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| Biathlon |
Posted on 05-03-2012 15:59
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Split because of wind?
Words to live by
"What would Lance do?"
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:00
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ruben wrote:
Glad when the Tirreno start. when the main protagonists of PN are Leipheimer, Wiggins, Van Garderen and Valverde, it's time for me to watch something else 
 each to their own! 
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:00
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Biathlon wrote:
Split because of wind?
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:04
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Waiting for highlights, but looked very interesting. Wiggins out sprinting Valverde has to be the highlight  With Sky's team strength here I think the race will be decided in the final TT. This stage surprised, so let's hope we'll get more excitement in following days.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:06
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Tomorrow's finale should be exciting for sure. The uphill finish looks perfectly suited for Valverde.
Also sprinters like Boonen, Rojas and Degenkolb might finish high up again.
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| roturn |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:20
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Alakagom wrote:
Waiting for highlights, but looked very interesting. Wiggins out sprinting Valverde has to be the highlight
This was a weird intermediate. Wiggins didn`t really out sprinted Valverde. Nobody really sprinted and so Wiggins was 1st ahead of the others.
Pellizotti2 wrote:
Also sprinters like Boonen, Rojas and Degenkolb might finish high up again.
The sprinters need a super form if they want to finish high tomorrow. Looks to hard imo. Rojas could prove me wrong but I doubt we will see Boonen or Degenkolb up there.
And this are just the last 5km. The climb is 8km long.
Edited by roturn on 05-03-2012 16:22
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| Kami |
Posted on 05-03-2012 16:46
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In an interview Boonen said they were expecting a split at Roundabout, but he was forced to take the long side, and had to go past 2-3 groups to get to the lead group. He did this togheter with Leipheimer, so they were bot behind at first.
Don't know if this was shown though, as i couldn't watch  .
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-03-2012 17:00
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roturn wrote:
Alakagom wrote:
Waiting for highlights, but looked very interesting. Wiggins out sprinting Valverde has to be the highlight
This was a weird intermediate. Wiggins didn`t really out sprinted Valverde. Nobody really sprinted and so Wiggins was 1st ahead of the others.
To me it looked like Valverde thought "they know they can't beat so they won't even bother", then didn't really push for it, and Wiggo came to get the sprint.
I know this is probably extremely far from true, but it's funnier to think it was this way.
Kami wrote:
In an interview Boonen said they were expecting a split at Roundabout, but he was forced to take the long side, and had to go past 2-3 groups to get to the lead group. He did this togheter with Leipheimer, so they were bot behind at first.
Don't know if this was shown though, as i couldn't watch .
When the TV coverage started both were in the first group. I dunno if there's any way to see that, but I'd really like to if that happened that way. Awesome stuff.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 05-03-2012 17:08
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roturn wrote:
Pellizotti2 wrote:
Also sprinters like Boonen, Rojas and Degenkolb might finish high up again.
The sprinters need a super form if they want to finish high tomorrow. Looks to hard imo. Rojas could prove me wrong but I doubt we will see Boonen or Degenkolb up there.
And this are just the last 5km. The climb is 8km long.
If it's a big group at the bottom it's got to be Valverde.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 05-03-2012 17:12
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Didn't know the final climb was that hard or long. Valverde will be huge favourite.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-03-2012 17:15
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I doesn't seem that hard, not at least for the likes of Boonen, Degenkolb or Rojas. A 50m gain in the last 1.5 km would mean 1500m @3.3%, definitely not insurmountable for the stronger sprinters.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 05-03-2012 17:16
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Also sprinters like Boonen, Rojas and Degenkolb might finish high up again.
Degenkolb and Rojas more likely than Boonen imo, with Rojas more likely than Degenkolb - but Rojas does have Valverde as a teammate
Alakagom wrote:
With Sky's team strength here I think the race will be decided in the final TT. This stage surprised, so let's hope we'll get more excitement in following days.
Mende will be the key stage for Sky. Really suits Valverde, doesnt really suit Wiggins. Wiggo could have done with the time advantage he might have gotten from a dry TT.
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| roturn |
Posted on 05-03-2012 18:25
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Some really big names with huge time loss today.
Especially surprised by Taaramae and Brajkovic.
Will be interesting to see if these all will go into breaks or if the form just isn`t there yet.
| 111 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 0:10:58 | | 112 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:10:58 | | 113 Andy Schleck (Lux) RadioShack-Nissan 0:10:58 | | 114 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale 0:10:58 | | 127 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM 0:10:58 | | 132 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Cofidis Le Credit En Ligne 0:10:58 | | 146 Richie Porte (Aus) Sky Procycling 0:10:58 | | 147 Igor Anton Hernandez (Esp) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0:10:58 | | 173 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:10:58 | | ... | | 175 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Garmin - Barracuda 0:17:35 |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 05-03-2012 18:33
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Basso and Porte both crashed, and Andy performs as expected in a non-July race. Dunno about the rest
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-03-2012 18:47
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Taaramäe has been ill recently, although he did a good prologue yesterday, so I guess he just missed the split and couldn't make it back to the front. Le Mével crashed hard too, and did the last 45 km riding alone in the wind. That surely hurts.
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-03-2012 09:59
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Andy Schleck obviously abandons before todays stage due to illness.
He won`t care as it was just a shit race.  |
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| Niidirull |
Posted on 06-03-2012 10:08
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Taaramäe wrote on his blog that he actually did make the split and ended up in the first group and was happy over it , but couldn't hang after a few kilometres and got dropped from there and eventually from the other groups aswell. He plans to hunt for stages now. |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 06-03-2012 11:17
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roturn wrote:
Andy Schleck obviously abandons before todays stage due to illness.
He won`t care as it was just a shit race.
Remember what the Hog said about focussing solely on the TDF ? |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 06-03-2012 11:41
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Basso and Porte both crashed, and Andy performs as expected in a non-July race. Dunno about the rest
He doesn't win the July one either 
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 06-03-2012 11:55
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CountArach wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
Basso and Porte both crashed, and Andy performs as expected in a non-July race. Dunno about the rest
He doesn't win the July one either
+1 At least i hope he will not
Looking forward to todays stage, it has Valverde written all over it, bring me some pcm$ Alejandro.
Edit:Morkov, Engoulvent and Curvers are in the breakaway today and apart from Schlick, also Kruopis DNS today.
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 06-03-2012 12:27
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