Vuelta al Pais Vasco ***Spoiler***

sonny73
sonny73 Posts: 2,203
edited April 2011 in Pro race
Stage 1: Break with Rovny, Tankink and Perget up to 6:30 from the peloton.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Was Tankink not in the Ronde yesterday too?
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  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    He wasn't on the startlist for the Ronde.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sonny73 wrote:
    He wasn't on the startlist for the Ronde.

    Fair enough.

    I'm guessing - normally he rides it.
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  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    I must admit I would have imagined he was there too, had I not seen the Pais Vasco ticker.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Indeed, he even rode a strong E3.


    Anyway, enough classics chat. This is a stage race!

    *exits swiftly*
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    This is a warm up race for the Ardennes races.

    *beckons Rick back in*
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    andyp wrote:
    This is a warm up race for the Ardennes races.

    *beckons Rick back in*

    Ricks a wanna-be Flandrian - He doesn't like those nasty Walloon races.

    Does anyone do Flanders, go to Pais Vasco and then back for Roubaix these days?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    This is a warm up race for the Ardennes races.

    *beckons Rick back in*

    Ricks a wanna-be Flandrian - He doesn't like those nasty Walloon races.

    Does anyone do Flanders, go to Pais Vasco and then back for Roubaix these days?

    Can't be donig with races which might as well be a hill race after 4hrs on the turbo (the Walloonian arrow anyone?)...

    Anyway, in short Ian, I doubt many people do.

    Enjoying the camera work from the middle of the peloton on this one.
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Dull weather. Dull racing.

    Break has 3:15 with 41km to go
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Tom BB wrote:
    Dull weather. Dull racing.

    Break has 3:15 with 41km to go

    Enjoying the camera work.

    When you think about it, there are stages in stage races where only 30 or so riders have any intention of doing anything on that given day.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    2.37 with 33km to go.

    Mad dash up and down the final climb.

    Euskatel (unsurprisingly) and Cervelo doing the chasing.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Harmon and Magnus in general chit-chat mode.
    Garmin under new management? :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    iainf72 wrote:
    Does anyone do Flanders, go to Pais Vasco and then back for Roubaix these days?

    The only possibility is Maxim Iglinsky - he was a DNF in Flanders yesterday and is down on the startlist for Vasco today, though I don't know if he actually made it. Haven't seen any startlist for next Sunday yet either.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I hadn't realized that UK Eurosport had been taken over by radio 4...............
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    I hadn't realized that UK Eurosport had been taken over by radio 4...............

    Do tell for those stuck at work.
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Big Jens stringing the bunch out :D
  • The Kennington Kaiser
    The Kennington Kaiser Posts: 406
    Any idea if highlights are being shown tonight?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The Kennington Kaiser wrote:
    Any idea if highlights are being shown tonight?

    Currently NO pictures getting through and they are about on the last climb.

    Eurosport have talked like they were a magazine programme.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The Kennington Kaiser wrote:
    Any idea if highlights are being shown tonight?

    Currently NO pictures getting through and they are about on the last climb.

    Eurosport have talked like they were a magazine programme.

    Is that weather related?

    Highlights on BE1 at 20.30 allegedly.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Coming onto the last climb?

    Big bunch together
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    On the last climb....horner driving it and gapping everyone!
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    :D Hike a bike going on! Dan Martin, Richie Porte and many others having to walk up the steepest part of the climb! GIRLS!
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    ooh very close between J Rod and S Sanchez on the line......I think Sanchez just took it....

    EDIT: Harmon saying that they've given it to J-Rod
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Tom BB wrote:
    :D Hike a bike going on! Dan Martin, Richie Porte and many others having to walk up the steepest part of the climb! GIRLS!

    You mean this literally?! I don't have visuals.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Tom BB wrote:
    :D Hike a bike going on! Dan Martin, Richie Porte and many others having to walk up the steepest part of the climb! GIRLS!

    You mean this literally?! I don't have visuals.

    Excluding the girls part; he does.
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    :D .......I didn't mean the 'GIRLS' bit literally no!.....as for the walking bit-yep.....narrow 25% type kick right at the top of the climb. They were all just grinding up, somebody must've ground to a halt and its just a domino effect then, with nobody having anywhere to go! A reasonably large number of riders had to unclip and run the final yards of the climb!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    01-finish-still.jpg
    Contador is the Greatest
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    76 year old Horner once again looks to be in super Basque form.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    That was a brutal last climb, Martin etc. walking indeed, I thought Horner looked like he was about to fall off! Good stuff and a tidy win from J-Rod.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Just watched it back again, Horner looking stronger than my last comment suggests to be fair. The crowds were immense too. Yes, Martin, Porte, Barredo and 3 others I could see walking. The Schlecks way back also.

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