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| roturn |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:30
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How did they lose that much time on the descent? |
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| AndySchleck |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:30
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Van Garderen!  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:30
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Hincapie!
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:30
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Hincapie wins.
Stage over, will probably tune in tomorrow. Won't be expecting much.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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| Jonathan |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:30
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Big gap  , Hincapie wins btw. |
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| Il Grillo |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:31
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Unfortunately we couldnt see if Levi showed his "legendary" downhill skills. |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:31
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roturn wrote:
How did they lose that much time on the descent?
Frank was trying to the pace probably
Van Garderen was agressive today and deserves the yellow jersey. With the young rider jersey he looked like a Bavarian champion
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| roturn |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:33
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Actually Frank was doing the pace when they caught the first 4 again. 
So who did the pace when the 6 man group attacked. |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:36
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I was only joking
We have to wait for some interviews, i guess some riders attacked and nobody wanted to chase and then it was too late to reduce the gap.
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| ruben |
Posted on 24-08-2011 22:46
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wow that stage sucked. If that was the queen stage...
the mountain was almost a highway with nothing steeper than 5% and the race got decided in the downhill.
meh. They have to do something more challenging with the course if they want to keep me as viewer next year. Not worth the time at the moment |
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 24-08-2011 23:06
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I agree that the commentators aren't doing well, and the picture breakup is inexcusable, and the mountains really aren't that tough, with lower grades.
Here are the problems though, the US doesn't have the history so the commentators can't just have the helicopter fly off to some castle and talk about it for a bit. Well the picture breakup is still inexcusable... and the mountains aren't ever going to be as hard in the US the roads were built hundreds of years later and new technology gave us easier (and better for transportation) ways of building through mountains.
Edited by Kentaurus on 24-08-2011 23:06
AZTECA - NBCSN  |
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 24-08-2011 23:09
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ruben wrote:
wow that stage sucked. If that was the queen stage...
the mountain was almost a highway with nothing steeper than 5% and the race got decided in the downhill.
meh. They have to do something more challenging with the course if they want to keep me as viewer next year. Not worth the time at the moment
The challenge is supposed to be the Altitude, which from the looks of it Andy certainly doesn't like.
AZTECA - NBCSN |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 24-08-2011 23:13
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Kentaurus wrote:
ruben wrote:
wow that stage sucked. If that was the queen stage...
the mountain was almost a highway with nothing steeper than 5% and the race got decided in the downhill.
meh. They have to do something more challenging with the course if they want to keep me as viewer next year. Not worth the time at the moment
The challenge is supposed to be the Altitude, which from the looks of it Andy certainly doesn't like.
Andy is in that part of the season when he is recovering after Le Tour. The other part is when he is preparing for it.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 25-08-2011 06:15
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Didn't get to watch the stage, but it seems like I didn't miss much anyway.
Nice to see Tobias Ludvigsson doing well though. Top 30 on this stage is very good for a first year professional according to me.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 25-08-2011 06:29
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alexkr00 wrote:
Kentaurus wrote:
ruben wrote:
wow that stage sucked. If that was the queen stage...
the mountain was almost a highway with nothing steeper than 5% and the race got decided in the downhill.
meh. They have to do something more challenging with the course if they want to keep me as viewer next year. Not worth the time at the moment
The challenge is supposed to be the Altitude, which from the looks of it Andy certainly doesn't like.
Andy is in that part of the season when he is recovering after Le Tour. The other part is when he is preparing for it. Or Andy only cares about Le Tour (and Liège), everything else is just unworthy of him (or so he thinks, and acts in consequence). |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 25-08-2011 06:48
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Good ride by Van Garderen. Danielson seemed on his limit, but Van Garderen was willing and able to drive that break. Something tells me that BMC will be well prepared when Evans can no longer ride at the highest level.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 25-08-2011 15:27
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Danielson has food poisoning
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| SeoulYank |
Posted on 25-08-2011 16:45
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alexkr00 wrote:
Andy is in that part of the season when he is recovering after Le Tour. The other part is when he is preparing for it.
What, and Hincapie didn't bust his arse at the Tour riding for Evans? Van Garderen didn't do a load of work for HTC? Andy launched an attack in the first stage, so clearly he was trying to make something happen. In the end, he couldn't keep up and was dropped. Stage 2, I think he gave up after finishing so far back on stage 1.
Anyway, in the lead up to this race it was hypothesized that the Americans and Colombians, who live and regularly train at these altitudes would outperform the Europeans. So far, that seems to be coming to fruition. It is unfortunate that fear of the altitude has generally led to fewer attacks |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 25-08-2011 16:58
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SeoulYank wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Andy is in that part of the season when he is recovering after Le Tour. The other part is when he is preparing for it.
What, and Hincapie didn't bust his arse at the Tour riding for Evans? Van Garderen didn't do a load of work for HTC? Andy launched an attack in the first stage, so clearly he was trying to make something happen. In the end, he couldn't keep up and was dropped. Stage 2, I think he gave up after finishing so far back on stage 1.
Anyway, in the lead up to this race it was hypothesized that the Americans and Colombians, who live and regularly train at these altitudes would outperform the Europeans. So far, that seems to be coming to fruition. It is unfortunate that fear of the altitude has generally led to fewer attacks
You misunderstand him. He is mocking the fact that Andy Schleck are only in form for two races of the year, L-B-L and TDF, everyother race of the year he's in crap shape and really don't ride like he wants to try and win.
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| Il Grillo |
Posted on 25-08-2011 20:39
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Quite a fast TT, considering its labled as mtt. |
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