@baseballlover- Stage 4 is supposed to be a sprint stage, but you never know I've never seen a normal (like in the tdf on flat stages) sprint in the Tour of Utah


It was a little more windy at the start, but I don't think that made much of a difference (mabye 10 or 20 seconds). The real reason why OPQS did so bad (in my opinion) is because they started with only 6 riders. All the other teams had 8.

Stage 3 is underway: https://tourtracker.tourofutah.com/

Stentina is looking really good on the first climb, the Peleton is spliting already!

Vandevelde doesn't look as good as I expected him to. Lucas Euser looks good, winning the first KoM.

I'm leaving for the finish

You mean sharp as barracuda teeth?

Tour de l’Ain 3rd Stage

1 Daniel Navarro Garcia - Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank 03.47.06
2 Alexey Lutsenko - Continental Team Astana 0.15
3 Andrew Talansky - Garmin - Sharp
4 Dario Cataldo - Omega Pharma-Quickstep
5 Jerome Coppel - Saur - Sojasun
6 Guillaume Bonnafond - AG2R La Mondiale
7 Sergio Pardilla Bellon - Movistar Team
8 Daan Olivier - Rabobank Continental Team
9 Serge Pauwels - Omega Pharma-Quickstep
10 Mads Christensen - Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank



Overall
1 Daniel Navarro Garcia - Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank 09.28.04
2 Dario Cataldo - Omega Pharma-Quickstep 0.13
3 Serge Pauwels - Omega Pharma-Quickstep
4 Andrew Talansky - Garmin - Sharp 0.23
5 Mads Christensen - Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank 0.25
6 Jerome Coppel - Saur - Sojasun 0.28
7 Sergio Pardilla Bellon - Movistar Team 0.29
8 Daan Olivier - Rabobank Continental Team 0.30
9 Matthias Brandle - Team NetApp 0.31
10 Alexey Lutsenko - Continental Team Astana 0.33

Nice result from Lutsenko.

Awesome riding by 19-year old Olivier. He lives a couple of miles from my place.

x2

Yet another strong result from him. Very promising talent.

Navarro seems to have got his power back now that his pal Alberto is back in business.

Maybe Alberto baked him some steaks too.

Vuelta a Leon, Stage 3
1. René Mandri (Endura/EST) 4h09'57"
2. Noel Martin (Supermercados Froiz/ESP) 01'07"
3. Mikhail Antonov (Lokosphinx/RUS) 01'07"

Mi-Août en Bretagne, Stage 1
1. David Veilleux (Europcar/CAN) 4h10'20"
2. Björn Thurau (Europcar/GER) 57"
3. Alexandre Blain (Endura/FRA) 57"

Don't they have a single decent stationary camera in the finish area? Helicopter views are awesome to see trains forming, but I'd like to see at least the jersey colours in the sprint.

Oh, Matthews won after being in the break and struggling over the climb.
Tells more about the sprinter quality in this race though rather than his power

Rumours are

2. Schär
3. Bookwalter
4. Sutherland

+1 They showed a good camera in the replay but I thought Matthews was Sutherland in the overhead. Horrible camera.

Maybe sprint tomorrow, but I really hate this route.

Terrible coverage.. At least in the sprint

Rabobank have really been turning things up lately. Some nice victories for the team. Not huge, but all victories are good for the team.

Tour of Utah: Stage 3

1. Michael Matthews Rabobank
2. Michael Schar BMC s.t.
3. Brent Brookwalter BMC s.t.

GC
Same as before


So they showed a bad camera angle again?
I was 5 or 10 meters before the finish on the side that Matthews won on so it was really cool to see him pass the 2 BMC guys just a couple feet in front of me

The first stages aren't great, but the last two will be epic, take my word for it

btw, Tyler Farrar came in dead last, all by himself. He lost 20 minutes to the peleton (time cut was 24 minutes) and he was 10 minutes behind the last grupetto.

Heli view for the whole last 3k or so. Couldn't distinguish Matthews and Sutherland, and hardly anything else

Sounds like a nice ride from Matthews today then

He was saving energy for today.

Talansky wins the 4th stage and takes the leader's jersey in the Tour de l'Ain. Majka came second, and Pardilla third.

Another top 10 from Daan Olivier. And he extended his lead in the young rider classification.