Tirreno-Adriatico 2018 *Spoilers*

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,703
    Adam Yates in a different league to everybody else, today.
    Kwiatkowski into the leader's jersey by just the 3rd place bonus seconds.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,390
    Yates
    Sagan
    Kwia top 3 today

    Kwia 3secs from Caruso on GC
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Great stage today, really focused, would like to see Froome try to muster more but he needs some new tyres if he doesn't want to get disengaged, great job of work done by Luke Durbridge, Turbo durbo, great climbing towards the end even if people didn't want to be in the front, elbows flicked all over the place like a dodgy dad dance. Really interested to see who'll win the coveted trident of neptune, like a big fork if you will but he won't be eating with it, although he was a big guy
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Really interested to see who'll win the coveted trident of neptune, like a big fork if you will but he won't be eating with it, although he was a big guy

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  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    I think Matt Stephens would make a decent lead commentator.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Richard T. Biscuit wrote:
    I think Matt Stephens would make a decent lead commentator.

    He's quite good isnt he. Mind you, the lead commentator has to fill an awful lot of time.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    this is a really good race yet in my head I always think of it as a sprinter fest.
  • grenw
    grenw Posts: 804
    Richard T. Biscuit wrote:
    I think Matt Stephens would make a decent lead commentator.

    That he would. I still can't reconcile his voice to his face though. Don't know why, he just sounds more sensible/authorative than he looks.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Big crash 8km out. Gaviria touches the wheel in front, goes down right in front of Sagan who has to unclip but manages to avoid decking it, not so lucky for a few ag2r, EF, Israel riders
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Sagan held up though riding back through the cars with 5km to go. Very impressive if he can contest the sprint properly
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Heli shot showing Sagan moving up, long way to the front with Katusha laying it down
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Locked onto Kittels wheel from 700m, can't come round the big german but takes 2nd in the sprint from Richeze. Fair ride that
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Kittel takes it, but I don't know if it's been mentioned before: He's some rider that Peter Sagan.
  • red.rider
    red.rider Posts: 1,188
    Can I pick Sagan for MSR already...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,532
    Stage

    1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 3:49:54
    2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
    3 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors
    4 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
    5 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
    6 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
    7 Marco Canola (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini
    8 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
    9 Eduard Grosu (Rom) Nippo Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini
    10 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin

    GC

    1 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 25:21:22
    2 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:03
    3 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:23
    4 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:29
    5 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:34
    6 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:36
    7 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:37
    8 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:39
    9 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:41
    10 Jaime Roson (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:47
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Red.Rider wrote:
    Can I pick Sagan for MSR already...

    Anyone who is thinking about a result at the weekend is going to be watching Sagan. If they weren't doing so already, which they should have been. But the last two days have been vintage Sagan, totally different races and a 2nd place in each
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,703
    With Kirby wittering on and on about Kittel being fragile and not up for it: who else was going to win that stage?
    Another crash inducing Italian town circuit, although Gaviria has no one to blame but himself.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,537
    Yeah all the focus on Kittel not being able to get himself in the right spot and both sprints Gaviria has messed up!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Gaviria has broken his hand. No classics season for him.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    RichN95 wrote:
    Gaviria has broken his hand. No classics season for him.

    Can someone please check Joel is OK? Take away his boot laces and belt.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,390
    Lapse of concentration from Gaviria, unlike Sagan who somehow stayed upright, and had a lot of work to do to get back in let alone to contest the sprint and podium.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Lapse of concentration from Gaviria, unlike Sagan who somehow stayed upright, and had a lot of work to do to get back in let alone to contest the sprint and podium.

    Must be the "gnarly road surfaces" that Carlton keeps wittering on about.
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Frank Wilson wrote:
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Lapse of concentration from Gaviria, unlike Sagan who somehow stayed upright, and had a lot of work to do to get back in let alone to contest the sprint and podium.

    Must be the "gnarly road surfaces" that Carlton keeps wittering on about.

    there was a section on the descent yesterday he was having apoplexies about and I just looked at it and thought,I wish our roads were only that gnarly at the moment
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    Seems like Sunweb are trying out the warm-up area blackout that gave Sky such great publicity way back when:

    https://twitter.com/robhayles1/status/9 ... 6233086976
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,645
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    Not cool guys.

    This is the stuff UCI would be better off focusing on. Whole point of cycling is you can get up close with the riders before and after.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,645
    r0bh wrote:
    Seems like Sunweb are trying out the warm-up area blackout that gave Sky such great publicity way back when:

    https://twitter.com/robhayles1/status/9 ... 6233086976

    Is the screen name a coincidence?
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  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Maybe it's an outside toilet?
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    r0bh wrote:
    Seems like Sunweb are trying out the warm-up area blackout that gave Sky such great publicity way back when:

    https://twitter.com/robhayles1/status/9 ... 6233086976

    What are they trying to hide? That's seriously dodgy behaviour, if you ask me. They must be filthy.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,703
    Give me strength.
    If we were playing the Kirby drinking game, he just given us enough ammo for a bender.
    Police motor bike escorting another rider just past by friggin 'Lennie' Kamna gets it in the neck for being in his boy's way.
    Then Pozzato's police bike is in drafting range, 50 metres up the road.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Seems like Sunweb are trying out the warm-up area blackout that gave Sky such great publicity way back when:

    https://twitter.com/robhayles1/status/9 ... 6233086976

    Is the screen name a coincidence?

    Ha ha - yes it is, I am not an Olympic medal winning cyclist sadly!

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