Until Next Year
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| The Terpinator destroyed the cobbles this year |
Well, not exactly, we are lucky enough to have a cobbled stage coming up in this year's Tour de France. Time to rattle the bones of some of these ultra skinny climber types, I like it. But, besides for that little taster, we will have to wait another year to feed our cobbles jones. Let's recap.
Dwars door Vlaanderen: In a sign of things to come, the cobbles of the Paterberg got Terpinated (trademark pending) by Maillot Jaune Guillame's killer late round selection, Niki Terpstra.
E3 Harelbeke: Despite how it may have seemed, Peter Sagan did not come away empty handed from the spring classics season. He managed a sprint victory, heading a podium group of Terpstra and Geraint that we would get to see a lot more of later in the classics.
Gent-Wevelgem: Degenkolb began the transformation from being considered a sprinter to being considered a classics rider by...winning a sprint finish. The only thing more ironic is Degenkolb's hipster mustache, or is that the actual style in Germany right now? Apparently, he shaved his euro stash afterwards thus, dooming his chances for victory in Roubaix.
The Ronde: We all know how his one turned out. An epic, legendary, history making effort to bridge the gap by Kristoff came up heart breakingly short. And some other guy opened a beer on the side of a table or something.
Scheldeprijs: Skittles owns this race, but I haven't had much of a chance to rip on my boy Ty Ty Farrar yet this year and he came "close" to making me eat crow with a second place finish. "you don't do that"
Paris-Roubaix: Another great edition of the queen of the monuments. In the end, Terpstra got a way for the win, but there was a whole hell of a lot more going on in this race. The final group was crazy strong. 11 national road race titles, 14 monuments, 30 grand tour stages, 3 cyclocross world championships, 1 road race world champion, 3 green jerseys, 6 gold medals and for the first time since 1992, 1 Tour de France winner.
As the dust settles can we determine a WFL winner here? Most of us scored significant points. Eric and Greg keep battling it out for 5th place while Volpe sees his annual Cancellera bump give him some breathing room. Steven has been raking it in, a bit from G. Thomas but mostly off the cobbles with Contador. Bill is probably the big winner here as he has inched even closer to first.
On to the Ardennes where we put away our roleurs and bring out our puncheurs. The WFL is full of climby riders and this next week should be pretty fun. Tune in. Wiskota!
Paris-Roubaix: Another great edition of the queen of the monuments. In the end, Terpstra got a way for the win, but there was a whole hell of a lot more going on in this race. The final group was crazy strong. 11 national road race titles, 14 monuments, 30 grand tour stages, 3 cyclocross world championships, 1 road race world champion, 3 green jerseys, 6 gold medals and for the first time since 1992, 1 Tour de France winner.
As the dust settles can we determine a WFL winner here? Most of us scored significant points. Eric and Greg keep battling it out for 5th place while Volpe sees his annual Cancellera bump give him some breathing room. Steven has been raking it in, a bit from G. Thomas but mostly off the cobbles with Contador. Bill is probably the big winner here as he has inched even closer to first.
On to the Ardennes where we put away our roleurs and bring out our puncheurs. The WFL is full of climby riders and this next week should be pretty fun. Tune in. Wiskota!
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