2012 Tour of California May 17 stage 5: Bakersfield ITT 29.6 km

[maltiv]

Oh cmon off your Gesink cannot climb anymore complex. The 2nd part is not only climbing. Only the last 800m.

But everyone knows that when Gesink TT's well, he climbs bad. And visa versa.

 

[Kazistuta]

The ATOC title is now between Gesink, TJVG, Horner (possibly, we will see his time) Velits and possibyl Nibali (hopefully Sagan)

TBH cant look past Gesink.

Nibali???

How about Danielson & Talansky? Inside 30 seconds of Gesink.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

But everyone knows that when Gesink TT's well, he climbs bad. And visa versa.

And everybody knows that superstition and bs

 

[goggalor]

Bookwalter over two minutes down, TJ misses out by quite a bit.

 

[Havetts]

TJVG +30.. woah..

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Van Garderen passed Horner

edit: Van Garderen +1.22 :shock:
Horner +2.49

 

[Froome19]

Nibali???

How about Danielson & Talansky? Inside 30 seconds of Gesink.

Possibly Talansky. Danielson wont win he may get a podium.

 

[c&cfan]

the f*ck just happend to tejay?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

TJVG seems to have gone off too quickly and popped.

 

[Havetts]

Horner + 2 min 49.. lol

 

[vcampbell]

Horner smiling? Nice

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

TJVG seems to have gone off too quickly and popped.

He is such a terrible climber he lost all that time on the climb /theyoungest

 

[goggalor]

Ouch, crap time by Horner.

CN reports TJ at 37:20... Shouldn't it be more like 36:20?

Edit: Bookwalter was 2:05 down and crossed the line ~30s before TJ, and he started 2 min ahead. Or am I going crazy?

 

[Cancellator]

Becca will be very very angry after this race is over...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No matsport.fr reports Van Garderens time as +1.22 too

 

[Kazistuta]

Possibly Talansky. Danielson wont win he may get a podium.

But you still believe in Nibali, placed 45sec's down on Tommy D?


There must be problems with the timings of both TJ and Horner.

 

[Epicycle]

the f*ck just happend to tejay?

Are you referring to what Liggett and Sherwen said? Because it was obvious that Tejay wasn't going to beat Z's time when Tejay hit the 1km to go banner because some of the last km is uphill. Liggett and Sherwen are terminally confused.

 

[Rocksteady]

Ouch, crap time by Horner.

CN reports TJ at 37:20... Shouldn't it be more like 36:20?

I also think they F-ed up his time..

 

[Richeypen]

Ouch, crap time by Horner.

CN reports TJ at 37:20... Shouldn't it be more like 36:20?

TJ was 1,21 down on Dave Z

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

9 31 Tejay VAN GARDEREN BMC Racing Team 00:01:21

it says on the official timing of Matsport.fr
So unless they f*cked up. That's his time

 

[theyoungest]

But everyone knows that when Gesink TT's well, he climbs bad. And visa versa.

Climbs bad... but bad enough to not take 40 secs to Zabriskie on Baldy?

Maybe there's been a wind change... there's wind in the back on the first half (hence the better intermediate times) and a headwind on the way back.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

One thing is for certain, this is the final nail in the coffin of the endless "Gesink can't ITT" crap.

 

[hrotha]

I'm going to assume Horner's magnetic field screwed up Tejay's clock.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Maybe there's been a wind change... there's wind in the back on the first half (hence the better intermediate times) and a headwind on the way back.

I think it's just that quite a few guys have tried to match Zabriskie on the first part of the course and taken too much out of themselves.

 

[c&cfan]

how can this stupid guy be sure that david Z already won when lulu is faster at the first time split and velits is so close?