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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    First rider at 13:30 local. Weather is good - 12 deg C, no rain forecast, and a 6-9 mph wind from the N veering NNE
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    The_Boy wrote:
    Caught behind a crash

    just read that he didn't crash but he broke a spoke. Cost him any chance of a high finish.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    squired wrote:
    The biggest bonus about the stage being cancelled was not having to listen to more absolute rubbish coming from the mouth of Carlton Kirby. The guy just makes it up as he goes along.
    .

    For me that pair - Kirby and Stephens - are very much the B team behind Kelly and the other chap.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    RichN95 wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    It's hard to look past Jungels. But Van Avermaet was 4th behind EBH in a similar length TT in Qatar a month ago.
    At only 10km and over ten seconds lead over Jungels, Sagan won't be more than a couple of seconds off by the end. Could go either way.

    Sagan smashed a similar course TT in Tour of California last year. Jungles might be a different proposition though...
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    And Jungels..
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    And Jungels..

    Pinots not lost much time in the past to Jungels - 5s over 7 k and has improved cf ttt - but 10 km is too short -
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    squired wrote:
    The biggest bonus about the stage being cancelled was not having to listen to more absolute rubbish coming from the mouth of Carlton Kirby. The guy just makes it up as he goes along.
    .

    For me that pair - Kirby and Stephens - are very much the B team behind Kelly and the other chap.

    Matt Stephens is quite good and, in general, Carlton Kirby is OK but if he uses the word "de-ramp" again, I will go nuts. It makes absolutely no sense. :?

    If you are reading this, Carlton, "deramp" means "A process for cleaning up electronic signals such as radar, in which a received signal is mixed with a reference signal in order to highlight differences in frequencies." It has the square root of fook all to do with a rider riding down a ramp at the start of a time trial.

    DD.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cancellara puts in a monster time. #1.
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Canc looking very bored at the finish. He's been waiting for a while.

    Jungels just started.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Kwiatkowski not really on it. Thought he might be a bit quicker. +39
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Decent by Reichenbach +27 and Pinot matches him.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Jungels coming in now. Not sure he is going as well as expected. +33. Only just stays ahead of the FDJ's.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Sagan +24. The man to beat now.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Stybar dropping off the podium here.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    GVA 5 secs down on Sagan on the comparison. Final Km.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Going to be close.
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Wwwwwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Who knows. Looks like they both have the same time.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    edited March 2016
    Kirkby saying GVA. he's probably right for once. Yep 1 second. GVA wins overall.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Wow. Down to the odd second. Who is it gonna be?
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    GvA wins by one second!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Fair GvA is in form.

    Enormous gap from Cancellara and the rest.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Here's a question.

    If Sagan doesn't come 2nd, can GvA win?
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    TA and PN with aggregate time gap of 5 seconds between both winners and second places - strange races missing two exciting stages; but lovely to see so close.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    That is mainly to do with missing stages.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    José Been ‏@TourDeJose
    This was Peter Sagan's 70th career number 2 (via @ADsportwereld)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Geniez 7th - what have FdJ been doing ?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Sagan was approx 150-1 to win. Imagine
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    coriordan wrote:
    Sagan was approx 150-1 to win. Imagine

    GvA should have put everything he has on him ( and dibbed the front brake on that last turn)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Apparently it was Sagan's 70th 2nd place.

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