2013 Tour de Suisse, Stage 1: Quinto - Quinto 8.1KM

[Parrulo]

A long prologue so Cancellara is the big favourite.

TJVG will imo come out on top from the GC riders shortly followed by Costa and Spilak

 

[Galic Ho]

Sounds about right. Cancellara and everyone else to follow. TJVG FTW overall.

 

[Afrank]

Cancellara should be able to win this one fairly easily, even with not having worked on the TT much this year. Can't see too many guys (or any really) that are that close to him in the TT (and especially in a prologue like this).

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Maybe if he finds any motivation somewhere. At the 15km TT in Tour of Belgium 2 weeks ago, he ended 77th, 2 minutes behind Martin.

 

[Lanark]

Maybe if he finds any motivation somewhere. At the 15km TT in Tour of Belgium 2 weeks ago, he ended 77th, 2 minutes behind Martin.

Yeah, Cancellara is by far the best prologue rider here...on paper. His form in the Tour of Belgium seems really lacking (not surprising considering his goals for the rest of the season). He could win, but I don't think it's a done deal at all.

If he's well rested from the Giro I think Kelderman could top-5 here as well.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

will take it.

But TJVG will fight him all the way.

Rasmussen. Gretsch and Kelderman could make things competitive.

 

[roundabout]

No flights out of Ambri today.

You can see most of the course on this photo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/La_funicolare_del_Ritom.jpg

 

[Gloin22]

will take it.

But TJVG will fight him all the way.

Rasmussen. Gretsch and Kelderman could make things competitive.

Sagan beat him easily on vey similar course last year

 

[manafana]

TVG should be very good for this, number of lads who could spring a big one too.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Maybe Cam Meyer can do well in this TT. Looked pretty good in California.

 

[SafeBet]

Meyer will do great I think.
I'm curious to see if Moser can pull a good prologue too. He's normally excellent in thus kind of efforts.

 

[Ferminal]

Also Sagan, on form with effort he would top3.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Is there a site where we can see all times? (+ intermediate times)

 

[TANK91]

Guys is this the same stage as last year. Did'nt Sagan win that prologue of Kessiakoff.

 

[screaming fist]

No, it's another prologue stage. Last year (and the two years before that) was much more hilly, basically once up the climb and then back down. Sagan won last year in front of Cancellara who had won the two years before. Kessiakoff won the longer TT in last year's TdS, also in front of Cancellara.

 

[Ferminal]

Interesting that Meyer chose to start mid-field.

Meyer 9'39"
Terpstra 9'49"
Haussler 9'53"
Rasmussen 9'54"

 

[FlyingSquirrel]

Andreas coming in 7th fabu wins good day 4 rst

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Meyer fastest time so far, 10 secs faster than Terpstra

 

[Ferminal]

Is there a site where we can see all times? (+ intermediate times)

Found it, sort of. That is the final intermediate, don't know how to get the finish.

http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord...de_course=TDS&codes=3&nb_etape=01&type=&race=

Change the "codes=" to 1 and 2 for earlier checks.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Found it, sort of. That is the final intermediate, don't know how to get the finish.

http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord...de_course=TDS&codes=3&nb_etape=01&type=&race=

Change the "codes=" to 1 and 2 for earlier checks.

Thanks! Appreciated

 

[Ferminal]

Found it, sort of. That is the final intermediate, don't know how to get the finish.

http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord...de_course=TDS&codes=3&nb_etape=01&type=&race=

Change the "codes=" to 1 and 2 for earlier checks.

http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord..._course=TDS&codes=ARR&nb_etape=01&type=&race=

There's the finish, swap ARR for 1, 2 or 3 for the checks. Probably have to manually refresh it.

 

[caricas]

jtl crushing the field
Skyfail

 

[roundabout]

http://www.matsport.fr.php53-23.ord..._course=TDS&codes=ARR&nb_etape=01&type=&race=

There's the finish, swap ARR for 1, 2 or 3 for the checks. Probably have to manually refresh it.

3 intermediates in an 8k TT.

One more than in 54k in the Giro.

 

[Ferminal]

3 intermediates in an 8k TT.

One more than in 54k in the Giro.

Better timing interface too, even if it's not advertised.

 

[Parrulo]

3 intermediates in an 8k TT.

One more than in 54k in the Giro.

You know. . . Swiss's and their watches and all that