Tour de Suisse 2014 *spoilers*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    All together. Very exciting.

    Fun fact of the day: Verbier 2009, Tony came 12th.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Oleg is at the finish after climbing the whole climb.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    He can certainly climb reasonably well when he needs to.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Chaves and Formolo. Again youngsters shaking it up. Almost at the summit
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    Belkin rider using the pavement in breach of the rules. I'm not expecting a sanction later.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Frank looking good. Kreuziger fine. Tony starting to struggle. Neo pro Chaves attacks. Pinot dropped...fail.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    Now, where is Frank?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Chaves takes it for Kreuziger and Mollema, ahead of a group with Frank, Costa, Martin
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Great little win by my man Chaves. Fortune favors the brave. Second MTF win this year ahead of experienced pros. There are going to be some dangerously good riders fighting for GC in 3-5 years.

    Contador's wingman takes 2nd ahead of Mollema. Tony only 15 secs off...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    frenchfighter - you have a lot of men. Almost half the peloton!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haha fewer than may seem...they just win or perform a lot.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    And I'm sure Formolo is one of FF's men too: 21 year old Cannondanle neo-pro, climber, decent TT, attacked today
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Bohanni drops Ellisonde ? Martin drops Pinot ??

    Mollema looks good
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Great ride by Big ToneTM. I can't see him losing 1 minute to Costa tomorrow unless today really took it out of him.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    TheBigBean wrote:
    He can certainly climb reasonably well when he needs to.

    Who Tony or Oleg ? :)

    Joking aside, a great performance from Tony. He is so rock solid on the bike compared to most of the others in that group who looked like they were wrestling a walrus in comparison. I'm sure that form must generate a not insignificant amount of extra watts (or to be more precise, deliver it with less waste)
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Bohanni drops Ellisonde ? Martin drops Pinot ??

    Mollema looks good

    *think* I saw a quote from Pinot saying he is ill and taking anti-biotics atm.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica GreenEdge 5:11:16
    2 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:03
    3 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team
    4 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team 0:00:16
    5 Javier Alexis Acevedo Colle (Col) Garmin Sharp 0:00:17
    6 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team Sky
    7 Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team
    8 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale
    9 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida
    10 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,885
    1 Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 28:54:16
    2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Shimano 0:00:51
    3 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 0:01:05
    4 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:01:14
    5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:01:41
    6 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale 0:01:47
    7 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:01:50
    8 Javier Alexis Acevedo Colle (Col) Garmin Sharp 0:02:07
    9 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team 0:02:29
    10 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:02:30
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nice that Acevedo, Eros and Deignan were right there.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
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    I think he is happy that a Stage win gives Nicolas Roche overall lead in Route du Sud
    Nicolas Roche has shown he is hitting top form in the lead up to the Tour de France with the Irishman winning stage two of the Route du Sud race in France today.

    Roche attacked on the day's final climb – Val Louron – with the Tinkoff Saxo rider making his move inside the final five kilometres.
    He soloed from there to the finish line, reaching it alone and taking both the stage and the overall leader's jersey.

    The race ends tomorrow with a stage to Castres.
    Roche's Tinkoff Saxo team will ride to protect his advantage and try to ensure that the he takes what would be the first overall stage race success of his career.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Bit of a reshuffle of yesterdays stage with Rogers 2nd and Valverde 3rd ( :shock: ).
    Boswell again in the top ten.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Am I in the wrong thread? I thought I was in Switzerland and it turns out to be the Pyrenees.
    Well, at least the weather was very good...........in Verbier, I mean.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Am I in the wrong thread? I thought I was in Switzerland and it turns out to be the Pyrenees.
    Well, at least the weather was very good...........in Verbier, I mean.

    to save time to the Tour we are combining races - Route de Suisse
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Deignan holding a bit of form. Any chance he'll get Henao's Tour slot?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,431
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    Marcus Burghardt ‏@MBurghardt83 · 1h
    best part of the stage yesterday. Ice cream to go. everybody nice in line
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
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  • Give me more
    Give me more Posts: 487
    Sounds like there is a fair bit of action today.

    Pretty strong break with a handful of GC outsiders in it.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Looks like Rui Costa and Mollema are in the front group whereas Kreuziger and Martin are not. They are just over 1 minute ahead of Tony Martin's group. So Costa is almost the virtual yellow jersey.

    Don't know how this happened.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Terrific stuff from Belkin and IAM.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Tony Martin having to drive the second group on himself.

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