Dauphine Stage 4 - SPOILER

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited June 2010 in Pro race
They're off and have been racing for 20km now. As usual breaks are trying to form but nothing's managed to break the elastic so far with Radioshack riding on the front.
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  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    Does Millar have a chance? Can Garmin break the Shack? Unlikely but I hope so!
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Bert Grabsch quits. Maybe there's time to get him to Switzerland to slave for Cavendish.

    28 degrees on the road already. It's going to be a long day.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Kléber wrote:
    Bert Grabsch quits. Maybe there's time to get him to Switzerland to slave for Cavendish.

    28 degrees on the road already. It's going to be a long day.

    Not allowed unless he gets special UCI dispensation, and he doesn't ride for the Shack :wink:
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Garmin are trying. Van Summeren went up the road but got caught. Now Danny Pate and Cervelo's Stefan Denifl are three minutes up the road.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Big headwind. The two have a six minute lead but only covered 32km in the past hour. RadioShed leading the bunch.
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Currently:

    Danny Pate (Garmin-Transitions) and Stephan Denifl (Cervelo)

    Peloton at 8:25
    Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    You've got to love Roman K.

    "Later I look tv dauphine"

    Ummm, nothing to do with the race. As you were.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    iainf72 wrote:
    You've got to love Roman K.

    "Later I look tv dauphine"

    Ummm, nothing to do with the race. As you were.
    It was the "I'm soddisfation" bit that made me smirk. Is this some new kind of training: "sod it, I'll have a pie"
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    I am keen to see today how Brajkovic rides after yesterdays effort..

    In theory he should be in a fair bit of pain. If he is not off the pace a bit then I will be very surprised. If things get messy in the hills and he is able to hold wheels then I am going to be a bit suspicions of what "NEW" program the shack are on...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Eurosport is on 52kms for the leaders.
    Peloton 9 minutes back, with Rabobus pulling ahead of the Shack.
    Uumm.........Dennis the menace anyone?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    are they about 15 mins behind even the slow prediction, or am I mixed up?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    edited June 2010
    Doobz wrote:
    I am keen to see today how Brajkovic rides after yesterdays effort..

    In theory he should be in a fair bit of pain. If he is not off the pace a bit then I will be very surprised. If things get messy in the hills and he is able to hold wheels then I am going to be a bit suspicions of what "NEW" program the shack are on...

    All depends on whose wheels he will be able to hold. There wouldnt be anything strange with him following the likes of Millar, Van den Broeck or Le Mevel. Contador, Horner and Sammy S should normally be faster uphill, but seem to be a preparatory mood. Szmyd is unreliable, Menchov seems OK, but recovering, and there are not that many others who should in all cirumstances be faster. I don't see how Brajkovic staying with a small bunch could be suspicious in itself.
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    edited June 2010
    any feed up and running?
    ok, found some
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Speaking of Tweets, I liked Matt Rendell's: "Somewhere in Germany, Susan Westmeyer is paraphrasing Jeff Quenet and Louis Doucet's Dauphiné updates (letour.fr) into CN! Enterprising, eh?"

    Miaow :lol:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    More Dauphine Effect today?

    Kleber reckoned it would show today.... :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The Giro this ain't.
    The TDF without the crowds.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The Giro this ain't.
    The TDF without the crowds.

    We're just all cycled out, because the Giro was so good. Most races are bound to be a bit of a let down.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    They have been on bigger roads and "showcasing" some new bypasses by the sounds of things.

    Rabo doing the work in anticipation of Menchov. Hope dies last I suppose.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Will I labelled as a hater if I ask wtf Sky were trying to do there?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    afx237vi wrote:
    Will I labelled as a hater if I ask wtf Sky were trying to do there?
    EBH launching the sprint too early?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Kléber wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Will I labelled as a hater if I ask wtf Sky were trying to do there?
    EBH launching the sprint too early?

    12 km too early.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Le Mevel! Was hoping he could get on the GC podium....
    Contador is the Greatest
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I don't ride bikes and stuff, but I think it's called interval training
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    WTF.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Contador... bad sensations again today?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    And Moreau out the back too.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Taaramae lurking.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    No, after you
    No, after you, I insist

    If Cav was here you sense he'd have a chance :wink:
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    A series of attacks from 2nd string climbers says all you need to know about this stage.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Horner is a beast - the best rider in the Shack, hands down.
    Contador is the Greatest

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