cio93 wrote:
Cort Nielsen, nice. Isn't he more of a puncheur originally? I remember he easily won the KoM in Thüringen (~85 to 35 points).
And was this a straight sprint finally? Impressive stuff TAWK. Or was it TGWK? And what was Mollema? Ruben, help me out
The final circuit was quite hilly, the peloton was only about 30 riders strong at the finish. And it was an uphill finish, the final 1100 meters had an average gradient of 5.8%, and a max gradient of about 10% a couple 100 meters before the finish. Even though Cavendish was in the peloton at the end, he only managed to finish 25th, so that should tell something about how hard the final hill was.
Wilier wrote:
Did a little CQ head 2 head on both riders. Kelderman has never lost an I.T.T. against Bak. (5 times in total). Though, Bak must be motivated racing in his home country. So I think he'll take the GC.
I think Kelderman is the better TT'er of the two. But not by much, so anything can happen. But a CQ head-2-head is hard to do here, since Bak rarely goes all out on TTs, because of his role on the team, and because he doesn't stand a chance of winning a TT in a WT race.
But Bak is holding pretty well at the intermediate and he can afford to lose quite a lot of time on such a short distance.
Probably Kelderman wins ITT but Bak GC
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
