Vuelta 2014 Stage 2 *Spoilers*

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited August 2014 in Pro race
Well just expect a mass sprint later. Tune in a 4.15 or so. Expected finish 4.40. Live video doesnt start until 3.45.

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Sprinters here: Bouhanni, Hoffland, Ferrari, Sagan, Degenkolb, Boonen, Matthews, Bennati
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Live starts at 3pm in the UK.
    Vattenfall is live elsewhere and looks likely to run well beyond 3-45pm.
    A few sprinters missing from that list.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Boonen says he wants to test himself in a few sprints. Suggests he won't be contesting all of them. It's his first grand tour since 2011. He hasn't finished one since 2007 :shock:
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    And Sagan says he's not their chosen sprinter either.


    Ruddy Scalectrix still on the TV
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    65kms to go in Hamburg................
    The rest of Europe have this first.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FJS wrote:
    Boonen says he wants to test himself in a few sprints. Suggests he won't be contesting all of them. It's his first grand tour since 2011. He hasn't finished one since 2007 :shock:

    Shock indeed.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Tusher wrote:
    And Sagan says he's not their chosen sprinter either.


    Ruddy Scalectrix still on the TV

    Yep saw that, so quickly put a quid E/W on Gatto at 200/1.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    That's it. I'm not going to watch any Vuelta this year. I refuse to watch a race without a distance ticker.

    Genuinely.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    FJS wrote:
    Boonen says he wants to test himself in a few sprints. Suggests he won't be contesting all of them. It's his first grand tour since 2011. He hasn't finished one since 2007 :shock:

    He really hates them when he's having to compete every day. Got his green jersey in '07, job done.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So he is lazy?!
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  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Tom? Lazy?

    Certainly not! Why, his every wakened hour is filled with his caring towards the fairer sex.



    Well, something like that.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    ThomThom wrote:
    That's it. I'm not going to watch any Vuelta this year. I refuse to watch a race without a distance ticker.

    Genuinely.

    You what? TV2 has a distance ticker and time gap on it.

    31.9km, 56 seconds.
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Gordon Bennett, this is dull.
    Flat motorways. Why?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Kennaugh's jersey. Drools.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    This sand spit is pretty cool.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    That's it. I'm not going to watch any Vuelta this year. I refuse to watch a race without a distance ticker.

    Genuinely.

    You what? TV2 has a distance ticker and time gap on it.

    31.9km, 56 seconds.

    They didn't prior to that.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    frenchfighter wrote:
    This sand spit is pretty cool.
    What's the point of a sand spit without echelons?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FJS wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    This sand spit is pretty cool.
    What's the point of a sand spit without echelons?

    Haha, would have been nice but the wind wasnt there.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Commentators did well there.

    BOUHANNI. Niiiice. Lots of good sprinters nowhere.
    (Ciolek and Guardini are also racing but didnt list them above).
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Did Degenkolb hit a bottle there?
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  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Did Degenkolb hit a bottle there?
    Yes.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    FdJ's team time trial was today! (sort of - bit unstructured) and a good strategy - one rider managed to re-gain the front at the critical time going into the last bend ?Soupe after Fischer? had done a long pull. Not a boring lead out train 1km each - it's a bit haphazard but Bouhanni seems to have the drive and desire

    Madiot must be scratching his head a bit - although not seen Bouhanni live with Kittel , Cavendish Greipel, Kristoff etc - Demare's tour didn't go so well - although he is a year younger than Bouhanni - and has classics potential

    cracking scenery - spanish camargue
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Bouhanni racking up the GT stage wins.

    Possible echelons failed to materialize.
    A siesta stage.

    Valverde gets the GC lead on just stage 2.
    Let the in fighting commence, when Quintana sees the team being forced to hold onto the jersey, for 3 weeks.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Bouhanni racking up the GT stage wins.

    Possible echelons failed to materialize.
    A siesta stage.

    Valverde gets the GC lead on just stage 2.
    Let the in fighting commence, when Quintana sees the team being forced to hold onto the jersey, for 3 weeks.

    I'm sure it's Qunitana's race but there seems to be quite a few Valverde friendly stages before we hit the mountains. Will be interesting if he goes up the road and Qunitana is forced to watch.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    inseine wrote:
    I'm sure it's Qunitana's race but there seems to be quite a few Valverde friendly stages before we hit the mountains. Will be interesting if he goes up the road and Qunitana is forced to watch.

    We need a klaxon on standby. Just in case.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Without further comment, I'll observe that this thread has 24 (now 25) posts. A discussion about how boring it is that Chris Froome is boring has 28...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Without further comment, I'll observe that this thread has 24 (now 25) posts. A discussion about how boring it is that Chris Froome is boring has 28...

    So this post isn't actually about the race or stage, either.
    The fact that this forum is way too UK centric (as opposed to race) for it's own good is often hard to miss.
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  • mulletmaster
    mulletmaster Posts: 502
    While I agree with the sentiment, how much is there to say about an opening stage up and down a motorway to be contested, fairly unremarkably, by a bunch of second string sprinters?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    mulletmaster wrote:
    While I agree with the sentiment, how much is there to say about an opening stage up and down a motorway to be contested, fairly unremarkably, by a bunch of second string sprinters?

    Nacer would like a word...
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    I don't think there's much wrong with this place when there's great racing to discuss: 85 corrugated pages for a Tour spoiler. When the home team behave like Rocky Horror characters off the bike, it's only natural that national foibles come to the fore.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Bertie is already in trouble, fitness wise, apparently:
    https://twitter.com/enriquebernaola/sta ... 65/photo/1
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Delete.

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