Sausages!!!

[sylvan]

”Salami and sausages are my weakness. I love to eat everything that a pro cyclist shouldn't eat.” - Thomas De Gendt, cyclist for embattled pro team Vacansoleil. De Gendt cut sausage out of his diet in preparation for the season and lost almost 10 pounds. Today was stage 1 of Paris-Nice and De Gendt got into a 3-man break with Jens Voigt (team leotard-feck) and Jeremie Roy (FdJ). They attacked with 39 km remaining, immediately after the main break of the day was caught, never had as much as a minute lead, but tried to make it stick with quality breakaway tactics. Three good guys, no turds to dick around and mess things up, but would they have enough to hold off the sprint trains?!?!

Last 7 km - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Lyoim0wdM - break never had more than a minute gap and it was down to 25 seconds with 7 km to go.

[steve]

Great race, downloaded it today. Real nail biter with some fantastic suffering!

[Rolf]

I almost posted this earlier today, but then I thought I may be saturating the forum with sausages. Looks like my first step to getting faster may not be losing the 31 lb bike, but rather skipping les saucisses. Nah. Think I'll stick with sausage 'n steel.


SPOILER ALERT!

Those three guys are rock stars. But I'm especially becoming a fan of Voigt. How he can still mix it up like that at 39 years old is just amazing. The other two guys in the break were 27 and 24. But if Voigt had foresaken wurst like the ascetic Belgian winner, he may have held out for the win!

[sylvan]

Those three guys are rock stars. But I'm especially becoming a fan of Voigt. How he can still mix it up like that at 39 years old is just amazing.

And the winner in the sprint from a 20-man day-long break in today's final stage of the three days of West Flanders: 40-year-old Niko "Rambo" Eeckhout.