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

[El Pistolero]

Somewhat disappointing from RSNT and BMC. Surprised that Katusha hasn't been mentioned - same time as SKY, that must be very encouraging for them.

Leotard only takes out their good stuff at the Tour.

 

[luckyboy]

Didn't catch the race today for obvious reasons, but woo QuickStep

 

[roundabout]

2nd place for QS. Close enough to what I was arguing.

 

[El Pistolero]

Come'on Boonen, crush Cancellara at the cobbled classics this year! Show him the real fate of a gladiator. I will not tolerate any Leotard victories this year, not even of the Belgians on that squad.

 

[jens_attacks]

incredible that people with so big knowledge on cycling still follow david harmon's commentary...

what can i say?the turbo diesel is back,great ride by garmin and nice to see cav healthy.

 

[Kwibus]

Lol, "Rabobank with a disappointing time"... they had just 7 riders you dimwit.

I just watched it and I was like as well. Specially when BMC crossed the line not much later just 3 seconds faster than Rabo and the same dimwit said "a good time by BMC".

Good god....

 

[The Hitch]

Did Harmonn talk about you know what during the coverage? If so what did he say?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Did Harmonn talk about you know what during the coverage? If so what did he say?

Well you could hear in his voice he was happy about it although he didn't say it out loud.

Also when Thomas Dekker came into view some time after Garmin finished. He said "I'd rather not talk about him on a day like this"

Ridicolous commentator. If it were Millar he wouldn't... but hey, Millar is British ofcourse...

 

[Kwibus]

incredible that people with so big knowledge on cycling still follow david harmon's commentary...

what can i say?the turbo diesel is back,great ride by garmin and nice to see cav healthy.

Not much choice do we have don't we? Ofcourse I could mute it though.

This was the real first test for Dekker imo. I was soooo curious how he would do since this is what he should still be able to do really well.
When I watched Garmin cross the line I didn't see Dekker so I must say I was a bit dissapointd. Too stay positive I figured that Dekker took huge and powerful turns early in the TTT.... or atleast I hoped!

When the raced ended they showed a replay of Garmin-Barracuda crossing the line and only then I noticed Dekker was actually the first to cross the line. Wooo!

 

[Kwibus]

Did Harmonn talk about you know what during the coverage? If so what did he say?

He sounded really happy. Also said that the excuse of Contador about the contanminated meat was a ridiculous excuse which nobody believed anyways.

 

[The Hitch]

He was delighted with the verdict and his exact words were that contador`s excuse about the contaminated beef was laughable. Interesting he didnt have the courage to go out and speak like this when the case was going on over the last year and a half.

Thats surprising cos he was quite supportive of Contador last year.

Oh well, lets hope Harmonn is commentating for the Vuelta

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

He was delighted with the verdict and his exact words were that contador`s excuse about the contaminated beef was laughable. Interesting he didnt have the courage to go out and speak like this when the case was going on over the last year and a half.

In fairness to Harmon, and on certain issues I disagree with him pretty strongly, it's not a question of bravery but of the nature of British defamation laws. He'd have to be an idiot to risk being financially ruined, which is what he'd be doing by calling Contador a drug cheat on British TV before the verdict.

Defamation is known as the rich man's law and Contador is a rich man.

(Anyway, what exactly is so outrageous about what he said on this occasion?).

 

[palmerq]

hello everyone , please keep this thread about the tour of qatar race and not alberto.

 

[craig1985]

I would like to wish the two British teams Farnese Vini and Team Sky well in this race.

 

[Kwibus]

Another day with pretty much no wind. Just 15km/h. Too bad.

Btw, Farnese is brittish? It got a brittish flag on Eurosport yesterday, bit weird.

 

[TeoSheva]

Today is Galim's day!

 

[Kvinto]

Btw, Farnese is brittish? It got a brittish flag on Eurosport yesterday, bit weird.

http://inrng.com/2011/12/greenedge-registered-as-an-italian-team/

'This practice isn’t unique to the Farnese Vini team. For example what could be more Italian than a Colnago frame… only the Colnago-CSF team is registered in Ireland. This is presumably related to tax, Italian companies exploit low payroll taxes in Britain and Ireland'

 

[auscyclefan94]

Breakaway st 3

ignatyev, sohrabi, ojavee and lemair.

 

[Kwibus]

Its weird alright. Its also weird that Colnago are down as an irish team. You see a shamrock style logo on their jersey.

No wind so again. When thats the case you can nothing else but a bunch sprint so hopefully Sagan can do something today. I wonder is Cavendish feeling a lot better though.

Cavendish looked good in the TTT yesterday, but he didn't even try to contest the sprint on sunday.

 

[wirral]

Any results of intermediate sprints up yet?

 

[fezzer]

any livestream? should be live images by now

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

livestream http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-8.php

 

[Boardslide]

any livestream? should be live images by now

4 men up the road at 2'00, 37km to go

 

[Zam_Olyas]

any livestream? should be live images by now

http://velorooms.com/live-streams-highlights/livestream-links/

 

[Hugo Koblet]

30 kms to go, 1 minute for the escapees.