012 Tirreno -Adriatico, Stage 2:San Vincenzo - Indicatore (Arezzo) 230 km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Half Lotto and Rabo on the ground

 

[Beech Mtn]

Some Lotto guy down, bunch of Coldeportes getting up, getting bikes

 

[Beech Mtn]

Farrar led out Cav nicely

 

[Fetisoff]

Cav, with Freire almost coming around him last second....

 

[maltiv]

Wow, mighty impressive sprint by Freire!

 

[Beech Mtn]

Freire 2nd

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

1. Cavendish
2. Freire
3. Farrar
4. Sagan
5. Modolo
6. Van Hummel

Pretty impressive by Freire....he's ready for MSR

 

[killswitch]

Shack and Rabo setting up Cav's win.

So typical...

 

[Pippo_San]

Freire impressive, Sagan also yet bad positioning...Farrar just went too soon

 

[spalco]

Close sprint. Good effort from Farrar and Freire. I'm not sure Cavendish is unbeatable this year, although he's certainly still hard to beat.

 

[Parrulo]

Wow, mighty impressive sprint by Freire!

230k stage so close to freire's zone

time to put money on him for MSR

 

[hrotha]

Freire seems to have got some of his speed back this season. Good, good.

 

[hatcher]

Nice win Cav. Winning with nous rather than speed at the minute. Good from EBH too.

Freire fast.

 

[maltiv]

230k stage so close to freire's zone

time to put money on him for MSR

I did that already when he won in Andalucia, got some pretty nice odds

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Cavendish has found a new lead out man in Farrar

 

[Rocksteady]

Good leadout by Garmin, just a little too early. Was that Koldo as the final guy?

Looks like Farrar just doesn't have the goods yet.

 

[Parrulo]

I did that already when he won in Andalucia, got some pretty nice odds

still at 16 so not bad

 

[DominicDecoco]

Shack and Rabo setting up Cav's win.

Nah, I liked the effort to make it hard for Cav on that little hill. Rabo failed yet again to make a prober train though. The hill wasn't hard enough anyway. But they tried something.

Matti looked solid on that acceleration. He'll win something in April.

 

[Race Radio]

Bettini sighting! puffy Neon jacket

 

[pastronef]

Good leadout by Garmin, just a little too early. Was that Koldo as the final guy?

Looks like Farrar just doesn't have the goods yet.

2 last guys: Navardauskas and Hunter in their national champion jerseys

 

[Rocksteady]

2 last guys: Navardauskas and Hunter in their national champion jerseys

Thanks! Just saw the dark and figured it was the Garmin cold weather gear.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Nah, I liked the effort to make it hard for Cav on that little hill. Rabo failed yet again to make a prober train though. The hill wasn't hard enough anyway. But they tried something.

Matti looked solid on that acceleration. He'll win something in April.

Didn't the whole Rabo-squad fall literally 1km after they pulled? That's a new form of accomplishment

 

[killswitch]

Nah, I liked the effort to make it hard for Cav on that little hill. Rabo failed yet again to make a prober train though. The hill wasn't hard enough anyway. But they tried something.

The other teams should send riders up the road and leave Sky to do the chasing so that Cav is without helpers in the last km.

 

[theyoungest]

Matthews taken to hospital, according to Rabo press guy.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Matthews taken to hospital, according to Rabo press guy.

One of the only Raboriders with actual form...

I guess they have to drink the entire poisoned lake till it is completely empty