Tour de Suisse 2017 **SPOILERS**

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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    6km of Albula still to go - and it is raining heavily in la Punt; there is a 9km descent which might be crucial and a bit hairy
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    imatfaal wrote:
    6km of Albula still to go - and it is raining heavily in la Punt; there is a 9km descent which might be crucial and a bit hairy
    hope everyone gets back safely then.. wet descents aren't fun
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    1. pozzavivo
    2. rui costa
    3. izaguire or frank (could not see who got third)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Caruso out of the jersey by the tenths in the prologue.
    Izaguirre got 3rd.
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    1 pozzavivo
    2 rui costa
    3 izagirre
    4 frank
    5 spilak

    and GC
    Pozzavivo into Yellow leaders jersey with fractional lead over Caruso
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,648
    Wait, wet descent, Pozzovivo won?

    Was it a 'go slow' contest???
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Wait, wet descent, Pozzovivo won?

    Was it a 'go slow' contest???
    He attacked before that. Had about a 30s lead (with Woods) at the summit.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Wait, wet descent, Pozzovivo won?
    Was it a 'go slow' contest???
    Franck caught up about 30 secs on Pozzovivo during the roughly 10 km/12 min descent, meaning F’s average descent speed was about 50 km/h compared to P’s about 48 km/h. Swiss TV said F had a top speed of 64.7 km/h on the descent. Using the same ratio, P’s may have been (only) 62.1 km/h.

    On Swiss spoiler forums, some people were commenting that Woods did a Wiggins, which, from what I saw was unfair, even if he did lose almost as much time to Pozzovivo as Franck gained to P.
    RichN95 wrote:
    He attacked before that. Had about a 30s lead (with Woods) at the summit.
    Woods took the summit first, though, a few seconds (5-6 secs?) in front of Pozzovivo.

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    Other incidental news: Dowsett and GC-darkhorse Pantano DNF, Conor Dunne OTL.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    No worries about descents, wet or otherwise, tomorrow. The beast is back!

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    Well, actually it is this, today:-

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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Stage 6 - Great stage.

    1 POZZOVIVO Domenico 28 Ag2r La Mondiale 04:38:49 10 (bonus)
    2 FARIA DA COSTA Rui Alberto 171 Uae Team Emirates 04 6(bonus)
    3 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 141 Bahrain - Merida ST 4(bonus)
    4 *FRANK Mathias 21 Ag2r La Mondiale ST
    5 SPILAK Simon 71 Team Katusha Alpecin 12

    GC after 6
    1 POZZOVIVO Domenico 28 Ag2r La Mondiale 22:03:28
    2 CARUSO Damiano 12 Bmc Racing Team ST
    3 KRUIJSWIJK Steven 161 Team Lotto Nl - Jumbo 13
    4 SPILAK Simon 71 Team Katusha Alpecin 22
    5 *FRANK Mathias 21 Ag2r La Mondiale 23

    And surely that means that, if he has any dreams of maintaining lead, Pozzovivo will attack again on today's lovely MTF

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    Over 14km at an average of over 10% - this time there is only a few hundred metres from the top of the climb to the finish line
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Pozzovivo dropped with 13 kms of the climb left.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,532
    Pozzovivo is being dropped with 13kms to go.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,532
    I haven't followed the race, what's the story? Is he sick?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Domestique Taramaae has destroyed the field.
    9kms left and only Dombrowski left to contest with Spilak.
    2 man group.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Err, this is looking a bit ridiculous.
    Spilak soloing the last eight and a half kms.
    Huge gaps already to the rest, grovelling behind.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Err, this is looking a bit ridiculous.
    Spilak soloing the last eight and a half kms.
    Huge gaps already to the rest, grovelling behind.
    It looks like a mountain time trial with riders going up one at a time
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    1. Spilak
    2. Izagirre
    3. Dombrowski

    Brr - looked damn cold in that tunnel
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Spilak's post stage interview the complete opposite of Larry Warbasse's.
    Goodness only knows how miserable he must be on a bad day.
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  • the article don
    the article don Posts: 578
    This is the longest stage race outside of the grand tors, yes? In one of the world's most spectacular mountain regions? And yet it seems so meh. Wondering why that is? Where does it rank on the chipper scale?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    the article don wrote:
    This is the longest stage race outside of the grand tors, yes?
    In the World Tour it is, but the Tour of Portugal - a UCI 2.1 rated race - is one that is longer
    the article don wrote:
    In one of the world's most spectacular mountain regions? And yet it seems so meh. Wondering why that is?
    The Dauphine just has a far better startlist and is usually a better race.
    The Dauphine asks questions about the big Tour riders and their form, the only question the TdS asks is why does Spilak only ride well in Switzerland.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    I guess the other thing in favour of the Dauphine is the ability to replicate some of the TdF route in the parcours. Bound to be a draw for the GC contenders who skipped the Giro earlier on in the season.
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    RichN95 wrote:
    the article don wrote:
    This is the longest stage race outside of the grand tors, yes?
    In the World Tour it is, but the Tour of Portugal - a UCI 2.1 rated race - is one that is longer
    There's also Qinghai Lake in the continental tours. Two week race, HC clarification.

    Back in 1998, there was a Marlboro Tour (of the Philippines) which was close to 20 stages. Organisers went bankrupt pretty soon after they got UCI accreditation after 40 years without it.
  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Spilak's post stage interview the complete opposite of Larry Warbasse's.
    Goodness only knows how miserable he must be on a bad day.

    Watched the final time trial this morning, and Spilak on the podium as the overall winner....barely a smile.

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