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  • piedwagtail
    piedwagtail Posts: 42
    Wouldn't be 52 seconds if his number was pinned better :lol:
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    IF wiggins has been down, and done a bike change its an ok time
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    durhamwasp wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Oh dear, oh dear.
    Only 7th at the CP.
    52secs back on Dowsett isn't too bad given his bike change. If he ramps things up second half then I can see him putting 3mins into Nibali

    That's madness.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Tck Tck Boom
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,243
    If Wiggins had passed Henao before the time check as ES keep telling us he had, how come Henao went quicker?
  • poppit
    poppit Posts: 926
    Don't think he's been down, can't see any marks on him
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    @DavidWalshST: My prediction is Wiggins will win this time trial.
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  • gingermagician
    gingermagician Posts: 326
    Evans already looking so much faster on the descents.
  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    Fleshy bike racks at the side of the road there!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    1.Alex Dowsett (Movistar) 1.16.27
    2.Stef Clement (Blanco) + 0.32
    3.Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) + 0.35
    4.Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff) + 0.45
    5.Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) + 1.48
    6.Jesse Sergent (RadioShack) + 2.00
    7.Nelson Oliveira (RadioShack) + 2.17
    8.Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) + 2.38
    9.Juan Jose Cobo (Movistar) + 2.40
    10.Julien Vermote (OPQS) + 2.59


    Intermediate time check, 26 km.
    1.Alex Dowsett (Movistar) 36.20
    2.Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) + 0.37
    3.Tanel Kangert (Astana) + 0.42
    4.Stef Clement (Blanco) + 0.44
    5.Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) + 0.49
    6.Bradley Wiggins (Sky) + 0.52
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    edited May 2013
    People claiming that 52 seconds down to Dowsett isn't too bad are really clutching at straws.
    It was supposed to be by how much Wiggins would take this, not if he would.
    (which he clearly is not going to do)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Must be a major PITA for Dowsett to sit through all this.
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  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 483
    i think his radio was on his LHside from the start. no real marks from a crash.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Henao goes 2nd quickest
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    frenchfighter wrote:
    1.Alex Dowsett (Movistar) 1.16.27
    2.Stef Clement (Blanco) + 0.32
    3.Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) + 0.35
    4.Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff) + 0.45
    5.Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) + 1.48
    6.Jesse Sergent (RadioShack) + 2.00
    7.Nelson Oliveira (RadioShack) + 2.17
    8.Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) + 2.38
    9.Juan Jose Cobo (Movistar) + 2.40
    10.Julien Vermote (OPQS) + 2.59


    Intermediate time check, 26 km.
    1.Alex Dowsett (Movistar) 36.20
    2.Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) + 0.37
    3.Tanel Kangert (Astana) + 0.42
    4.Stef Clement (Blanco) + 0.44
    5.Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) + 0.49
    6.Bradley Wiggins (Sky) + 0.52


    Dowsett slower over the second half.
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  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 483
    thats a MASSIVE packet of biscuits next to the start ramp

    Nibs looking aggressive.
  • Walter White
    Walter White Posts: 238
    I really hope someone beats Dowsett, i was going to put some money on him at 40-1 but was to late because of golf, damn.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wiggo coming thru 52 seconds down. Hate to say it, but it ain't happening this year. Cadel, Inxtausti, and Ryder will all go much faster.
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    Properly confused by these timings. Henao supposedly second fastest, but behind kelderman his minute man? And both have them have been passed by wiggins who started 3 minutes after kelderman?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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    I emailed @wegelius 3 days ago and said "Wiggo has the same stomach bug as Cataldo, Sky are just keeping quiet on it..." That's my take.
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  • durhamwasp
    durhamwasp Posts: 1,247
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    People claiming that 52 seconds down to Dowsett isn't too bad are really clutching at straws.
    It was supposed to be by how much Wiggins would take this, not if he would.
    (which he clearly is not going to do)
    Most people wouldn't have expected him to have to change bikes to be fair.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    GO Hesjedal. GO Nibali. GO Inxtausti.
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  • BR 1979
    BR 1979 Posts: 296
    durhamwasp wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    People claiming that 52 seconds down to Dowsett isn't too bad are really clutching at straws.
    It was supposed to be by how much Wiggins would take this, not if he would.
    (which he clearly is not going to do)
    Most people wouldn't have expected him to have to change bikes to be fair.
    The bike change was 20 seconds absolute max, including going slower with the puncture immediately prior. Absolute max.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    edited May 2013
    Scarponi way faster than Wiggo.
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wiggo coming thru 52 seconds down. Hate to say it, but it ain't happening this year. Cadel, Inxtausti, and Ryder will all go much faster.
    @Vaughters

    Thought as much since stage 4.
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  • gingermagician
    gingermagician Posts: 326
    He hasn't passed Henao or Kelderman.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,243
    andytee87 wrote:
    Properly confused by these timings. Henao supposedly second fastest, but behind kelderman his minute man? And both have them have been passed by wiggins who started 3 minutes after kelderman?
    No they weren't. Don't believe what ES were saying. That was Henao passing Kelderman not Wiggins.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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  • poppit
    poppit Posts: 926
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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  • Lightning
    Lightning Posts: 360
    The fact that Scarponi went by faster than Wiggins should say enough. Fall or no fall. Curious about Evans, Hesjedal and Nibali now.

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