Tour *of* Yorkshire - **spoiler**
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Looks like Pot Bank has been resurfaced which is a relief - you drop down a 14% decline, into an off camber S bend and then head over a narrow bridge that used to have a big trench of pot hole right up the middle of it0
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Murphy struggling wiht descents. Ned suggesting that she's not used to the conditions... Don't get much rain in Ireland apparently?0
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Trek Segafredo now getting organised and heading to the fore, nice big wide roads in Harrogate punctuated with a few narrow twists and turns. CANNOT WAIT FOR THE WORLDS0
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Heading to the print point, it's misleading as it kicks uphill for 100m but as it flattens out your realise that it doesn't actually flatten out at all. Raced Harrogate town centre race in 2014 when a 15 year old Tom Pidcock turned up and d1cked a strong 2/3/4 field. Tough day out that was0
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Top work Jens - your commentary is infinitely better than Boulting's0
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Lauren Kitchen has been angrily shouting at the other riders to do some work in the break. Puts the frustration to good use and kicks away to take the intermediate sprint.0
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Thanks for that Underlay, I missed the sprint itself as I wandered off to make a baked potato.
40km to go, gap coming down now to 37 seconds0 -
Blazing Saddles wrote:Not sure why women's races have so much less interest in getting riders into a break.
Must be something to do with the pressures of sponsorship in men's racing.
Not sure why women's teams are far more reluctant to let a break go, either.
Must just be easier to control, otherwise teams would opt for letting a break go and take the opportunity to sit up, after.
That break to ages to form and it wasn't as if attacks were going off left, right and centre.
Smaller teams and shorter stages contribute, no?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Blazing Saddles wrote:Not sure why women's races have so much less interest in getting riders into a break.
Must be something to do with the pressures of sponsorship in men's racing.
Not sure why women's teams are far more reluctant to let a break go, either.
Must just be easier to control, otherwise teams would opt for letting a break go and take the opportunity to sit up, after.
That break to ages to form and it wasn't as if attacks were going off left, right and centre.
Smaller teams and shorter stages contribute, no?
Perhaps the proximity of the intermediate sprint to the start as well - after only 20km0 -
F*ck me someone's actually commiting some acts of racing, I wasn't expecting that Lynn0
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Trek hitting out with 3 different riders attacking then countering eachother, no sprinter in their team as the young lass Paternoster didn't start today.
Heading down the A61 which has a lot of rolling little lumps and bumps, one of my favourite A roads to drive on. Another attack by Trek, some real zip going into that one0 -
And Deignan sets the hammer down through Ripon, on a dowhill stretch though so wasn't ever likely to get a gap. This surge and stop racing is actually helping the break which is still out there with 40-50 seconds0
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Deignan gives it a blast, opens a slight split, flicks the elbow for the next rider to come through... and everyone looks dumbly at each other before sitting up.
Lead group still sitting around 50 seconds out in front, although these attacks are starting to eat into that.0 -
underlayunderlay wrote:although these attacks are starting to eat into that.
They actually seem to be helping the break, during that period of attacks the gap stretched slightly, bizarre tactics from Trek
They look to be mobbing up a bit now, although the bunch is still being led by Sophie de Boers team & CCC0 -
ShutupJens wrote:underlayunderlay wrote:although these attacks are starting to eat into that.
They actually seem to be helping the break, during that period of attacks the gap stretched slightly, bizarre tactics from Trek
They look to be mobbing up a bit now, although the bunch is still being led by Sophie de Boers team & CCC
Yeah, they took out maybe 30 seconds or so after the attacks started, but after that Deignan attempt it went straight back out as everyone sorted themselves back out again - that one seems to have caused more disruption in the bunch for some reason, possibly as half of them are knackered.
Coming back down again now - about 40 seconds.0 -
Leah Dixon sounds like the one in charge at the head of affairs, making sure that no one misses a turn and dishing out a bit of encouragement to the other riders. Fair play!
Riders at the front of the bunch from Park Hotel team looking around a bit, not exactly driving it - gap 40 seconds at 15km0 -
Cars being pulled out of the gap with 11km to go, gap says 33 seconds but I'm not convinced it's entirely accurate. Mitchelton have taken up chase responsibilities at the front and you get the feeling that we won't see the break making it to the finish now0
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Mitchelton now disappear from the front. Narrow and twisty roads at the moment which can only help the breaks cause - 7km and 28 seconds0
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Ok no way is that gap anywhere more than 20 seconds, cannot be trusted at all0
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Break within sight, Trek lining up behind a single Park Hotels rider but with others heading towards the front of the bunch. Not sure what the run in to Bedale is like but wouldn't bet against a sprint. My money would be on Hoskings0
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Caught. 2km to go.0
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Canyon Sram come to the fore having been invisible all day, that's some good riding by them especially with the Barnes sisters on board for a bunch kick0
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Hannah Barnes leading out Alice but on the front FAR too early. Ale Cipollini gathering, CCC and Mitchelton now conspicuous by their absence0
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The young dutch sprinter from Park Hotels Valkenberg absolutely crushes all the names in the sprint. Fair play and vindicates a lot of hard work by her team - 5 bike lengths back to Christine Majerus0
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Wiebes is the name - hadn't heard of her previously but she won Nokere Koerse which is no easy race, fair play0
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Decent finish that, just about enough doubt to keep in interesting until the final few kms and then a very good sprint by the winner.0
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ShutupJens wrote:The young dutch sprinter from Park Hotels Valkenberg absolutely crushes all the names in the sprint. Fair play and vindicates a lot of hard work by her team - 5 bike lengths back to Christine Majerus
Overhead made the distance clear - only just got both of them in the shot. Did well to sit on Majerus, because whoever led Majerus out - I assume it was someone from her team - opened up a huge gap to start with and Wiebes was the only person able to go with them.0 -
And off we go again. Currently in the neutralised zone, extended specifically to ensure nothing interesting ever happens in Barnsley.0
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Tom Stewart (Canyon DHB Bloor etc), Fabien Grellier (Total DE), Jake Scott (Swift) and Chris McGlinchey (Vitus) off the front early, currently hovering about a minute ahead. Doesn't look like they're going to be given much more.0
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Bit of a free for all."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 pm0
