Recent content by salixcycling

Is there enough hill for Roche to put in a decent result?

Winner not surprising, but Sky using up their team for Swift is very strange (compared with the TdF sprints, for example). Why not have one rider to protect him and let other teams take the wind?

Top 5 and last rider through at 18.4km splits onwards: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-road/event/men-time-trial/index.html?v=20120801-145303546

swedish helmets - look slightly like dumb donald from fat albert - american 70's tv series.

looks like some split times from 18.4 km onwards - it has the first three riders through there

Watching it in the local cinema :) They have decided to show several events, quite a lot of them cycling, live on one of their screens. (If anyone is nearby: Forum Theatre, Malvern, Worcestershire Tickets are free - don't know if they are sold out)

Taking the total time of the medium and main mountain stages (4, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17, excluding the last 2 as the GC was already decided by then and the only gap was Rodriguez because he was already out of contention), and ignoring time bonuses, these are the total times relative to...

No, you stated things with a specific slant.

Good grief. ITV4 just said official confirmation that that *was* the second sprint. No wonder there was confusion.

Sky got late notification that there was an extra sprint point that NO-ONE knew about until then, and got the mile marker confused. At the actual extra sprint point (that may not be anything), Wiggins stopped Cobo getting bonus seconds. Yes, hate on Sky.

Very rarely; so much so that when he got out of the saddle on the Angliru it was noticeable. This was a little after Cobo had pulled away. timecheck 23:20 on the Stage 15 video on TSFs site

Not that it is likely to matter - but any sensible reason why Froome is now 22" behind Cobo instead of 20"? He gained 2" bonus in the second intermediate sprint and lost 2" in the final sprint. Edit: They have given Fuente his 6" bonus

20" time penalty?? yesterday's results haven't been changed (like they did with Dan Martin), so it is either that (for something today) or an error in the rankings.

They have a pre-existing commitment to a different sport on ITV4. At least they still have it somewhere.

Keep saying that, it might even happen. Good ride by Wiggins and Sky today. No time gained, but no time lost to anyone (7 seconds to Purito is meaningless) and several more contenders shelled.