Vuelta Stage 17... Spoiler...

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited September 2010 in Pro race
Canc, as expected bosses everyone.

Finish
1.Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) 53.20
2.Mikhail Ignatiev (Katusha) +2.34
3.Lars Ytting Bak (HTC-Columbia) +2.51
4.Jorge Montenegro (Andalucia-CajaSur) +3.35
5.Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) +4.35

Average speed: 51.750kph for Canc.

Ridiculous. I can't even hit that sprinting flat out at the moment.

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  • Bernardus
    Bernardus Posts: 136
    Zabriskie into 2nd place. The final part of his race was faster (12 seconds) than Cancellara, but not fast enough to overtake him.

    Leif Hoste is having one of his rare good days and is currently 2nd at the 2nd time check, ahead of Zabriskie, Millar and Ignatiev.

    (edit) Hoste into 2nd place (30 seconds behind Cancellara) at the finish, his final third of the race was 7 seconds faster than Cancellara.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    You forget Hoste rides a bike at all when it's not March or April.
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Hoste was second @30 seconds
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    So how much time are J-Rod and the Zeke Man going to lose to His Nibs?

    Last long flat TT J-Rod did at the end of a GT, he was 10'-17" behind Super Fab in 154th position (TdF 2010 St. 19 52km).
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Apparantly Canc has a bit of a cold, and prefers 'some hills' in his course.

    Anyone want to explain the latter?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    I think they'd both be lucky not to lose 2 minutes.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Apparantly Canc has a bit of a cold, and prefers 'some hills' in his course.

    Anyone want to explain the latter?

    Stave off the boredom of riding a flat TT on a straight road through the desert?* Or maybe that's just us TV viewers who think like that.

    * Like that one Menchov won a few years ago and David Harmon was minutes away from ending it all live on air.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Current:

    Finish
    1.Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) 53.20
    2.Leif Hoste (Omega Pharma-Lotto) +0.30
    3.David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) +0.33
    4.Vladimir Isaichev (Xacobeo-Galicia) +2.10
    5.Mikhail Ignatiev (Katusha) +2.34
    6.Lars Ytting Bak (HTC-Columbia) +2.51
    7.Sebastian Langeveld (Rabobank) +2.59
    8.Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) +3.16
    9.Dominik Roels (Milram) +3.17
    10.Christophe Riblon (AG2R) +3.29
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Nicholas Roche has a chance of gaining some time on the other top 10 GC guys...should certainly finish top 10 overall I would imagine-which is a very good result imo
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Does Hoste have a record for good flat TTs?

    He sits so upright on his road bike I find it a little hard to believe.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Blimey - just had a look at GC, and it's not unthinkable for Danielson to top 3 after today :o
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Does Hoste have a record for good flat TTs?

    He sits so upright on his road bike I find it a little hard to believe.

    I thought exactly the same when I've just switched eurosport on!

    David Millar is currently fourth 50 secs down on Canc
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Menchov!!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Menchov beats Cancellara. What.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    It's the wind!
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  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    afx237vi wrote:
    Menchov beats Cancellara. What.

    :shock:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Grischa Niermann made up 36 seconds on Cancellara in the final 15km - got to be the wind.
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  • Bernardus
    Bernardus Posts: 136
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Grischa Niermann made up 36 seconds on Cancellara in the final 15km - got to be the wind.

    Nearly every rider made up time on Cancellara, in the last few minutes, so it's definately the wind.
  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    Bernardus wrote:
    Nearly every rider made up time on Cancellara, in the last few minutes, so it's definitely the wind.

    Yes the riders before Cancellara, and the riders after Cancellara all made up time on him, but it was some individual wind that only he saw, and not him mispacing it and dieing at the end...
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Nibs front puncture....the mechanics offically 'panicked' then 'faffed'! Dont think he has a water bottle now :roll:
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Nibs mechanical
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Is it going to be 2nd year in a row dodgy wheel change will decide the Vuelta?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Compare to when Menchov stacked it at the Giro... Nibs mechanics looked like chickens when their heads cut off.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Re Cancellara, it was the same scenario at the Tour TT yet he was on the receiving end - most of the later riders had a strong wind to contend with. He hasn't been riding hard all Vuelta so maybe he wasn't here, although his ride was pretty damn fast.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Maybe Menchov should have tried after he lost that time. Now over an hour down on GC..................fighting spirit...or maybe no legs
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Current
    Finish
    1.Denis Menchov (Rabobank) 52.55
    2.Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) +0.25
    3.Gustav Larsson (Saxo Bank) +0.38
    4.Leif Hoste (Omega Pharma-Lotto) +0.55
    5.David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) +0.58
    6.Carlos Barredo (QuickStep) +1.02
    7.Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto +1.12
    8.David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) +1.15
    9.Nicolas Vogondy (Bbox) +1.47
    10.Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) +1.49
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Writing in the Irish Independent this morning, Nicolas Roche detailed how he rode the time trial course twice, once on his road bike and once on his time trial machine, before putting in two hard 10km intervals behind a team car. He had also intended planned a 90-minute spin with his AG2R teammates, but was dissuaded from doing so by his father and former Tour de France winner Stephen Roche.
    "I’ve fought like a dog to get fifth and I’m keeping it,"
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Mosquera doing better than J-Rod at the moment.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Velits!!!!
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Peter Velits!!! Stonking ride

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