Tour of QATAR **Spoilers**

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  • phil s
    phil s Posts: 1,128
    What Sporza doesn't show there is that his tub rolled and he fell after the line - http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-qatar-2-1-1/prologue-itt/results
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FJS wrote:
    Yeez, hadn't seen this yet - check Flecha's finish! And a fast time too http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... n/1.958069

    Yeah that's pro! He must have got a shock not expecting that. He has quality handling skills - remember when we weaved through that crash (TdS I think) at the sprint finish.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    frenchfighter wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Yeez, hadn't seen this yet - check Flecha's finish! And a fast time too http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... n/1.958069

    Yeah that's pro! He must have got a shock not expecting that. He has quality handling skills - remember when we weaved through that crash (TdS I think) at the sprint finish.
    Yeah, I think you're right - though in Flanders he's normally known as a clumsy easy-crashing rider, I think because he fell in front of Hoste in Paris-Roubaix a couple of years ago, ruining Hoste's race. Sour grapes...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    He has a pretty awful position on the bike visually. Compared to Boonen too.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boom's becoming (an early season) prologue specialist.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Hah - just saw Boonen's finish in the prolongue.

    He's not quite the most picturesq sprinter is he?


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  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    frenchfighter wrote:
    He has a pretty awful position on the bike visually. Compared to Boonen too.

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    That'll be the BG Fit.

    "Nah Mark, you don't wanna be aero. Let us flip that stem up for you. Drop the saddle a touch. Doesn't that feel much better?"

    Hope he's still got his old Addict in the garage.

    BUT SERIOUSLY! Everyone looked a bit awkward on the bikes - even Wiggo and Canc. I guess because they can't position as they'd want to due to the different geometry of the standard bikes vs their normal TT bikes?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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    Canc looked pretty on his road bike last year. Doubt it's any different this year...
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Is this a thread for spoilers for the whole tour of Qatar or just the prologue? The title suggests spoilers all the way through but just in case, the link below gives some first stage updates from Koos Moerenhout, not sure if there is info elsewhere

    http://twitter.com/kmoerenhout
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    I thought Wiggins looked pretty comfortable on his road bike. He seemed to have achieved a very flat back, not unlike his TT position. Not that it helped his time much!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    20kms
    Group of maybe 16 in front with 2.45 mins.

    Live feed:
    http://embed.zonein.tv/plkgftdhgfhydfyh ... =900&h=675
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Boonen, Flecha, Haussleur, Cancellara, spotted so far.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    O'grady, Klier
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Bennati
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Brown, Eisel
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Van Summeren , Hammnond
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  • stjohnswell
    stjohnswell Posts: 482
    Garmin, Sky & Leopard all turned up to the party wearing the same dress. DIfficult to make out who's who while cheekily watching in a small window at work.
  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    Fair enough, I was only watching the highlights on a tiny screen while on the bus home - Probably over estimated the difference the standard bikes made. Ii'm easily (and regularly) wrong about such things. :)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rabsch, Maes
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Renshaw
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Think this will be an interesting sprint. Some good team support and decent sprinters.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Looks like maybe 70km/h on that moto.
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    cervello need to start sending riders up the road. if they don't win this stage its gonna be a fuck|ng waste..
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEN

    Yeah, took a long one, got 5m and held on.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haussler 2nd, Renshaw 3rd, Bennati 4th, Brown 5th, Flecha 6th
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  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    Crowd at the finish line numbered 31. Is that good?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    :D
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    chriskempton wrote:
    Crowd at the finish line numbered 31. Is that good?

    This point has been made a couple of times now, and I don't see why it matters. It's a nice early season leg stretch and we get some of the biggest Classics riders tuning their form.

    Do you really expect the crowds to be huge, there's less than 2 million people in the country itself in total?
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    It does make you wonder why the put the race on though doesn't it? I mean yesterday was ridiculous in terms of the course etc......if nobody wants to go and watch cycling there, why go there? Surely it isn't value for money for whoever is promoting the event? Or perhaps it is and its just another example of the Far East trying to embrace selected bits of Western culture? Think I probably miss the point of it all somewhere!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Tom BB wrote:
    It does make you wonder why the put the race on though doesn't it? I mean yesterday was ridiculous in terms of the course etc......if nobody wants to go and watch cycling there, why go there? Surely it isn't value for money for whoever is promoting the event? Or perhaps it is and its just another example of the Far East trying to embrace selected bits of Western culture? Think I probably miss the point of it all somewhere!

    TV
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