Tour de Romandie 2014 "spoiler"
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Daniel Friebe @friebos 15s
Kwiatkowski already dropped in Romandie, says @AntoinePlouvin. The kid is surely cream crackered....0 -
Turfle wrote:Daniel Friebe @friebos 15s
Kwiatkowski already dropped in Romandie, says @AntoinePlouvin. The kid is surely cream crackered....
Pants.Correlation is not causation.0 -
Hey, thanks! It’ll suit ‘cos I have the same haircut.Macaloon wrote:
The knedlicky gilet: awarded to poster of the most encyclopaedic anecdote of a stage race.knedlicky wrote:
The masseur with the Spanish team at the World RR Cycling Championships for the last 20+ years is also the masseur with Malaga FC, the football club sponsored by UNESCO.Macaloon wrote:Froome won in 2013 without much of a team for most of the Tour. He's raised his game for 2014, dispensing with the team for most of the season. He should ride the Tour in a UNESCO jersey.
So Froome wouldn’t be the first in the professional cycling world to be associated with UNESCO, and would have at least one member in his backroom staff.
[See what happens when FF creates an image vacuum?]
Great colour combination too; it matches one of my winter cycling jackets!0 -
Apparently Brändle didn’t start because he had a temperature, not because he was mobbed by the Swiss riders.Above The Cows wrote:Turfle wrote:Daniel Friebe @friebos 15s
Kwiatkowski already dropped in Romandie, says @AntoinePlouvin. The kid is surely cream crackered....
Pants.
On the first climb, the lead of the break fell from 6 mins to 1 min and Veelers (GIA) und Vallee (LTB) fell out of the break, leaving just 6. The break are now half way up the second climb. Gautier took the douze points for the first climb.
The peloton split on the climb into several pieces, the front group only 30-strong. But it is now up to 60, Kwiatkowski being one of those to regain contact.
Albasini is 40 secs behind the 60-strong peloton.0 -
Get the impression it's going to be a pretty small group by the time they start the final climb.0
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These are pretty serious climbs they're riding today. From inrng:
"The penultimate climb is 10km at over 7% and the final climb is 11km at 6.3% but with a long section at 9% before the race drops into Aigle"
So depending on how hard they ride it (and you would expect Nibali and Froome to ride it hard) the puncheurs will do pretty well to stay in touch.0 -
The two Europcar riders Gautier und Malacarne have topped the second climb about 1-30 ahead of the front peloton, this time Malacarne taking the 12 points. 5 degrees C at the top.
Tschopp made it as third over, as he tries to defend his mountains jersey (but at the moment he’s lost it to the two in front).
The front two are nearing the bottom of the second descent.
Albasini is still behind the peloton in a separate group.0 -
Wish I was watching today's stage - the parcours looks promising with 4 cat 1s and not much valley in between. Kwia and Albasini will surely get shelled for good long before the finish, and we'll see what shape Froome is in.0
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The front two have opened the gap to the peloton from 1-30 at the foot of the descent to now about 3-30. They are about 3/4 the way to the next climb.
Don’t know if Albasini is still behind the 60-strong peloton, but after the descent he was 1-40 farther back.0 -
Any news on Martin?___________________
Strava is not Zen.0 -
calvjones wrote:Any news on Martin?
Nothing on the Twatters about him being dropped, so can assume he's in that main front group0 -
Robert Hatch @robhatchtv 2m
@PelotonWatch Yes, riders dropping back of an increasingly smaller group with every metre climbed. Just getting our first images.0 -
Straight to the action today please, Sky.0
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And we're off...
Actually we're not, still chatting.0 -
20 left in the peloton, apparently.0
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While you're waiting ...jam1e wrote:And we're off...
Actually we're not, still chatting.
The Europcar riders lost ground on the third climb, and have been caught not long before the top.
Also, the peloton is reduced, first to about 40, now even fewer, Kwiatkowski having been dropped again when they went down to 40.
Down the bottom of the climb, FDJ were leading for Pinot, then Garmin took over for Talansky.
Looks like Tschopp is going to try and get the points.0 -
Macaloon wrote:Richmond Racer wrote:I've no problem with some of the white wines from Valais. A petite Arvine can be quite refreshing on a hot summer's day.
A more scathing wine recommendation is impossible to imagine.
A bit of a lightweight...?Half man, Half bike0 -
Top of third climb:
1 Tschopp (IAM) 12 pts
2 Gautier (EUC) 8
3 Dennis (GRS) 6
4 Fuglsang (AST) 4
5 Talansky (GRS) 2
About 25 other riders close behind.0 -
That means Tschopp has taken back the virtual mountain jersey.0
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Albasini now 8 mins back.0
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Finally, the Swiss go live, but already off the 3rd climb.
Sky sighted at the front of the very small lead group, Frenchie."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Bit of a regrouping now. 35 riders I reckon.
Luke Rowe not in front group. SKY IN TURMOIL.0 -
TJVG has abandoned
"Stylish" Michal Kwiatkowski lost, somewhere down the road."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Break about to be caught by the look of things, Sky pushing the pace a bit.0
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Blazing Saddles wrote:"Stylish" Michal Kwiatkowski lost, somewhere down the road.
Hard to climb a mountain when you're weighed down by my PTP pick“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Froome attacks, Nibali goes with...0
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Nibali gone.0
