Murcia stage 3 *spoiler*

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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    3 kms to go 10 minutes ago.....
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I guess we have to wait until Paris Nice to see potential GT podium finishers attack with real intent.

    Although maybe after seeing highlights things will appear different (10min highlights every day).
    where are the highlights?
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    greeny12 wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    And looking at the passage at the top of the col it was Equipo Cielo doing the chasing uphill

    Potentially good news for Wiggo that Froome was able to be his mountain lieutenant here. Bigger hills than this to come, etc etc of course....

    Wiggins was isolated yesterday at the finish - nearest Sky rider was over 3 minutes back, with the rest of the team 18 minutes adrift.
    @stagehopper
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    stagehopper wrote:
    greeny12 wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    And looking at the passage at the top of the col it was Equipo Cielo doing the chasing uphill

    Potentially good news for Wiggo that Froome was able to be his mountain lieutenant here. Bigger hills than this to come, etc etc of course....

    Wiggins was isolated yesterday at the finish - nearest Sky rider was over 3 minutes back, with the rest of the team 18 minutes adrift.
    iread somewhere SKY caned it yesterday to close an gap then sat up?
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    they did a lot of work but it's a surprise to see him so isolated.
    @stagehopper
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Apparently, Luke Roberts has won today.

    Top 5:

    1. Luke Roberts (Team Milram)
    2. Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil) m.t.
    3. Josep Jufré (Astana) m.t.
    4. Denis Menchov (Rabobank) m.t.
    5. Andreas Kloden (RadioShack) m.t.
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  • Ironman595
    Ironman595 Posts: 93
    Stage 3:
    1. Luke Roberts (Team Milram)
    2. Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil) m.t.
    3. Josep Jufré (Astana) m.t.
    4. Denis Menchov (Rabobank) m.t.
    5. Andreas Kloden (RadioShack) m.t.
    6. Steven Kruijswijk (Rabobank) m.t.
    7. Stefan Denifl (Cervélo) m.t.
    8. Michel Kreder (Garmin-Transitions) m.t.
    9. Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) m.t.
    10. Shod Jose (Small farm loan bank) m.t.

    General:
    1. Josep Jufré (Astana)
    2. Luke Roberts (Milram) m.t.
    3. Frantisek Rabon (Team HTC-Columbia) m.t.
    4. Rob Ruijgh (Vacansoleil) m.t.
    5. Thomas Rohregger (Team Milram) m.t.
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Menchov and Kloden looking like they had a cheeky sprint - surprised Denis managed to stay on his bike....
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rob Ruijgh? I wonder if his extended family is Scottish...
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Josep Jufré? Didn't he lead the French in the Great War?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    That is featherweight with regards brave, exciting and memorable riding.

    I hope Rabon smokes them all in the TT and takes the GC.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    10. Shod Jose (Small farm loan bank) m.t.

    Surely somebody is taking the p1ss?
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It's a chipper in march. The only reason guys like wiggins and lance are there is to get some miles and see how they go CLM tomorrow.

    Standard early season fare
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    What Iain said.

    Can anyone remember who won the Tour of Murcia last year?

    Thought not.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    andyp wrote:
    What Iain said.

    Can anyone remember who won the Tour of Murcia last year?

    Thought not.


    Denis the menace and he just pipped Weening as I recall.

    I have now idea why that stuck in head, but it did.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    Maybe Menchov won it with a display of brave, memorable, exciting racing hence why it stuck? :wink:
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    frenchfighter wrote:
    'At a relentless pace'. So is the Whack Shack doing US Postal tactics which are no good to watch and destroy the opportunity for class attacks.

    You mean the kind of tactics that teams have been applying for donkeys years right back to when riders used to wear black shoes :roll:
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Yes, MG, you're right. Although during the EPO era it became even more effective since a strong domestique was elevated into a rider capable of dropping other GC candidates. But US Postal weren't here first, Bruyneel copied the method from his time at ONCE, where Manolo Saiz's squad used to put upto six riders on the front of the bunch and with time there would be a select group at the front.

