2013 Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 2 Châtel - Oyonnax , 183 km.

[SafeBet]

easy win for Elia

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Viviani wins.

 

[Cimber]

Sky are so desperate about their TT start-time...

 

[Kender]

No banging handlebars today for viviani

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice top 3:

Viviani
Meersman
Gallopin.

But racing was poor today. Waste of a stage really.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

eeasy peasy Vivianesey!

 

[Kender]

Nice top 3:

Viviani
Meersman
Gallopin.

But racing was poor today. Waste of a stage really.

Stages 4 and 5 will shake things up

 

[Jelantik]

as much as I like the saxo new jersey.. boy they are hard to spot on the peloton. From the distance sometimes they mixed with vacansoil!

 

[Cimber]

Nice top 3:

Viviani
Meersman
Gallopin.

But racing was poor today. Waste of a stage really.

The big Tour contenders arent gonna risk a lot on descents in a prep race.

 

[Pulpstar]

Slagter "I’ll try a day-to-day approach and I’m going to defend the jersey with everything I have.”

Disappointing, must have felt he was in better shape.

Could he be the next Gesink ?

 

[theyoungest]

Could he be the next Gesink ?

Slagter was sick last week, he was actually surprised it went so well yesterday. Today apparently less so.

Who was the Sky rider being led out for an embarassingly bad sprint? Kennaugh?

 

[Ruudz0r]

What was SKY doing, Thomas was leading out Kennaugh who failed pretty badly. And EBH was not participating in the sprint?

 

[Kender]

So meersman exchanges his green jersey for a green jersey

 

[Ruudz0r]

Slagter was sick last week, he was actually surprised it went so well yesterday. Today apparently less so.

Who was the Sky rider being led out for an embarassingly bad sprint? Kennaugh?

Yes it was Kennaugh and he did really bad, he lost Thomas his wheel with about 800-700 to go then got back on and probably wasted all his energy and couldnt sprint anymore. Not that he could have delivered a decent sprint if he didnt lose the wheel before.

 

[Cimber]

What was SKY doing, Thomas was leading out Kennaugh who failed pretty badly. And EBH was not participating in the sprint?

They werent leading any one - Froome + Porte just wanted to finish a good position so they get a good start time in the TT on wednesday (i.e after Contador).

 

[whittashau]

You've got to give it to the ASO. No one does a better job at creating profiles which look conducive to good racing, but then end up being complete duds.

 

[maltiv]

What was SKY doing, Thomas was leading out Kennaugh who failed pretty badly. And EBH was not participating in the sprint?

Trying to get world tour points for the brits to increase their numbers in worlds, I guess. No idea why EBH didn't even try, he was just cruising in the middle of the peloton and didn't look the least bit interested in sprinting.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

as much as I like the saxo new jersey.. boy they are hard to spot on the peloton. From the distance sometimes they mixed with vacansoil!

Rogers & Paulinho & Jesus H finished in the front group with AC
but he did look alone most of the time

 

[Publicus]

You've got to give it to the ASO. No one does a better job at creating profiles which look conducive to good racing, but then end up being complete duds.

It's up to the riders to make the race.

 

[Cimber]

Rogers & Paulinho & Jesus H finished in the front group with AC
but he did look alone most of the time

Hé often does. Hé prefers to flicker around a lot for some reason

Edit: CAS was also in the group btw

 

[ThirdWorld]

ooo the race already finished.. so early! not normal time... at least I did not lost nothing.. for what I saw here...

 

[Ruudz0r]

They werent leading any one - Froome + Porte just wanted to finish a good position so they get a good start time in the TT on wednesday (i.e after Contador).

Ah okay thats probably why Thomas was looking over his shoulder the hole time to check if Kennaugh was still in his wheel (from about 2K out). And thats probably also why Froome and Porte didnt sprint at all.

 

[Cimber]

Ah okay thats probably why Thomas was looking over his shoulder the hole time to check if Kennaugh was still in his wheel (from about 2K out). And thats probably also why Froome and Porte didnt sprint at all.

Ye that is why.. Yesterday at least. If that wasnt the reason today, they just sucked balls i guess

Froome and porte both Finished in the In top 30 today.

 

[maltiv]

Ah okay thats probably why Thomas was looking over his shoulder the hole time to check if Kennaugh was still in his wheel (from about 2K out). And thats probably also why Froome and Porte didnt sprint at all.

Nah it's all about the number of riders having scored world tour points. Obviously G is a much better sprinter than Kennaugh, but G has already scored WT points.

 

[Bumeington]

Ye that is why.. Yesterday at least. If that wasnt the reason today, they just sucked balls i guess

Froome and porte both Finished in the In top 30 today.

Kiryenka loses another 11 mins, so he can get an early start for the TT to feed info to Froome/Porte or just out of form?