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| Dizzle |
Posted on 24-03-2012 15:17
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Well, Chris Anker came first over the first 3rd category mountain.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 24-03-2012 15:20
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Eurosport go live in 30 minutes.
Incident on the course stopped the race for a while. It was between a police motorbike and a car
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 24-03-2012 16:46
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Sanchez took that win very well.
An exciting final KM but Sanchez sitting up and celebrating losing a few seconds. d'oh.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 24-03-2012 16:48
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Great win for Samu, great late attack, and first win for Euskaltel.
And he got that precious gap, so he pretty much secures 2nd in GC.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 24-03-2012 21:15
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doddy13 wrote:
Sanchez took that win very well.
An exciting final KM but Sanchez sitting up and celebrating losing a few seconds. d'oh.
It shouldn't matter at this point. I doubt that he'll be challenged tomorrow.
The big battle is for 3rd. It's pathetic that it will come down to which pure climber will outsprint the other in one of the most mountainous stage races of the year. Gimme a break. This race has stunk since stage 3's finish was cancelled.
On another note, why did anyone let Sanchez go? It was like no one wanted to chase because they wanted to save for the sprint. The main teams were extremely stupid to not respond to such an outstanding rider with explosiveness on both the mountains and flats. Now they have to regret it. I would have looked for a Uran or Cunego to counter, but Sanchez just rode away.
Tomorrow is kinda interesting with the last climb summiting closer to the finish, but I think the GC is decided, especially about Albasini- since 3 days ago.
Edited by baseballlover312 on 24-03-2012 21:20
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 24-03-2012 21:26
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baseballlover312 wrote:
doddy13 wrote:
Sanchez took that win very well.
An exciting final KM but Sanchez sitting up and celebrating losing a few seconds. d'oh.
It shouldn't matter at this point. I doubt that he'll be challenged tomorrow.
The big battle is for 3rd. It's pathetic that it will come down to which pure climber will outsprint the other in one of the most mountainous stage races of the year. Gimme a break. This race has stunk since stage 3's finish was cancelled.
On another note, why did anyone let Sanchez go? It was like no one wanted to chase because they wanted to save for the sprint. The main teams were extremely stupid to not respond to such an outstanding rider with explosiveness on both the mountains and flats. Now they have to regret it. I would have looked for a Uran or Cunego to counter, but Sanchez just rode away.
Tomorrow is kinda interesting with the last climb summiting closer to the finish, but I think the GC is decided, especially about Albasini- since 3 days ago.
That. But mountainous ? Don't kid yourselves, there was one mountainous stage and rest of them were wannabe ones, not too hard to create big splits.
Exactly. Garmin/Lotto just let him go, although he was very strong, tbh no team would bring him today except Sky if they had Wiggo here, but they don't .
GC is indeed decided, profile as always over exaggerated, not as tough as it looks. Another sprint finish between Uran/Sanchez.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 25-03-2012 14:18
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Simon wins the stage again. Alabsini wins the overall.
I thought I'd never say that about this race, but thank god this utter shite/joke race is finally over. The only enjoyable part of this race was the crazy descending at the end of the stages, other than that...
Edited by Alakagom on 25-03-2012 14:22
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| kumazan |
Posted on 25-03-2012 14:21
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Alakagom wrote:
That. But mountainous ? Don't kid yourselves, there was one mountainous stage and rest of them were wannabe ones, not too hard to create big splits.
Montserrat might not be the Zoncolan, but it's enough of a climb to drop a guy like Albasini. Of course, for that you have to actually put an effort and properly attack, but it just didn't happen.
Pretty easy for Simon today.
Alakagom wrote:
I thought I'd never say that about this race, but thank god this utter shite/joke race is finally over. The only enjoyable part of this race was the crazy descending at the end of the stages, other than that...
This is too harsh imo. The prganization has been terrible, having no alternative for the Port Ainé stage, and with the utter joke of giving all the same time in that stage, but there's been better racing here than in P-N.
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| roturn |
Posted on 25-03-2012 15:49
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| 1º 62 ALBASINI, Michael SUI GREENEDGE CYCLING TE 24:15:45 | | 2º 31 SANCHEZ, Samuel ESP EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI a 01:30 | | 3º 101 V.DEN BROECK, Jurgen BEL LOTTO-BELISOL a 01:32 | | 4º 51 MARTIN, Daniel IRL TEAM GARMIN-BARRACUD a 01:32 | | 5º 157 URAN, Rigoberto COL SKY PROCYCLING a 01:32 | | 6º 81 CUNEGO, Damiano ITA LAMPRE-ISD a 01:32 | | 7º 14 KISERLOVSKI, Robert CRO ASTANA PRO TEAM a 01:32 | | 8º 171 CARRARA, Matteo ITA VACANSOLEIL-DCM a 01:32 | | 9º 124 CATALDO, Dario ITA OMEGA Pharma-QUICK S a 01:32 | | 10º 115 PARDILLA, Sergio ESP MOVISTAR a 01:32 | | 11º 71 MENCHOV, Denis RUS KATUSHA TEAM a 01:32 | | 12º 56 DANIELSON, Tom USA TEAM GARMIN-BARRACUD a 01:32 | | 13º 98 SZMYD, Sylvester POL LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE a 01:32 | | 14º 133 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven NED RABOBANK a 01:32 | | 15º 58 STETINA, Peter USA TEAM GARMIN-BARRACUD a 01:32 |
How frustrating must this be? 
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 25-03-2012 22:11
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Strange race and results..
They should think over about stages for next year.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 25-03-2012 23:06
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I sort of enjoyed this race, yeah some of the decisions by the organisers were a bit questionable. But that's the same in quite a few races right?
Albasini did well to hold on to the GC at some points, so saying he didn't deserve it is quite unjust imo.
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 25-03-2012 23:31
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I loved the stage win by Sanchéz |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 26-03-2012 01:41
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doddy13 wrote:
I sort of enjoyed this race, yeah some of the decisions by the organisers were a bit questionable. But that's the same in quite a few races right?
Albasini did well to hold on to the GC at some points, so saying he didn't deserve it is quite unjust imo.
He did do quite well to hold on to the jersey, but if the 3rd stage summit finish had happened, he wouldn't have had anything to hold on to. 
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 27-03-2012 09:19
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What a joke this race was, i would rather watch Tour of Beijing than race with all the downhill finishes and stupid organisers 
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 27-03-2012 09:20
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