2013 Criterium International

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

This SKY thing really begins to be ridiculous, almost pathetic, can´t believe they havent been busted yet.

Wrong forum, here we call it 'great tactics', 'good day', 'poor opposition'.

It was a great day for cycling, for sure.

 

[cineteq]

It appears you got lost on the way to the clinic. Please go there
and don't come back until you know how to behave.

BMW says hi!

 

[Cavendash]

Contador and co will be thrown the scraps left over from Sky (Vuelta) this season and nothing else.

 

[maxmartin]

Can they win today against sky? That is the real question

 

[trevim]

Can they win today against sky? That is the real question

Only with the help of Riccardo

 

[Pippo_San]

Can they win today against sky? That is the real question

Well Juanjo for one looks helplessly lost

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well Juanjo for one looks helplessly lost

Talking about Cobo, he is the last one that really beat the Sky train. Vuelta 2011, classic times

 

[burning]

Only with the help of Riccardo

A fully charged up Ricco will destroy Sky train, thats for sure

 

[jens_attacks]

oh this was some real racing, amazing ride by kiry,richie and froomey!
too bad that sivtsov wasn't there,really surprised about it but kiry did the work of ten guys, what a powerhourse! _O_

the conditions were much worse than last year and sadly chris didn't manage to beat last year's time but ventoux and alpe are his target not ospedale

here are the time ascents of last 4 years on ospedale(i'll verify froomey's time tonight to be 100% sure). super fast anyway

http://climbing-records.blogspot.ro/2013/03/froomey-goes-supersonic-but-cant-beat.html



what a show!!!

 

[will10]

I was actually speechless when Porte attacked. Quite a show indeed.

 

[willbick]

In the meantime you are!

Hard to tell what happened to Porte...didn't feel too good when Froomey accelerated most likely. If not, great tactics to secure the win!

erm.....incorrect

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Andy improves drastically
56 51 Andy SCHLECK RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 00:21:57

If he keeps improving at this rate he might just beat Froome and Porte by 10 minutes in the TDF

 

[maxmartin]

Only with the help of Riccardo

Not if sky add w to the train

 

[maxmartin]

Sky peaked too early, july is what matters. It will be way different then

Nonsense they are still building the form, watch out they swipe the tour podium

 

[Afrank]

Andy improves drastically
56 51 Andy SCHLECK RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 00:21:57

If he keeps improving at this rate he might just beat Froome and Porte by 10 minutes in the TDF

So...he finished a race.
Awesome! It's about time, now he needs to keep this going and not regress.

 

[will10]

Sky peaked too early, july is what matters. It will be way different then

Just like last year.

 

[maxmartin]

Talking about Cobo, he is the last one that really beat the Sky train. Vuelta 2011, classic times

Sky train is not fully developed in that vueltas although gathering shape, sky really burst out into the scene starts from w winning everything in 2012

And this year, his domestiques are winning everything, at least w learning the lesson of sharing glory

 

[Parrot23]

Andy improves drastically
56 51 Andy SCHLECK RADIOSHACK LEOPARD 00:21:57

If he keeps improving at this rate he might just beat Froome and Porte by 10 minutes in the TDF

Excellent analysis!

I'm hoping. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Go Andy!

 

[garyhoop1]

Videos

Watch videos from all stages of Gent-Wevelgem here - http://bit.ly/16Q6i8G

 

[Jelantik]

I didn't expect Froome to attack Porte today. But it's a dog eat dog world.

He's lucky that Porte is the one that's wearing yellow. If it's wiggin, we are all know how that's gonna end! FROOMEDOG - HALT!!

Still great ride by froome and porte. I wonder if Bertie can handle this one two punch come in July. Bertie is always insecure whenever he got a teammate that's too strong. But in this era of cycling, having one option seems to be a lot more gambling to me.

ps. I'm sure porte is probably bump because he would have won the crit, but his teammate has a different plant. From the way Porte closed down to Froome, I bet he didn't have any problem to follow Froome. But on the other hand, the Crit is prestigious even, I don't think Froome would have wanted to just play a lap dog, and give the win to Porte. After all, his winning is his way to send the message to his rivals prior to TDF. Froome 2, Alberto and the rest of TDF GC contender 0.

 

[coinneach]

He's lucky that Porte is the one that's wearing yellow. If it's wiggin, we are all know how that's gonna end! FROOMEDOG - HALT!!

Still great ride by froome and porte. I wonder if Bertie can handle this one two punch come in July. Bertie is always insecure whenever he got a teammate that's too strong. But in this era of cycling, having one option seems to be a lot more gambling to me.

ps. I'm sure porte is probably bump because he would have won the crit, but his teammate has a different plant. From the way Porte closed down to Froome, I bet he didn't have any problem to follow Froome. But on the other hand, the Crit is prestigious even, I don't think Froome would have wanted to just play a lap dog, and give the win to Porte. After all, his winning is his way to send the message to his rivals prior to TDF. Froome 2, Alberto and the rest of TDF GC contender 0.

Eh, I make it 2-1, and the 1 was the one he most wanted to win

 

[il_cobra]

quite sad that andy's big fan account locked

he must celebrating now, i think.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Eh, I make it 2-1, and the 1 was the one he most wanted to win

Nibali isn't a TDF GC contender

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I was actually speechless when Porte attacked. Quite a show indeed.

You didn't expect him to be able to drop guys the same guys he dropped 2 weeks ago after making them do the riding after Froome?

I was surprised he waited so long to go.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

OTL Jens Voigt (Ger) RadioShack Leopard

They can't do that to Jensie

CI is his race.