Stage 5, TT, US PC. Dennis wins and extends his overall lead. Tao does an amazong ride and becomes 7th just behind Phinney and less than a minute down on Dennis. Difference between 1st and 2nd covers the differnce between 2nd and 8th.
Dan Eaton also putting in a performace this race and leads the young jersey comp just ahead of Tao (they are on same team). 3rd place is Aus stagaire for Tinkoff.
Dan Eaton also putting in a performace this race and leads the young jersey comp just ahead of Tao (they are on same team). 3rd place is Aus stagaire for Tinkoff.
You're looking at the stage results, FF. Tao is in the jersey, 15 seconds ahead of Hugh Carthy. They are 6th & 9th on the full GC.
Dan Eaton also putting in a performace this race and leads the young jersey comp just ahead of Tao (they are on same team). 3rd place is Aus stagaire for Tinkoff.
You're looking at the stage results, FF. Tao is in the jersey, 15 seconds ahead of Hugh Carthy. They are 6th & 9th on the full GC.
Andy Leigh wins stage 4 of the Tour of East Flanders, with James Shaw coming 5th for Lotto's dev team. Top that for small and shoot!
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Can I just say that Carthy was on a road bike for the TT and not a TT bike - I think that he would have ridden a lot faster on a TT bike (he's not a bad time trialist as I seem to remember)... As Felix English pointed out, he looked a bit bleurgh in the TT - Caja Rural green, blue best young rider shirt, road bike and no shoe covers!
Tour de l'Avenir started today with a 3.5km prologue.
1. DEN ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 04'53"
2. ITA MOSCON Gianni - 1"
3. COL HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 4"
4. NED VAN DER POEL Mathieu 5"
5. AUT MÜHLBERGER Gregor 6"
6. GER WEBER Johannes 6"
7. FRA PETERS Nans - 7"
8. SUI BOHLI Tom - 7"
9. NOR EIKING Odd Christian 9"
10. ESP SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 9"
Top Brits were Gabriel Cullaigh in 13th, and Alex Peters in 20th.
Tour de l'Avenir started today with a 3.5km prologue.
1. DEN ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 04'53"
2. ITA MOSCON Gianni - 1"
3. COL HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 4"
4. NED VAN DER POEL Mathieu 5"
5. AUT MÜHLBERGER Gregor 6"
6. GER WEBER Johannes 6"
7. FRA PETERS Nans - 7"
8. SUI BOHLI Tom - 7"
9. NOR EIKING Odd Christian 9"
10. ESP SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 9"
Top Brits were Gabriel Cullaigh in 13th, and Alex Peters in 20th.
14th & 18th, according to BC & Procyclingstats....
Riding on the Aussie team, Freddy Ovett 2 places from last - uphill TTs not his thing by the look of it
1. André Greipel
2. Alexander Kristoff
3. Giacomo Nizzolo
4. Greg Van Avermaet
5. Tom Boonen
Greipel had a good leadout from Katusha, passing Kristoff just before the line to take a good win. No sign of Kittel, while Cav seems to have crashed at about 1.5km.
New sprinter Marc Sarreau FdJ gets his first win in front of some pretty handy sprinters Farrar Hofland Coquard - in a 98 km stage - presume it was a split day with tt?
Dowsett loses 17 seconds to Malori and Castroveijo ( Martin third) in 23 km tt. Keep an eye on boy LaTour only lost a minute for 10th
GP Ouest France - Plouay this afternoon showing on French TV. Should be a good race to watch with a strong field - Boonen, Gilbert, Kittel, Galopin, plus Wellens after his Eneco victory, etc,
Nice to see green countryside again after several days of following the Vuelta.
Small group of four in break of just over 1 minute with 50km to go.
Break reeled back in and after several attacks there is now a group of seven, including Wellens & Deignan, with a lead of 30s and 32km left. Europcar and Etixx leading the chase.
20km left and gap is now just 10s. Etixx and Europcar still working hard at front of peleton while Wellens and Simon Clarke trying hard to make the break stick.
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Dan Eaton also putting in a performace this race and leads the young jersey comp just ahead of Tao (they are on same team). 3rd place is Aus stagaire for Tinkoff.
Rob Britton of Mike Creed's SmartStop Conti team also put in a hell of a TT to get himself up into a GC podium spot
Ah yes, makes sense, thanks.
Damn, beaten to it.
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1. DEN ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 04'53"
2. ITA MOSCON Gianni - 1"
3. COL HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 4"
4. NED VAN DER POEL Mathieu 5"
5. AUT MÜHLBERGER Gregor 6"
6. GER WEBER Johannes 6"
7. FRA PETERS Nans - 7"
8. SUI BOHLI Tom - 7"
9. NOR EIKING Odd Christian 9"
10. ESP SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 9"
Top Brits were Gabriel Cullaigh in 13th, and Alex Peters in 20th.
Alexander Poos is still the all time great though.
14th & 18th, according to BC & Procyclingstats....
Riding on the Aussie team, Freddy Ovett 2 places from last - uphill TTs not his thing by the look of it
2. Alexander Kristoff
3. Giacomo Nizzolo
4. Greg Van Avermaet
5. Tom Boonen
Greipel had a good leadout from Katusha, passing Kristoff just before the line to take a good win. No sign of Kittel, while Cav seems to have crashed at about 1.5km.
1st day was an uphill prologue, so today's offically st 4, and no, it hasnt started yet
First one was a prologue. I like calling a prologue a stage though..
Stage 4 is today.
Fact remains that the Danish team are doing ver ver well
Thats it. Denmark rule the future.
New sprinter Marc Sarreau FdJ gets his first win in front of some pretty handy sprinters Farrar Hofland Coquard - in a 98 km stage - presume it was a split day with tt?
Dowsett loses 17 seconds to Malori and Castroveijo ( Martin third) in 23 km tt. Keep an eye on boy LaTour only lost a minute for 10th
Pretty good startlist in this 2.1 race
Tony Martin leading overall with this stage left
Nice to see green countryside again after several days of following the Vuelta.
Small group of four in break of just over 1 minute with 50km to go.