Tour de Suisse 2014 *spoilers*

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    eh wrote:
    Another race where Sky do a shed load and all they can manage is 4th. At times it makes you wonder why they bother?

    It's plan A.

    I was more puzzled by Sagan.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Would have been nice if Bennati won that :(
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Would have been nice if Cavendish won that :(

    FTFY.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,643
    TMR wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Would have been nice if Cavendish won that :(

    FTFY.

    Though it wasn't really a Cavendish-sprinter stage as it? Some hills to drop the pure sprinters before the run in...
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    TheBigBean wrote:
    eh wrote:
    Another race where Sky do a shed load and all they can manage is 4th. At times it makes you wonder why they bother?

    It's plan A.

    I was more puzzled by Sagan.

    Swift might be cooked after a mighty Giro.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    eh wrote:
    Another race where Sky do a shed load and all they can manage is 4th. At times it makes you wonder why they bother?

    Swift did very well to be up there for the sprint, but got boxed in and couldn't really launch his sprint as he had nowhere to go. It was, again, a bit of a crazy finish for a WT race, far too narrow a finishing straight for a flat sprint.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    TdS love their narrow finishes - almost always little distance between barriers.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Would have been nice if Bennati won that :(

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,450
    Reports on Twitter that Sergio Henao has been involved in a incident with a car during the recce of today's TT course and has been taken to hospital.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    What a disaster.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Sky confirm Heano won't race today, details to come.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Worb - Worb.

    Dubstep TT.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Joelsim wrote:
    Worb - Worb.

    Dubstep TT.

    :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    You win
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Ticker before live coverage starts

    http://tissot.matsport.fr/

    Cancellara leading as expected at this point
  • eh
    eh Posts: 4,854
    Swift did very well to be up there for the sprint,

    Is that really good enough when your team have work pretty hard for you? Sky certainly worked harder for Swift than other teams, who have still got people in the mix. And I mean no one ever said 'didn't Cav/Chippo/Petacchi do well to be up there for the sprint'. Swift to me looks like a poor mans EBH.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    eh wrote:
    Swift did very well to be up there for the sprint,

    Is that really good enough when your team have work pretty hard for you? Sky certainly worked harder for Swift than other teams, who have still got people in the mix. And I mean no one ever said 'didn't Cav/Chippo/Petacchi do well to be up there for the sprint'. Swift to me looks like a poor mans EBH.

    Should they have not tried?

    He got boxed in on a ridiculously narrow straight. It happens.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Looks a very good ride by Taciak, to beat Dowsett, Kessiakoff, Meyer and others. Have never heard of him before.
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    Did Gerdemann stop, crash or disappear - 58th at both checks and then nothing
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    eh wrote:
    Swift to me looks like a poor mans EBH.

    Lets get this straight right now - everyone is a poor mans EBH!
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    josame wrote:
    Did Gerdemann stop, crash or disappear - 58th at both checks and then nothing

    ok 68th, I remember when he could TT .. a bit
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Henao's bike post crash. Hope he is ok and this will be a short time off the bike.

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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    josame wrote:
    eh wrote:
    Swift to me looks like a poor mans EBH.

    Lets get this straight right now - everyone is a poor mans EBH!

    Tbf, EBH is a poor man's EBH.
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    someone had off with the wheels...
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    I don't think I've ever been less interested in a race than this. Who's leading?..
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Current:
    1 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 32:05.2
    2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 32:18.4
    3 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 32:22.5
    4 Lawson Craddock (USA) Team Giant-Shimano 32:36.5
    5 Stef Clement (Ned) Belkin-Pro Cycling Team 32:39.5

    Great ride by Costa. Kreuziger lost a minute.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    Henao: Broken knee being reported on forum.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Henao: Broken knee being reported on forum.

    Ouch! Was he in contention for a Tour spot? The squad is getting fairly depleted now.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Great ride bu Dumoulin
  • eh
    eh Posts: 4,854
    I don't think I've ever been less interested in a race than this

    +1

    Most interesting things so far consist of people pulling out, or Cav's win. Maybe it will liven up over the weekend?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Pross wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Henao: Broken knee being reported on forum.

    Ouch! Was he in contention for a Tour spot? The squad is getting fairly depleted now.

    He was - But I make him the only one who was in contention who's injured.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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