Vuelta al Pais Vasco *spoilers*

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited April 2012 in Pro race
Pretty good feed here: http://www.eitb.com/es/deportes/deporte-en-directo/

60 km to go in stage 1, De la Fuente and Mucelli in the break. Maxime Bouet just made an attack that only a French rider could make (one that makes half the peloton shrug and the other half laugh). Lots of chat about Sanchez, as you'd expect.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    De la Fuenta, in a break, in the Tour of the Basque Country?

    No.

    Way.
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    De la Fuenta, in a break, in the Tour of the Basque Country?

    No.

    Way.

    I know. Seems strange to send your best rider in the break on the first day, but maybe they're hoping for snow, like Catalunya.

    Looking forward to seeing how Sky's wunderkind Henao does in this race.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Nice, someone at eitb.com just pushed the "georestrict" button with 15 km to go. Here works too: http://www.esport3.cat/directes/esport3/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.
    _
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.

    Any time gaps? Where was Samu?
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  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.

    watch for the wheel suckers
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    The size of the gap he squeezed through!
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.

    Any time gaps? Where was Samu?

    Didn't appear to be. main peleton came in together, minus 1 or 2
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.

    What do you want, a medal? :wink:
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    1 Rojas
    2 Poels
    3 Wegmann
    4 Vichot (allez Arthur!)
    5 Ratto
    6 Hesjedal
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    andyp wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.

    What do you want, a medal? :wink:

    Er.

    Yes, actually, I do.
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Hoogerland involved in the crash on the climb... that means he'll attack tomorrow.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    ^

    Can the tee shirts be printed overnight?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Surreal finish. Poels 2nd in the sprint. I mean wtf?
    I was watching "sprinter" Michael Matthews who got eaten alive by a bunch of climbers and puncheurs.
    They swarmed all over and around him, before he had time to kick.

    I wonder who the walking wounded were from that other surreal event: the uphill pile up?
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.


    Only cos Boonen isn't in this one :D

    Do you have a ctrl+B shortcut for ease of playing PTP?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    I genuinely need to check who I picked....I can't decide anything about this race at all...

    Edit - Oooh yay me!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    calvjones wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rojas wins.

    4 in a row for my PTP predictions.


    Only cos Boonen isn't in this one :D

    Do you have a ctrl+B shortcut for ease of playing PTP?

    What can I say, I know when a rider is on a historic run of form.

    It's not like I picked Boonen for MSR.
    _
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    satge 2 getting to the business end. group of 5- pineau, pinot, christainsen, Bosisio and Julian Sanchez went clear, lead was up to 6.30, but now at ~1.30 with just over 20kms left
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Did the group behind the crash on Stage 1 get their time back?
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    It's raining too, proper Basque country weather.
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    the suggestion is no
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Looks like a green-edge one-two.

    Can't say who.
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    1. impy, 2, davis, 3. appollino, 4 rojas.
    _
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    Impey from greenedge win's after getting a gap in the last Km
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    You don't see that done often these days, great ride by Impey, he created his winning gap on a roundabout with about 700 metres to go.
  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    Nearly got taken out by one of the tv motorbikes on that roundabout
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Apparently, with 1km to go someone told Impey that they'd spotted Theo Bos. He was just trying to escape.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Seems Cancellara didn't break his collar bone in Flanders, but is riding Pais Vasco under a pseudonym.
    Well done GreenEdge for figuring out what happens when a group of 2nd rate sprinters wait around for non-existent lead outs.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    6km to go- all coming back together for the final climb.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Henao goes and is brought back.

    Samu chasing J Rod and horner now.

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