Volta ao Algarve 2015 *SPOILERS*

frenchfighter

Stage 1
1 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step
2 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
3 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoJumbo.nl
4 Roy Jans (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert
5 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step
6 Raymond Kreder (Ned) Team Roompot
7 José Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team
8 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
9 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Etixx - Quick-Step
10 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Optum Pro Cycling

frenchfighter

Porte racing this one btw.

Macaloon

Etixx - Quick-Step ‏@Etixx_QuickStep
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Classics team.

takethehighroad

Three (current and ex) World Champions in the top 10, no?

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Sieberg (Lotto), Schillinger (Bora), Ferrari (Caja Rural), W. Kreder (Roompot) and Balykin (RusVelo) have 45secs with 30km to race.

frenchfighter

Rein attacks with 8km to race.

frenchfighter

G's on the attack out front now with a handful of secs on Rein.

3km to race.

frenchfighter

1km, he is still out front.

frenchfighter

G 'my man' T wins!!!!!!

shazzz

Excellent news! Did he have much of a gap at the end?

frenchfighter

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

That's a very orderly finish. "Astana - you come through first. Then Etixx. Now, you Katusha. Sky wait at the back please, you've already won"

bigmat

Thought there were just 4 teams in it until I got to 15th - decent names G beat there though. Very impressive, particularly given his lack of a winning instinct.

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

TT today:

frenchfighter

Malori leading with 21.51.

Anonymous

RT @LottoJumbo_road: Robert Gesink will not start @VAlgarve2015 stage 3 time trial. He will fly back to Holland because of personal reasons.

frenchfighter

Gesink needs to sort his life out or give up his sport in a cycling team.

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

Gesink needs to sort his life out or give up his sport in a cycling team.

The problems he has had over the years aren't anything that he had any control over

RichN95.

Tony Martin fastest by 0.4 seconds

frenchfighter

Ouch that was close.

G has just gone through the intermediate mark fastest....

frenchfighter

Porte off the pace.

RichN95.

Kwiatkowski +9s at the finish for third

Mad_Malx

G in at third 21.54

I know it was downhill, but first 10km close to 60km/h !

Mad_Malx

Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep), 21m51s
Adriano Malori (Movistar), 21m51s
Geraint Thomas (Sky), 21m54s
Michal Kwiatkowski (Katusha), 22m00s
Anton Vorobyev (Katusha), 22m10s
Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar), 22m17s
Rein Taaramae (Astana), 22m17s
Luis León Sánchez (Astana), 22m23s
Sergei Chernetski (Katusha), 22m25s
Tiago Machado (Katusha), 22m28s

Mad_Malx

Apparently Kwiatkowski moved to Katusha in the last 10 minutes too.

deejay

Geral/Overall/General
1.º Geraint Thomas (Sky), 9h34m50s
2.º Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep), a 30s
3.º Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx-QuickStep), a 39s
4.º Rein Taaramae (Astana), a 53s
5.º Luis León Sánchez (Astana), a 1m02s
6.º Sergei Chernetski (Katusha), a 1m04s
7.º Tiago Machado (Katusha), a 1m07s
8.º Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep), a 1m31s
9.º Richie Porte (Sky), a 1m33s
10.º Rubén Fernández (Movistar), a 1m38s

JackTar

My man Swifty 15th in GC

milton50

Malori seems to be awesome at the short TT's in stage races (he beat Martin, Wiggins and Cancellara last season) and yet so far he hasn't been able to put it all together in one of the high profile long TTs.

I wonder if he and Dumoulin can properly challenge Martin this year.

inseine

Superb TT from G.