    Good result for Roberts today, Wiggins not the only pursuiter to lose weight it seems.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    andyp wrote:
    Maybe Menchov won it with a display of brave, memorable, exciting racing hence why it stuck? :wink:



    Yea i remember it well it was great to see a GT podium rider win with panache and style no lightweight stuff from Denns the meance there...........and whats even better he wore white shoes to do it.
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  • Arkibal
    Arkibal Posts: 850
    Does anyone know if there's live video tomorrow?

    The TT will be very interesting...
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Kléber wrote:
    Yes, MG, you're right. Although during the EPO era it became even more effective since a strong domestique was elevated into a rider capable of dropping other GC candidates. But US Postal weren't here first, Bruyneel copied the method from his time at ONCE, where Manolo Saiz's squad used to put upto six riders on the front of the bunch and with time there would be a select group at the front.
    .[/quote

    Teams have been controlling races since the days of Eugene Christophe it aint new.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Moray Gub wrote:

    Teams have been controlling races since the days of Eugene Christophe it aint new.

    It's not new but it's been refined, especially in the mountains. I don't remember entire teams riding on the front en bloc during mountain stages in the 80's.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Wow, Milram actually won something.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    frenchfighter wrote:
    That is featherweight with regards brave, exciting and memorable riding.

    I hope Rabon smokes them all in the TT and takes the GC.

    Seriously, you have to lose this romantic ideal that the great riders attack at all times in all races. In the olden days it didn't happen. The legends have a couple of exploits that made their reputation, but most of the time they rode conservatively.

    Cycling has evolved in my 24 years of watching. Teams no longer have a true leader who tries to win every race. They have specialists who target races and do what they have to do to win.

    50km breakaways are for show, clever conservative racing is for dough.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Well I am not an old man or even middle age. I am in the prime of my youth and if I want to believe in great and admirable conquests then I will. They still happen occasionally and there are still attacking and exciting riders to admire in the current pro peloton.

    Furthermore, although I didn't watch all these 'old' races live, I have seen numerous clips, photos and read about the riders so am confident in saying that racing was different. It was more epic and admirable, more exciting and brave. Sure some tactics etc have stayed and some

    As for the people who talk about races other than the Tour de France being 'training rides' for GC candidates, all I can say is that is a bad attitude to turn up and train in a race. You can do that when you are not racing. When you are racing I expect and hope to see some exciting and sometimes exceptional riding.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Unfortunately the highlights don't show much. It doesn't show any GC attacks (likely as there weren't any), the Whack Shack trying to ride hard on the front on the climb, Armstrong panting trying to hold the back of the group of about 30 riders, and that Armstrong looks FAT, like fatter than Ullrich.

    Lightweights. Give me some real Champions at Paris Nice please.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haha, LLS greets the peloton:

    Bosco Martin
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Reuters
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    frenchfighter wrote:

    Furthermore, although I didn't watch all these 'old' races live, I have seen numerous clips, photos and read about the riders so am confident in saying that racing was different. It was more epic and admirable, more exciting and brave. Sure some tactics etc have stayed and some

    I've been watching the Tour every year since 1985 and the style of racing you speak of has never really existed in all those races. Maybe now and again, but all the time? No. And it's the same now.

    Remember, we used to get a 1 column report of a race, perhaps a page per stage of a race in the Comic or Winning, 30 minute highlights of the race on TV. Now we get live coverage for hour after hour, twitter reports, information from riders, YouTube etc etc. It sounded better "back in the day" because there was limited information.

    Remember, the peloton used to ride piano at 35km/h for a good few hour back in the old days. That doesn't sound very exciting, does it?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    edited March 2010
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Unfortunately the highlights don't show much. It doesn't show any GC attacks (likely as there weren't any), the Whack Shack trying to ride hard on the front on the climb, Armstrong panting trying to hold the back of the group of about 30 riders, and that Armstrong looks FAT, like fatter than Ullrich.

    Lightweights. Give me some real Champions at Paris Nice please.



    You are new to the sport you will learn in time what its all about, to give you your due though to have your obvious enthusiasm for the sport at 12 years old is impressive.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !

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