TOB Stage 2 spoiler
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Not over yet, but I'm trying to follow it on the twitter page and man does this look weird!
Latest update is:
Trosov is in a pack including all of the CSC team
WTF! They appear to be saying the entire CSC team is in a breakaway with a guy from Tinkoff - unbelievable tactics if true!! I suspect there is a certain amount of misinformation! Typical of ToB. :roll:
Seems Hunter's quit though, which is a shame.
Latest update is:
Trosov is in a pack including all of the CSC team
WTF! They appear to be saying the entire CSC team is in a breakaway with a guy from Tinkoff - unbelievable tactics if true!! I suspect there is a certain amount of misinformation! Typical of ToB. :roll:
Seems Hunter's quit though, which is a shame.
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Apparently there's been a big crash near the finish (stage has ended but I'm not sure who's won yet). Pedersen walked across the line with his bike . . .0
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Trusov wins (go Tinkoff) and Cav etc lost 10 minutes.
Usual pattern for the ToB then except a day later.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
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Why do you think it's strange Jimmy? I'd say that was normal for a low key stage race, i.e. a tough route leads to a selection and, as pretty much every team is represented, no-one behind chases and a decent time gap is established by those in front.0
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Someone please explain to me how, in a 94 man field, T-Mobile can't get a single rider into a 33-strong breakaway.0
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Because they are all knackered from defending Cavendish's jersey? I see Gerdemann dropped out today so they are down to just five riders. That's not many to defend with.afx237vi wrote:Someone please explain to me how, in a 94 man field, T-Mobile can't get a single rider into a 33-strong breakaway.0 -
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andyp wrote:Why do you think it's strange Jimmy?
well unless 5 live didnt have their finger on the pulse the break went clear and gained all that time in the last hour of the stage...0 -
If you listen to Cav's interview from Stage One he actually said he was 'scared' of today's stage - bit like a short classic, steep hills, not his sort of territory - so T-Mobile probably knew they didn't have a hope of keeping yellow and coudln't send anyone up the road because they had to 'defend for Cav'.
But, unlike last year, when Pedersen had yellow from start to finish, you can see someone like Feilleu picking up sprint time bonuses to come up from fourth. You've also got something like 20 riders within a minute and some more hills to come so I don't think it's over yet.0 -
I thought it was going to be a tough day and it looks as if it was.No 1 fan in the jonesy124 Fan Club0
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For a tough route, they still managed an average of 27 mph+ .
Regardless of how many riders T-Mobile have or haven't, no ProTour DS is going to have his squad hammer themselves silly on a 2.1 event. T-Mobile can get far more publicity from Cav winning stages and setting a new benchmark for neo-pro wins than from winning the overall - abroad, people probably care as much about the ToB as folk care about the Tour of Poland here. If the squad and Cav are knackered from trying to defend a yellow jersey, they'll find it hard to deliver the stage wins.
It happened a few weeks ago in Ireland too - 10 man break 13 minutes up after day 1 - game over. Everyone just fought for the stage wins for the week after that.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
Certainly normal for a British race for the breakaway not to get caught, except that it usually the local Big Fish in the break.andyp wrote:Why do you think it's strange Jimmy? I'd say that was normal for a low key stage race, i.e. a tough route leads to a selection and, as pretty much every team is represented, no-one behind chases and a decent time gap is established by those in front.0 -
About 10 miles from the finish there was 3 groups. the lead group of 32 riders had a lead of 3.04 on the second pack. the second pack looked tired, and the 3rd group although maybe another 5 mins back looked fresher, and obviously caught the 2nd group before the finish line.
The pile up at the end was a simple mistake by one of the riders, he went to follow one of the lead cars of on one direction when the riders was meant to go the other way, at the last second he realized and swerved to the correct course tacking a bunch of riders with him. Sad way to finish a great day.
Several of the guys in my club (www.1stchardwheelers.co.uk) rode out to the start, the upto exmoor, before watching the race from our spot 10 miles out. Great turnout all along the route, and at Taunton.
Cycling is finally becoming a sport people are prepared to give up there time to go and watch, and it's free.0 -
I agree with that last sentence. I was out on the route in the New Forest on Monday and it was very well supported.
That bloke off cycling.tv turned up in a car with a mic on the top and started yelling updates to us before the bunch arrived.0
