Paris - Nice Stage 2 **SPOILER**

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited March 2010 in Pro race
A flat stage today with two intermediate sprints along the way but no categorised hills.

Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil) and Albert Timmer (Skil-Shimano) are up the road, they had around 5 mins lead but this has been cut in half to 2.30 thanks to Rabobank setting the tempo.

Greipel seems to be on a bad day, with Rabobank winding up the speed apparently he's been dropped, the same for several other riders. We'll see if the German is permanently dropped or whether his team can help him back.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    In l’Equipe, Philippe Bouvet believes that prologue winner Lars Boom will be a man to watch in the classics: "Lars Boom might not win Paris-Nice, but everybody who saw him fly on the cobbles of the Nieuwsblad circuit last Saturday are convinced that he will soon become a serious contender for Paris-Roubaix."
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Only a 30 second lead for the two brave riders. Feillu's move gives Bozic a bit of an easier day but 47km/h average so far :shock: thanks to a big tailwind but the course is going to change direction in a minute and it'll be a crosswind all the way to the finish. This could be interesting.

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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Interesting, behind the 2, Boom gets the 1 second bonus for 3rd place at the intermediary sprint... wonder whether he had to sprint for that
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    http://www.justin.tv/parisnice2010#r=XcPBSII~
    For those without tv.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Ahhh, the season is underway. Horner has decked it.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    http://www.justin.tv/parisnice2010#r=XcPBSII~
    For those without tv.

    Cheers!
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,811
    I'm getting slightly excited for my PTP overall pick. Allez Philippe, get back those seconds you lost yesterday!
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Leipheimer crashes hard but gets back to the bunch.

    Good to see Gilbert on the rampage but I can't help thinking he's wasting his energy. He might be more suited to the stage tomorrow or the day after. Today has bunch sprint written all over it. That said, the bunch is spread across the road and no teams are deploying a train yet.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Man, I love this race.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Peloton blows up! Here we go.......
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Where's Bertie in all this?
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    I hope that Leakygas is Roman, though as he's my PTP pick, he's probably circling in a tornado with Dorothy.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    calvjones wrote:
    Where's Bertie in all this?

    Caisse and Astana in tandem. Someone big is out the back (Leipheimer being spoken of) and the Spanish compadres get together.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Half the Shack in the back group, which has sat up.
    All over for the Dwarf?

    Riders everywhere....FDJ struggling to get back with Brajkovic?

    Massive gap!
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    edited March 2010
    What a wonderful Sidi advert, Alberto looks so stylish in that white tux...
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,811
    My first thought when the Spaniards out the hammer down was that an RS was out the back
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Boom! The race is blowing apart. The Spanish are giving the Dutch a lesson in echelon riding.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Mayhem! Caisse in a TTT. The rest chasing. Some dull stage!!
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Any seen Berto? Apart from in the naffest Sidi advert ever, I mean...
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    These Spanish riders are masters of crosswind tactics it seems.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Only one Sky rider in there.

    Sack Brails....

    oh, never mind
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Kléber wrote:
    Boom! The race is blowing apart. The Spanish are giving the Dutch a lesson in echelon riding.

    I trust you've filled out the requisite forms to remove that sentance from the archives?
    "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'"

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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Can anyone not watching this on a crap feed tell me whether that Liqui rider is the chiselled mug of Roman K?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Kreuziger has made it.
    Amazing stage. Paris-Nice once again, tops.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's Kreuziger, yes.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    :D

    Go Roman!
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Roche, Millar, , Jens V., Boom, Kreuzinger, Valverde, LL Sanchez - all in the lead group I think.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Berie has crashed
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    :shock: :shock: :shock:
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,477
    Contador's crashed.

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