2013 Tour de l'Ain: 9th-13th August (2.1)

[Geraint Too Fast]

Starts this afternoon with Pinot, Poels, Rolland, Bardet, Atapuma, LLS, Pellizotti, etc. Live ticker on DirectVelo.

Official Site

Prologue

Start Order

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Stage 4

Start List

 

[Netserk]

No coverage?

 

[Kazistuta]

No coverage?

Live ticker from the prologue (starts around 18.00) at directvelo...

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Ticker

Meersman fastest so far. Don't know what happened to Pellizotti.

 

[Flamin]

Omega 1-2.

Classement - top 10 :
1 MEERSMAN Gianni Omega Pharma Quick-step C.T. 05'31''45'''
2 DEVENYNS Dries Omega Pharma Quick-step C.T. 05'31''57''
3 GERARD Arnaud Bretagne - Séché Environnement 05'32''50'''
4 CLEMENT Stef Belkin Pro Cycling Team 05'33''22'''
5 SLAGTER Tom Jelte Belkin Pro Cycling Team 05'33''76''
6 FELLINE Fabio Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela 05'33''82'''
7 PETIT Adrien Cofidis Le Crédit en Ligne 05'34''01'''
8 BRANDLE Matthias IAM Cycling 05'34''95'''
9 MAES Nikolas Omega Pharma Quick-step C.T. 05'35''19'''
10 KEIZER Martijn Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 05'35''34'''

 

[murali]

whats the prize money like?

asking becoz i couldnt find the link. (language problem)

 

[Ferminal]

Duque, cool.

 

[roundabout]

what kind of trickery is that?

first win in 5 years it seems

 

[Ferminal]

Dunno, doesn't sound like there was a crash. Martinez second.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

how is duque supposed to win a massprint on speed these days

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

how is duque supposed to win a massprint on speed these days

kkcorti!

.....

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

kkcorti!

.....

lol!

..................

 

[trevim]

how is duque supposed to win a massprint on speed these days

Some of them must have some shape sometimes. Hey, do you know what's up with Duarte? Is he a commited professional? He never seems to be in shape... He was so good at the end of the Giro then nothing. Just an honest question.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

he's completely unmotivated. he started giro in horrible shape and only came into shape in final days. but even then he wasn't in top shape. he's tremendous talent but mostly unmotivated. he will leave coldeportes though so I think he just doesn't care anymore until next year

 

[trevim]

he's completely unmotivated. he started giro in horrible shape and only came into shape in final days. but even then he wasn't in top shape. he's tremendous talent but mostly unmotivated. he will leave coldeportes though so I think he just doesn't care anymore until next year

It sounds like he needs a DS/ more structured team (?) that can help him to keep his performance and motivation high all year.

 

[afpm90]

Grega Bole wins the second stage.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

It sounds like he needs a DS/ more structured team (?) that can help him to keep his performance and motivation high all year.

yes, but who could that be. whatever motivation he gets is out of himself only. like when he rode with geox first few months he wa smotivated to ride in europe on highest level

 

[Lupetto]

Grega Bole wins the second stage.

Meersman not in the first group, Felline takes the lead.

 

[Ferminal]

The climb is 7km @ 7% ish and the grind to the line isn't spectacular, Bole and Felline a chance to hold on again.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

live feed in dutch here http://www.sportlemon.tv/20130812/vv5208d3f6900663.37559102-619630.html

oops wrong thread

 

[Ferminal]

Almost had my hopes up there.

 

[Parrulo]

Almost had my hopes up there.

Same for me, would much rather see this than Eneco. . . .

 

[Ferminal]

Chop abandons after a chute on the descent. Bardet got away and has ten seconds or so over LLS, Slagter, Elissonde, Pinot, Reichenbach and Rossetto, about 5km left.

 

[roundabout]

Sanchez to pull back attacks and Slagter to win the sprint.