Don't get me wrong, I love Hincapie. I'm glad he won, obviously Leipheimer played his climber card pretty hard over the hills today and Hincapie had some good work done for him. I've always said though, he has a terminal inability to win THE BIG RACE.
Hincapie played it pretty smart. Candy from a baby with this particular lead group. This stage pretty much left all the sprinters behind. Interesting who gave up some time on stage 2... Salvodelli, Ekimov, Creed (who was in the long break) gave up 3 minutes. Jens Voigt and Stuart O'Grady gave up more than 9 minutes. I guess they're just training. That young T-mobile dude, Bernhard Kohl, was in the break and hung in there to the end. I guess he doesn't know it's still spring.
With Hincapie's overdeveloped climbing ability, I think he's more likely to win Flanders these days than P-R., unless he can somehow escape on his own with a couple of cobbled sections left.
He'd for sure have to hit Hem alone. No dragging anyone into the velodrome with him....
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Don't get me wrong, I love Hincapie. I'm glad he won, obviously Leipheimer played his climber card pretty hard over the hills today and Hincapie had some good work done for him. I've always said though, he has a terminal inability to win THE BIG RACE.
(THE BIG RACE = The Ronde or Paris-Roubaix)
It would be nice if he could win Paris-roubaix for sure, and Flanders. This could be the year with the big "L" out of the picture...
Hincapie played it pretty smart. Candy from a baby with this particular lead group. This stage pretty much left all the sprinters behind. Interesting who gave up some time on stage 2... Salvodelli, Ekimov, Creed (who was in the long break) gave up 3 minutes. Jens Voigt and Stuart O'Grady gave up more than 9 minutes. I guess they're just training. That young T-mobile dude, Bernhard Kohl, was in the break and hung in there to the end. I guess he doesn't know it's still spring.
With Hincapie's overdeveloped climbing ability, I think he's more likely to win Flanders these days than P-R., unless he can somehow escape on his own with a couple of cobbled sections left.
He'd for sure have to hit Hem alone. No dragging anyone into the velodrome with him....
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