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Tour De France '13 Stage 4: July 2, Nice-Nice
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| issoisso |
Posted on 02-07-2013 08:34
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
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Essentially Freire was Sagan with a better sprint...and very shy and friendly
Wasn't he a bit worse on the climbs, though?
I'm asking because most of his career was before I started watching cycling. I know that he has done well in races like the worlds and Amstel, but I haven't seen him following top climbers on f.e. the wall in Chieti, like Sagan.
Regular LBL and Flèche contender, regular top 50 in Grand Tour mountain stages, Tirreno-Adriatico overall winner...
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 02-07-2013 08:40
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Did not know that. Must've overlooked his Flèche and LBL results when looking through CQ ranking before. 
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 02-07-2013 08:49
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issoisso wrote:
Pellizotti2 wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Essentially Freire was Sagan with a better sprint...and very shy and friendly
Wasn't he a bit worse on the climbs, though?
I'm asking because most of his career was before I started watching cycling. I know that he has done well in races like the worlds and Amstel, but I haven't seen him following top climbers on f.e. the wall in Chieti, like Sagan.
Regular LBL and Flèche contender, regular top 50 in Grand Tour mountain stages, Tirreno-Adriatico overall winner...
The Tirreno he won wasn't really hard though. Petacchi got second if I'm not mistaken. There were 't any timetrials or mountains
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| MartijnVDD |
Posted on 02-07-2013 10:11
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Thomas suffers a broken pelvis, in case you didn't know.
It's just a small fracture, but sure must hurt a lot when sitting on a bike. |
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| Rin |
Posted on 02-07-2013 10:16
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Spilak23 wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Pellizotti2 wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Essentially Freire was Sagan with a better sprint...and very shy and friendly
Wasn't he a bit worse on the climbs, though?
I'm asking because most of his career was before I started watching cycling. I know that he has done well in races like the worlds and Amstel, but I haven't seen him following top climbers on f.e. the wall in Chieti, like Sagan.
Regular LBL and Flèche contender, regular top 50 in Grand Tour mountain stages, Tirreno-Adriatico overall winner...
The Tirreno he won wasn't really hard though. Petacchi got second if I'm not mistaken. There were 't any timetrials or mountains
Tirreno was in that time more or less a sprinters/puncheurs race before 2006.
But there were hills so thats why Freire managed to edge Petacchi 2005 because Freire was so much better there than Petacchi.
Plus there was sometimes a TT for example when T. Dekker won it 2006 (ok there was also a mountain stage 2006)
Edited by Rin on 02-07-2013 10:18
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| Speedtrash |
Posted on 02-07-2013 13:06
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I am going with Omega or Movistar |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:04
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Garmin for me but time gaps are going to be so small that one rider on a bad day or any mistake will likely be crucial.
Interesting bit of info from ITV's Tour coverage where Boardman talks about the beneficial effects of having a team mate behind you when riding as it decreases drag a small amount. In my ignorance I had no idea that even the guys desperately sitting on are helping a little.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:09
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I have money on either BMC or Orica to win this, both at 15:1 odds. I do think it will be Garmin who win it but I couldn't turn down those odds.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:10
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CountArach wrote:
I have money on either BMC or Orica to win this, both at 15:1 odds. I do think it will be Garmin who win it but I couldn't turn down those odds.
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| acac |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:21
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Anyone has any idea what the numbers next to the cities names mean? Today for instance on the bottom left corner of the screen they wrote Nice(06). What does the (06) mean? |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:24
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the department/provence/state iirc
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Posted on 02-07-2013 14:25
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acac wrote:
Anyone has any idea what the numbers next to the cities names mean? Today for instance on the bottom left corner of the screen they wrote Nice(06). What does the (06) mean?
That is the French sub-region number where Nice is arrondissement 6.
https://en.wikiped...nt_of_Nice
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| acac |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:25
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
the department/provence/state iirc
Been wondering that for years
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| SweatyViking |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:29
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Ahahahahaha, Ted King.... |
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Posted on 02-07-2013 14:30
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14'14" for Argos at first check. I can't imagine more than about 30" being lost except for teams like Sojasun or Euskaltel.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:31
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Did he get dropped already? He was in the stage 1 crash
Also, people watching the teams doing recon said Contador was riding in a screwed up position to avoid injury pain and even then was suffering considerably
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Posted on 02-07-2013 14:31
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King has done his part.
#managing #your #effort.
Edited by cactus-jack on 02-07-2013 14:31
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| SweatyViking |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:32
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issoisso wrote:
Did he get dropped already? He was in the stage 1 crash
Also, people watching the teams doing recon said Contador was riding in a screwed up position to avoid injury pain and even then was suffering considerably
No surprise that he's dropped, he's probably one of the worst riders in the entire WT and he is in the team only because Cannondale wants American riders. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:33
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Minus 28 seconds for Argos at the split according to the live timing.
They're clearly gone all-out in embracing Sky's tactic of negative splits
Edited by issoisso on 02-07-2013 14:38
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| CountArach |
Posted on 02-07-2013 14:33
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CountArach wrote:
14'14" for Argos at first check. I can't imagine more than about 30" being lost except for teams like Sojasun or Euskaltel.
And right after I say that OPQS go through almost a minute faster at the half way point. Martin clearly feeling much, much better. But they did look quite stretched.
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