2012 Criterium International, 2.HC, 24th - 25th of March

[LaFlorecita]

No, it was Wyss. Looks like Mangel got relegated

Yeah I was looking at cqranking.com but this seem to be the correct stage results now:

1. VACHON Florian 128 BRETAGNE - SCHULLER 2h 03' 42"
2. WYSS Danilo 17 BMC RACING TEAM + 00' 02"
3. RIBLON Christophe 68 AG2R LA MONDIALE + 00' 03"
4. KORETZKY Clément 143 TEAM LA POMME-MARSEILLE + 00' 04"
5. BUFFAZ Mickaël 21 COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE + 00' 04"
6. GERDEMANN Linus 3 RADIOSHACK-NISSAN + 00' 05"
7. GESCHKE Simon 113 PROJECT 1T4I + 00' 06"
8. BAZIN Nicolas 153 AUBER 93 + 00' 06"
9. LEQUATRE Geoffroy 127 BRETAGNE - SCHULLER + 00' 06"
10. BERNAUDEAU Giovanni 82 TEAM EUROPCAR + 00' 06"

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Lucky for Garmin they had the Coldesportes train to limit the damage

 

[roundabout]

Hold on... BMC almost won a race?

How dare you, it's the 3rd race that they've almost won this year.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Hold on... BMC almost won a race?

Still a 2s gap.

Mangel apparently got relegated. This is how he stands in the point standings:

13. MANGEL Laurent 106 SAUR-SOJASUN -15 pts

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Lucky for Garmin they had the Coldesportes train to limit the damage

Duarte finished in the first group.

 

[JRanton]

Also a 30 seconds time penalty for Mangel.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Lucky for Garmin they had the Coldesportes train to limit the damage

I doubt coldeportes did any opursuiting but rather ag2r as they have relaly f'd up. coldeportes had romero and duarte in first group

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Crash in the last 3km ?

Nordhaug, Gautier, Riblon, Puccio and Haas same time as first group but finished lower down ...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yeah. Haas believed he could have won and is really disappointed.

Thomas Dekker reports that the break in the peloton originated in a downhill. the leaders of Garmin missed the split and then Dekker had to work for the rest of the stage to try and bring em back.

 

[theyoungest]

Nathan Hare the only Garmin guy in the front group. I noticed Toms Skujins is in this race, rooting for him.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Yeah. Haas believed he could have won and is really disappointed.

Thomas Dekker reports that the break in the peloton originated in a downhill. the leaders of Garmin missed the split and then Dekker had to work for the rest of the stage to try and bring em back.

lucky rabobank wasn't here

 

[maltiv]

Peraud, Talansky and Le Mevel are out of the GC already, having lost a minute today. Particularly Peraud's time loss could prove vital, he was definitely one of the big favorites for the GC here.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

they lost 49 seconds. last year's gaps were quite substantial so he could still win. peraud I'd say.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

lucky rabobank wasn't here

nobody would have noted the difference. Actually, we wouldn't have noticed Rabobank was absent from the front in any race even if they were not participating. They have never been there

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

they lost 49 seconds. last year's gaps were quite substantial so he could still win. peraud I'd say.

The motivational hit means I don't give him much chance - and the fact he now has to race for a 1 minute gap rather than just the win.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

ag2r are so strong in number speraud can attack and they will let him ride. besides 1 minute? where? he need 49 seconds and probably less after this afternoons itt.

I don't say I think peraud has a good chance of winning but the 49 second riders aren't out for gc.

 

[maltiv]

With Nordhaug crashing today in the sprint, he could be out of the GC as well. He didn't lose time, but is obviously very sore. Too bad.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

on sky they said he's fine

 

[JRanton]

With Nordhaug crashing today in the sprint, he could be out of the GC as well. He didn't lose time, but is obviously very sore. Too bad.

Nordhaug seems to be fine according to the Sky report. It's Puccio who's a little bit sore.

http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,24977_7622014,00.html

Sky forced the selection which is impressive considering they only have six riders.

 

[Gloin22]

Don't trust in those Sky articles, with the injuries. We'll see how his TT goes, if he limits his looses and looks ok we'll see then. If he looses a lot over 6km, we can say he suffered.

 

[wirral]

No time trial time updates of any kind?

 

[Gloin22]

Shows Nordhaug fell hard imo, hopefully is alright and even in this sprint he looked good.

 

[maltiv]

Looks like Nordhaug would've been top 10 in that sprint, at least

His form must be pretty good then, because he's more or less a pure climber...

 

[jens_attacks]

horrible if he will lose this race because of the crash.he was no doubt the favourite because froome i don't think he's in top shape yet.
i really hope duarte shows something,coldeportes was utter crrap until now

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

coldeportes lack training base. maybe it can be fixed after this race but not in this race.