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2014 Tour de Pologne
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:39
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I enjoyed the stage and it brought me childhood memories, beautiful place. So haters gonna hate. 
Great timing from Majka. 
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Posted on 28-11-2024 21:18
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:40
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Tinkoff: "Who knows how is stage finished today in Tour of Poland?"  |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:40
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Poor Vakoč. 
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| TimoCycling |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:40
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Hesjedal you silly sillly boy .
Good win for Majka, climb not tough enough though. |
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| Malkael |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:41
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| Smoku |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:42
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Vakoc should be 1 sec before Majka. Lost 26 sec +10 sec bonus to Majka and he had 37 sec advantage. |
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| Cossack |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:42
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Formolo again having a good race, great season for him.
Sanchez 6th, he seems to be getting in form for Vuelta, maybe he will get a stage win there.
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:44
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Cataldo lost 15''. Sky shocker continues... |
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:47
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Breaking News: Vakoc keeps yellow by a 1'' |
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| Malkael |
Posted on 07-08-2014 17:49
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Well played Poland, you sure know how to pull the bait and switch on even your own people.
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| Anderis |
Posted on 07-08-2014 19:46
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baseballlover312 wrote:
Stupid Garmin. Ryder was obviously feeling strong. Why the hell would you just pace everyone for 2 km. Goddamn.
I was about to write the same. Also that stupid tactic to go all in for penultimate climb and leave Ryder alone in the group of 60 or 70 riders with some flat terrain to go. Fairly then came back on the descent, but if Ryder needed his team-mate around the peak of penultimate climb, he would have none.
I guess Hesjedal knew there was no option to solo it for anybody on that gradient, so he wanted to keep the pace high and drop as many riders as possible (especially some good TT-ers) out of contention for the next stages. But doing so much work on so low gradient was asking for problems, he was nearly dropped himself when others accelerated on last kilometer. Not to mention he is a quickish guy as for climber, so he stood a good chance of scoring some time bonus, maybe even a stage win at the finish on a stage like this. Every success would be welcome at Garmin after having a season full of disappointment and heading for by far the worst finish in UCI Team's Classification in the team's history.
Good to see he isn't nowhere with his form before the Vuelta, though. He certainly looks better now than he looked few weeks before Giro. Maybe he just trained hard before the Vuelta today, that's why he preffered to keep pushing himself instead of stopping and seeing how everyone slows down. |
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| dbreality |
Posted on 08-08-2014 01:33
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Now everybody realize who Rafal Majka is. Can you believe Bjarne Riis picked him out of nowhere back in 2011. And the guy is double Tour stage winner and Maillot à pois. And he smashes this one home at home..
Absolutely masterclass job by Riis... |
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| Shonak |
Posted on 08-08-2014 06:35
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Boy has quite some acceleration in his legs. Dangerous. Nice victory for him, winning on home turf. Also a good result for the Movistar basques.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Cossack |
Posted on 08-08-2014 07:12
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Kirchen_75 wrote:
Cataldo lost 15''. Sky shocker continues...
He attacked early on the last climb, so understandable that he lacked power later in the finish.
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| Smoku |
Posted on 08-08-2014 08:29
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Time for the queen stage:
Bukowina - Zakopane Round - 174 km
This not a classical mountain stage - rather a super punchy round with 12 short but steep and narrow climbs adding up to around 4000 metres of uphill road. Each of the climbs is taken 4 times starting from Ząb:
through Gliczarów
and the final climb to Terma Bukovina
This as always should be a race of endurance with either some crazy stuff happening on the steepest sections or just a pure highpower grind in order to drop those, who will have moments of suffering.
Majka is going to be under great pressure today and Movistar looks to have a lot of options to spoil the fun for him.
PS. I know Gliczarów may not look that impressive, but the steepest kilometre (13,5% with 23% max) is in my opinion as demanding as the most famous walls in the Ardennes.
Edited by Smoku on 08-08-2014 08:31
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| Smoku |
Posted on 08-08-2014 13:51
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Paterski once again in the attack for KoM - won the first climb to Ząb. Meier and Caruso escaping with him. |
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| Cossack |
Posted on 08-08-2014 14:02
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Vuillermoz, Lagutin and Formolo joined the break too. That's quite a strong group, if the peleton doesn't chase too hard they have good chances of winning the stage.
Edited by Cossack on 08-08-2014 14:18
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| Smoku |
Posted on 08-08-2014 17:06
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20 km to go, Majka gives orders to his teammates on the downhill before Gliczarów. Boy, he looks confident.
Edited by Smoku on 08-08-2014 17:06
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 08-08-2014 17:08
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Good job today by Saxo, didnt expect them to be that strong |
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| Malkael |
Posted on 08-08-2014 17:10
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Eh, pales in comparison to the cow incident.
Going to be fun when they hit the "wall" in the finale.
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