Tour of California Stage 1 *spoilers*

DaveyL
DaveyL Posts: 5,167
edited May 2010 in Pro race
10 miles down the road, four man break is away.

Lars Boom (Rabobank)
Alexander Kristoff (BMC)
Cody O'Reilly (Bissell)
Charles Dionne (Fly V Australia)

Excellent live video coverage here (starting around 2030 BST):

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    When you see those American adverts, you really realise America is on a different continent.
    _
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    :D
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So far, It's been on for 5 minutes, and I've only been given adverts.... No cycling!
    _
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Yeah, looks like they're having some teething troubles with the live coverage. Oh well, it'll be on Eurosport soon!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I'm Rick Chasey,

    and I didn't choose sram.
    _
  • simon johnson
    simon johnson Posts: 1,064
    2 (live) hours on Eurosport player tonight compared to the pi55 poor 35 minutes of Giro this afternoon - last 13 kms!!
    Where\'s me jumper?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    simon johnson wrote:
    2 (live) hours on Eurosport player tonight compared to the pi55 poor 35 minutes of Giro this afternoon - last 13 kms!!

    Didn't miss much.
    _
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Breakaway riders now apparently:

    Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank), Chad Beyer (BMC), Marc De Maar (United Healthcare), Paul Mach (Bissell)

    5 min ahead.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    edited May 2010
    Tracker now saying live video from 1400 local time, so I guess 2200 here...
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Eurosport coverage has been on for about 10 min. Just wondering when Carlton is going to stop to draw breath.
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  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    Tracker is now on with Ligett and Sherwin
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    stage 1 cav
    "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
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    csp wrote:
    Tracker is now on with Ligett and Sherwin

    The Tour Tracker is awesome, wish they would do the same the Tour, Giro, Vuelta.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    mididoctors wrote:
    stage 1 cav

    +1
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    As a fanboy it's always nice to see Boonen's Belgian jersey poke out of the peleton.

    *gentle sigh*
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Have to say, this Amgen tracker is absolutely brilliant.
    _
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Yeah, wish they had one for the GTs.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    FFS Carlton, stop saying "crew"
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Peloton together for the last 10 km. HTC-Columbia driving it.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Big crash in the last km but Cav takes it - just - from JJ Haedo.

    Boonen down in the crash.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Chaotic last few hundred metres.

    Maybe Haedo ran out of gas a bit - he looked like he gave up a bit early as they reached the line. Good win by Cav to avoid all the trouble.


    Boonen went down quite hard: http://www.steephill.tv/2010/tour-of-ca ... -kc-10.jpg

    One of the other crashes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQjYMaPnUrg

    Nasty!
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    When you see those American adverts, you really realise America is on a different continent.
    and all these teams, "X presented by Y" etc. Just weird.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    "Team Cavendish presented by Colgate"
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Team Hincapie supported by Comfortable Slacks inc
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    When you see those American adverts, you really realise America is on a different continent.
    It is a different Planet that has it's own sports and the media only report their own news.
    Overseas news is about the military or their own politicians being abroad.

    I remember one year having trouble trying to find the result of the Cycling World Road Champs the day before.
    Located it in a tiny bottom of the page spot, under the heading Olympic Sports that Boonan had won. Another time I phoned home to find that England were Rugby World Champs. (however there were Brit pubs the other side of town showing the game live)
    That is why so many US people are on the internet trying to get International News and why so many in the last 10 years thought the only bike race was the TDF.
    Pharmstrong says to them that the TOC is the second biggest stage race after the TDF and because they know no better, they believe him.
    He has been telling them porkies for years.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Armstrong's comment that the ToC was the 2nd biggest race was in the context of Radio Shack's priorities.

    Alan Peiper also said the same thing for HTC-Columbia.

    Try again.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    "Boonen presented by Band Aid"




    etc... :D
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Thought it was quite an odd stage. Seemed strange to me how the bunch were just rolling along and catching the break. Also interesting how Saxo Bank tried to muscle HTC out of the way before the finish. They didn't seem to panic and brought Cavendish though for the sprint. As has been said before, Haedo just seem to run out of legs, but it was still much closer than I expected.

    Not sure I'm going to watch anymore stages, finishes a bit late for me. Why can't they start the stages a bit earlier for the Europeans :D
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    I know it was the first stage an'all but jeez it was boring...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    greasedscotsman wrote:

    Not sure I'm going to watch anymore stages, finishes a bit late for me. Why can't they start the stages a bit earlier for the Europeans :D

    I think, longer term, this is going to be where they struggle. If they can't get the hardcore audience from Europe then there is a danger of it being a local race for local people. In February, we're all keen to see whatever cycling we can, but in May we've got Bella Italia.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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