TDU Stage 2 *SPOILER*

pottssteve
pottssteve Posts: 4,069
edited January 2011 in Pro race
1 Ben Swift (GBR) Sky
2 Robbie McEwen (AUS) RadioShack
3 Graeme Brown (AUS) Rabobank

and Cavendish coming in..... :shock:

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Well pleased for Swifty.

    Looks nasty for Cav any details?
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Two big crashes. One at 3km to go maybe caused by Sky crashing at the front bringing down Goss, Greipel and Cav. Rojas was clear but got brought back. Then there was another crash right at the end with Garmin going down. Broken collarbone for Sulzberger and probably also for Meyer

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  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    not the only crash victim either:

    Among the wounded in those pile-ups were Julian DEAN (NZL) - GARMIN-CERVELO, Cameron MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO and Travis MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO and Chris SUTTON (AUS) - SKY PRO CYCLING. But the most serious injury appears to be to Bernard SULZBERGER (TAS) - UNI SA-AUSTRALIA, the last man to qualify for the race, who suffered a broken collarbone and is out of the tour.

    Three sharp corners were always likely to make the final four kilometres a little testy and so it proved with a 270 degree left turn into Gass Road bringing down none other than Andre GREIPEL (GER) - OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO, Mark CAVENDISH (GBR) - HTC-HIGHROAD and Matt GOSS (AUS) - HTC-HIGHROAD, among others.
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  • frenchfighter
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Great win for Swift, I know Sky aren't cool but for me it's always cool to see a brit doing well and swift always seem like a good lad. Important for the rankings as well, to make sure we get a good team at the worlds.

    Shame for Cav and the other wounded, hopefully the injuries will all heal quickly and not affect ther rest of the season.

    Oh and great to see Robbie McEwan in the leaders jersey. I don't know why but I really want to see him do well in what could be his last season at the top.
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Geraint Thomas fell off in the last crash with 200 metres to go apparently. Seems ok though.

    Team Sky's view of things here.

    http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290, ... 05,00.html
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Anyone with the final 1k?
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  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    Here you go....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYLF094mdA
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    That was a loong sprint - sky tactics wouldn't have worked against better talent.

    A little crash heavy!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited January 2011
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That was a loong sprint - sky tactics wouldn't have worked against better talent.

    It probably wasn't their Plan A though. Sutton went down with Cav and Farrar. As a hastily improvised Plan B, it worked well.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That was a loong sprint - sky tactics wouldn't have worked against better talent.

    It probably wasn't their Plan A though. Sutton went down with Cav and Farrar.

    D'ya not think they should have taken it up later? (For a change...)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That was a loong sprint - sky tactics wouldn't have worked against better talent.

    It probably wasn't their Plan A though. Sutton went down with Cav and Farrar.

    D'ya not think they should have taken it up later? (For a change...)

    Hey, they won. There's no such thing as good tactics and bad tactics, just tactics that work and tactics that don't. Considering they 'winging it' with just two (maybe three) riders, they did well.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    That was a loong sprint - sky tactics wouldn't have worked against better talent.

    It probably wasn't their Plan A though. Sutton went down with Cav and Farrar.

    D'ya not think they should have taken it up later? (For a change...)

    Hey, they won. There's no such thing as good tactics and bad tactics, just tactics that work and tactics that don't. Considering they 'winging it' with just two (maybe three) riders, they did well.

    I thought Brailsford was a perfectionist? :wink:

    Fair point.
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  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    Sky winning in a sprint... my goodness!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Sounds like Sutton is out of the race now.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Nice work Swift. Nasty looking crashes and Cav's bang looked nasty with a bit of what looked like claret on the road.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Cavendish now has an excuse for why he's not winning stages. Perfect.

    Not that he should need one, but you know some of those internet forum people expect him to win every race he rides.
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    all show no go wrote:
    Here you go....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYLF094mdA

    Cavendish might have avoided that injury to the head had it not been for the pro way of not adjusting the helmet straps properly.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    Two big crashes. One at 3km to go maybe caused by Sky crashing at the front bringing down Goss, Greipel and Cav. Rojas was clear but got brought back. Then there was another crash right at the end with Garmin going down. Broken collarbone for Sulzberger and probably also for Meyer

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    Don't know how you work out that crash may have been caused by Sky, their riders at the front got around the bend clear.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Great video - poor geraint getting wiped out in the last 100m. I did see one of the dogmas broken in half - suttons I presume ? Expensive crash !
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    It looked to me that a Lotto rider brought Thomas down by squeezing into a gap that wasn't there.
    There was a rider next to the barrier and then a small gap to Thomas before rider "X" tried to get through.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    deejay wrote:
    It looked to me that a Lotto rider brought Thomas down by squeezing into a gap that wasn't there.
    There was a rider next to the barrier and then a small gap to Thomas before rider "X" tried to get through.

    It was a Katusha rider. A long Russian name beginning with G which I won't try to spell
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