Tour de France Prologue *Spoilers*

k-dog

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

Quick shot of Cuddles warming up. Pouring sweet (& cotton wool up his hooter!)

I saw one guy (might have been a Sky rider) who had the cotton wool up his nose as he started. Anyone know what that is for?

Come to think of it why is it there for a warmup?

MSByrne

According to twitter Froome forgot to take his cotton buds out of his nose before riding! Still did well considering.

B3rnieMac

I'm sure they have Vicks or something on the cotton wool....

Yellow Peril

Anyone think Martin would have been faster than Canc? P&P were estimating a loss of 16 seconds. I would have thought more with the loss of momentum.

iainf72

Voeckler came in 109'th.

He was the best Europcar rider.

RichN95.

One thing not mentioned yet is that Peter Sagan's failure meant he didn't get any green jersey points today in one of the stages he has the edge on pure sprinters. He would have hoped to get at least 10

blazing_saddles

iainf72 wrote:

Voeckler came in 109'th.

He was the best Europcar rider.

Mmmmm, I wonder what you are trying to say?..........

specialgueststar

Evans +9
Nibali +11
Hesjedal +11

Cant believe you are missing it !

DeadCalm

iainf72 wrote:

Voeckler came in 109'th.

He was the best Europcar rider.

Easily the worst of the best for a team. Best rider for each team...

1 SUI CANCELLARA Fabian RADIOSHACK-NISSAN 07' 13''
2 GBR WIGGINS Bradley SKY PROCYCLING 07' 20'' + 00' 07''
3 FRA CHAVANEL Sylvain OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 07' 20'' + 00' 07''
4 USA VAN GARDEREN Tejay BMC RACING TEAM 07' 23'' + 00' 10''
6 AUS LANCASTER Brett Daniel ORICA GREENEDGE 07' 24'' + 00' 11''
7 GER GRETSCH Patrick TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO 07' 25'' + 00' 12''
8 RUS MENCHOV Denis KATUSHA TEAM 07' 26'' + 00' 13''
10 UKR GRIVKO Andriy ASTANA PRO TEAM 07' 28'' + 00' 15''
14 ITA NIBALI Vincenzo LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE 07' 31'' + 00' 18''
15 CAN HESJEDAL Ryder GARMIN-SHARP-BARRACUDA 07' 31'' + 00' 18''
20 BEL NUYENS Nick TEAM SAXO BANK-TINKOFF BANK 07' 33'' + 00' 20''
23 NZL HENDERSON Gregory LOTTO-BELISOL TEAM 07' 33'' + 00' 20''
24 NED WESTRA Lieuwe VACANSOLEIL-DCM 07' 33'' + 00' 20''
26 ESP PLAZA MOLINA Ruben MOVISTAR TEAM 07' 34'' + 00' 21''
28 NED MOLLEMA Bauke RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 07' 34'' + 00' 21''
29 FRA LADAGNOUS Matthieu FDJ-BIGMAT 07' 34'' + 00' 21''
37 EST TAARAMAE Rein COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE 07' 35'' + 00' 22''
40 ESP ASTARLOZA Mikel EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 07' 36'' + 00' 23''
42 FRA PERAUD Jean-Christophe AG2R LA MONDIALE 07' 36'' + 00' 23''
58 FRA LEMOINE Cyril SAUR-SOJASUN 07' 38'' + 00' 25''
78 GER HONDO Danilo LAMPRE - ISD 07' 41'' + 00' 28''
109 FRA VOECKLER Thomas TEAM EUROPCAR 07' 46'' + 00' 33''

specialgueststar

Class ride by Chavanel

I thought the stand out was van Garderen though

DeadCalm

All 9 Sky and all 9 Garmin riders were faster than Voekler.

Slowest rider per team...

