Tour de Romandie 2014 "spoiler"

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    Looks like the Simplonpass is out. Can't find much more about the profile for tomorrow unfortunately.

    Did Sky lobby the organisers?


    Apparently, they felt that Kwiatkowski wouldn't look stylish in the snow. :wink:

    Anyhow, it's out.
    New start at 15-15CET and it's just a 90 km dash, up and over the lightweight 2nd cat.
    Just the thing after a 5kms bike throwing prologue.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Drugs must be good at GRS: Begbie rides under a lavvy.

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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Mikkel Condé v2.0 @mrconde · 12h

    Fantastic Tony Martin: "So...Marcel Kittel beat me in the time trial today. Now I have to beat him in the next sprint." #TDR2014
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Lovely kit:
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    TMR wrote:
    Kittel beat Martin? WTF?
    Very very short TT and if favours the power boys. If a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy had been having a go he'd have no doubt have beaten Kittel also.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    Does TJVG start today or did he get the boot?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Turfle wrote:
    Glad we saw all of Schurter's ride.
    Nino Schurter: “Satisfied about my first time trial. I nearly crashed in one of the first corners and after I was a bit afraid. Finished in the midfield and learned already a lot”
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    edited April 2014
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Does TJVG start today or did he get the boot?


    No news yet. Nothing coming from BMC Towers, and they havent signed in yet with route shortened, and bus-train and automobile larks to the new start.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Daz555 wrote:
    TMR wrote:
    Kittel beat Martin? WTF?
    Very very short TT and if favours the power boys. If a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy had been having a go he'd have no doubt have beaten Kittel also.

    Bit of a long shot that. So why didn't Bobridge win?
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    inseine wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    TMR wrote:
    Kittel beat Martin? WTF?
    Very very short TT and if favours the power boys. If a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy had been having a go he'd have no doubt have beaten Kittel also.

    Bit of a long shot that. So why didn't Bobridge win?


    Or Hepburn
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    It didn't suit the pure major power guys though, it was pretty technical in places. Tight corners, part of the route was a cycle path through a park...
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    New start at 15-15CET and it's just a 90 km dash, up and over the lightweight 2nd cat.
    The 2nd cat climb isn’t anything special but the descent can be tricky, it’s average 8% for nearly 8 km.
    And it’s been raining there - although the forecast for the afternoon is dry but very cold.
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    inseine wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    TMR wrote:
    Kittel beat Martin? WTF?
    Very very short TT and if favours the power boys. If a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy had been having a go he'd have no doubt have beaten Kittel also.

    Bit of a long shot that. So why didn't Bobridge win?
    Probably because he (and Hepburn also) is not in pursuit shape at the moment. Neither are in the squad this year.

    Also, not British. :mrgreen:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    knedlicky wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    New start at 15-15CET and it's just a 90 km dash, up and over the lightweight 2nd cat.
    The 2nd cat climb isn’t anything special but the descent can be tricky, it’s average 8% for nearly 8 km.
    And it’s been raining there - although the forecast for the afternoon is dry but very cold.

    I hope it is slick. Kwaitek and Uran have no fear on the descents. Some others do though.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Daz555 wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    TMR wrote:
    Kittel beat Martin? WTF?
    Very very short TT and if favours the power boys. If a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy had been having a go he'd have no doubt have beaten Kittel also.

    Bit of a long shot that. So why didn't Bobridge win?
    Probably because he (and Hepburn also) is not in pursuit shape at the moment. Neither are in the squad this year.

    Also, not British. :mrgreen:


    I think it was your statement 'a track pursuiter like Ed Clancy'

    Now IF you'd said 'a top track pursuiter who's in top shape ahead of the Olympics in 3 months time...' ie just like Geraint Thomas who won the prologue in the 2012 ToR... :wink:
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Not much interest in today's stage?

    Brajkovic has abandoned, according to @CyclingUpdates

    36km to go, Dillier, Vallee and Hollenstein have a gap of 1'52

    The only climb - a cat 2 - starts any moment now
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    "LIVE on Sky Sports, Highlights of every stage of the Giro".

    Live highlights should be fun to watch.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Gonna be a lively next 30k imo. Should be lots of attacking.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Lampre taken over from Sky at the front of the peloton for Rui Costa. Kittel almost at the back of the group as the climb continues.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,622
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Not much interest in today's stage?

    Work keeps getting in the way of things
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Teabag Van Garderen off the back
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    TJVG in a separate group, maybe recovering after yesterday.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Kittel back in that TJVG group now as Lopez takes it up at the front for Sky. Less than 20km to go.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Tschopp (IAM) goes on the attack. Good to see the home team have a go. 1km to the top of the climb.

    Edit - Pinot next to go out front and chase, looking for some KOM points.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Tschopp goes over in first place and will get the KOM jersey after today's stage from Pinot. Interesting to see how tricky this descent is. Weather looks good fwiw.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    AG2R rider down on one of the bends as Nibs heads down the hill and the others follow.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nibali stretching his legs on this descent. Always happy to give it a go on these. Lovely and safe roads and descents in Switzerland.
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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    What a lovely descent.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Always happy to have a crack you have Roche on the counter with a Garmin. Camera work not good for identification.

    edit: Talansky
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