Paris - Nice Stage 6 **Spoiler**

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited July 2010 in Pro race
Currently about 40km, on the last lap of the circuit with 23 riders 1.53 ahead of a charging peloton, led by Caisse the Astana.

Amael Moinard (Cofidis), Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack), Damiano Cunego (Lampre), Cyril Gautier (Bbox), Dimitri Champion (AG2R), Alexandr Kolobnev (Katusha), Mathieu Perget (Caisse d’Epargne), Chris Sorensen (Saxo Bank), Dimitri Fofonov (Astana), Kevin Seeldrayers (Quick Step), Tony Martin (Columbia), Sandy Casar (FDJeux), Tiago Machado (RadioShack), Mikael Cherel (FDJeux), Cyril Dessel (AG2R), Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step), Maxime Monfort (Columbia), Xavier Tondo (Omega Pharma Lotto), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Omega Pharma Lotto), Romain Sicard (Euskaltel), Eduard Vorganov (Katusha), Steve Cummings (Sky), Simon Geschke (Skil Shimano)

The climb is listed as 9.7km long
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Just turned it on as there was a crash?

    Who was involved?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    A couple of live links:

    http://www.fromsport.com/video-194828.html
    http://www.justin.tv/yavido101#r=r9t002c~

    Tickers
    http://live.cyclingnews.com/11.html
    http://www.letour.fr/2010/PNC/LIVE/us/600/depeches.html
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Some serious talent packing the top ten places of the peloton.
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  • fastercyclist
    fastercyclist Posts: 396
    frenchfighter wrote:
    A couple of live links:

    http://www.fromsport.com/video-194828.html
    http://www.justin.tv/yavido101#r=r9t002c~

    Tickers
    http://live.cyclingnews.com/11.html
    http://www.letour.fr/2010/PNC/LIVE/us/600/depeches.html

    Thanks FF - really appreciated when people share the links to the video then just telling us what happens :)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Np FC. You may want to bookmark this site...if there are any live streams to races this is one of the sites that will have them:

    http://cyclingfans.com/
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    No medium range attacks.....what a surprise. Hopefully some action on the last climb.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    At least by GC guys I mean.

    Great job Tondo...hope he holds on.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,726
    Frenchfighter, quick question, does the english audio option normally work ok? thanks.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Le Mevel and Cioni seemed to come off the worst in the crash. Christian Meier of Garmin-Transitions also went down (not VDV as cn.com reported).
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    OH, COME ON. SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!!!

    You know they're glass cranking when Frank Schleck is leading the group on the descent.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    LangerDan wrote:
    OH, COME ON. SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!!!

    You know they're glass cranking when Frank Schleck is leading the group on the descent.

    Perfect situation for Contador, really. The duller the better for him.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    afx237vi wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    OH, COME ON. SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!!!

    You know they're glass cranking when Frank Schleck is leading the group on the descent.

    Perfect situation for Contador, really. The duller the better for him.


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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    All that can cheer me up at this stage is to see the last 5km of the road to Tourrettes covered in random obsceneties.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    A victory for the green bullet would cheer me up. Anti-doping principles be damned, he's my PTP pick.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Sagan is lurking near the front again. Surely not...
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Go Jens!
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Tondo.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Valv.Piti second and Sagan third I think.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    seanoconn wrote:
    Frenchfighter, quick question, does the english audio option normally work ok? thanks.

    If you mean the ES radio, it does sometimes but not all. Often there are video links with English commentary but a lot of the time ES is showing some other dodgy sport...
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Disgraceful that no one tried to push the pace or attack Contador. Whether he is the best climber or not, someone has got to try and get a gap and have the teammates cause trouble for Contador...maybe catch him on a bad day.

    It would have been nice to see Contador attack too - 14 secs isn't very much, he could likely distance most, it makes things more interesting. Maybe he didn't want to take his fellow Spaniards win.

    On which point, massive kudos to Tondo for a great solo move. Really pleasing to see this succeed.

    That the lead group was so large and had many people not noted for climbing strength is indicative of how slow, relatively, these GC climbers were going.

    Nice to see Valverde still has his dangerous finishing kick.
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  • stefrees
    stefrees Posts: 137
    must admit i thought it was a really boring stage, cant even get excited about tondo as the chase behind was pointless, and other reasons il keep to myself
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    stefrees wrote:
    must admit i thought it was a really boring stage, cant even get excited about tondo as the chase behind was pointless, and other reasons il keep to myself

    Good, since Eurosport went AWOL, after 3 hours and with 8km to go....
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  • stefrees
    stefrees Posts: 137
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    stefrees wrote:
    must admit i thought it was a really boring stage, cant even get excited about tondo as the chase behind was pointless, and other reasons il keep to myself

    Good, since Eurosport went AWOL, after 3 hours and with 8km to go....

    on regular eurosport on channel 410? mine was ok.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    stefrees wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    stefrees wrote:
    must admit i thought it was a really boring stage, cant even get excited about tondo as the chase behind was pointless, and other reasons il keep to myself

    Good, since Eurosport went AWOL, after 3 hours and with 8km to go....

    on regular eurosport on channel 410? mine was ok.

    Yeah - me too.
  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    Pokerface wrote:
    stefrees wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    stefrees wrote:
    must admit i thought it was a really boring stage, cant even get excited about tondo as the chase behind was pointless, and other reasons il keep to myself

    Good, since Eurosport went AWOL, after 3 hours and with 8km to go....

    on regular eurosport on channel 410? mine was ok.

    Yeah - me too.

    It was all OK on Virgin Media as well.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yeah on 410, but for some reason my recording quit.....
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    I have had "problems" with Eurosport all week in that the commentary seems to be a few seconds in advance of the pictures. Has anyone else had this? Mind you, when DH shouts crash it does give you a chance to look up from the laptop and actually see it...
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Didn't think Astana looked too strong. They could've have made a good pace which would've calmed things down a bit but it turned out to be a scrappy ending. AC seemed a little exposed. I think the climb seemed more of a drag which means that attacks were not such a good option; easier to pull back.
    I'm not sure what the time bonus' are. I think Valverde must win the stage with AC out of the top 3-4??? I don't think Valv coud drop AC on the descent in to Nice whereas Lius Sanchez could get away a bit better. Interesting last stage though. I'm happy with that; good racing!! Nice weather too; fancy hopping on a plane and doing a bit down there myself.
    I did lose my bike saddle in Nice where the bikes were on the roof and we turned off the main drag around Nice and went under a height restriction device (a suspended thick metal sheet a few metres above the carriageway-suppose to stop lorries etc) which ripped off my £50 Sella Italia saddle which I slightly needed for the next 2 weeks riding. :?

    -Jerry
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,547
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yeah on 410, but for some reason my recording quit.....

    I've had Sky + fail every time I've tried to record P-N or T-A this week. Anyone else having issues?
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