2012 Vuelta a España: Stage 1: Pamplona → Pamplona (TTT) (16.5km)

[hrotha]

Sanfermines are still bad imagewise in my point of view. Anyway that's not a discussion for this thread at least. The people on the stands barely get what? 2 seconds of viewtime per team? Quite lame.

I agree on that.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Did Gilbert lunge for the line?

 

[Pharazon]

Official timing showing Garmin as 3rd (after 3 riders) but their time is quicker than the time they gave Caja.

Safe to say this is not a classic showing for the organisers.

think they corrected Caja and Orica because they missed the time stop 1st

 

[Ney the Viking]

Hahaha the vuelta has hired 2 bodyguards for AC to enable him to get around at all

 

[SafeBet]

Not a bad time by Liquigas.

 

[The Sheep]

Hahaha the vuelta has hired 2 bodyguards for AC to enable him to get around at all

how good a cyclist are they?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Omega Pharma shelling them already.

 

[Dedelou]

times are not getting faster and BMC is holding the lead

 

[Ney the Viking]

Rabobus 2 seconds faster than bmc @ 8

edit: and ag2r 1km/h faster than the schack

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

times are not getting faster and BMC is holding the lead

we've only had 3 or 4 mediocre teams since, and mean reversion on its own would suggest not to expect a new best time to be beaten so quickly

 

[SetonHallPirate]

Who was the last team to finish with more than five? Was it BMC?

 

[Ney the Viking]

Who was the last team to finish with more than five? Was it BMC?

yep bmc finished with 6

 

[Ney the Viking]

omega at 9:13 8 seconds faster than rabobus @ 8km

 

[SetonHallPirate]

New best time at 8k by Omega Pharma-Quickstep.

 

[Ney the Viking]

Andalucia almost finish with all 9 @19:51 almost the same as the schack

 

[Dedelou]

good split for rabo guys

 

[SetonHallPirate]

And as I say that about teams finishing with the bare minimum, Andalucia finishes with the full complement of nine.

 

[Mellow Velo]

The Carrots are off.
Be interesting to see if they can actually produce a TTT, close to home.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

What's the over under on the carrots?

Got to match Andalucia, surely?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Rabo by a single second.

 

[Ney the Viking]

Vacansoleil 10 seconds back @ 8km, no pictures so far ... fantastic production.

rabobus looking goood! 6 people left gonna be close! 19:00 1 second faster than bmc! Nice riding

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

That final tightish right hander is putting gaps in all the teams.

 

[luckyboy]

Very impressive from Rabo

 

[Miburo]

VDB can already lose a lot of time towards guys like Gesink.

 

[Ney the Viking]

haha time is corrected to same time as bmc, so faster than within a second!