Tour of Turkey *spoilers*

Richmond Racer
Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
edited April 2013 in Pro race
...started yesterday. The usual sprintfest. Kittel scored the first blow, beating Greipel

1 Marcel KITTEL GER ARG 3:08:37
2 André GREIPEL GER LTB +0
3 Yuriy METLUSHENKO UKR TRK +0
4 Roger KLUGE GER TNE +0
5 Andrew FENN GBR OPQ +0
6 Francesco LASCA ITA CJR +0
7 Danilo NAPOLITANO ITA AJW +0
8 Grzegorz STEPNIAK POL CCC +0
9 Edwin Alcibiades AVILA VANEGAS COL COL +0
10 Sacha MODOLO ITA BAR +0


http://tourofturkey.org/2013/
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Tour of Turkey = Veloimages. Love it.

    Go Kittel.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
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    Kittel afterwards said he didn’t think Greipel would contest the sprint because Greipel’s grandmother died the night before.

    I wonder what happened to the bananas Kittel got given, there must have been at least 10 kilos weight.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Little coloured balls. :roll:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Today's stage looks like 150km of coast road. Another one for the sprinters then?
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Best thing about last years race:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru3vGR8nck
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Let's play 'spot a spectator!' ..
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Best thing about last years race:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru3vGR8nck

    Damn, I thought you were going to link to the circus freakshow put on by that Bulgarian guy.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Best thing about last years race:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru3vGR8nck

    Is it Kirby everybody seems to hate lately?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    All together with 10km to go.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    ThomThom wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Best thing about last years race:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru3vGR8nck

    Is it Kirby everybody seems to hate lately?

    Yeah, I'll give Kirby a pass for that clip, otherwise i'm in the 'dislike' camp.

    Spose I'll have to watch this cr*p race as it seems Sky have Romandie

    (whoever said Eurosport had more racing coverage this year is having me on)

    Whole Sky v Eurosport coverage thing is doing my nut, Sky can go f*ck itself if they thing i'm going to cave in and pay their silly prices. (I probably will when they secure every other race )
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    That's one of the biggest crashes I have ever seen.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Massive crash at the front of the sprint! Renshaw in the train caught out there.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Holy moly! That was massive!

    The guys reckon it was Renshaw catching a wheel?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    That was 'Crash of the Season' right there.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    edited April 2013
    Huge crash. Blanco finally look like doing a perfect leadout for Bos, and Renshaw clips Davis' wheel.

    Probably my imagination, but it seems sprints have been incredibly messy all year.

    Brown I mean, not Davis.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Bos looks to be in a bad way.

    Kruopis took the win. Greipel made it through for GC. Kittel back on the bike.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Turfle wrote:
    Huge crash. Blanco finally look like doing a perfect leadout for Bos, and Renshaw clips Davis' wheel.

    Probably my imagination, but it seems sprints have been incredibly messy all year.


    Think it was Brown's wheel he clipped?

    Dunno, we were all saying how messy the sprints were last year. Its since the demise of HTC...
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    edited April 2013
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Turfle wrote:
    Huge crash. Blanco finally look like doing a perfect leadout for Bos, and Renshaw clips Davis' wheel.

    Probably my imagination, but it seems sprints have been incredibly messy all year.


    Think it was Brown's wheel he clipped?

    Dunno, we were all saying how messy the sprints were last year. Its since the demise of HTC...

    Yeah, that's at least the 9 billionth time I've got Davis and Brown mixed up.

    I think it's more and more teams bringing trains, and the battles are starting earlier and earlier.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Commentary team kept saying that the pace was not fast enough to avoid it getting messy.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited April 2013
    What a pile-up. Amazing that so many can hop right back on.

    Also the lack of spectators behind that fence prevented that from being super-nasty.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    RaboBlanco terminate another peloton.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    RonB wrote:
    Commentary team kept saying that the pace was not fast enough to avoid it getting messy.


    HTC always keep the pace so high, and bossed it from far out...and all the other teams knew they'd be doing it
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Stage 2 Result

    LTU 1 KRUOPIS, Aidis (ORICA GREENEDGE) 3:23:54
    ITA 2 COLEDAN, Marco (BARDIANI VALVOLE - CSF INOX)
    GER 3 GREIPEL, André (LOTTO BELISOL)
    UKR 4 GRECHYN, Sergiy (TORKU SEKERSPOR) + 2
    RUS 5 PORSEV, Alexander (KATUSHA) + 4
    AUS 6 HOWARD, Leigh (ORICA GREENEDGE)
    ESP 7 REYNES MIMO, Vicente (LOTTO BELISOL)
    ARG 8 RICHEZE, Maximiliano Ariel (LAMPRE-MERIDA) + 7
    POL 9 NOWAK, Mateusz (CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE)
    ITA 10 FORTIN, Filippo (BARDIANI VALVOLE - CSF INOX)
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited April 2013
    GC after Stage 2

    GER 1 GREIPEL, André (LOTTO BELISOL) 6:32:21
    GER 2 KITTEL, Marcel (TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO)
    LTU 3 KRUOPIS, Aidis (ORICA GREENEDGE)
    ITA 4 COLEDAN, Marco (BARDIANI VALVOLE - CSF INOX) + 4
    UKR 5 METLUSHENKO, Yuriy (TORKU SEKERSPOR) + 6
    ARG 6 RICHEZE, Maximiliano Ariel (LAMPRE-MERIDA) + 10
    AUS 7 HOWARD, Leigh (ORICA GREENEDGE)
    GER 8 KLUGE, Roger (TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA)
    GBR 9 FENN, Andrew (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP CYCLING TEAM)
    ITA 10 LASCA, Francesco (CAJA RURAL - SEGUROS RGA)
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    RaboBlanco terminate another peloton.


    And each other...gonna be awkward around that dinner table tonight...
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    RaboBlanco terminate another peloton.


    And each other...gonna be awkward around that dinner table tonight...

    But they will look funny eating corn-on-the-cob with no fracking teeth.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Crash:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pibKcq_RJs

    063800-02-crash-still.jpg
    Contador is the Greatest
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Suspected collarbone breaks for Renshaw and Bos (both Blanco) and for Vangenechten (Lotto).

    Kittel seemingly hurt

    8671417211_6a6953dc39.jpg

    while Mustafa Sayer kept the mountain jersey.

    8671417299_57c4989a1e.jpg
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,702
    Crash of the season.
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    knedlicky wrote:
    while Mustafa Sayer kept the mountain jersey.

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    Lady on the right is so excited because she thinks she just met Sean Penn. Lady on the left is smirking because she just told lady on right that she was about to meet Sean Penn. Catfight 5 minutes later in podium girl's trailer. Fake Sean Penn approves.

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