Ah yes, it upon us, the best time of the cycling calendar, Classic Season.
Thor Hushovd (Cervelo TestTeam) gets the win in the season opener in Belgium.
Yesterday it all started with the first one, Het Volk, or now called Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Under usually nice weather the real racing season got under way, the usual breakaways formed and lasted until the big boys come out to play. With 55km left in the race Rabobank hammer the pace and when they got to the top of the Taaienberg four of them were at the front, including one of my fav’s, Juan Antonio Flecha. They never go more than a 15 sec on the main field and then after 15km the four were caught buy a groups with all the favorites. The move contained Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel, Leif Hoste, Gilbert, Greg Van Avermaet, Nuyens, Langeveld, Flecha, Posthuma, Bram Tankink, Haussler, Andreas Klier, Hushovd, Pozzato, Niki Terpstra, Martin Velits, Marcus Burghardt, Tomas Vaitkus, Kevyn Ista and Thomas Voeckler. Langeveld and Haussler attacked out of this group but were caught in the last 200m, with Thor Hushovd pulling off the first classic win in 2009 for the Cervelo test team. Hasussler, Cervelo test team finished in 8th
I love the under dog, a Professional Continental team coming to the top of the Pro tour teams
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