Vuelta al País Vasco 2014 **Spoilers**

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Peraud 4th only 35secs down.

frenchfighter

Evans going to lose a packet.

frenchfighter

First time we have seen Cunego in the last 20mins.

tailwindhome

Jeez these TT stages are boring.

frenchfighter

TailWindHome wrote:

Jeez these TT stages are boring.

Go and do some ironing then.

frenchfighter

Evans not so bad actually - 1.5mins down.

Most painful stream ever this - freezes every 5secs.

Valverde 53 secs ahead of Valverde currently.

Give me more

All this worrying about Contador from the commentators as though he wasn't faster than Kwia at the midway point...

frenchfighter

Cunego down 2mins.

gpreeves

Give me more wrote:

All this worrying about Contador from the commentators as though he wasn't faster than Kwia at the midway point...

Kirby seems to have given the win to Kwia already. Never one to let facts get in the way of his opinion.

frenchfighter

Valverde - game over podium.

tsincognito

gah, the HD feeds are always awful. what a sputtering mess.

frenchfighter

Contador 2nd, 7 secs down. Odd that he had exactly the same time as Tony over the 2nd half.

Give me more

"where did that come from"

Well, from the same place it came from on the whole TT, Come on boys, it's almost the exact same split gap as you had midway through the race. You even bloody ready it out to us.

frenchfighter

BOSS takes the GC in style.

The amazing young Polish heavyweight takes 2nd overall.

Game on.

gpreeves

"Alberto Contador - let there be no doubt about this man's time trial abilities", says Kirby. Despite having spent the last 20 minutes playing down Contador's time trialling abilities. At one point I think I heard him claim that he's never done a good flat time trial.

Great rides by Kwia and Contador.

tailwindhome

frenchfighter wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

Jeez these TT stages are boring.

Go and do some ironing then.

Funnily enough, just after posting I went to sort the laundry basket and get a load put on

kamil1891

My two riders of this season 1st and 2nd! Amazing effort from both of them!

Pross

Superb by Kwiatowski and even more so by Bertie. Froome's going to be getting nervous now. I really hope the form holds to the Tour, it really needs a big GC battle this year.

kamil1891

Pross wrote:

Superb by Kwiatowski and even more so by Bertie. Froome's going to be getting nervous now. I really hope the form holds to the Tour, it really needs a big GC battle this year.

I'm sure there will be big one or none at all. If Froome is nowhere near the form he needs to beat Contador, he will probably withdraw...

Macaloon

Bl :shock: :shock: dy hell. Alberto with the competitive TT. That will do it for TTs now till penultimate day of the Tour. Good lad. Going long Rapha diapers.

frenchfighter

Macaloon wrote:

Going long Rapha diapers.

joelsim

Impressive stuff by AC and Kwia. Froome won't like this.

Paul 8v

Awesome time from Contador. The lack of splits made it much more of a surprise. I would never have put him down as only 7 seconds off Martin before the start

RichN95.

Paul 8v wrote:

Awesome time from Contador. The lack of splits made it much more of a surprise. I would never have put him down as only 7 seconds off Martin before the start

There was a fair bit of climbing though which takes away quite a bit of Martin's advantage.

specialgueststar

Simon Yates had a good ride . Peraud impressive - looking forward to his summer. Pinot - great effort - top 10 tt in that company is good and 9th overall - TJ Van G - looks more consistent this year already

frenchfighter

Stage 6 Results
GER 1 MARTIN, Tony (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) 38:33
ESP 2 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF-SAXO) + 7
POL 3 KWIATKOWSKI, Michal (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 15
SLO 4 SPILAK, Simon (KATUSHA) + 16
FRA 5 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 35
NED 6 DUMOULIN, Tom (GIANT-SHIMANO) + 38
ESP 7 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI, Jon (MOVISTAR) + 41
ESP 8 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) + 1:02
USA 9 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 1:05
FRA 10 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ.fr) + 1:25
AUS 11 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) + 1:27
ESP 12 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA, Benat (MOVISTAR) + 1:31
LUX 13 JUNGELS, Bob (TREK FACTORY RACING) + 1:33
NED 14 POELS, Wouter (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 1:38
RUS 15 TROFIMOV, Yury (KATUSHA) + 1:44
ESP 16 HERRADA LOPEZ, Jesus (MOVISTAR) + 1:47
GBR 17 YATES, Simon (ORICA GreenEDGE)
FRA 18 ROY, Jérémy (FDJ.fr) + 1:51
NED 19 CLEMENT, Stef (BELKIN) + 1:56
ITA 20 CUNEGO, Damiano (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 1:57
CZE 21 KREUZIGER, Roman (TINKOFF-SAXO) + 1:58
BEL 22 WELLENS, Tim (LOTTO BELISOL) + 2:00
POR 23 FARIA DA COSTA, Rui Alberto (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 2:09
SVK 24 VELITS, Peter (BMC RACING) + 2:14
BEL 25 GILBERT, Philippe (BMC RACING) + 2:15

General Classification after Stage 6
ESP 1 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF-SAXO) 21:09:11
POL 2 KWIATKOWSKI, Michal (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 49
FRA 3 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE) + 1:04
SLO 4 SPILAK, Simon (KATUSHA) + 1:07
ESP 5 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR)
USA 6 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 1:56
AUS 7 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING)
RUS 8 TROFIMOV, Yury (KATUSHA) + 2:13
FRA 9 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ.fr) + 2:14
NED 10 POELS, Wouter (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 2:26

GC yesterday:
General Classification after Stage 5
ESP 1 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF-SAXO) 20:30:31
ESP 2 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) + 12
ITA 3 CUNEGO, Damiano (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 36
AUS 4 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING)
FRA 5 PERAUD, Jean-Christophe (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
RUS 6 TROFIMOV, Yury (KATUSHA)
POL 7 KWIATKOWSKI, Michal (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 41
ESP 8 LANDA MEANA, Mikel (ASTANA) + 54
NED 9 POELS, Wouter (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) + 55
ESP 10 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Samuel (BMC RACING) + 56
NED 11 SLAGTER, Tom Jelte (GARMIN SHARP)
FRA 12 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ.fr)

Cunego biggest loser.
Just noticed that Astana rider Landa was 8th coming in - excellent from this home grown Euskaltel rider.

tailwindhome

Not sure if this is from today.

There is such thing as trying 'too' hard.

thomthom

Is that.. did he.. wh..

Macaloon

Quickstep's number 2