be (much) worse tomorrow.
It's going to be a very weird WC tomorrow.
the junior´s race was much more interesting then the u23 race because it was easy to see that Pawel Szczepaniak will take the win
jouffroy just got a good rhythm too late to be dangerous for the brothers
You're forgetting home favourite Catharina Nash for the womens
But like you said. No certainities on this course.
Nys has got one trick up his sleeve though; Look what Meeuwen does about 25% into this video. Nys promised that if Tom would go for it in the race, he'd do the same.