Tour de Romandie 24 _29th April *SPOILERS*

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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Porte! What a stunner
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    mididoctors wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    G on bar extensions too. Not many people using them so far?

    seems to be used by the guys going for the win.

    and Thomas
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Some poor split times among the top ten.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    G is a minute down on Porte at the intermediate
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sky team time trial Bernal into the lead.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    bernal!
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Bernal! Fastest by 18 seconds
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    BERNAL! what a star
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  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    Bernal, my boy! What a ride. Porte too, he looked amazing out there.
  • poptart242
    poptart242 Posts: 531
    Can we agree yellow skinsuits are a bad look?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    A whole lot of riders are looking at hors delay.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    For some reason the TV seems to have followed Thomas all the way. He looks very laboured.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    At least there's no argument who is the Sky leader now
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    GC, give or take a second or two

    Roglic
    Bernal +6
    Porte +27
    Kruijswijk +1.02
    Costa +1.17
    Dennis +1.22
    Buchmann +1.42
    Martin +1.43
    I Izagirre +1.55
    Goncalves +1.56
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Bigger gaps than expected.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    RichN95 wrote:
    GC, give or take a second or two

    Roglic
    Bernal +6
    Porte +27
    Kruijswijk +1.02
    Costa +1.17
    Dennis +1.22
    Buchmann +1.42
    Martin +1.43
    I Izagirre +1.55
    Goncalves +1.56

    Shouldn't my man Latour be in there somewhere?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The_Boy wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    GC, give or take a second or two

    Roglic
    Bernal +6
    Porte +27
    Kruijswijk +1.02
    Costa +1.17
    Dennis +1.22
    Buchmann +1.42
    Martin +1.43
    I Izagirre +1.55
    Goncalves +1.56

    Shouldn't my man Latour be in there somewhere?

    1'22" as well according to RTS.

    Looks like a 2 horse race now, to me.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Bernal, shortly after finishing: “I've never had such a hard day as this, I'm exhausted“

    The new GC bodes well for a good day's racing tomorrow.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    a few surprises there
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The_Boy wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    GC, give or take a second or two

    Roglic
    Bernal +6
    Porte +27
    Kruijswijk +1.02
    Costa +1.17
    Dennis +1.22
    Buchmann +1.42
    Martin +1.43
    I Izagirre +1.55
    Goncalves +1.56

    Shouldn't my man Latour be in there somewhere?
    Yeah, I missed him.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    GC top 15, with Latour and also to see where Špilak and Fuglsang now are:

    1 Roglic 8h39'39"
    2 Bernal 06"
    3 Porte 27"
    4 Kruiswijk 01'02"
    5 da Costa 01'17"
    6 Dennis 01'22"
    7 Latour 01'22"
    8 Martin D 01'42"
    9 Buchmann 01'42"
    10 Izaguirre J 01'55"
    11 Goncalves 01'56"
    12 Špilak 01'59"
    13 Martinez 02'04"
    14 Castroviejo 02'07"
    15 Fuglsang 02'08"
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Around 30 riders were outside the time limit. Will they cut that many?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    knedlicky wrote:
    Bernal, shortly after finishing: “I've never had such a hard day as this, I'm exhausted“

    The new GC bodes well for a good day's racing tomorrow.

    Positions 4th to 7th and 8th to 25th look interesting, with only one minute between those 23 riders.
    A pity that the parcours are set up with the first two climbs being a lot harder than those that follow and a whopping great 25kms of downhill/flat to the finish.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    RichN95 wrote:
    Around 30 riders were outside the time limit. Will they cut that many?
    Maybe the full result taking so long to come through is because the judges are considering whether to enforce the cut-off (25% in Romandie roadbook), and, if at all, to what degree.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Around 30 riders were outside the time limit. Will they cut that many?

    You would think that they would, given how the race jury quickly wielded the axe over that Scheldeprijs incident.
    However, this is the UCI we are talking about and we all know that they are consistent as lumpy custard.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    knedlicky wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Around 30 riders were outside the time limit. Will they cut that many?
    Maybe the full result taking so long to come through is because the judges are considering whether to enforce the cut-off (25% in Romandie roadbook), and, if at all, to what degree.


    Well there you go.
    The famous UCI spirit of fair play.....................to some and while on home turf, brought into play, just as I suggested.
    Cut off now amended from the roadbook's 25% to Kirby's 30%.
    Everyone on from Viviani in 118th is out (10 riders in total)
    Where mountains are concerned, I blame Colombians and ski jumpers. :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    knedlicky wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Around 30 riders were outside the time limit. Will they cut that many?
    Maybe the full result taking so long to come through is because the judges are considering whether to enforce the cut-off (25% in Romandie roadbook), and, if at all, to what degree.


    Well there you go.
    The famous UCI spirit of fair play.....................to some and while on home turf, brought into play, just as I suggested.
    Cut off now amended from the roadbook's 25% to Kirby's 30%.
    Everyone on from Viviani in 118th is out (10 riders in total)
    Where mountains are concerned, I blame Colombians and Sky jumpers. :P
    The change means that Roglic only loses one teammate instead of three.
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    And 4 Quick Step out - that'll learn 'em!
  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    I can understand them canning the rule entirely but picking another number at random seems a bit off.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    i would have liked to see them can everyone outside the limt to see how that affected the racing and tactics.

    I can understand why they didnt

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