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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,401
    He also tried to get in the break but his did nt stick - obviously none of us saw that though
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  • chadders81
    chadders81 Posts: 744
    I'm not doing PTP for this but quite fancy Majka or Aru today.

    Sky will control it for Porte but sure those two will have what it takes to go with him. On the basis that it never gets super steep, it should suit him, Wiggins and Thomas well, but I think those pair will be fighting out GTs against one another in five years' time.

    Or perhaps I'm just being a bit contrary because everybody else reckons Porte.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    ddraver wrote:
    He also tried to get in the break but his did nt stick - obviously none of us saw that though

    Doing his best work 'for the team' before the cameras roll; since Oman 2013. Needs more stripes on the jag.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,737
    The BR pundits think it is a day for Porte

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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    13:10:28 CET
    As we pick up the action with a shade under 100 kilometres remaining, a three-man break featuring Antoine Duschesne (Europcar), Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) and Chris Anker Sørensen (Tinkoff-Saxo) holds a lead of 6:30 over the peloton.
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  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Some of you tech-heads will prob. love all this

    http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/03/why-t ... ime-trial/

    Quite interesting really but takes the fun out of it. If I had to do that it would be like giving a dog a Rubriks cube
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,176
    mrushton wrote:
    Some of you tech-heads will prob. love all this

    http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/03/why-t ... ime-trial/

    Quite interesting really but takes the fun out of it. If I had to do that it would be like giving a dog a Rubriks cube
    Good reading for those who still think the most advanced teams still rely on wind tunnels.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited March 2015
    Chris Anker Søderson tries to sneak the kom points after De Gendt led the climb. Typical Tinkoff rider.

    50km, 4:10. Just TDG & CAS left out front.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,900
    Chris W*anker Sorenson........
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    It's the first day of climbing and it's not a particularly hard climb so I can see more than a dozen genuine contenders for the stage.

    I think Kwiatkowski could come away with the win today because the climb is easy enough for him and he has the kick at the end. But I've played it safe with Porte.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Demare off the back looking for a camper van?
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Peloton split. Majka caught behind. Wiggo patrolling rear of second group.
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Just tuned in. Tinkoff driving the second group.

    How did it split?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Whole AG2R squad came to front and started drilling. Narrow roads. Folk taken by surprise. Possibly. Think Majka was coming back from a mechanical at the time.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    AG2R taking 2mins out the two leaders in the last 15mins or so. Drilling it for their boys Peraud and Bardet.

    Wiggins has given up already.
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  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Aggressive and impressive from Ag2r. Bardet with good legs?

    Ooop Majka bike change.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    All aboard the ag2r-ain etc
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Porte looking rough?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Porte blowing a bit here.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I hope Quintana and/or Fernandez can stick with the top boys today although my favourite to win would Aru unless the climb really is too easy.

    From inrng this was good:
    Normally Fabio Aru would be an obvious pick but he seems to be building his form; we should note the Astana team’s distress at the moment with riders trying to show themselves, see Diego Rosa ‘abandoning’ Vincenzo Nibali over the Strade Bianche so it’ll be interesting to see how Aru and Jacob Fuglsang and others cooperate.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
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    27km, 1:25
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Matthews doing great for 'Ulrika Greenhedge'
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Izagurri (?) puncture, Rojas gives him his wheel and gets him going again.

    For the love of god, turn the bike upside down and stop fecking about - I don't care what "the rules" say, it's so clearly a faster way of changing a wheel! There, I've said it.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,401
    EQS stringing the whole group out in a long line of the descent
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    World Champion's team bring their rainbow bands to the front. Climb in 10km.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Riders going off the back from EQS's pace. Only dropping Degenkolb and Haussler though, so the pace can't be that high.
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Is Christian Knees rocking a mullet?!
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wiggins has given up already.
    Form, or in cba mode?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    DAMN my man Barguil got taken out by some amateur. Looks hurt.
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