2013 Tour de Suisse, Stage 3: Montreux - Meiringen 204.9 km

[roundabout]

Onward to the next GC stage.

Pretty boring for the first 175km with the climb from Lac Leman to establish the break.

Hasliberg looks interesting, but will the 20% bit be enough to break the field?

Edit: can a mod please change the title to stage 3?

 

[Miburo]

2 stage's 2? lol i'm glad i'm not the one ****ing up a title, happens too often with me lol

We know he'll give it a go

i'm starting to like him more and more, awesome rider

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Is the descent very technical?

 

[roundabout]

There are a couple of hairpins on the way down from Brünig. Offer nice views too. But not really technical enough for a great descender to make much difference.

Edit: thank you, to whoever it was who changed the thread title.

Weather: light rain expected

 

[Parrulo]

There are a couple of hairpins on the way down from Brünig. Offer nice views too. But not really technical enough for a great descender to make much difference.

Edit: thank you, to whoever it was who changed the thread title.

Weather: light rain expected

I expect a small group to make it to the finish.

 

[SafeBet]

Any detailed profile of the final climb?

 

[Lupetto]

 

[SafeBet]

Cheers.
Think a group of at least 15 will be together at the top. Someone could try on the descent though.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Kasheckhin for the win!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

If it wasn't because the following three stages fits Sagan 100%, he could probably win this.

Instead I think a break will take it.

Delaplace, Pauwels or Van Der Sande perhaps.

 

[classicomano]

Small group to the finish, sounds like another stage tailor made for TGBM.

 

[jens_attacks]

visconti wins

 

[Flamin]

This should be a lot better than today's stage, I'm looking forward to it. Impossible to say who is going to take the win here.

 

[manafana]

pinot still has a good chance for this in my view

 

[WKA311]

Hoping for a Costa attack

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hoping for a Costa attack

didn't look nearly good enough to go for any attack really

 

[trevim]

didn't look nearly good enough to go for any attack really

Sad but true. Although he has some class that may allow him to do something later in the week

 

[Afrank]

Visconti perhaps if he's maintained his Giro form, Gilbert if it comes down to a slightly larger reduced sprint but with not many sprinters left, a GC contender like Ryder or Rui if they set the downhill alight, Ulissi or Moser maybe from a reduced bunch, but somehow I keep coming back to one guy.

Sagan to give us a taste of what we will see in the Tour and fire a warning shot across the heads of Cav, Kittel, Griepel and the other sprinters.

 

[WKA311]

didn't look nearly good enough to go for any attack really

Yeah i know, sadly. Well I'm just hoping for some riders with attacking attitudes (like Costa) to really go for it and make it an exciting last 30k

 

[Jason_Mercier]

I think is going to be more selective than today's one... Less diferences at the finish line though.

Still good for the uphill sprinters called climbers such as Mollema, Martin, Ulissi... I think will be for Diego Ulissi if there's a little of carnage in the climb...

If people climb at Orica's tempo then Moreno Moser or Giovanni Visconti. Peter Velits and Georg Preidler as "outsiders"





Good night guys.





It is a beautiful night... Oh baby, i think i wanna marry you

 

[The Hitch]

Giovanni Scarponi ftw.

 

[Gugashwill]

Giovanni Scarponi ftw.

Who is he?

 

[Jason_Mercier]

Who is he?

 

[wirral]

After the prologue (stage 1) Mollema was 41 seconds down on Meyer. Mollema took 27 seconds off Meyer on stage 2. Yet he remains 34 seconds behind him on the GC.

Obviously I have missed something. There is 20 seconds gone AWOL somewhere. Could somebody explain?

 

[The Hitch]

Who is he?

Very good Italian hilly classics rider turned mountain specialist