Tour de Romandie *spoilers*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Martin rides away from Vichot.
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Tony Martin is laughing all the way to the podium top step.
    He'll get caught. He's 29 seconds down on Froome on GC. He can't afford to lose much more.

    Well, yes. I wrote that before he'd attacked and this shallow climb looks a little bit more testing than initial reports suggested. Thought he would have just followed wheels.
    Ideal Sky terrain.
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  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    On Rob Hatch, he is fluent in a few European languages as far as I know, so I'd suggest his attempts at correct pronunciations are pretty much on the money.

    he has a reel of his foreign language interviews on his youtube page:

    http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwSRqT ... ture=watch
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Got to love a bit of Rob Hayles' enthusiasm.

    It matches the general excitement level of the race so far.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    afx237vi wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Got to love a bit of Rob Hayles' enthusiasm.

    It matches the general excitement level of the race so far.

    touché
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Martin rides away from Vichot.
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Tony Martin is laughing all the way to the podium top step.
    He'll get caught. He's 29 seconds down on Froome on GC. He can't afford to lose much more.

    Well, yes. I wrote that before he'd attacked and this shallow climb looks a little bit more testing than initial reports suggested. Thought he would have just followed wheels.
    Ideal Sky terrain.
    Similarly I replied before knowing he was in the break. "He'll get caught" was a later edit. (It makes his attack seem a little odd, really)
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Did Rob Hatch just say Kiserlovski was "taking some protaganism"!?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Kiserlovski tries an attack as Porte & Froome are the only Sky riders around.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Hmm. Way too many adverts.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    I hear Sky have gone to an ad break, just as it all kicks off.
    Big improvement. :oops:

    Super Sporza. :)
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Does Froome take the initiative here?

    Edit - I don't think he had a choice!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Froome rides away from all and up to Spilak.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Interesting move by Froome. Not lacking in confidence. 19s gap now, 5.2km to go for Froome & Spilak.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited April 2013
    What happened to the front 3? Are Froome and Spilak in the lead?

    Valverde not happy - gap up to 40" now.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    edited April 2013
    Yeah just those two now. After Froome caught the others the original 3 dropped back.

    Edit: the gap is going up really fast!
  • gingermagician
    gingermagician Posts: 326
    Valverde bitching about others not working. Oh, the irony...
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    adr82 wrote:
    Yeah just those two now. After Froome caught the others the original 3 dropped back.

    Cheers!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Is Valverde wearing a snood? The man has no shame.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    From a PTP perspective and also my bet for today I hope Froome doesn't gift this stage win.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    smithy21 wrote:
    From a PTP perspective and also my bet for today I hope Froome doesn't gift this stage win.

    I picked Spilak for today so I hope he does!
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    I think you might be safe there. I predict Froome will do an Uran style look over his shoulder :wink:
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    smithy21 wrote:
    From a PTP perspective and also my bet for today I hope Froome doesn't gift this stage win.
    I reckon Spilak would win a sprint 9 times out of 10 anyway.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Fair play to Froome, he could've just sat in confident he'd out TT those around him tomorrow.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Chasers around a minute behind. Impressive ride by Froome, and Spilak might be on the GC podium after that effort.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    I only just started watching 7k from the end, what happened to Hejsedal and Talansky?
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Don't know about Hesjedal but Talansky went out the back during some of the initial attacks on the climb (while Porte was still with Froome IIRC).
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,243
    Valverde played a blinder spoiling the chase there, marking all the moves and refusing to do any work. Froome and Spilak really owe him a beer.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    hammerite wrote:
    I only just started watching 7k from the end, what happened to Hejsedal and Talansky?

    Ryder bailed out to concentrate on the giro.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Apparently Talansky has been sick all week.

    I believe this to be a cover story, he was really weighed down by the pressure of my PTP pick.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Was better than I expected, given the route change.
    Behind Froome, the top 10 is separated by next to nothing and now we have the usual Romandie over long ITT.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Cool, thanks.

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