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

[pastronef]

"****ing great job lads"

thank you

 

[dlwssonic]

seems to me like the rest of the BMC team have been snoozing other than Blythe. Its still very early in the season. I expect their first win to be anytime soon....

 

[insideout leadout]

Cav is going to be unbeatable this year with this early form and added motivation that comes with the jersey and olympics.

 

[will10]

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.

He brought Boonen up to the front at around 1500m to go

 

[maltiv]

Wonder how many races Cavendish will win this season if he keeps this up...He was simply on another level today.

 

[Zoncolan]

He brought Boonen up to the front at around 1500m to go

He needed him badly with 700-800 m to go.
At least there wouldn't have been a whole bike length empty behind Cav.

 

[Mellow Velo]

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

I'll know you will appreciate this:
7. DEMARE Arnaud
8. GUARDINI Andrea
9. GALIMZYANOV Denis

All in guess who's CQ team? (saved from total fail by Oss)

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Farrar going for the classics means he lost speed it seems. He is going backwards in sprints these days

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Did anyone notice today in the commentary when Harmon was on about the Ullrich case and he went on to ask Brian Smith about it that Smith just ignored the question and went on talking about the breakaway and the racing going on.

BTW Cav was too good here but at least Liquigas featured today with Oss and Sagan. They were anonymous up to now in the race.

I didn't get to see the race but yea, it seems they are alive atleast, i should congratulate on twitter since i have been giving them a hard time on twitter.

 

[Richeypen]

I thought Cav could only win with a lead out train

On a serious note, are echelons likely tomorrow?

 

[Ronde van Flausenthurm]

Seems Pozzato is out with a suspected broken collarbone.

 

[Four Winds]

From memory (and assuming it's the same last stage as usual!) it's generally a bunch gallop.

 

[Fetisoff]

Seems Pozzato is out with a suspected broken collarbone.

Guy just can't catch a break the last couple of years (no pun intended), can he?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

 

[Kvinto]

i'm curious when did he manage to fall

 

[Richeypen]

Seems Pozzato is out with a suspected broken collarbone.

The classic wildcards for Farnese in doubt do you think. He has got to be the main reason they were given them.

 

[wirral]

The official results are slow to update.

 

[wirral]

They must have read my post.

 

[djlovesyou]

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.

I'm looking forward to the first strop in the WC jersey.

 

[Kvinto]

Tour of Qatar 2012 - Stage 5 - Final kilometers

 

[webbie146]

Very impressive win by Cavendish again!

 

[al_pacino]

Tour of Qatar 2012 - Stage 5 - Final kilometers

cheers, not been able to watch this year.

Cav does look in decent enough form for this time of year.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Another rough showing by Garmin (lead out wise), 4 guys in front with 2.5k to go, but then dissipated 2k later. Seems the coordination is there, but the guys just aren't fast enough to string everyone else out (but nobody else really is anyway). Sky seemed less coordinated, but got it done because Cav is kind of fast. Liquigas with some depth up front.

 

[Thomsena]

Haha, " you pillock!"

Thanks for link.

 

[Kvinto]

Cavendish and Degenkolb started their sprints simultaneously but Cav managed to 'lead' Oss for 2nd while Degenkolb was passed by Sagan. Boonen and Renshaw chose a wrong side of the road and there was no Steegmans to help this time...

EDIT: it seems to me, Daniel Oss was doing a lead out to Sagan but just lost him trying to hold on the Cav's wheel. It was a good sprint by Sagan in the end.