Tour de Suisse - Stage 4 *Spoiler*

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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Jens of on his own now
  • cristoff
    cristoff Posts: 229
    Go Jens!! Wow!
  • pitchshifter
    pitchshifter Posts: 1,476
    Christ that carrot will sleep well tonight.... Jens is drilling it on every turn.


    Go Jens!
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    5km to go 20 secs for solo Jens ...
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Jens!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    dsoutar wrote:
    In the unlikely event they stay away - who'd win a sprint ? I don't know much about Vrecer
    Jens tended to lose sprints in his prime. I doubt he has much zip these days.
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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    3km and 13 secs

    Vrecer caught
  • cristoff
    cristoff Posts: 229
    Peleton using pavement to come up ha ha
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Jens swallowed up too now

    Group at warp factor 8 now
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Sagan formality.
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    dsoutar wrote:
    Jens swallowed up too now

    Group at warp factor 8 now

    Now I know why the UCI have a weight limit for those bikes. Any lighter and at those speeds they would all be taking off!
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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    The feckin' LU stream failed at 1km !
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    edited June 2013
    Nice corner at 150m ... ruined the sprint ...
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    dsoutar wrote:
    The feckin' LU stream failed at 1km !

    Mine ran smooth all the way to the finish ... sorry dude, tell your work to get better broadband :wink:
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    edited June 2013
    Random FdJ guy beat the dude from Bros! ... Just ...
  • cristoff
    cristoff Posts: 229
    goonz wrote:
    Sagan formality.

    Took a sh ite line on the corner
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    cristoff wrote:
    goonz wrote:
    Sagan formality.

    Took a sh ite line on the corner
    Conde wrote:
    One of reasons why I’m picking Sagan and not a strong power-sprinter like Degenkolb is the final run-in towards the line. There is a 90° left turn with just 200 meters to go and I bet the first rider into that corner wins the stage. Nobody handles their bike better than Peter Sagan – just ask Ben Swift – and even though Sagan may not have the fastest top speed, he accelerates quickly out of the corners. Arnaud Démare will probably come close but I doubt he will be able to beat Sagan.
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    cristoff wrote:
    goonz wrote:
    Sagan formality.

    Took a sh ite line on the corner

    Haha!

    And he obviously does not have the pure power of Cav to catch them up in the sprint right?
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,242
    Arnaud Demare! Absolutely fearless the way he took that final corner. Fantastic sprinting.

    And he rode it exactly as Backstedt suggested you should.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Quality by Demare there. Goss....again.... :?

    So much for it being a nailed-on Sagan win, eh
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Not a big fan of sprints that have a decisive corner in the final 150 or so metres. They always seem very anti-climactic to me.
  • poppit
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    RH seems to have a bad crash, out of the TdF?
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  • RichN95.
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    poppit wrote:
    RH seems to have a bad crash, out of the TdF?
    That was yesterday. They reckon he'll be OK. (Unless RH isn't Hesjedal)
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  • DeadCalm
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    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Quality by Demare there. Goss....again.... :?

    So much for it being a nailed-on Sagan win, eh
    I think I read somewhere that FDJ are planning on taking Bouhanni to the Tour but not Demare. I think they're making a mistake if so. For me Demare is the classier sprinter.
  • poppit
    poppit Posts: 926
    RichN95 wrote:
    poppit wrote:
    RH seems to have a bad crash, out of the TdF?
    That was yesterday. They reckon he'll be OK. (Unless RH isn't Hesjedal)
    Yes, sorry, been out of the loop for a couple of days, what are his injuries?
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  • RichN95.
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    poppit wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    poppit wrote:
    RH seems to have a bad crash, out of the TdF?
    That was yesterday. They reckon he'll be OK. (Unless RH isn't Hesjedal)
    Yes, sorry, been out of the loop for a couple of days, what are his injuries?
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    DeadCalm wrote:
    I think I read somewhere that FDJ are planning on taking Bouhanni to the Tour but not Demare. I think they're making a mistake if so. For me Demare is the classier sprinter.
    Give the lad a chance to use his talents before you put him into a three week GT.
    He showed his class by winning the first 3 stages and after leading all through he won the
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    deejay wrote:
    03 May 2013
    Stage 1 > Dunkerque - Courrières 155.10 kilometer
    Stage 2 > Lewarde - Douchy-les-Mines 178.20 kilometer
    Stage 3 > Oignies - Liévin 179.10 kilometer
    Final Overall GC and Winner is the same as GC yesterday
    1. DEMARE Arnaud FDJ
    2. VACHON Florian BSE 00:00:16
    3. KREDER Michel GRS 00:00:20
    So he caught me out with todays outstanding ride but a GT, well not yet methinks.

    Maybe in 10 days time if he out sprints Bouhanni for the French title then I would be happy for him to ride to showboat the jersey and feel out Cavendish.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,242
    deejay wrote:
    DeadCalm wrote:
    I think I read somewhere that FDJ are planning on taking Bouhanni to the Tour but not Demare. I think they're making a mistake if so. For me Demare is the classier sprinter.
    Give the lad a chance to use his talents before you put him into a three week GT.
    He showed his class by winning the first 3 stages and after leading all through he won the
    2013 Four Days of Dunkirk
    deejay wrote:
    03 May 2013
    Stage 1 > Dunkerque - Courrières 155.10 kilometer
    Stage 2 > Lewarde - Douchy-les-Mines 178.20 kilometer
    Stage 3 > Oignies - Liévin 179.10 kilometer
    Final Overall GC and Winner is the same as GC yesterday
    1. DEMARE Arnaud FDJ
    2. VACHON Florian BSE 00:00:16
    3. KREDER Michel GRS 00:00:20
    So he caught me out with todays outstanding ride but a GT, well not yet methinks.

    Maybe in 10 days time if he out sprints Bouhanni for the French title then I would be happy for him to ride to showboat the jersey and feel out Cavendish.

    That's a fair point especially as FDJ will almost certainly be concentrating on Pinot so the chosen sprinter will probably be left pretty much to fend for themselves most of the time. Then again, Bouhanni is only a year older than Demare and I'd say that Demare is probably better equipped to cope in those circumstances. He comes across as the more level-headed and mature of the two. For sure he's the better of the two when the road goes up.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Take them both. Demare will get to finishes that Bouhanni won't.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Bouhanni is just a year older than Demare.
    Arnaud definitely stronger, went well in the classics, too.
    Don't forget he rode the Giro last year.
    Bouhanni so far, has only shown flashes of last year's form.
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