Dubai Tour - **SPOILERS***

tailwindhome
tailwindhome Posts: 18,949
edited February 2015 in Pro race
Hey! There's a bike race starting tomorrow and it's on the tele!

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4 road stages - 3 flat sprints and 1 uphill sprint.

Stage 3

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Some decent riders - Nibali kicks off his season

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=151110&c=3
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 1 is in progress.

    Valverde is racing.

    Hope there are no bonus points from the sprints.

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    This guy popped up again (he was at the Tinkoff training camp)
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    World's tallest building apparently :roll: . Shame about the slavery. Crass dump for a bike race.
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  • nicube
    nicube Posts: 175
    This is my first year trying to follow as many tours as possible on TV since going to Grand De tour Yorkshire last year, this Dubai Tour is lacking a few hills isn't it? And Eurosports HD channel is down :(
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    GA vs EQS....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    ooop, and Sky...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    Long Sprint!

    Cav
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    EQS leadout was rubbish but the Renshaw/Cav duo didnt need it...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,159
    Elia Viviani is looking a strong early favourite for the Tyler Farrar Award for most podiums without actually winning anything.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nice work Cav. Not the strongest sprint field in the World but enough tough riders in there to make it a good win. Nice to see Guardini right there.

    1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Etixx - Quick-Step 3:25:00
    2 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team
    3 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
    4 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha
    5 Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Movistar Team
    6 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin
    7 Andrea Palini (Ita) Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling
    8 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF
    9 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
    10 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    So, let's leave aside the slavery, corruption, shady financing of bad people and complete lack of cycling culture and focus on a great job by my man Cavendish and my man Iljoooooooooooo

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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,008
    http://youtu.be/wV9UdMvA2gg

    Big Tone driving for most of the last 10km
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,652
    It's just great to see cycling back on Eurosport again, the silky sound of Rob Hatch and Brian Smith on comms again, beautiful HD-ness, and the joy that live cycling brings to all of our lives
  • lone wheeler
    lone wheeler Posts: 163
    It was a very windy day here yesterday. Tour comes past our place today so hopefully nip out and watch / take a few pics.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Nicube wrote:
    This is my first year trying to follow as many tours as possible on TV since going to Grand De tour Yorkshire last year, this Dubai Tour is lacking a few hills isn't it? And Eurosports HD channel is down :(

    Lasy year was similar, one draggy stage that was so easy on the early season legs that Marcel Kittel won it, beating the misfiring Sagan into the bargain.

    A genuine UAE tour would be more hilly but they want to showcase Dubai as much as possible as it's the named tour - and unless they make the Burj Khalifa into a helter skelter, it will remain a tour mainly comprised of office blocks, highways, bizarre architecture and desert.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Maybe the riders can navigate the snowdome half way through and they can call it the Giro d'Dubai, 20 riders getting hypothermia in the desert...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    It has thus far given me absolutely no inclination to go there...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,564
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    the silky sound of Rob Hatch and Brian Smith

    Is Brian still commentating alongside his role at MTN-Qhubeka?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,949
    ....................
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    As nice as it is to finally have live cycling, I can't help feeling this is the wrong race....
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  • nweststeyn
    nweststeyn Posts: 1,574
    i f***in love dual carriageways and sand.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    nweststeyn wrote:
    i f***in love dual carriageways and sand.

    It's not quite Lake Geneva is it.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,797
    Advantages of being promoted: getting an I pad, so I now have the cycling on next to my screen :).
    _
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,564
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Advantages of being promoted: getting an I pad, so I now have the cycling on next to my screen :).

    We now expect live updates...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Viviani wins the sprint.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,797
    Was a smart sprint.

    Headwind - got a good slingshot off the last man and got a big enough gap that Cav was fighting in the wind too.

    Was sprinting in an even lower position than Cav was.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,949
    ddraver wrote:
    It has thus far given me absolutely no inclination to go there...

    Only two reasons to do to Dubai:
    1. to change plans en route elsewhere when flying Emirates
    2. tax free earnings, but then you have to put up with everything that's 'orrible about Dubai!
  • lone wheeler
    lone wheeler Posts: 163
    Zzzz...
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    The_Boy wrote:
    As nice as it is to finally have live cycling, I can't help feeling this is the wrong race....
    You need Europe to feel right with a Jar of Beer in your hand and if that is missing then there's no real atmosphere. Cheers.
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