Vuelta al Pais Vasco ***Spoiler***

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    Does anyone have a link to the full results? I'm wondering where Basso was.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I can just find top 10 at the moment. If Schlecks came in well back I wont be surprised. If Basso does I will.

    Stage 1 results
    1 Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) 4:02:42
    2 Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
    3 Andreas Kloden (RadioShack)
    4 Chris Horner (RadioShack) + 0:01
    5 Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervélo) + 0:06
    6 Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD)
    7 David López (Movistar)
    8 Robert Gesink (Rabobank)
    9 Danilo Di Luca (Katusha)
    10 Xavier Tondo (Movistar)

    Joaquim is unbeatable on those steep as you like climbs. Maybe Contador would edge him, but only just and not every time. He has a decent sprint on him too.

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    Contador is the Greatest
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Full results

    http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/no ... p?id=37453
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Standard Ardenne riders near the front then....
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Aussie Mick loses 9 minutes.
    Mr "Paris-Nice" Martin almost 10.
    Levi Leipheimer over 15 minutes back.
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    PTP pick for the overall:

    Tony Martin - 109th, 9min55.

    *sigh*

    Are there like 5 TTs ina row now?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Last 6km:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4TGsbA ... r_embedded

    Very nice to watch. Kloden going well given his age. Shack, are topping tables so far this year, very impressive.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    frenchfighter wrote:

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    He couldn't finish like that today.

    A very quick flick of the wrist was all he could manage. :roll:
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  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Not often I get to shout about anything, but I want you all to know I was out riding with Chris Horner last Friday morning in Denia, Spain. :D

    Thoroughly nice bloke, he suffered the usual photofest without complaint and maintained a smile for everyone, couldn't have been nicer, then we saddled up and headed up the coast road for ten miles or so. Brilliant.

    Here you go.

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid= ... aid=269395

    If it helps your PTP, he was very looking forward to the Tour of the Basque Country. Hungry for it!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Did he make you beg and cry as he cruised on off into the distance and left you grovelling over your handlebars?
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  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    proto wrote:
    ... Chris Horner ...
    ... If it helps your PTP, he was very looking forward to the Tour of the Basque Country. Hungry for it!

    Helps mine.. :D , but maybe too many stages still left.. :(
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    proto wrote:
    Not often I get to shout about anything, but I want you all to know I was out riding with Chris Horner last Friday morning in Denia, Spain. :D

    Thoroughly nice bloke, he suffered the usual photofest without complaint and maintained a smile for everyone, couldn't have been nicer, then we saddled up and headed up the coast road for ten miles or so. Brilliant.

    Here you go.

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid= ... aid=269395

    If it helps your PTP, he was very looking forward to the Tour of the Basque Country. Hungry for it!
    Nice, great pics. He looks tiny next to your mate in the Sky jersey.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Stage 2: Break with Moinard, Iglinskiy, Cataldo and Valls at 4:10.
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Sonny73 wrote:
    Nice, great pics. He looks tiny next to your mate in the Sky jersey.

    James, bloke in Sky jersey is 6' 5", makes most people look small. Good climber too :shock:

    Chris Horner's Wiki page shows his height at 5' 11", but he's nowhere near that, more like 5'8" maybe 5'9". Nice guy, really impressed with him.
  • peterst6906
    peterst6906 Posts: 530
    Sonny73 wrote:
    Stage 2: Break with Moinard, Iglinskiy, Cataldo and Valls at 4:10.
    `

    Now all back together with 33km to go.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Garmin look like they are hammering it on the front.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Garmin seem to have borrowed the 2010 Sky tactics manual.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    What are they trying to achieve- the bunch still looks pretty big.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Jaysus, that motorbike rider nearly takes out J Rod, then two minutes later nearly flattens Uran.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    smithy21 wrote:
    What are they trying to achieve- the bunch still looks pretty big.

    Whatever it was, it ain't working.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Kiryienka takes the win.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    afx237vi wrote:
    Kiryienka takes the win.
    That was smart win for Kiryienka, Movistar were bossing it at the end there.
    And too right about the camera bike, that bloke needs to sort his positioning out big time!!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Kiryienka shows Cancellara how it's done. 8)
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  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    Stage 3 on the go, 3 man break: Moinard, Pineau & Bellotti lead by 3.14 after 121 of 180KM.

    Pain in the arse for some PTPer's inc me is that Basso has withdrawn
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    andyjr wrote:
    Stage 3 on the go, 3 man break: Moinard, Pineau & Bellotti lead by 3.14 after 121 of 180KM.

    Pain in the ars* for some PTPer's inc me is that Basso has withdrawn
    Di Luca also pulled out.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    andyjr wrote:
    Pain in the ars* for some PTPer's inc me is that Basso has withdrawn

    That's a disaster. Maybe I should watch Cav win the other race.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    I think Vino has gone too.
    EDIT: No, he's there.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    :oops: My initial info on Vino above was epically wrong as he took the stage!!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Vinhohoho!!
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Vino....nearly picked him for ptp too :(

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