TdSuisse *SPOILER*

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Di Luca attacks the peloton! Soler covers it.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Andy Schleck is done. Cunego pushing on from the peloton. Sagan still there for the stage win, Ten Dam for the GC.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Amazed by Sagan climbing this monster. Cunego is flying.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Ten Dam's lead is slipping away, although Soler is somewhere in no man's land. Don't fancy Soler on the descent either.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    wow thats one narrow road, its like riding on a park path. Ooh nice riding by cunego.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cunego in yellow tonight by the look of it.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cunego -> Soler 43 seconds.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Sagan catches Cunego on the descent, 2km to go.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Shows what we lost when they were forced to take the Monte Crostis out of the Giro.
    Great final 15kms.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Best day's racing of the year, that was. Great stuff.
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    afx237vi wrote:
    Best day's racing of the year, that was. Great stuff.

    I totally agree, that was just fantastic. The camera work following the leading descenders was outstanding.
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    Did Sagan stop at one of the kilometer markers?

    Feed I was watching was jumping all over the place. Caught one shot of a Liquigas rider stopped but did catch a number or a name.

    Would be good to watch Sagan and Nib's descending together.
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    DavMartinR wrote:
    Did Sagan stop at one of the kilometer markers?

    Feed I was watching was jumping all over the place. Caught one shot of a Liquigas rider stopped but did catch a number or a name.

    Would be good to watch Sagan and Nib's descending together.

    No it wasn't Sagan it was the other Liquigas guy (cant remember his name) who appeared to have had a spill
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    That was the other Liquigas in the break - Cristiano Salerno.
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    Cheers for that.

    I had a Swiss feed and couldn't make out what they were say half the time.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wow sounds good, looking forward to highlights.

    Little boy Andy cannot hang with some non-GC riders...Contador is going to crush him and I hope Wiggins, Basso and Gesink do too.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    That was fab!

    If anyone else says to me that cycling is boring i'll show them that descent!
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  • SCR Pedro
    SCR Pedro Posts: 912
    Great stage, especially as I walked the entire descent into Grindelwald last year. It is incredibly steep and technical, so to watch them bombing down it like that was bloody exciting!

    Tough luck for Cunego, but at least he got yellow.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wow sounds good, looking forward to highlights.

    Little boy Andy cannot hang with some non-GC riders...Contador is going to crush him and I hope Wiggins, Basso and Gesink do too.

    To be fair to A Schleck he did a massive amount of work for Fuglsang, he set the pace up the final climb for ages,was clearly not riding for himself.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 3 results
    1 Peter SAGAN Liquigas-Cannondale 3:09:47
    2 Damiano CUNEGO Lampre - ISD
    3 Jakob FUGLSANG Team Leopard-Trek + 00:21
    4 Laurens TEN DAM Rabobank
    5 Giampaolo CARUSO Katusha Team + 00:48
    6 Tejay VAN GARDEREN HTC - Highroad + 01:04
    7 Frank SCHLECK Team Leopard-Trek
    8 Bauke MOLLEMA Rabobank
    9 Juan Mauricio SOLER Movistar Team
    10 Francis DE GREEF Omega Pharma - Lotto
    11 Steven KRUIJSWIJK Rabobank
    12 Danilo DI LUCA Katusha Team + 01:24
    13 Tom DANIELSON Team Garmin - Cervelo + 01:26
    14 Linus GERDEMANN Team Leopard-Trek + 01:28
    15 Jan BAKELANTS Omega Pharma - Lotto + 01:42
    16 Levi LEIPHEIMER Team RadioShack
    17 Mathias FRANK BMC Racing Team + 02:02
    18 Maxime MONFORT Team Leopard-Trek
    19 Johann TSCHOPP BMC Racing Team
    20 Branislau SAMOILAU Movistar Team + 02:49

    General classification after Stage 3
    1. Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) 7:43:16
    2 Juan Mauricio SOLER Movistar Team + 00:54
    3 Bauke MOLLEMA Rabobank + 01:16
    4 Laurens TEN DAM Rabobank + 01:19
    5 Tejay VAN GARDEREN HTC - Highroad + 01:21
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Just finished watching a recording of today's stage ... Fricking awesome last hour ... It had a wee bit of everything with the tactics, teamwork, a solo attack, the descent ... Just wow ...
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Great stage that, great effort by Cunego bridging across, and for Sagan to stay with Andy, Fuglsang and Ten Dam, and then catch Cunego in the descent. And he's still only 21 years old!

    I can see some difficult decisions for Rabobank's TdF selection - three riders today and yesterday climbing with the very select favourites group, and that's just Gesink's helpers; Garate did some good work in the Dauphine, and Weening, Niermann, Boom and Tjalingii riding strong. LLS might not make the cut.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VT-cDytsE
    Contador is the Greatest
  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    incredible descent
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    cheers for the link ff. loved the last few corners and the way sagan attacked
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  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    frenchfighter wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VT-cDytsE

    Amazing! Many thanks.

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  • SCR Pedro
    SCR Pedro Posts: 912
    I took this photo last year. It's the first couple of corners. Epic!
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    Descent into Grindelwald by SCR Pedro, on Flickr

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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    afx237vi wrote:
    Best day's racing of the year, that was. Great stuff.

    What a superb last 25 k that was best ive seen all season and good to see the Little Prince attack like that and move into race lead . Also some superb bike handling skills by the motorbike guys.........more of the same please !
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    edited June 2011
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wow sounds good, looking forward to highlights.

    Little boy Andy cannot hang with some non-GC riders...Contador is going to crush him and I hope Wiggins, Basso and Gesink do too.

    You would so do yourself a favour if you actually watched the stage before coming out with this kind of thing. Total lack of appreciation of how the race panned out.
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