Vuelta al Pais Vasco *spoilers*

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  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    I think J-Rod might struggle a bit more without such an armchair ride from Shack and Omega trying to keep their guys up there gave him for all the build up to the steep part. I thought Poels early attack looked pretty good too, even if it was clearly too early.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    So, Tony Martin is now the second greatest climber in the world?
    Purito unbeatable on 20%
    Henao looked good...............for a bit.
    Poels looked in agony in the last 100 metres.
    Horner looked his age..............well, almost.

    Samu v Der Diesel for the overall.
    Half a dozen scrapping for the bottom podium step.

    Oh and hats off to GreenEdge for a nice tactical attempt.
    Certainly livened proceedings up.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    J-Rod wins today's stage ahead of Sanchez and Kieslovski. Most of the rest of the GC contenders 5 or 7 seconds down except Martin & Horner who were 23s down.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Great last few KMs...

    Sanchez has 55 seconds on Tony Martin going into the TT...interesting.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Sanchez should do this - a course with two sharpish climbs and descents just seems made for him.
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    I'm fairly new to watching pro cycling races apart from the TDF and chose Rodriguez as my PTP pick overall but I'm guessing from some of the posts I have read that he is not a good TT'er and doesn't really stand much of a chance of retaining his lead against Martin or Sanchez today?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    brucey72 wrote:
    I'm fairly new to watching pro cycling races apart from the TDF and chose Rodriguez as my PTP pick overall but I'm guessing from some of the posts I have read that he is not a good TT'er and doesn't really stand much of a chance of retaining his lead against Martin or Sanchez today?

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Sanchez should do this - a course with two sharpish climbs and descents just seems made for him.

    Ah, i was torn between him and Tony.

    Went for Tony as a PTP hedge.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Sanchez should do this - a course with two sharpish climbs and descents just seems made for him.

    Ah, i was torn between him and Tony.

    Went for Tony as a PTP hedge.

    I don't think that Martin has quite found his TT legs for 2012. By this time last year he already had a couple of high quality TT wins under his belt as well as 2 overalls.

    And now I've said that he'll probably put a minute into Samu.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Pinotti reports on twitter there is a rumour Tony fell off during his recon of the stage
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    horner at 44" he can tt a little. Don't think j rod will top 3
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    This TT looks pretty tough. Steep hills, narrow lanes, lots of turns, plenty of rain. Might be some unusual results.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Big Tone currently #1 with all the favourite still to go.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Mollema takes #1 off the farmer with a gun.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,314
    edited April 2012
    Get 'orf moi leader-board!





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    Oh dear... that's costly on the old PTP...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sanchez faster than the farmer but slower than Mollema at the half way point.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sam Sanchez takes it.

    And the overall too presumably.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    GC top 6:

    Sanchez
    Rodriguez
    Mollema
    Cunego
    Martin
    Nordhaug
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Extremely pleased for Samu and Euskaltel who are hopefully under a little less pressure as a result of this
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I think it was sort of inevitable that Samu would win this race one day. Really pleased that he has done.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    johnfinch wrote:
    I think it was sort of inevitable that Samu would win this race one day. Really pleased that he has done.

    Everything is inevitable when you stop picking them for PTP.
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  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    So all the effort trying to keep Martin up there, and he could only manage 5th in the TT?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    jibberjim wrote:
    So all the effort trying to keep Martin up there, and he could only manage 5th in the TT?

    Third.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good ride by Sergio Montoya for Sky. Can't TT, but remove that and he came 3rd.

    Some big GT names in this race. Schleck older was riding...dont bother checking his placing or that of his brother's in Sarthe.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    That was great by Impey. Riding off the front with 1km to go hardly ever happens.

    Then the look on the face after he drops the champagne!
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