Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Crap shoot

Tomorrow is Gent-Wevelgem, the cool down race from the Tour of Flanders and warm up race for Paris-Roubaix. Here's the odds:
Boonen, T 4.50
Bennati, D 5.00
Petacchi, A 10.00
McEwen, R 11.00
Pozzato, F 14.00
Hushovd, T 15.00
Steegmans, G 15.00
Haedo, J 16.00
Cancellara, F 18.00
Paolini, L 20.00
Vaitkus, T 22.00
O'Grady, Stuart 22.00
Kopp, D 25.00
Flecha Giannoni, J-A 30.00
Burghardt, M 30.00
Eisel, B 30.00
Van Heeswijk, M 35.00
Mattan, N 35.00
Gilbert, P 35.00
Nuyens, N 35.00
Davis, A 35.00
Sentjens, R 35.00
Eeckhout, N 40.00
Clerc, A 40.00
Devolder, S 40.00
Roesems, B 50.00
Bonnet, W 75.00
Muravyev, D 75.00
Chavanel, Sebastien 75.00
Steels, T 75.00
Caethoven, S 150.00
Hinault, S 200.00
Flickinger, A 300.00
Renier, F 300.00
Franzoi, E 300.00

I'm going with Cancellara. I don't have anything to base that on other than he was fuh-lying in Flanders.

Golden got me a really nice Belgian Beer called La Chouffe. It's brewed by gnomes in the Arenberg Forest. You'll be seeing that little locale on Sunday; you know the nasty cobbles with the iron gate above the entrance that reads: Abandon all hope ye who enter here. You know that looks encouraging from the middle of the pack...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. Paolini
2. O'Grady
3. Devolders

Anonymous said...

man, I was wronger than heck.

Anonymous said...

Shawn, do you notice the irony of 1.Tom Boonen 2.Lief Hoste 3.Roger Hammond were all former Disco riders. Granted I know Boonen wanted to leave but the other guys? All strong guys in the classics, Maybe they'll keep Stijn Devolder just for fun.
HH