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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Boonen miles away.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    EBH 8th
    Brandle 6th
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    GC
    1 Terpstra
    2 Bodnar +11
    3 Stannard +12
    4 Van Avermaet +19
    5 Rowe +33
    6 Kristoff +36
    7 Boonen +42
    8 Haussler +44
    9 Grivko +46
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stage results anyone?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Stage results anyone?

    Stage 3 -
    1 Terpstra 14:03
    2 Cancellara +8
    3 Wiggins +9
    4 Bodnar +9
    5 Stannard +10
    6 Brandle +18
    7 Van Keirsbulck +20

    Full results: http://www.pelotonwatch.com/results/201 ... tage3.html
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,643
    My man Andriy GRIVKO up to ninth on GC. Came just outside the top 10 on the stage. Fastest man from Astana...

    Good going from Stannard. Let's hope he stays upright...
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Backed my man Terpstra this morning at 14-1.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    A TT on a road bike is really akin to being solo in a classic.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    This has sufficiently whetted my appetite. All those big classics names. Echelons. Proper tactics. Strong men.


    I'm officially overexcited for the upcoming classics season.

    Good stuff.
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  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    sjmclean wrote:
    A TT on a road bike is really akin to being solo in a classic.
    Precisely. Cancellara will never beat Wiggins again on a TT bike.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    nic_77 wrote:
    sjmclean wrote:
    A TT on a road bike is really akin to being solo in a classic.
    Precisely. Cancellara will never beat Wiggins again on a TT bike.

    Especially not if Fabu doesn't race Paris-Nice!
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    dish_dash wrote:
    My man Andriy GRIVKO up to ninth on GC. Came just outside the top 10 on the stage. Fastest man from Astana... Good going from Stannard. Let's hope he stays upright...
    Not a bad start for a training run with my Men placed 1st and 5th, so I can hope for more in the next couple of months when the serious racing gets under way with wind and rain.
    deejay » 24 Jan 2015 14:17 wrote:
    Ian Stannard -
    Marcel Kittel
    Niki Terpstra
    Tom Boonen
    Even Tom is coming along nicely.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    Could Sky finally put a good innings in on the pave this year? To give wiggo some credit he's on a par with fabu which isn't that bad.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Cal_Stewart wrote:
    Could Sky finally put a good innings in on the pave this year? To give wiggo some credit he's on a par with fabu which isn't that bad.

    Stannard looks more impressive. Really strong TT and managing to survive at the front of the race.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    iainf72 wrote:
    Cal_Stewart wrote:
    Could Sky finally put a good innings in on the pave this year? To give wiggo some credit he's on a par with fabu which isn't that bad.

    Stannard looks more impressive. Really strong TT and managing to survive at the front of the race.

    I think Stannard would have surprised quite a few people in Flanders and Roubaix last year before he got injured and had to pull out. He won the Omloop let's not forget.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Milton50 wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Cal_Stewart wrote:
    Could Sky finally put a good innings in on the pave this year? To give wiggo some credit he's on a par with fabu which isn't that bad.
    Stannard looks more impressive. Really strong TT and managing to survive at the front of the race.
    I think Stannard would have surprised quite a few people in Flanders and Roubaix last year before he got injured and had to pull out. He won the Omloop let's not forget.
    With a good North wind and some rain then Ian will do good in PR, provided he stays away from the front too early which is his Achilles heel.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Survivor Rowe speaks well.
    You can respect Ettixx-OPQS as a team but you can’t give them too much respect. They’re human. As a team they might be a bit stronger than we are but as individuals, they’re not. For sure, if we get a chance to take them on we’ll do everything we can.
    I think it’s about taking the initiative. So if there’s a chance to split it, don’t wait for someone else to do it. We need to do it ourselves. If we can try and catch them off-guard and stick it in the gutter when they’re not there, we’ll be looking to do that.
    If only they had a world class TT rider on the team that could lend these boys a helping hand.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    Why do I get the impression that if Sky had a rider called Bran van der Vig as opposed to one called Bradly Wiggins that Maca would be throwing a lot less petty insults around about him

    Either way, it's getting a little bit dull now...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,706
    Bein give us 20kms live, today.
    Epic. :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Bein give us 20kms live, today.
    Epic. :lol:
    It's a sprint stage, so that's 10km more than is necessary.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,706
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Bein give us 20kms live, today.
    Epic. :lol:
    It's a sprint stage, so that's 10km more than is necessary.

    The way it's going, it looks to me more like 15kms. :wink:

    Roll on two weeks Saturday.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    ddraver wrote:
    Why do I get the impression that if Sky had a rider called Bran van der Vig as opposed to one called Bradly Wiggins that Maca would be throwing a lot less petty insults around about him

    Either way, it's getting a little bit dull now...
    Perhaps you're a bit thick? You'll be more comfortable posting on Skyradar.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    aww bless..

    Anyway, en francais - http://www.yopika.tv/20150208/v-haha_sp ... 32174.html
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Macaloon wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Why do I get the impression that if Sky had a rider called Bran van der Vig as opposed to one called Bradly Wiggins that Maca would be throwing a lot less petty insults around about him

    Either way, it's getting a little bit dull now...
    Perhaps you're a bit thick? You'll be more comfortable posting on Skyradar.
    You do realise this isn't the Cycling News forum, don't you?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    Kristoff

    Mad road furniture in the last 500m!

    Good effort from Blythe, OGE expecting the finish line nearly 500m earlier...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • corona
    corona Posts: 116
    Kristoff and Sagan photo finish.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    edited February 2015
    A split in the peloton after about a dozen riders, so Bodnar reduces his deficit to Terpstra to 6 seconds.

    Anyone seen Kittel this season? (Excluding a criterium)
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    epic beards in the crowd! Given that I'm bare chinned for the first day in over a year it's making me a bit emotional

    Can see what frenchie means about French commentary...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • corona
    corona Posts: 116
    Kristoff Sagan Arndt then Blythe

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