Paris - Nice Stage 5 **SPOILER**

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited March 2010 in Pro race
Pineau (QST), Loubet (ALM), Nieve (EUS), Moinard (COF), Marcato (VAC), Marino (SAU) and Timmer (SKS) are up the road, with 3.15 after 20km.

Haussler's just abandoned. Another very cold day.

Voigt in yellow. Sagan is in green and white (Kreuziger's second on the white, so he's wearing it) and Saur-Sojasun's Laurent "Mrs" Mangel keeps his KoM jersey.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Going out for a ride [ :) ] then I'm gona sit and watch this when I'm back and showered.
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Last hour and a bit while on the turbo for me...
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Video should appear earlier, around 13.45GMT/14.45CET.

    That final climb is a stinker, it's very steep at the start and only gets a tiny bit easier as you go up, by which time your legs are shot.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    They will be all over the mountain and finish in penny numbers.
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  • ketsbaia
    ketsbaia Posts: 1,718
    I'm at work. However, by the power of Sky remote record, I'll have the whole race waiting for me when I get home for enjoyment later.

    Just need to execute a Likey Lads-esque avoidance of this thread to keep the suspense going all evening!
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    In l’Equipe, yellow jersey holder Jens Voigt, 38, suggested the organisers create a “grey jersey” for the best old rider: “Why not when there is a white jersey for the young riders?” he said.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    PROFIL4.gif

    40kms of gradual climbing preceeds the climb which averages 10%. Last included in 2007, Contador was the winner, solo. Valverde is psyched for today for not delivering yesterday.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Breaking news. The green jersey is a Red Bull swilling hoodie

    http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/03/peter-sagans-got-skillz.html
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Contador is wearing a scarf?

    That's taking stylish too far.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Very snazy scarf.
    -5C at the foot of the first climb. Taylor made conditions for Tom "Eskimo" Danielson. :roll:
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  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    iainf72 wrote:
    Contador is wearing a scarf?

    That's taking stylish too far.

    iis it the etxeondo one?

    they do look good ... prendas sell them.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Breaking news. The green jersey is a Red Bull swilling hoodie

    http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/03/peter-sagans-got-skillz.html

    Here's the really shocking breaking news. I'm surprised Iain hasn't spotted this, even if it is a different code:
    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrenn ... k_positief
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    gabriel959 wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Contador is wearing a scarf?

    That's taking stylish too far.

    iis it the etxeondo one?

    they do look good ... prendas sell them.

    I own one and can confirm they are cool as.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Breaking news. The green jersey is a Red Bull swilling hoodie

    http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/03/peter-sagans-got-skillz.html

    Here's the really shocking breaking news. I'm surprised Iain hasn't spotted this, even if it is a different code:
    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrenn ... k_positief
    Sagan's getting annoying now. Winning at 20 but being able to freewheel as wheel? FFS

    As for the Sporza story, it's surely the one below that's better: "Schleck confirms Pozzato is hetero".
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I've watched the full half hour Zumba infomercial!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I own one and can confirm they are cool as.
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    3) When you stop presenting opinions as fact ...

    Picking out the hypocrites on this forum is child's play.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    frenchfighter wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I own one and can confirm they are cool as.
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    3) When you stop presenting opinions as fact ...

    Picking out the hypocrites on this forum is child's play.

    You are a very negative individual
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    frenchfighter wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I own one and can confirm they are cool as.
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    3) When you stop presenting opinions as fact ...

    Picking out the hypocrites on this forum is child's play.

    How long have you been waiting to post that? Because personally, I would have waited a bit longer...
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Icicles hanging off the cliff :shock:

    Good job the compulsory helmet rule exists, eh?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Picking out the hypocrites on this forum is child's play.
    That was just banter and not presenting views on pro cycling, most people could spot this?

    How old are you? I ask out of curiosity, know it's a loaded question but I sense some youth there FF
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    afx237vi wrote:
    Icicles hanging off the cliff :shock:

    Good job the compulsory helmet rule exists, eh?
    One of the blokes in the breakaway is called snow (Nieve means snow in Spanish).

    It's -2oC on the road now. I'd be cold even inside the team car.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Maybe if you were the one bearing the brunt of other members 'fun' you would begin to understand. Maybe being one of the members who does some of the aforementioned 'fun', it might be difficult.

    Btw, I could easily quote you being 'negative'...........
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    They sure do like their dodgy road furniture in France don't they?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    redddraggon wrote:
    They sure do like their dodgy road furniture in France don't they?

    Just wait until the annual crashfest that is Amstel Gold.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    All very steady. Break gently melting away. Outer kit off, ready to kick off.
    Do we need the needle on here? Go play in stage 2, if that's your bag.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    The race of a thousand corners/lamposts/traffic islands.

    This race had better get good on Mende 'cos riding up a valley is proving quite tedious
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Kléber wrote:
    That was just banter and not presenting views on pro cycling, most people could spot this?

    How old are you? I ask out of curiosity, know it's a loaded question but I sense some youth there FF

    Age is nothing but numbers and it certainly doesn't buy maturity or calmness as is demonstrated all too often by some of you.

    That you take my opinions as fact is your problem not mine. You cannot have a go at me for that; it is your interpretation of what I say and I cannot be held responsible for that.

    I'm stopping now as I actually work 12 hour days and having to continually defend and justify myself to people who appear to have all the time in the World on their hands is annoying and not a good use of my time.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Other trains begin the charge early. Pereiro has been grafting on the front.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    That was just banter and not presenting views on pro cycling, most people could spot this?

    How old are you? I ask out of curiosity, know it's a loaded question but I sense some youth there FF

    Age is nothing but numbers and it certainly doesn't buy maturity or calmness as is demonstrated all too often by some of you.

    That you take my opinions as fact is your problem not mine. You cannot have a go at me for that; it is your interpretation of what I say and I cannot be held responsible for that.

    I'm stopping now as I actually work 12 hour days and having to continually defend and justify myself to people who appear to have all the time in the World on their hands is annoying and not a good use of my time.

    Could we please, I want to watch the race?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Boom goes bo... ah, never mind.

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