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  • durhamwasp
    durhamwasp Posts: 1,247
    top 10?
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Sky appeared at the front several times in the last 5km to help keep the pace high but didnt provide a HTC style train. Cav just jumped from the pack about 500-750m from the finish and no-one got near him. Oss was second.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    Cav - blitzed it from a fair way out
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    Cav - blitzed it from a fair way out

    Didn't look that far, couple of hundred metres at the most.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    Paulie W wrote:
    Sky appeared at the front several times in the last 5km to help keep the pace high but didnt provide a HTC style train. Cav just jumped from the pack about 500-750m from the finish and no-one got near him. Oss was second.

    thats quite a distance for Cav
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Sky appeared at the front several times in the last 5km to help keep the pace high but didnt provide a HTC style train. Cav just jumped from the pack about 500-750m from the finish and no-one got near him. Oss was second.

    thats quite a distance for Cav

    Rewatched and it was much less that that - the feed was jumping and freezing is my excuse. Probably 300 at most - if you watch it though he goes what seems much earlier than usual.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Making yesterday all the more bewildering.
    GC could now be:
    Cav
    Boonan @ 2"
    I guess it's all about the line, not the pile.
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  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Sky Procycling
    2 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
    3 Peter Sagan (Slo) Liquigas-Cannondale
    4 John Degenkolb (Ger) Project 1t4i
    5 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha
    6 Allan Davis (Aus) GreenEdge Cycling Team
    7 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ-BigMat
    8 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia
    9 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Katusha
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Sky don't seem to be massively bothered about protecting Cav, or providing a leadout for him (not seen today's stage, but going on what I've read). Do you think that they've just decided to treat this as a "get race fit" race for all riders, and if they get some results then great? If not no big deal?

    You wouldn't have expected Eisel to be in the front group yesterday well clear of Cav.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    hammerite wrote:
    Sky don't seem to be massively bothered about protecting Cav, or providing a leadout for him (not seen today's stage, but going on what I've read). Do you think that they've just decided to treat this as a "get race fit" race for all riders, and if they get some results then great? If not no big deal?

    You wouldn't have expected Eisel to be in the front group yesterday well clear of Cav.

    Probably practicing riding in different groups so that they can compete for GC and haul Cav over the alps (or protect Wiggo while doing a lead out).
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    Paulie W wrote:
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Sky appeared at the front several times in the last 5km to help keep the pace high but didnt provide a HTC style train. Cav just jumped from the pack about 500-750m from the finish and no-one got near him. Oss was second.

    thats quite a distance for Cav

    Rewatched and it was much less that that - the feed was jumping and freezing is my excuse. Probably 300 at most - if you watch it though he goes what seems much earlier than usual.

    He said Post interview that with the tail wind he went a bit earlier than normal.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    I think yesterday it was just a hard man's finish - I mean Stannard got gapped and you wouldn't necessarily expect that under those conditions.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Disappointed Boonen didn't get stuck in.

    It's a fair cop to lose to Cav in a proper bunch sprint, but at least give it a go.

    Then again, he'd probably crash and ruin his season anyway.
    _
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    he went from a long way out and held it
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Disappointed Boonen didn't get stuck in.

    It's a fair cop to lose to Cav in a proper bunch sprint, but at least give it a go.

    Then again, he'd probably crash and ruin his season anyway.

    He got blocked out, not too much he could have done there.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Disappointed Boonen didn't get stuck in.

    It's a fair cop to lose to Cav in a proper bunch sprint, but at least give it a go.

    Then again, he'd probably crash and ruin his season anyway.

    He got blocked out, not too much he could have done there.

    Agreed, Cav closed the road because he knew that corner was coming up and so everyone would have to try and go around him* - I think his sprint tactics are a major part of his success and usually very under rated [/blowjob]

    *the mirror image of what he did at the worlds
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  • durhamwasp
    durhamwasp Posts: 1,247
    Whats happening on the latest and final stage? Is everybody together and how much longer left?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Cav down and out...........thanks to ferking Farrar! :)
    Should be OK a bit battered and bruised.
    Young Demare takes the stage from big Dennis G.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cav looks OK.

    Could have been much worse for him. Looked a bad crash.

    Demare won (FDJ) Galimzyanov 2nd, Renshaw 3rd, Kluge 4th.
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Disappointed Boonen didn't get stuck in.

    It's a fair cop to lose to Cav in a proper bunch sprint, but at least give it a go.

    Then again, he'd probably crash and ruin his season anyway.

    He got blocked out, not too much he could have done there.


    Should have been better placed.

    Anyway, he won the Tour of Qatar, so I'm expecting a good classics season...
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Who was the crazy guy head-butting Renshaw in the final km?
  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    last few km http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_7mWwK4RA


    is it too early to be concerned about the state of the sky leadout?
  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Omar Little wrote:
    last few km http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_7mWwK4RA


    is it too early to be concerned about the state of the sky leadout?

    What leadout :(
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Making yesterday all the more bewildering.
    GC could now be:
    Cav
    Boonan @ 2"
    I guess it's all about the line, not the pile.
    Sky agree with you http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... d-in-qatar
    I still don't. It's like saying that he'd have won the tour de france if only his team could help him keep up with evans on the climbs and they had encouraged him to do more work on his TT.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    was that an elbow flying from Deg?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    avoidingmyphd wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Making yesterday all the more bewildering.
    GC could now be:
    Cav
    Boonan @ 2"
    I guess it's all about the line, not the pile.
    Sky agree with you http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... d-in-qatar
    I still don't. It's like saying that he'd have won the tour de france if only his team could help him keep up with evans on the climbs and they had encouraged him to do more work on his TT.

    Well, it's all hypothetical, but at 20kms to go, Felcha and Stannard were both pulling for the Boonan bunch, while Cav and the rest of the gang just sat on, mid 2nd group, doing diddly.
    I'd suggest, all they had to have done was have the front pair sit on and the break was doomed.
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