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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    It said on North West tonight Cavendish had won this stage?
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,570
    local news were probably reporting his overall win at the tour of qatar as a stage win at the tordifrance
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    gsk82 wrote:
    local news were probably reporting his overall win at the tour of qatar as a stage win at the tordifrance

    they made a stupid remark - like we like saying his team - what is it ? omega pharma quicky step - and did a little quicky step dance :roll: :lol:
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    The unthinkable has happened. Sergio Henao finally gets a win with Sky!

    Evidently he tried to mess it up by taking a wrong turn with 75m to go.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Very interesting name in 7th:

    1.º Sergio Henao (Sky), 4h53m15s
    2.º Rui Costa (Movistar), a 3s
    3.º Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM), 5s
    4.º Rigoberto Urán (Sky), a 7s
    5.º Tiago Machado (RadioShack-Leopard), mt
    6.º Andreas Klöden (RadioShack-Leopard), mt
    7.º Joshua Edmonson (Sky), mt
    8.º Denis Menchov (Katusha), m
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,570
    josh edmonson 7th, good start for him
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Prime586
    Prime586 Posts: 43
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    gsk82 wrote:
    local news were probably reporting his overall win at the tour of qatar as a stage win at the tordifrance

    they made a stupid remark - like we like saying his team - what is it ? omega pharma quicky step - and did a little quicky step dance :roll: :lol:

    That's Tony Livesey for you - the intellectual heavyweight who used to be the editor of the Daily/Sunday Sport.

    it wasn't just BBC North West who got it wrong - at least one sports news website is still reporting Cav won as well http://www.sport.co.uk/cycling/mark-cavendish-wins-second-stage-of-volta-ao-algarve/3716298/
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Too early to tell if he is the next JTL. Startling result for sure.

    TeamSky 4:41pm via Web
    In addition to Henao and Uran, we are loving the fact that @Josh_Edmondson1 finished seventh today in some big climbing company #Impressive
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    I'm chuffed as a chuffed thing with today's result. Henao, absolute class...and young Josh...that's very promising indeed
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Good to see Wout Poels back after his bad crash - 14th
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Eurosport highlights from Stage 3

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfXzWsTesIY
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Brian1 wrote:
    Sorry to hijack this thread but I notice that you are in Portugal 47b. I was in the Algarve last week and looked at an appartment in Tavira.Do you know if there are any good routes in the area. What area are you in?

    hijack away you anarchist cycling type :D

    Tavira is a great town (ancient capital of the Algarve). Head north from Tavira up through the hills to Cachopo, there are clubs that do this on a Sunday I believe, not too sure as I live halfway between (back on topic) the end of stage 1 (albufeira) and the start/finish of stage 2 (Lagoa), it's about 6ok from Tavira.

    carry on :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Great to see Henao take that win. Westra in 3rd is a good sign. JTL 47th but maybe that was the plan.

    Today's results. Big Tony Martin crushes them. Good to see the Pole is doing great. Dowsett not in top 10.

    Brief Results
    1 Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:45:09
    2 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:01:07
    3 Jesse Sergent (NZl) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:15
    4 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:01:16
    5 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:30
    6 Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha 0:01:32
    7 Tiago Machado (Por) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:47
    8 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team
    9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack Leopard 0:02:04
    10 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling 0:02:41

    Final general classification
    1 Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 15:38:26
    2 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:58
    3 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:00:59
    4 Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha 0:01:21
    5 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0:01:26
    6 Tiago Machado (Por) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:30
    7 Jesse Sergent (NZl) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:40
    8 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:45
    9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:53
    10 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling 0:02:31
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frosty99
    frosty99 Posts: 115
    No sign of dowsett in top 10? wouldnt have had Uran down as a better TTer!
  • frosty99
    frosty99 Posts: 115
    ah just seen DNF yesterday :oops:
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    35 km TT? That's a bit long for february! Big mountain top finishes, long time trials - where are te days of a couple of gently unduating loops at medium pace along the med was all you got before the Omloop
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    FJS wrote:
    35 km TT? That's a bit long for february! Big mountain top finishes, long time trials - where are te days of a couple of gently unduating loops at medium pace along the med was all you got before the Omloop


    Absolutely daft, given the "Queen" stage hill finish was only 3kms in length.
    A few seconds gained there, but a few minutes lost in the time trial.
    Too long by 25kms.
    Ridiculous imbalance.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Why Twitter was invented - from Dowsett's twitter feed:
    Sad to not race today,a badly timed mechanical & not bein over this bug put an end to my algarve yday.Best of luck to my @Movistar_Team boys
    http://www.georgesfoundation.org
    http://100hillsforgeorge.blogspot.com/
    http://www.12on12in12.blogspot.co.uk/

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