2011 Tour de Suisse, Stage 5: Huttwil to Tobel-Tägerschen, 204 km

[dlwssonic]

Widely reported as Ballan, but yeah, whoever, not substantial.

80 Valeryi Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1 - Sanofi Aventis 0:00:16
81 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team

dont see how ballan could lose 16 seconds in the last few hundred metres.

 

[Tuarts]

Who's the unlucky HTC'er who's had a crash but still has to work up the front? Looks nasty.

 

[Tuarts]

some random dude started this ballen craze on the forum.

Sorta like the whole "Andrew" or "Wigan" craze on here.

 

[Granville57]

http://www.yycast.com/embed.php?fileid=RmbVWWTpGNMZBKw&vw=640&vh=360

Thanks for that. I couldn't get any feed to work.

All is good now...

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

80 Valeryi Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1 - Sanofi Aventis 0:00:16
81 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team

dont see how ballan could lose 16 seconds in the last few hundred metres.

I'm just going off reports. I really don't care, but equally it's not uncommon to lose a bit of time if you give up at 350 to go and start rolling, as that guy (whoever he is) did. It was an uphill finish - the guy finishing 3rd going as hard as possible still lost 2 seconds.

 

[Tuarts]

Aussie Nat Jersey sighting \o/

 

[UselessToo]

Who's the unlucky HTC'er who's had a crash but still has to work up the front? Looks nasty.

Peter Velits

 

[Tuarts]

Any reason why Euskatel are killing themselves on the front 20km from the finish?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Widely reported as Ballan, but yeah, whoever, not substantial.

it was burghardt, any fan with one working eye could see that

 

[FjPavels]

Any reason why Euskatel are killing themselves on the front 20km from the finish?

From the cyclingnews live update "Euskaltel-Euskadi is on the front, leading the chase. They will be riding to set up Koldo Fernandez"

 

[Tuarts]

Peter Velits

Ouch. Sucks that he still has to be up front and maintaining the pace. No passengers on the Cav Express...

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Gruppo soon to be compatto.
12secs and falling

update BARTA absorbed.

 

[Jamsque]

Gruppo compatto

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

it was burghardt, any fan with one working eye could see that

Apologies, my 1 eye didn't pay much attention when I had already read the day before that Ballan went early, as I was focussing on Thor.

Regardless, I've forgotten what Marcus looks like since he left HTC and killed his career.

 

[Tyke1968]

Sky mustering near the front.

Brit one-two?

 

[Ferminal]

Goss to win on the leadout (like Henderson in California).

 

[Mellow Velo]

Spotting litter in Switzerland is harder than spotting a likely EE stage winner.

 

[Tyke1968]

BMC take over on the front lol.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

BMC take over on the front lol.

Five of them!

 

[dlwssonic]

I really hope their efforts dont go to waste. They should do it later so as to make sure that GVA is at the front.

 

[Granville57]

"The Big Clash"

I hope so...

 

[jobiwan]

Does anyone have an English stream? I'm watching the Luxembourg stream, and as nice as it is, I can't understand it!

 

[Jamsque]

Gaps forming, pace is very high. BMC up front right now.

Does anyone have an English stream? I'm watching the Luxembourg stream, and as nice as it is, I can't understand it!

http://www.yycast.com/embed.php?fileid=RmbVWWTpGNMZBKw&vw=640&vh=360

 

[cineteq]

Better quality stream: http://sport.rtl.lu/livestream/stream/ ahead of the others

 

[Granville57]

Does anyone have an English stream? I'm watching the Luxembourg stream, and as nice as it is, I can't understand it!

http://www.yycast.com/embed.php?fileid=RmbVWWTpGNMZBKw&vw=640&vh=360