2011 Tour de Suisse, Stage 3: Brig-Glis - Grindelwald, 107.6 km

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Grimselpass : It's a long a winding road : de der.....

As viewed on steephill

Stunning! Absolutely stunning.

 

[hatcher]

It'll be interesting to see how he goes. He did well yesterday but his main problem has been consistency. He can perform well on one or 2 mountain stages but then bombs and loses loads of time (See the ToC as an example of that). That said, at the start of the year he said he was targetting this race.

If Froome can hang in there and get a top 10 at the end of the race (which will be some effort) then he could be in line for a suprise pick to the Sky TDF squad. There's a couple of places up for grabs with injury/illness to Cummings and Rogers an dhe could get one. He can do an OK TT (so should be good for the TTT) and can support Wiggins and Uran in some of the mountain stages.

To be fair to him he wasn't meant to be riding California. He's had a really good year on the mountains, but I think the timing of his season makes the Tour unlikely. Probably deserves it though.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Any chance it will be on Eurosport? I can't access the website right now.

Im pretty sure they won't show it.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Im pretty sure they won't show it.

It's live on Eurosport at 3pm. Showing 1.5 hours.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Would be good to see Matthias do well. Mollema too. I also would like to see Tejay Van Garderen do something special for himself at his age (my hometown boy).

I fear for our man Matthias on the descent. He ain't crash hot on descents.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

It's live on Eurosport at 3pm. Showing 1.5 hours.

From what I can tell, they're showing Le Mans 14.45-15.45, tennis from 15.45-17.00 and a rerun of Dauphiné from 17.00-18.15.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I think we can safely say that Soler won't be winning this one

soler is a weird guy, if he has his moment he can downhil really well. I remember di luca not being able to hold his wheel in downhil of milano torino 2007, where soler took big time on the opposition, but lost the inevetable sprint with di luca in the end.

now we are 4 years past and no good years either, still yesterday he had no problems following on the descending parts in the final, always up in front. with soler it's all in his head, only real enemy could be the rain, but he's not a bad downhiller, he just has trouble riding and manouvring in a peloton

 

[la.margna]

I think we can safely say that Soler won't be winning this one

looking at the TdS prologue, it seems Soler is not the catastrophic descender anymore he used to be...

we'll see... maybe we will be surprised, who knows...?

 

[Christian]

Would be good to see Matthias do well. Mollema too. I also would like to see Tejay Van Garderen do something special for himself at his age (my hometown boy).

You from Tacoma?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

looking at the TdS prologue, it seems Soler is not the catastrophic descender anymore he used to be...

we'll see... maybe we will be surprised, who knows...?

and he's never been. how many times has soler crashed in downhil compared to crashes in peloton? almost all of his crashes are bunch crashes

he won a stage in tour 2007 after like the longest downhil ever.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

From what I can tell, they're showing Le Mans 14.45-15.45, tennis from 15.45-17.00 and a rerun of Dauphiné from 17.00-18.15.

eurosport aren't doing tour de suisse this year

 

[Bielers]

From what I can tell, they're showing Le Mans 14.45-15.45, tennis from 15.45-17.00 and a rerun of Dauphiné from 17.00-18.15.

According to my Sky guide, British Eurosport are showing live coverage of Stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse from 3pm BST.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

From what I can tell, they're showing Le Mans 14.45-15.45, tennis from 15.45-17.00 and a rerun of Dauphiné from 17.00-18.15.

Is that Eurosport 2? My Sky is showing Eurosport as having MB World cup @ 1.00-2.05 (British time), TDS highlights 2.05-3.00, Live TDS 3.00-4.30, then Dauphine highlights @ 4.30-5.30.

 

[hatcher]

Eurosport 1 at 3pm.
Listed on eurosportplayer schedule too.

Kirby and Smith are doing it, so there is definitely coverage.

 

[Boardslide]

According to my Sky guide, British Eurosport are showing live coverage of Stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse from 3pm BST.

+1 According to their website these are the times on British Eurosport

14:05Cycling
2011 Tour of Switzerland: Stage TwoThe Tour of Switzerland. Highlights of the second stage of the annual UCI ProTour event, a 149km journey from Airolo to Crans-MontanaSport/Cycling

15:00Live Cycling
2011 Tour of Switzerland: Stage ThreeThe Tour of Switzerland. Coverage of the third stage of the annual UCI ProTour event, a 107.6km journey from Brig-Glis to GrindelwaldSport/Cycling

16:30Cycling
2011 Criterium du Dauphine: Stage SevenThe Criterium du Dauphine. Action from the seventh and final stage of the Pro Tour event in France, a 117.5km journey from Pontcharra to La ToussuireSport/Cycling

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Eurosports in some lands are carrying Suisse, others are not. German is not.

Susan

 

[dlwssonic]

I fear for our man Matthias on the descent. He ain't crash hot on descents.

how is mathias and tschopp descending?

 

[auscyclefan94]

how is mathias and tschopp descending?

Matthias ain't great but I don't know about tschopp.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

how is mathias and tschopp descending?

tschopp is really good

 

[taiwan]

Gerdemann loves attacking on descents, but I don't have huge faith that he'll be close enough to the front over the last summit to do anything.

 

[bjaelkesex]

Eurosports in some lands are carrying Suisse, others are not. German is not.

Susan

Well just as I got excited...

 

[Frosty]

1200 CEST weather observation at Meiringen (foot of the start of the last climb) is light rain.

1200 CEST weather observation at Grimsel (just below the top of the pass) +5C, no weather type reported.

Looks pretty grim at First-Grindelwald ( a little higher than the top of the Grosse Scheidegg).

 

[dlwssonic]

tschopp is really good

oh ya like he displayed in giro 2010 stage 20

 

[taiwan]

Cool, they're actually riding now. Official ticker.

[edit] Whoa, this is actually refreshing in the forum. Cool.

 

[taiwan]

does this thread still work?