101 AUT EISEL Bernhard SKY PROCYCLING 07' 45'' + 00' 32''
106 RSA HUNTER Robert GARMIN-SHARP-BARRACUDA 07' 46'' + 00' 33''
130 BEL DE WEERT Kevin OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 07' 50'' + 00' 37''
136 LUX SCHLECK Frank RADIOSHACK-NISSAN 07' 51'' + 00' 38''
142 AUS COOKE Baden ORICA GREENEDGE 07' 52'' + 00' 39''
152 CRO KISERLOVSKI Robert ASTANA PRO TEAM 07' 55'' + 00' 42''
156 ITA CANUTI Federico LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE 07' 56'' + 00' 43''
159 AUS RENSHAW Mark RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 07' 57'' + 00' 44''
161 ESP COBO ACEBO Juan Jose MOVISTAR TEAM 07' 57'' + 00' 44''
169 BEL ROELANDTS Jurgen LOTTO-BELISOL TEAM 07' 58'' + 00' 45''
176 NED HOOGERLAND Johnny VACANSOLEIL-DCM 08' 00'' + 00' 47''
179 GER BURGHARDT Marcus BMC RACING TEAM 08' 02'' + 00' 49''
181 FRA PINEAU Cedric FDJ-BIGMAT 08' 03'' + 00' 50''
188 ITA CARUSO Gianpaolo KATUSHA TEAM 08' 08'' + 00' 55''
189 FRA JEROME Vincent TEAM EUROPCAR 08' 10'' + 00' 57''
190 ESP MATE MARDONES Luis Angel COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE 08' 10'' + 00' 57''
192 FRA MARINO Jean Marc SAUR-SOJASUN 08' 14'' + 01' 01''
194 ESP PEREZ MORENO Ruben EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 08' 15'' + 01' 02''
195 DEN LUND Anders TEAM SAXO BANK-TINKOFF BANK 08' 16'' + 01' 03''
196 AUS LLOYD Matthew LAMPRE - ISD 08' 18'' + 01' 05''
197 FRA CHEREL Mikael AG2R LA MONDIALE 08' 19'' + 01' 06''
198 NED CURVERS Roy TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO 08' 19'' + 01' 06''

specialgueststar

DeadCalm wrote:

All 9 Sky and all 9 Garmin riders were faster than Voekler.

he wasnt going to start because of his knee - what IS your problem

DeadCalm

SpecialGuestStar wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

All 9 Sky and all 9 Garmin riders were faster than Voekler.

he wasnt going to start because of his knee - what IS your problem

No problem at all with Voeckler. It's just surprising that the slowest Garmin and Sky riders were quicker than the fastest Europcar rider.

MSByrne

RichN95 wrote:

GC Riders compared to Wiggins (I may have missed some):

Wiggins 0
Menchov +6
Evans +9
Nibali +11
Hesjedal +11
Kloden +12
Brajkovic +15
Gesink +19
Van den Broeck +21
Leipheimer +21
Voeckler +26
Valverde +28
Schleck +31
Sanchez +33
Rolland +38

Given that this is one fifteenth of the total time trial kilometers in the TDF, for a very (very) rough estimate of the time gaps from the TT's alone you could multiply all these numbers by fifteen. Obviously climbers may well do better on longer time trials with some bumps in them - but still, the time gaps do add up if you look at them in that way.

frenchfighter

Good on Fabu. HUGE shame he hasnt got a stunning Swiss Nat TT kit. In 2004 he won this exact same prologue riding for Fassa.

Poor from Martin. (EDIT: didnt know he had a puncture)

Compression tight modelling:


Nice scheme on Gils bike:


Chavanel's kit is HEAVYWEIGHT



Close up on Wiggins skinsuit. Bet there are some marginal gains in that :roll:
http://www.grassyknolltv.com/2012/tour- ... R34EON.jpg

specialgueststar

thy even left the ins of his name - that must be 1/00000000000000000000000000000000000000014th of a seco

iainf72

DeadCalm wrote:

No problem at all with Voeckler. It's just surprising that the slowest Garmin and Sky riders were quicker than the fastest Europcar rider.

And he was faster than the rest of his team.

With those helmets I'm not surprised.

iainf72

Did everyone see Oleg Tinkov's tweet? Looks like he's trying to buy Chinny for Tink-Oxo Bank next year

frenchfighter

is there anything Sagan cant do :shock:

99 out of 100 riders would have crashed after doing this @ 27 secs. Class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7lxuIKHmKM

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

is there anything Sagan cant do :shock:

99 out of 100 riders would have crashed after doing this @ 27 secs. Class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7lxuIKHmKM

197 out of 198 riders took the corner properly.

Squaggles

Some great pictures there frenchfighter , shouldn't the yellow be above the red on Gilbert's bike though ?

frenchfighter

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

is there anything Sagan cant do :shock:

99 out of 100 riders would have crashed after doing this @ 27 secs. Class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7lxuIKHmKM

197 out of 198 riders took the corner properly.

You are such a joy to read sometimes.

frenchfighter

Squaggles wrote:

Some great pictures there frenchfighter , shouldn't the yellow be above the red on Gilbert's bike though ?

Think its fine as if you looked at the bike from the other side it would be the 'right' way round.

frenchfighter

RowCycle

emadden wrote:

So he is "wigg" now.... sigh

Think his skinsuit says Wiggo, with the 'o' being one of the RAF spots.

frenchfighter

Toasting Chavanel's birthday. Take a look at Levi :shock:

http://instagram.com/p/MgkhzPNEDC/

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

This needs to be sorted out. It is not cool.

ratsbeyfus

Is this cool enough for you FF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Z-FmgbFK0

frenchfighter

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