Tour of the Med **Spoiler**

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited February 2010 in Pro race
Hutarovich wins after a freezing cold race where strong wind split the bunch up.
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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    All the spring classics need to be moved back 2 months with weather like this.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,869
    teagar wrote:
    All the spring classics need to be moved back 2 months with weather like this.

    back as in later or back as in earlier?
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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Earlier...

    Of the 40 spring monuments last decade, very few were properly grim weather.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Kléber wrote:
    Hutarovich wins after a freezing cold race where strong wind split the bunch up.

    Freezing cold and south of France don't seem right in the same sentance!

    Hoping for good things in this race, at least on the Cat1 Mt Faron climb on the last stage.

    Lots of excellent riders in this one. I think Dan Martin wants to try and win that stage which would be great.

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Stage 5 should be a corker:

    Edit - FF beat me to it with the Mont Faron profile.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Big names riding:

    http://www.letourmed.com/Liste_Engages.pdf
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Martin got dropped very earlier in today's stage, we'll see about Mont Faron. As a specialist climber he's very much to sort to get dropped one way and come back the next, especially since the race is on the roads he knows from his amateur days in Marseilles.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Looks good.

    Will there be any tv feeds on the internet?
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Bernie S
    Bernie S Posts: 118
    France tv dont cover the race any more. They have reports in the France 3 Provence evening news that you can find online. Start this am here

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOe2lc8fSPw
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    Dont ya love the way everyone is wrapped up but Hautarovich is romping home in short sleeves and shorts! brilliant!
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Kléber wrote:
    Martin got dropped very earlier in today's stage, we'll see about Mont Faron. As a specialist climber he's very much to sort to get dropped one way and come back the next, especially since the race is on the roads he knows from his amateur days in Marseilles.

    Martin isn't being groomed as a specialist climber but as a GT (and hilly one-day classics) rider. David Millar reckons Martin's only real weakness in stage races is TT'ing. He really shouldn't be getting dropped for "strategic" reasons.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • eh
    eh Posts: 4,854
    Give the lad a break he is young and it is early on in the season. :roll:
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Dont ya love the way everyone is wrapped up but Hautarovich is romping home in short sleeves and shorts! brilliant!

    Reminds me of Haussler's stage win in the Tour.

    He said words to the effect of "all that rain gear slows you down".
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    LangerDan wrote:
    Martin isn't being groomed as a specialist climber but as a GT (and hilly one-day classics) rider. David Millar reckons Martin's only real weakness in stage races is TT'ing. He really shouldn't be getting dropped for "strategic" reasons.
    He was probably just cold, didn't get a warm up or sat a bad wheel at the wrong moment. We'll see later on.
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Kléber wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    Martin isn't being groomed as a specialist climber but as a GT (and hilly one-day classics) rider. David Millar reckons Martin's only real weakness in stage races is TT'ing. He really shouldn't be getting dropped for "strategic" reasons.
    He was probably just cold, didn't get a warm up or sat a bad wheel at the wrong moment. We'll see later on.
    Yes,it is rather early in the season to be drawing conclusions,I think :roll:
    so many cols,so little time!
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It was +1°C today and there is snow forecast for tomorrow. With fog in Majorca it seems this is a hard winter everywhere in Europe.

    Note Valverde and Vinokourov made the split today amongst other riders, they will be candidates for the overall along with Hoogerland and Nocentini who also made the 16-strong lead group.

    The plucky Endura team are flying the flag in this race but it's proving hard work, with only the barnet-tastic Alexandre Blain in the bunch. At least they can test their warm weather gear.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Check out this guys head gear...sort it out!

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Short highlights:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKtxi6w ... dded#at=74
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Thanks FF.


    Those Cofidis boys look scary old in that pic! Obviously, cool to be a geezer these days.
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  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    Kléber wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    Martin isn't being groomed as a specialist climber but as a GT (and hilly one-day classics) rider. David Millar reckons Martin's only real weakness in stage races is TT'ing. He really shouldn't be getting dropped for "strategic" reasons.
    He was probably just cold, didn't get a warm up or sat a bad wheel at the wrong moment. We'll see later on.


    Indeed http://twitter.com/Vaughters/status/8965569854
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  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    Sounds like he got caught.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,231
    calvjones wrote:
    Thanks FF.


    Those Cofidis boys look scary old in that pic! Obviously, cool to be a geezer these days.

    They look seriously red too! :shock:

    Would rather be watching that race on Eurosport that the Tour of Qatar.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Just noticed a certain Michael Rasmussen finished outside the time limit today... Vino and Valverde still in contention for the overall.
  • FransJacques
    FransJacques Posts: 2,148
    Usually in cold weather sprints it's the guy with the least clothing who wins. That Belorussian probably wore his flip flops to the start. But the guy said 3-4 C which compared with the UK today is positively balmy!

    55 km/h for the first hour is good going. So impressive what these guys can do this early in the season. My 9 km commute gives me heartburn.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting yesterday. Garzelli, Martin and Turgot were in a break but got caught.

    Jussi Veikkanen won yet it wasn't overly fair as the course officials led the VS lead out down the wrong way and he was one of the first to get back on the correct course.

    Highlights:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQpKTbg ... r_embedded

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Hats off to Martin, he gets caught out yesterday and then went off on the attack the next day, he was brought back by the bunch with 1km to go but he took the Mountains jersey. He's got what the French call panache.
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,041
    afx237vi wrote:
    Just noticed a certain Michael Rasmussen finished outside the time limit today... Vino and Valverde still in contention for the overall.

    I think Vino is riding for Iglinskiy major for this race.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,811
    Who are the team all in orange that were at the front at the depart of stage 1?

    Also lovin' the comedy southern accent on the adjoint chargé des sports.

    Personally I'm lookin forward to the Tour du Haut Var, that's always an exciting race to watch
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    3 out of 3 for FDJ... Hutarovich wins again.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The stage was marked by a two man breakaway of Valverde and Vinokourov. The pair of fugitives managed to stay clear for 75km, allowing Valverde to mop up a lot of KoM points. But behind, Dan Martin too the remaining points on the climbs, meaning he keeps his jersey.

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