2012 Tour of Qatar (5th - 10th February), 2.HC

[Dancing On The Pedals]

10km to go, bunch sprint coming up

 

[wirral]

Crash. That was very lucky.

 

[Panda Claws]

Smukulis down

 

[wirral]

Amazing. Should have been 10 down there. Only Smukulis.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

What the hell happened?

Looking good for Guardini now, his team is well organized! Go Guardini!

 

[TeoSheva]

I have Galim @33

 

[will10]

Yikes, Qarnage sprint

 

[insideout leadout]

Look rabo at front!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Rabo shoot their load too soon.............again.

 

[Panda Claws]

Rabo doesn't want to win this one.

 

[insideout leadout]

Rabo shoot their load too soon.............again.

Hey don't be so negative

 

[insideout leadout]

Can Garmin do better today?

 

[insideout leadout]

Pure class by CAV.

 

[Ragerod]

Messy that.

Cav wins, Oss second, Sagan third

 

[Mellow Velo]

At lot of these "top" sprinters are getting pwnd in Qatar.
Well done Oss for being best of the rest.
Where was Fercking Farrar?

 

[hatcher]

Proper messy. Cav looked fast. Garmin outside top 10.

 

[theyoungest]

At lot of these "top" sprinters are getting pwnd in Qatar.
Well done Oss for being best of the rest.
Where was Fercking Farrar?

There's just one top sprinter. The rest of them are pretenders.

 

[insideout leadout]

Farrar is too dependent of his leadout. Cav is like Freire, he's not lost without support.

 

[pastronef]

eurosport2 live: cavendish climbs off his bike and walks near the team car with the other riders. someone says something and the eurosport commentators laugh!
but i did not undertand what Cav or his teammates said

anyone noticed?

 

[will10]

At lot of these "top" sprinters are getting pwnd in Qatar.
Well done Oss for being best of the rest.
Where was Fercking Farrar?

That's what happens when you have fifteen teams who fancy their chances in a sprint - complete carnage, even on massive wide roads.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Rabo didnt do to bad imo, they dont have to speed to do the last 2 km (especially with Vermeltfoort dropping out) in qatar. So they are keeping Renshaw safe as long as possible. Dont know what you guys expect but you cant expect this team in qatar to drop Renshaw of at 200 meter and be in the lead at that moment.

 

[theyoungest]

I wonder what Renshaw has told the Rabo boys? "Hey guys, just do the usual, you know, drop me off at 2k to go and I'll do the rest."

edit: ah, they're missing Vermeltfoort... the guy who has been lighting up sprints ever since entering the WorldTour.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

eurosport2 live: cavendish climbs off his bike and walks near the team car with the other riders. someone says something and the eurosport commentators laugh!
but i did not undertand what Cav or his teammates said

anyone noticed?

"****ing great job lads"

 

[Zoncolan]

Where was Steegmans? Not that it would have changed the outcome, but at least we would see Tommeke sprint against Cav.
Great win for Cav though. Hope he does the jersey justice throughout the year.

 

[TeoSheva]

1 Cavendish .2 Oss. 3 Sagan. 4 Degenkolb. 5 Selig .6 Davis