Tour of Poland *spoilers & live video*

nickolas herbet

It is good for the fans and probably logistically too.very nice to see this ok


If You want crazy movie?

afx237vi

Queen stage:

afx237vi

Loosli, Albasini, Rutkewiecz, Marcato, Kirienka in the break... a good group but the peloton is close behind with Liquigas doing the pulling.

Still quite some distance to go.

afx237vi

Is the forum working properly now?

EBH wins the stage, sprinting from a group of about 15. Not sure who was 2nd or 3rd because the guy providing the feed switched over to football about 2 milliseconds after EBH crossed the line :twisted:

Ballan keeps the jersey, I think,

frenchfighter

Anyone got a video of EBH win? That guy is too strong.

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Tour of Poland
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frenchfighter

Unbelievable rain!

afx237vi

frenchfighter wrote:

Anyone got a video of EBH win? That guy is too strong.


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Quality's not great, sorry, but I can't find anything better:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0sWyUK33Sk

frenchfighter

Thanks afx - that is just what I wanted.

afx237vi

No problemo. Today's final stage:



And the top 3 on GC:

1 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 25:50:34
2 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0:00:10
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia - HTC 0:00:11

I can't see it being anything other than a bunch sprint, but there are are bonus seconds available at the finish and we know EBH can sprint (as well as climb, TT, ride in echelons, ride on cobbles, etc, etc, etc...)

frenchfighter

afx237vi wrote:

we know EBH can sprint (as well as climb, TT, ride in echelons, ride on cobbles, etc, etc, etc...)

afx237vi

Gotta say my favourite thing about EBH is his complete lack of knowledge about cycling history and culture. At the start of the year he didn't know who Eddy Merckx is, and Craig Lewis posted this on Twitter a few days ago:

Just asked Edvald Boasson Hagen what the main climb in Gent Wevelgem is. He has no idea, yet he won that race this year!5:51 PM Aug 2nd from mobile web

I think that's kinda cool.

TdP is now live here: http://www.justin.tv/yarecky200o/old

That other feed has football at the moment.

afx237vi

57 km to, 1'34" only for the break. It's quite a big break, but some names: Stannard again, David Lopez, Ronny Scholz, Matthias Russ... Marco Marcato (virtual leader), and I think Ardila.

Edit: Albasini and Lastras too... and a Saxo rider who I can't pick out.

Edit 2: The Saxo is Jason McCartney. Another rider is Andrey Amador, a Costa Rican neo-pro.

afx237vi

Bah, football on one feed, news on the other one.

afx237vi

Now that we're fully briefed on Polish current affairs, the race is back on.

All the intermediate sprints have finished, and the break scooped them all up. There are only 10 bonus seconds available at the finish, so unless a catastrophe happens, Ballan is the overall winner. EBH could still get 2nd though.

17 km to go.

afx237vi

Nice job by Stannard. The big breakaway was caught when the news was on, and ever since we've been back, he's been hanging about 5 seconds off the front of the peloton - first with Marek Whatshisname, now with Anthony Roux.

afx237vi

Greipel finally gets a win. Sutton 2nd, Weylandt 3rd, Goss 4th, Pronk 5th. Ballan safely in the pack.

frenchfighter

Thanks for all the updates - I wasn't able to watch yesterday.

blazing_saddles

Just watching the final stage, after missing the lot.
Holidays, holidays.....
.....still nothing has changed, Columbia keep on winning multiple stages.