2013 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (2.HC) 21st - 28th April

[Geraint Too Fast]

This is going to be close.

or maybe not.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Any update? I don't have access to Eurosport at the moment.

Lots of attacks coming from the peleton now. 7km to go.

 

[maltiv]

Attacks from everywhere. This race is awesome

 

[Woody22]

Lots of attacks coming from the peleton now. 7km to go.

Thanks for that

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Pozzato's got a nice gap.

 

[maltiv]

Pozzato goes solo

 

[Hugo87]

It's difficult for Pozzato.

Edit- Easy win for Greipel.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I hope Greipel thanks Argos for all their work.

 

[l.Harm]

Don't get why they all bring Greipel back while Lotto is doing almost nothing

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I hope Greipel thanks Argos for all their work.

Argos operates with a single minded tactic. Always the same, go for the bunch sprint regardless of the situation.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Europcar got lots of help today (including Cofidis at a critical point), but Berhane is lucky to have a guy like Thurau in the team.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Argos operates with a single minded tactic. Always the same, go for the bunch sprint regardless of the situation.

they are the most pathetic pro team in the peloton except novo nordisk, but at least I can respect them. they will be out of the wt within a year thank god.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

they are the most pathetic pro team in the peloton except novo nordisk, but at least I can respect them. they will be out of the wt within a year thank god.

maybe they don't belong at WT level, but lets just wait and see how many existing WT teams goes under as a result of the sponsor crisis.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

they are the most pathetic pro team in the peloton except novo nordisk, but at least I can respect them. they will be out of the wt within a year thank god.

Claudio Corti disagrees.

 

[movingtarget]

Europcar got lots of help today (including Cofidis at a critical point), but Berhane is lucky to have a guy like Thurau in the team.

His daddy was a good rider. Good genes.

 

[movingtarget]

The Gorilla is making it look easy.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The Gorilla is making it look easy.

Without Kittel (or Cav for completeness) in the finale its pretty much kids play for Greipel when in form.

Stage 5 result:

1 André GREIPEL Lotto-Belisol Team 04:41:59
2 Matteo TRENTIN Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:00:00
3 Nikias ARNDT Team Argos-Shimano 00:00:00
4 Luca PAOLINI Katusha Team 00:00:00
5 Stefan VAN DIJK Accent Jobs - Wanty 00:00:00
6 Rafael ANDRIATO Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 00:00:00
7 Armindo FONSECA Bretagne Séché Environnement 00:00:00
8 Daniel SCHORN Team NetApp-Endura 00:00:00
9 Sonny COLBRELLI Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 00:00:00
10 Maxime MEDEREL Sojasun 00:00:00

GC:
1 Natnael BERHANE Team Europcar 19:09:13
2 Kevin SEELDRAYERS Astana Pro Team 00:00:10
3 Mustafa SAYAR Torku Sekerspor 00:00:12
4 Maxime MEDEREL Sojasun 00:00:26
5 Rory SUTHERLAND Team Saxo -Tinkoff 00:00:34
6 Yoann BAGOT Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 00:00:34
7 Cameron MEYER Orica GreenEDGE 00:00:34
8 Florian GUILLOU Bretagne Séché Environnement 00:00:38
9 Darwin ATAPUMA Colombia 00:00:40
10 Nicolas EDET Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 00:00:43

More than 130 riders are now +10 minutes down.

Berhane again looked a bit weak in the finale today, so we can expect aggressive racing moving forward.

 

[Afrank]

Good seeing Trentin up there, looks like he's recovered from his injury.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

tomorrows final climb is like 5 km at almost 10% right?

 

[kingjr]

Greipel looks ready for a battle for the Green Jersey in the Tour. Will be a nice fight between Sagan, him and probably Cav.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Greipel looks ready for a battle for the Green Jersey in the Tour. Will be a nice fight between Sagan, him and probably Cav.

and Guardini

 

[taiwan]

Greipel looks ready for a battle for the Green Jersey in the Tour. Will be a nice fight between Sagan.

Fixed free of charge

 

[Dazed and Confused]

tomorrows final climb is like 5 km at almost 10% right?

dunno the details, but the profile looks like this:

The day starts with a nice little hill.

(anybody wants a job as profile designer?)

 

[jens_attacks]

sayar will wipe out any signs of life on the last climb

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

sayar will wipe out any signs of life on the last climb

Seeldrayers and Kash will follow him with ease