Tirreno-Adriatico (SPOILER)
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Are they using radios as breaks seem to be staying away both here and paris-nice great racing0
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Really no idea how the sprinters' teams managed to mess that up. Liquigas had guys like Basso and Nibali stringing out the peloton in single file, yet at the end they weren't even close to making the catch. The two escapees were almost doing trackstands in the final 500m!0
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Did Cavendish make the chase group after the hill ? was hard to tell but given THR not working on the front id presume he didnt. Did look a bit steep for him. Good 1st Pro win for the young Cofodis rider.
MGGasping - but somehow still alive !0 -
cyclingweekly said he had a mechanical on the hill and had to swap bikes. bis suprise that the sprinters teams messed it up so badly though0
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Stage 2 result...
1. Petacchi
2. Bennati
3. Koldo Fernandez
4. Dominique Rollin <- nice result
5. Paolini
Cavendish was dropped on the hill. He ain't got a chance in hell of getting a result in MSR.0 -
afx237vi wrote:
Cavendish was dropped on the hill. He ain't got a chance in hell of getting a result in MSR.
I wouldn't be so sure.
It is rumoured that a goateed American millionaire has been lurking between the Cipressa and the Poggio with a large quantity of earthmoving equipment and a tunnel boring machine.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
Brajkovic out injured. Balls. That's twice my GC pick has retired hurt this year.It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.0
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Looks the same as last season at the moment - throw in a climb of 150 metres or so in the last 30km and Cavendish will get dropped and not make it back. Hushovd didnt make it back today either which is maybe a bit more surprising. Bennati had the advantage that he is on the same team as Basso and Nibali who were able to really drive the pace on the climb. Petacchi had di Luca and it looks like some of the other GC guys were lending a hand
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/ma ... tirreno0920 -
Didn't Boonen get dropped as well? I think Cav is better on the hills than he was last year, he may spring a surprise in MSR and be around at the end. I suspect there will be a concerted effort to drop him by a few teams working together though.0
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Boonen apparently went down in the same crash as Brajkovic and Lovkvist. Dunno if he was hurt or not.
Anyone know who was 6th? I wanna update the PTP and Gazzeta is sloooooow. I swear the letour.fr site has the Paris-Nice results up before some of the riders even finish.0 -
Farrar gets it over Cav. I never expected that!
1 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Slipstream
2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Columbia-Highroad
3 Enrico Rossi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce
4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katusha
5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step0 -
Any idea on what happened to Bennati?Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0
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Cav 2nd !
Blimey, it's almost a disappointment, with what we expect Cav to do nowadays.
There's plenty more to come from him !"There are no hills, there is no wind, I feel no pain !"
"A bad day on the bike is always better than a good day in the office !"0 -
Bennati nor Petacchi in top 10
1. Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Slipstream 166km in 3hrs 53mins 48secs
2. Mark Cavendish (GBr) Columbia
3. Enrico Rossi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia
4. Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katusha
5. Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step
6. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Saxo Bank
7. Robert Hunter (Rsa) Barloworld
8. Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
9. Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo
10. Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil
overall
1. Julien El Fares (Fra) Cofidis 8hrs 6mins 32secs
2. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR at 15sec
3. Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas at s.t
4. Enrico Rossi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia at 20secs
5. Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis at 25secs
6. Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana
7. Matti Breschel (Den) Saxo Bank
8. Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Lampre
9. G. Hincapie (Usa) Columbia
10. Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) LPR all same time0 -
Even Lance was impressed
Also, congrats to Tyler Farrar for his stage win in Tirreno-Adriatico. Beats Cavendish. Pretty amazing.
:roll:Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
The headline on l'equipe.fr is "Cavendish beaten". Poor Farrar, he wins but the story is that Cav comes second :twisted:0
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It was Ali Jet who undid Cavendish. He had Petacchi's wheel and the Italian, knowing this, went very early.
Cav overtook him with ease, but got caught 10 metres from the line, when the afterburner ran out of fuel.
The result shows that the Italian was burnt..."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
LPR going full out for Di Luca, even Pettacchi http://www.gazzetta.it/grandeciclismo/t ... etta1.html0
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Montelupone climb, Joaquin Rodriguez going at exactly the same moment as last year :shock:0
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Yep....a real case of deja vu.
Lovkvist looks solid.
Gibo was amazing, I thought.
An old dog domestique.....for an old dog."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Biggest surprise for me on stage 4 was that Julien El Farès was able to hang in there and is still 2nd on GC just 6 secs off the lead he took in that 1st day break. Would like to find out a bit more about him as it's a new name to me.
No doubt he'll get burned in the TT today, but a name for the future or just riding his heart out in the leader's jersey?0 -
Blazing Saddles wrote:Yep....a real case of deja vu.
Lovkvist looks solid.
Gibo was amazing, I thought.
An old dog domestique.....for an old dog.
Who is Gibo going to ride for now though? Rebellin or Di Luca?0 -
Um, i am going to blame a long weekend with bad nights' sleep for the typo in that one. When i wrote di Luca it should of course have said Scarponi :oops:
Looks like a good stage today though. There is a big climb followed by a lumpy 43kms to the finish where there is a sharp climb up to the line. Tomorrow looks like one for the sprinters so anyone wanting to take the GC out of Kloden's hands will have to do it today. Will this Astana team be a bit more robust than the Paris-Nice bunch?0 -
Kloden miles back. Looks like Scarponi is the man.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0
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You can watch it live here: http://www.utahcafe.com/VIDEO/RAI3a.htm
Basso, Nibali, Scarponi, Carrara and Garzelli have well over a minute on Kloden and the rest right now. I think there's about 25km to go.0 -
Come on Basso! Iain needs the points!Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0
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Nice... Scarponi and Basso riding side by side. Wonder what they'll be talking about?0
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I'm just annoyed because I was gonna pick Basso, but then changed my mind and went for JI Gutierrez, who is apparently only good in rubbish one-week races in Belgium in August.
PS, watching the RAI feed, Operacion Puerto is the same in Italian as it is in English (and Spanish, funnily enough)!0 -
Basso's attempting to win the stage.0