Tirreno Stage 7 TT *Spoiler

FJS
FJS Posts: 4,820
edited March 2011 in Pro race
The final TT, 9km, flat and straight roads.

Standings:
1. Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) 10:33
2. Lars Boom (Rabobank) 10:42
3. Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) 10:52
4. Rick Flens (Rabobank) 10:53
5. Bert Grabsch (HTC-Highroad) 10:55
6. Sebastién Rosseler (RadioShack) 10:57

About an hour before the top-5 starts

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,821
    Canc not as far ahead as I expected.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Canc not as far ahead as I expected.
    It's only 9 km, basically a prologue
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,821
    FJS wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Canc not as far ahead as I expected.
    It's only 9 km, basically a prologue

    I have high expectations!
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Most of those 6 are darn fine TTers.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Live: http://videochat.gazzetta.it/index_Tirr ... tico.shtml

    Looks cold and windy.

    Some riders on normal road bikes
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    I picked Cancellara as I thought he had to win. Sometimes he might have held back for the later races but it's short and above his team probably need the win, Dominic Klemme has taken a win but you suspect the team wants a bit more, even if they'll probably win big in April and July looks possible too.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    no new top 6 times for a long long time now. Only last 10 to finish now. Change of conditions, wind?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,821
    FJS wrote:
    no new top 6 times for a long long time now. Only last 10 to finish now. Change of conditions, wind?

    Surely it's more that guys who do well in 9km prologues don't do well uphill, and so are down on the GC?
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    no new top 6 times for a long long time now. Only last 10 to finish now. Change of conditions, wind?

    Surely it's more that guys who do well in 9km prologues don't do well uphill, and so are down on the GC?
    Perhaps you're right. Pinotti just in now, 6th, 24 seconds behind Chinny. Lovkvist not even close, 20ish
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Pinotti 6th. Annoying as he's my GC PTP pick; hopeful he might get into top 6 overall following this
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Gilbert and Cunego losing quite a bit. Cunego not surprising, Gilbert sometimes can do a good short TT
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Already overtaken Pip and Tommy L on GC!
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    And maybe Damiano...
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Nibali not making top 10 either; +40 seconds
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Gesink not bad; 9th; +27 sec
    Beating Nibali!
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Gesink up to 3rd ahead of Basso?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Basso also more than +40 seconds; loses podium place here
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Gesink up to 2nd now
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Scarponi not that bad, top-20, but still losing places to Gesink; Gesink still leading virtual GC
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Evans 12th.
    Enough for the win.
    Gesink 2nd

    3rd Scarponi?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,821
    Gesink beat Evans in a 9km prologue?

    What is he on?
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Basso 4th
    Nibali 5th
    Pinotti 6th
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Gesink won that time trial in Oman, beating EBH last month. That was hillier, but he's not bad clearly.
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    afx237vi wrote:
    Gesink won that time trial in Oman, beating EBH last month. That was hillier, but he's not bad clearly.

    Considering how bad he was in last year's Tour de Suisse (went from 1st to 5th after the TT) his performance this year has been quite surprising.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    csp wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Gesink won that time trial in Oman, beating EBH last month. That was hillier, but he's not bad clearly.

    Considering how bad he was in last year's Tour de Suisse (went from 1st to 5th after the TT) his performance this year has been quite surprising.

    I think his pedigree in TTs can be described as "mixed". If you look at his TT results on CQranking, most of them are somewhere between 10th and 25th, with the odd top ten placing here and the odd stinker there. Oman is his only win, like I said on a hilly course and against a fairly weak field.

    He's no Contador when it comes to TTing, but I'd put him as better than the Schlecks and around the same level as Basso.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Gesink has always been a reasonable TTer; he rode the Olympic TT, came 10th there. And at 24 he's likely to still improve.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wow that GC top 8 is solid talent.

    Stage 7 results
    1 Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) 10:33
    2 Lars Boom (Rabobank) + 0:09
    3 Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) + 0:19
    4 Rick Flens (Rabobank) + 0:20
    5 Bert Grabsch (HTC-Highroad) + 0:22
    6 Marco Pinotti (HTC-Highroad) + 0:24
    7 Sebastién Rosseler (RadioShack)
    8 Jonathan Castroviejo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) + 0:25
    9 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) + 0:27
    10 Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank) + 0:28

    Final general classification
    1 Cadel Evans (BMC)
    2 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) + 0:11
    3 Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD) + 0:15
    4 Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) + 0:24
    5 Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) + 0:30
    6 Marco Pinotti (HTC-Highroad) + 0:39
    7 Tiago Machado (RadioShack) + 0:42
    8 Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) + 0:50
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest

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