Stage 1 TOC *Spoiler*

Doobz
Doobz Posts: 2,800
edited February 2009 in Pro race
Cancelara Abandons?
02:33 PM: Cancellara out
Word over race radio is that our race leader has withdrawn, due to his flu symptoms and not due to any mishap on the road.
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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    anyone watching?

    edge of the seat jobby :shock:
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

    Much better now I've realised I can stretch the bit of picture they are showing !
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Mancebo. An unbelievable ride.


    Literally?

    Ah nevermind - can't be bothered.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    aaah I think I'll retire from posting.

    No I wont.

    I win !

    (see what i did there ?)
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    teagar wrote:
    Mancebo. An unbelievable ride.


    Literally?

    Ah nevermind - can't be bothered.

    Without doubt the ride of his life.

    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    It's true! Racing really is better without radios

    http://velonews.com/article/87894/rock- ... -soggy-day
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    It's true! Racing really is better without radios

    http://velonews.com/article/87894/rock- ... -soggy-day

    good...fantastic to see how one team struggles to control the race without race radios...pls will the UCI ban them. TDF's ASO will have seen how exciting the stage was today...puts more of the pressure on riders and smart tacticians like Bruyneel are gagged to some extent
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Not really. Eurosport were getting regular updates and time checks. They knew who were in the chase group and how the time gap was being cut........

    .......and it was all being relayed from the Astana team car.

    Maybe it was only all the other teams experiencing technical difficulties. :wink:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    "On the second KOM he let me pull a little and then totally smashed it on the big ring and left us for dead. That was impressive."

    That being cyclists' code for... ?
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Not really. Eurosport were getting regular updates and time checks. They knew who were in the chase group and how the time gap was being cut........

    .......and it was all being relayed from the Astana team car.

    Maybe it was only all the other teams experiencing technical difficulties. :wink:

    You must have been watching a different Eurosport to me! The timings were all over the place and they were confused as to who was where and were guessing from a rain splattered helicopter shot as to who was in the bunch - in fact they were using Bruyneel's vaguely puzzled twitterings as a guide to what was happening half the time including the exasperated:
    # On the last climb of the day. Radio Tour gives us all kinds of different information. That definitely needs to improve. #atoc about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

    # The information over the official race radio is COMPLETELY messed up. Really confusing. #atoc

    Even as they entered the city the gap to Mancebo was showing three minutes on the on-screen graphic as the chasing group passed under the start/finish line 1:10 behind.

    There also seems to have been confusion over when the final timings would be taken with the initial info at the start of the last lap before it was moved back to the start of the three laps. If it was with 1 lap to go Mancebo would have been caught by the group on those two prior circuits.
    @stagehopper
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Not really. Eurosport were getting regular updates and time checks. They knew who were in the chase group and how the time gap was being cut........

    .......and it was all being relayed from the Astana team car.

    Maybe it was only all the other teams experiencing technical difficulties. :wink:

    Levi sees it differently

    “It was just really bad communication,” Leipheimer said. “We didn’t know any of the time gaps. In the end, Chris Horner, we have to thank him, because he was really astute. He hit the gas. Then we started panicking, asking the other teams to help. They didn’t get it. They were like, why? We were like, Mancebo still has four or five minutes. Really? Nobody knew anything. Miscommunication and race radio, maybe, I don’t know. In the end they rode fantastic.”


    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Martin Van Nostrand
    Martin Van Nostrand Posts: 149
    guys, do me a favor, if I ever win a stage, make sure I don't start it with "DEAD" written across my genitals.

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  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    Once again they make an arse of it.I saw 3 riders finish with a gap they being
    1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing
    2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas
    3 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step

    but the comic have this result

    Tour of California stage one: results
    1. Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing 173.2km in 4-11-07
    2. Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana at 1-07
    3. Michael Rogers (Aus) Columbia-Highroad
    4. Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank
    5. Christopher Horner (USA) Astana
    6. Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana
    7. Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing
    8. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas
    9. Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
    10. Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana all at same time.

    yet cyclingnews this one

    1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing 4.11.07 (41.383 km/h)
    2 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step 0.01
    3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas
    4 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 1.07
    5 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana
    6 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana
    7 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step
    8 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana
    9 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing
    10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank

    Didnt the organisers make an arse of it the other year too when levi was way behind and changed the rules to suit.Who can shed a light on it this time.???
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    campagchris wrote:

    Didnt the organisers make an ars* of it the other year too when levi was way behind and changed the rules to suit.Who can shed a light on it this time.???

    AFAIK, they took the stage times based on the first or second passage over the line, before Nibali tore off up the road
    Matrin van Nostrand wrote:
    guys, do me a favor, if I ever win a stage, make sure I don't start it with "DEAD" written across my genitals.
    After a 170km break in freezing rain, I'm not sure your genitals will be anything other than dead.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'

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