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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Yates out front. Porte leads out Alaphilippe and the rest..
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Somebody attack dammit... The group is being boring.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    That did it ;)
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Henao goes in the Colombian national champs jersey
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Alaphilippe struggling, Martin goes round him
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Go Simon! Takes the win.

    Henao 15 seconds behind
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Porte third, then Alaphilippe

    Martin led Alaphilippe out and then pulled over and urged him over the line...
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    So Yates lost about 30s on that climb - he got that attack just right.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Henao looking strong. Nice jersey too.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    dish_dash wrote:
    Porte third, then Alaphilippe

    Martin led Alaphilippe out and then pulled over and urged him over the line...

    Think he thought there were some bonus seconds left?

    Anyway Martin did a good job there.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Birdsong in 7th!
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Porte third, then Alaphilippe

    Martin led Alaphilippe out and then pulled over and urged him over the line...

    Think he thought there were some bonus seconds left?

    Anyway Martin did a good job there.

    Yep. Good thinking on the line too. Super job by Martin. Alaphilippe was pedalling squares when Henao went...
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    And GC

    1 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 21:58:22
    2 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0:00:36
    3 Sergio Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:00:46
    4 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:57
    5 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:20
    6 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:31
    7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:34
    8 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 0:01:37
    9 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:04
    10 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb 0:03:08
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Who's the commentator who has just done the highlights prior to the interviews? Seems okay (highlights compared to live obviously a different kettle of fish)
  • anothersid
    anothersid Posts: 57
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Who's the commentator who has just done the highlights prior to the interviews? Seems okay (highlights compared to live obviously a different kettle of fish)
    Jonathan Harris-Bass
  • sagefly
    sagefly Posts: 295
    I hate work, I fancied Yates to have a good dig today, just caught out of an interesting meeting......
    Turned out nice again!
  • sagefly
    sagefly Posts: 295
    Dan Martin looks well placed to take the overall
    Turned out nice again!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    sagefly wrote:
    Dan Martin looks well placed to take the overall
    Surely he'll be looking after Alaphilippe.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    RichN95 wrote:
    sagefly wrote:
    Dan Martin looks well placed to take the overall
    Surely he'll be looking after Alaphilippe.

    Yep. QS clearly going for Alaphilippe. If Martin was their GC guy then he'd have pushed on and taken a couple of seconds but he very deliberately delivered Alaphilippe to the line to get any bonus points (unfortunately all gone).
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    How shit are Cannondale-Drapac these days? Lots of press talk overnight that their race started today, yet no sign of them all day with Michael Woods coming in as their best finisher nearly 10 minutes down. Vaughters needs to spend less time flying and more time getting his team to perform.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    quote="anothersid"]
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Who's the commentator who has just done the highlights prior to the interviews? Seems okay (highlights compared to live obviously a different kettle of fish)
    Jonathan Harris-Bass[/quote]
    Merci
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    andyp wrote:
    How shoot are Cannondale-Drapac these days? Lots of press talk overnight that their race started today, yet no sign of them all day with Michael Woods coming in as their best finisher nearly 10 minutes down. Vaughters needs to spend less time flying and more time getting his team to perform.

    Sep will animate for the early classics. But yep, the rest of them... sure they are lovely but a bit lightweight.

    Formolo and Craddock abandoned today after Formolo crashed yesterday. Joe Dombrowski and Pierre Rolland lost nearly 40 minutes in the crosswinds across the opening two stages.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    andyp wrote:
    How shoot are Cannondale-Drapac these days? Lots of press talk overnight that their race started today, yet no sign of them all day with Michael Woods coming in as their best finisher nearly 10 minutes down. Vaughters needs to spend less time flying and more time getting his team to perform.
    Haven't you read the news - elite cycling is now all about having fun and being happy. Winning is for nasty people only.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • EnacheV
    EnacheV Posts: 235
    Bala junior will lose 5 mins tomorrow

    imo Henao is the main favorite right now, with a bunch close together as 2nd rate chances
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited March 2017
    What a shame for the British bike hating brigade.
    All this negative press the BC management is getting appears to be having the opposite effect on the riders.
    Two gutsy, attacking wins in two days.

    Cracks appear in Alaphilippe's armour. He must be worried about tomorrow's tallest peak in P-N history.
    Whether or not Henao will look as good as today is another matter.
    Little Richie looks up for it. Contador looks like he could go either way.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    dish_dash wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    sagefly wrote:
    Dan Martin looks well placed to take the overall
    Surely he'll be looking after Alaphilippe.

    Yep. QS clearly going for Alaphilippe. If Martin was their GC guy then he'd have pushed on and taken a couple of seconds but he very deliberately delivered Alaphilippe to the line to get any bonus points (unfortunately all gone).

    When I picked Martin in PTP this morning I hadn't realised he had reduced himself to a lead out man / domestique!
  • topper_harley
    topper_harley Posts: 597
    Strong from Henao
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    RichN95 wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    How shoot are Cannondale-Drapac these days? Lots of press talk overnight that their race started today, yet no sign of them all day with Michael Woods coming in as their best finisher nearly 10 minutes down. Vaughters needs to spend less time flying and more time getting his team to perform.
    Haven't you read the news - elite cycling is now all about having fun and being happy. Winning is for nasty people only.


    PTP to be renamed Pro Tour Pleasantness
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    What a shame for the British bike hating brigade.
    All this negative press the BC management is getting appears to be having the opposite effect on the riders.
    Two gutsy, attacking wins in two days.

    Cracks appear in Alaphilippe's armour. He must be worried about tomorrow's tallest peak in P-N history.
    Whether or not Henao will look as good as today is another matter.
    Little Richie looks up for it. Contador looks like he could go either way.


    I reckon Henao's up for it

    Can't wait!

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