TdSuisse *SPOILER*

afx237vi

Di Luca attacks the peloton! Soler covers it.

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Andy Schleck is done. Cunego pushing on from the peloton. Sagan still there for the stage win, Ten Dam for the GC.

blazing_saddles

Amazed by Sagan climbing this monster. Cunego is flying.

afx237vi

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

wow thats one narrow road, its like riding on a park path. Ooh nice riding by cunego.

afx237vi

Cunego in yellow tonight by the look of it.

afx237vi

Cunego -> Soler 43 seconds.

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Sagan catches Cunego on the descent, 2km to go.

blazing_saddles

Shows what we lost when they were forced to take the Monte Crostis out of the Giro.
Great final 15kms.

afx237vi

Best day's racing of the year, that was. Great stuff.

brucey72

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

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

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

That was the other Liquigas in the break - Cristiano Salerno.

DavMartinR

Cheers for that.

I had a Swiss feed and couldn't make out what they were say half the time.

frenchfighter

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.

inkyfingers

That was fab!

If anyone else says to me that cycling is boring i'll show them that descent!

SCR Pedro

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.

inkyfingers

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.

frenchfighter

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

frenchfighter

Crankbrother

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VT-cDytsE

dave milne

incredible descent

cal_stewart

cheers for the link ff. loved the last few corners and the way sagan attacked

ratsbeyfus

frenchfighter wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VT-cDytsE

Amazing! Many thanks.

SCR Pedro

I took this photo last year. It's the first couple of corners. Epic!

Descent into Grindelwald by SCR Pedro, on Flickr

Pedro

moray_gub

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 !

moray_gub

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.