Tour de San Luis **Spoilers**

dave_1

I think that will be one of Bert's few chances this season and possibly next..while I'll miss him it embeds impunity in the sport like the 1990s, 2000s situation did..when someone can get off a ban when evidence is clear.

Doobz

blazing_saddles

Well, we finally get live pictures..........after a fashion:
http://www.sportlemon.tv/v-2/14/186/v-358762.html

So far only of the riders starting and finishing.

Doobz

Tour de San Luis Time Trial:

1. Leipheimer (OPQ)
2. Nibali (LIQ) +23 /
3. Schumacher (CWO) +38
4. Chavanel (OPQ) +39
5. Nazeret (Funvic) +44

Doobz

frenchfighter

Nice one Leipheimer, getting OPQ some results.

Good to see the names in the top 10 or so and a handful of not PT riders. Grabsch was riding but didnt finish too well.

"It was a hard time trial, for specialists. Cadence I've got, but I lack training and hours on the time trial bike," Alberto said. "Anyway, I'm happy. Yesterday's result was unexpected, today's was more normal," he added.

Doobz

Doobz

1. Alberto Contador 4:19:59
2. Dani Diaz 2
3. Levi Leipheimer has five
4. José Serpa was 25
5. Marcos García 44
6. Stefan Stumacher mt
7. Magno Nazaret was 51
8. Vincenzo Nibali was 56
9. Adrián Palomares has 58
10. Miguel A. Rubiano was 1:02
11. Jackson Rodriguez 1:11
12. Joshua has Moyano 1:18
13. Giovanni Visconti 1:31
14. Cayetano Sarmiento 1:33
15. Angelo Pagani 1:39 a
General:
1. Levi Leipheimer 5:27:52 p.m.
2. Alberto Contador 46
3. Dani Diaz 1:31
4. Stefan Schumacher 1:36
5. Vincenzo Nibali is 1:50

frenchfighter

Game over. Two summits two wins. The champion is riding. Levi hangs on in there. That saxo kit bike and glasses combo is superp. Looking fwd to the photos.

Doobz

frenchfighter wrote:

Game over. Two summits two wins. The champion is riding. Levi hangs on in there. That saxo kit bike and glasses combo is superp. Looking fwd to the photos.

Photo's? I'm looking forward to the tour. If he is smashing everyone about while he is overweight, under-trained then just imagine what he is gonna be like come July... :shock: :shock:

RichN95.

Doobz wrote:

Photo's? I'm looking forward to the tour. If he is smashing everyone about while he is overweight, under-trained then just imagine what he is gonna be like come July... :shock: :shock:

Even fatter, even more under-trained and counting down the days until his ban's over. Possibly.

avoidingmyphd

Doobz wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Game over. Two summits two wins. The champion is riding. Levi hangs on in there. That saxo kit bike and glasses combo is superp. Looking fwd to the photos.

Photo's? I'm looking forward to the tour. If he is smashing everyone about while he is overweight, under-trained then just imagine what he is gonna be like come July... :shock: :shock:

Beating Daniel Diaz by 2 seconds is not smashing everyone about.

Doobz

chuckle!

frenchfighter

"I'm very happy. If they'd told me at the beginning of the race that I was going to win two stages, I wouldn't have believed it," he said.

"The Mirador del Sol," said Alberto, "felt like a very hard climb to me. I used a 36x28 gear, and that allowed me to climb well. Leipheimer is very strong and he's a worthy winner of the race, he deserves it. I wanted to try because you can always aspire to more – that's what I like to do – but when I started and I saw that I wouldn't be able to take back the minute that Levi had on me in the general, I preferred to save my strength and think about the stage. I won the mountain jersey, but that wasn't the goal: it was a consequence of the victory," Contador concluded.

A battle in the final kilometers played out as follows: Contador attacked out of a small group of rivals – including Vincenzo Nibali, José Serpa, Leipheimer and local boy Daniel Diaz – at around the 4 km mark, but was unable to dislodge race leader Leipheimer. Contador maintained over the next two brutal kilometers, sticking with the North American and the Argentinean as the others came unhitched on ramps of as much as 15.5%.

"We started the final climb very strong, the team went full gas because I wanted to try for the stage win. We controlled the escape's gaps," said Alberto at the post-stage press conference. "The final climb was very nice even though maybe a bit demanding for this time of year. I attacked in the final four kilometers to see if I could open a gap and do some damage, but I couldn't get the better of Levi. I decided to save my strength and wait until the arrival, since his form is impressive for this altitude, and to make a play for the stage win."

Diaz launched a scorching attack in last kilometer that promised to be a death blow to his star opponents, but Contador shut it down with authority. He accelerated with his trademark dancing-on-the-pedals style and outstripped Diaz on a slight curve just meters before the line.

"When Dani Diaz attacked, I calculated the distance and luckily I got past him before he got to the line. I'm happy with the result because I took a shot at it," he said.

Crossing the line, Diaz saluted modestly at having been able to arrive only two seconds behind the best climber in the world. Leipheimer lost only five seconds, and was content to keep the leader jersey.

"You have to give the maximum for any victory, even more to measure up to a standard when you don't have your pedal stroke. I'm thinking about March, in Tirreno, Catalunya and Basque Country, but every time there's a race I like to do it well," he stressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... JgaZ45zdfc

frenchfighter

Ras, Furlan and Schu

archieboy

Stg7: 1 Boonen,
2 Guardini,
3 Arie Richeze.

Doobz

Doobz

vid of the finish.. Looked dangerous..

http://youtu.be/Mj4wMBRYvZg

archieboy

Talk about excitable commentators, that bloke on the vid dont come up for air!!

Doobz

rick_chasey

Nice to see him get stuck into an actual bunch sprint.

Was beginning to wonder if he still had the bottle for it.

Doobz

Rick Chasey wrote:

Nice to see him get stuck into an actual bunch sprint.

Was beginning to wonder if he still had the bottle for it.

Same here, When I saw the result, I thought "that must be a mistake"

Hopefully this will do his confidence some good for the next of his races..

avoidingmyphd

Rick Chasey wrote:

Was beginning to wonder if he still had the bottle for it.

So was he, I think.

rick_chasey

avoidingmyphd wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Was beginning to wonder if he still had the bottle for it.

So was he, I think.

Indeed.