Tirreno-Adriatico stage 3 (spoilers etc)

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited March 2010 in Pro race
Seeing as P-N is not on Eurosport yet... 32 km to go, 3 out in front - Wurf, Caccia and Lang. Weather looks better.

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Andy Schleck dropped again on the climb.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    5 k to go and there's a group of mainly Italian riders 18 seconds ahead of the peleton. In the group are Scarponi, Nibali, Visconti, Pellizotti and others.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    A crash in the (quite small) peleton. Astana, Lampre and Saxo bank riders down.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Big crash... O'Grady down.

    Nibali, Scarponi, Visconti out front in a group... 3 km to go.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    They're going to get caught, less than 100 metres with 2.8 kms to go.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Bennati must be there as Liquigas have gone straight to the front.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Bennati gets it!
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Petacchi was second by the looks of it.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Colombia-HTC rider third, with Slipstream rider fourth (don't think it was Farrar).
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Farrar was there or thereabouts... again.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    andyp wrote:
    Colombia-HTC rider third, with Slipstream rider fourth (don't think it was Farrar).

    I think it was. Could be wrong though.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Time to update the sig again thanks to the smoothest sprinter.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    He won handsomely today, Petacchi was on his wheel and launched first but Bennati just accelerated away from him to win.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 3:54:09
    2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
    3 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC - Columbia
    4 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions
    5 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Professional Cycling Team
    6 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
    7 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana
    8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    It was Farrar then, my mistake. He didn't look smooth at all, must've been knackered.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    no one was willing to push on with scarponi?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Vino was obviously one of the Astana riders who came down outside the 3km mark.
    He and Davies back at 3-28"
    Cavendish won the bus sprint. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    So, is he bluffing or is he really not in good shape?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Time to update the sig again thanks to the smoothest sprinter.

    You say that as though it's some sort of personal achievement.
    Twitter: @RichN95

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