ToB - stage 1 **SPOILERS**

alan_a
alan_a Posts: 1,584
edited September 2012 in Pro race
Vuelta on 1 screen, ToB LIVE on the other. Happy days indeed.

Live tracking at http://www.tourofbritain.com/_ns_race/? ... vetracking

4 in the break 50km to go. 1' 51" ahead of the peleton

Clarke, House, Martias, Wytinck
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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    It really is great to have this live.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Looks great in HD with the gorgeous weather.
    Finish is an hour earlier than Jill Douglas was saying, though.

    Having said that, I'm recording this for later, plus La Vuelta fiesta
    and watching the GP Fourmies live, now on the net. :oops:
    http://www.weo.fr/Le-Direct


    ..............Oh and the GP Montreal to fit in, this evening.
    A happy, hectic cycling day, indeed.
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,584
    Massive crowds in the villages. Really impressed. Let's hope it's like this all week.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Fantastic crowds. Wish I could go and watch. :(
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    Great that its live, but what a shame it's perhaps the most boring stage they could have come up with in one of the least scenic parts of the country.
    More problems but still living....
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Nice to see Endura putting their stamp on the race.

    Front group down to maybe 40 due to a couple crashes.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    amaferanga wrote:
    Great that its live, but what a shame it's perhaps the most boring stage they could have come up with in one of the least scenic parts of the country.

    Agree that the stage is boring, but got to argue about the scenery. It may be flat but the countryside and especially the villages in Norfolk are lovely.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    I just saw JTL on the front, where's Leicester Lad? out buying a box of kleenex?
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,584
    edited September 2012
    B ig crash 1.2 km out from the finish. Cav looks to have caused it.

    Another crash on final bend.

    Show the finish please itv
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cav just took out Garmin. All of em.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Chaos!

    And perhaps the worst directorial choices ever made.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    afx237vi wrote:
    Cav just took out Garmin. All of em.

    Funnily enough I think Cav will say it was the other way round.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Luke Rowe's first pro win though.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,584
    I assume they all get the same time.
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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    All that were held up in the last 3k will
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,584
    Once again (as with Oly RR) Ms Douglas focuses the first question of her immediate post race interview (with Jez Hunt) not on the winner but on the disappointment of Cav not winning.

    Well done Luke Rowe, nice crotch thrust as you crossed the line.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Good to see Rowe get the win, he's done some hard work in his first pro season.

    Not sure what happened in the crash, either a touch of wheels or maybe Cav lost his back wheel on the corner.

    Shocking TV coverage though. Crashes aren't unusual you know, plenty of time to show Cav and Farrar stumbling about once the race had finished. We only saw about the last 100m of the last KM.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Cav took out Farrar...it's trailer rumble time!
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  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    "Shocking TV coverage though"


    its ITV -they a known for it.
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Who was the Sky rider who went down after the crash? Wiggins was ahead of it, so he would have been up in the group that stayed upright.

    Chaos and although I'm a huge Cav fan, it looked as if he lost it to me...

    Hope everyone is OK and still looking forward to Dumfries
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Impossible to tell what happened. Cav certainly angry.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    was it not last 3km so same time?
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  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    Sprint leader jersey sponsored by Yodel. Should have presented a broken parcel as a prize.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Boy van Poppel second. Pretty fast sprinter, so good finish from Rowe.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Shocking TV coverage though. Crashes aren't unusual you know, plenty of time to show Cav and Farrar stumbling about once the race had finished. We only saw about the last 100m of the last KM.

    Yeh, the commentary was essentially:

    "Oh and um some British rider we don't recognise has just won the race"

    *two second pause*

    "Anyway lets talk more about Cav's shoulder"
  • sing_for_absolution
    sing_for_absolution Posts: 1,908
    Milton50 wrote:
    Shocking TV coverage though. Crashes aren't unusual you know, plenty of time to show Cav and Farrar stumbling about once the race had finished. We only saw about the last 100m of the last KM.

    Yeh, the commentary was essentially:

    "Oh and um some British rider we don't recognise has just won the race"

    *two second pause*

    "Anyway lets talk more about Cav's shoulder"

    It was like the olympic road race when the sprint came in for third place. "and it's...a rider from Netherlands...nooo Denmarrk!.....ah someone's come in to win the bronze medal".
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Just doddery past-it Porter shouting out random names...I mean FFS Jez Hunt has been shown ages before at the back with his work down....
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    edited September 2012
    I don't mind them getting names wrong so much, but only showing 200m out of the final 1.2 kilometres was ridiculous.

    Porter definitely should have had at least some clue it was Luke Rowe though.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Porter doesnt know the difference between Luke Rowe and Saville Row, lets be honest
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Not the best commentary team. Boulting is back tomorrow but someone with better eyesight is needed than HP. Not a great combo with Hayles. Boardman is a better wingman. Didn't they have Yanto Barker doing some punditry last year? he's pretty good
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