I was impresed by Nathan Haas's peformance in the breakaway, going away with 3 sprint wins and 1500 euros. Steele Van Hoff also deserves a mention with a top 5 in the Classic. Good Leadout train by Lotto too
Luke Durbridge didnt start for GreenEdge as he fell off his bike before the race and hit his head badly. Should hopefully be a starter tomorrow. Renshaw had a punture on the last lap. Poor Guy
Bit dissapointed with Australia's Coverage from Channel 9. Last year, SBS had the classic live with no ad breaks. also hightlights were at 6:00 and replayed again at 8:30. Channel 9 put them back at 10 - 10:30pm
About the TDU, (I've asked this already), is there any live coverage of the race? Channel 9 has highlights for the first3-4 stages at like 11:30pm, is that it?
Does anyone know if there will be more stages shown live on our worst broadcasting of cycling channel Sky Sports, please Eurosport take the TDU coz Sky Sports are just awful and boring.
Ste117 wrote:
Does anyone know if there will be more stages shown live on our worst broadcasting of cycling channel Sky Sports, please Eurosport take the TDU coz Sky Sports are just awful and boring.
Sky will be showing the final 2 stages live.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
3rd - Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) - FDJ-Big MAT
4: Fabio Sabatini (ITA) - Liquigas-Cannondale
5: Daniele Bennati (ITA) - Radioshack-Nissan
6: Christopher Sutton (AUS) - Sky Procycling
7: Jonathan Cantwell (AUS) - Team Saxo Bank
8: Xavier Florencio Cabre' (ESP) - Katusha Team
9: Mark Renshaw (AUS) - Rabobank Cycling Team
10: Manuel Belletti (ITA) - Ag2r La Mondiale
There was a multiple Rider Crash in the last km.
Aparentally one rider was Robbie McEwen - GreenEDGE
More info coming out about crashes. Confirmed broken collar bone for Roelandts. Haussler suspected broken collarbone. Guesdon broken hip. Female spectator,70 apparently caused the crash and three cyclists were injured in the crash.
Anyway good stage looking at the reports ( except the crashes ). Was a very close sprint, shame that Ale - Jet didn't win.
GC looks to be over for Goss, Rojas, Meyer and Ciolek ( 1:40) from the big names. Not a good stage for GE with 5 riders on 1:40 already
Edited by Alakagom on 17-01-2012 11:38
Alakagom wrote:
GC looks to be over for Goss, Rojas, Meyer and Ciolek ( 1:40) from the big names. Not a good stage for GE with 5 riders on 1:40 already
Not yet. In the results I have seen just now they are all s.t. with Greipel as they were involved in the crash.
Guesdon`s broken hip really sucks. If I remember right he already wanted to retire but then got a contract until Paris-Roubaix or so. Now he might have to retire immediately. Edited by roturn on 17-01-2012 10:46
Alakagom wrote:
GC looks to be over for Goss, Rojas, Meyer and Ciolek ( 1:40) from the big names. Not a good stage for GE with 5 riders on 1:40 already
Not yet. In the results I have seen just now they are all s.t. with Greipel as they were involved in the crash.
Guesdon`s broken hip really sucks. If I remember right he already wanted to retire but then got a contract until Paris-Roubaix or so. Now he might have to retire immediately.
They fixed the results now, in the morning they were gaps in the times. They didn't apply the 3km rule then.
GreenEdge will breathe a little, looked to been disaster for them. Looking forward to tomorrow, hopefully Eddy can take it for Sky. Although watching Valverde and what he can do will be very intresting.
