Volta a Catalunya 2015 *Spoilers*

jam1e

Kiriyenka has caught the break, main group in bits.

Now carried on - poss Porte to bridge later?

frenchfighter

This is pretty boring.

6km 30 secs.

Tempo.

above_the_cows

Is this going to be like we saw with Porte and Thomas in P-N? Is Porte going to ride up to Kiry?

frenchfighter

Dan Martin attacks. Finally.

frenchfighter

TJ bridges and leaves him for dead.

Contador WTF you waiting for. Last summit finish before the Giro.

above_the_cows

BERT!

frenchfighter

Errr, Atapuma now attacks and chases TJ. Some rider with him from Gshim.

TJ caught Kiri.

frenchfighter

Above The Cows wrote:

BERT!

Looks like my feed is well delayed again...

jam1e

Kiri towing Porte towards Contador...

above_the_cows

frenchfighter wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

BERT!

Looks like my feed is well delayed again...

I think so Frenchie.

adr82

TJ has a lead into the last 5-600 metres, Kiri+Porte+Atapuma back on with Contador.

above_the_cows

Porte catches Bert!

adr82

And drops him!

adr82

TJ, Porte, Contador, with a few seconds between each.

above_the_cows

Teejay takes it.

Richie bests Bert!

frenchfighter

Well that was pretty poor racing. TM 1km sprint from the ripped to shreds boy in blue. Can't wait for some proper mountains where we can have some attacks from 10k out and not have to worry about these spurts at the end. Contador has lost those 19/20 times.

Well done the two breakaways and well done TJ.

Bring on the Giro. I hope Contador rips them to shreds.

dodgy

From @velocast
"Oleg has just suspended Alberto Contador"

Some in-joke?

above_the_cows

Can someone check on Frenchie?

Fair play Teejay, you'd lost so much time yesterday people weren't so worried about you riding away, made sense to try something.

Porte puts 5 seconds into Contador. Impressive ride from Richie, he just waited and let Contador come back to him. Mature ride.

Macaloon

dodgy wrote:

From @velocast
"Oleg has just suspended Alberto Contador"

Some in-joke?

Oleg has suspended Riis

jam1e

Rolland 5:13 down, De Clercq now 1st on GC with 21 seconds on Porte.

above_the_cows

New top 5:

De Clercq
Porte +21
Pozzy +26
Martin+27
Contador +28

dodgy

Ah of course, the Riis thing

Macaloon

Glad I didn't get my hopes up. That was lame from Contador, Aru, Martin, Talansky, and a shame for 'Sicknote'. I can't shake the feeling that any MTF won by TJ is the result of a miscalculation.

above_the_cows

Macaloon wrote:

I can't shake the feeling that any MTF won by TJ is the result of a miscalculation.

He was no threat to the top guys on GC because of his crash yesterday so they kind of calculated that he could ride away. Porte wasn't trying to take the stage from Teejay at the end he was trying to put some time into Bert.

blazing_saddles

Riis gone and Bertie's already less than perfect tactics take a nose dive.
Must be feeling the pressure increasing to win something, as each stage passes.

Great bounce back after yesterday's horrific crash, by Tejay.
Bart de Clerq looks to have the GC sewn up.
Who would have thought...............

cal_stewart

Well with dirty Bertie look far from his best, the giro should be a good watch or it he just short of a pint?

frenchfighter

Chaves and Barguil 13th and 14th.

Sepulveda got pumped for 15mins.

Guess who else is riding...Dombrowski! Comeback kid is coming back miles and miles down.

Froome must have been in a bad way then just sat up as he finished in the gruppetto.

frenchfighter

"I’m a little bit disappointed to take second on the stage," Porte admitted. "Credit to Tejay, he attacked at the right moment. I needed to watch Alberto and Rigo a bit at that point but in terms of how the day went the team were fantastic.
"We took it on over the Creueta and to still have four guys over the top with me speaks volumes of the commitment from the boys. When Alberto attacked on the final climb we had Kiry up the road. He got a bit of a gap initially but I never panicked. I was expecting he’d attack and I was happy to ride back to Kiry – who then rode as Kiry does – like a steamroller! I was coming back at Tejay but just came up a little short.
"Today was a big boost in my morale heading into the Giro. Most of the favourites for that race are here and to distance them was great. I feel a bit like I’m flying under the radar at the moment without the attention of guys like Rigo and Alberto. But I’m really feeling ready to take my opportunity. I’m looking forward to May.”

dolan_driver

Another good ride from Dan Martin today and it's good to see Atapuma getting stuck in too. The Giro should be a good race as it appears now that there is no nailed-on favourite.

DD.

Bo Duke

Richie's developing well, folks seem reluctant to recognise he's as good as any in the top flight now.
If dirty bertie is struggling folks like Richie will be the ones to profit.