2013 Tour de Suisse, Stage 7: Meilen - La Punt 206 Km

[jens_attacks]

Dombrowski was the most impressive. On the attack before Bergün and still did the climb in 38 minutes.

by far

he can become the greatest climber of the next 15 years

it probably wasn't smart to attack from that far knowing that there are flat sections too before, but hey i won't complain. an attack from the bottom of the climb is almost unthinkable nowadays

great stuff from dombrowski today

 

[search]

there was a massive tailwind though (according to swiss tv)

 

[JRanton]

Dombrowski was the most impressive. On the attack before Bergün and still did the climb in 38 minutes.

Strong performance for sure. Will be interesting to follow his progress. Seems like he's quite strong mentally too given that he produced that performance after a tough week with crashes etc.

 

[jens_attacks]

dombrowski said that there was headwind...

better check those flags if you wanna know for sure. i'm too lazy for that

 

[Afrank]

Dombrowski was the most impressive. On the attack before Bergün and still did the climb in 38 minutes.

Dombro was just pure awesomeness. Can't wait to see what he does in Colorado.

 

[BigMac]

Anybody has upload today's stage? But the climb not the final kilometers,.,

Stage 7 last 30km's splited in three parts and easy to watch

Struggled to find it on youtube, no way.

http://www.roadracefanatic.tv/p/stage-7.html

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

koldo and gomez marchante would have sent bobby to sleep

they were on different fuel

 

[webbie146]

Can someone make a stage 8 topic?

 

[Ruudz0r]

What happened to the GC of Pozzovivo?

Before this stage he was 15th 2.29 behind Frank. Today he finished 1.27 behind Costa so 1.05 behind Frank so he should now be at 3.34. But in the standings it shows he is at 4.30. So he got a 56 seconds penalty?

Guys like Reichenbauch and Tschopp who finished with him today have passed him in GC.

 

[Taxus4a]

the climbing times on albula from last 3 editions. very exposed to the wind.

2006 with the magical koldo gil was full out war, big kaiser couldn't keep up


http://climbing-records.blogspot.com/2013/06/no-big-moves-on-albula-pass.html

The stage was very hard when Gesink, the hardest of that year, but when Marchante and Koldo that was not the problem

 

[Frosty]

What happened to the GC of Pozzovivo?

Before this stage he was 15th 2.29 behind Frank. Today he finished 1.27 behind Costa so 1.05 behind Frank so he should now be at 3.34. But in the standings it shows he is at 4.30. So he got a 56 seconds penalty?

Guys like Reichenbauch and Tschopp who finished with him today have passed him in GC.

Yeah, thats odd. Bit of a random time penalty assuming that is what it was.

 

[Jason_Mercier]

stage 7 last 30km's splited in three parts and easy to watch

struggled to find it on youtube, no way.

http://www.roadracefanatic.tv/p/stage-7.html

thanks

?........

 

[acetray]

Very nice stage today. Raced from the beginning to the end. Captains were out pretty early to defend their position in GC. Just like it should be.

Average age for the top 10 of this stage: About 25

Tour de Youth

Also I think TJVG will get very close to winning the GC in the end.

Agree with you there, He will have a great last TT and be within 15-30 sec of the win at the end

 

[Kokoso]

Costa is better.

I do not understand how Kreuziger gets the hype in TT's , he has been **** in them since some time...

Well there's no hype regarding Kreuziger TT in this forum, it's just you.

 

[Kokoso]

General
1 73 Mathias FRANK BMC Racing Team 25:42:36
2 1 Rui Alberto COSTA Movistar Team 00:00:13
3 121 Roman KREUZIGER Team Saxo -Tinkoff 00:00:23
4 166 Thibaut PINOT FDJ 00:00:44
5 114 Bauke MOLLEMA Blanco Pro Cycling Team 00:00:46
6 78 Tejay VAN GARDEREN BMC Racing Team 00:01:17
7 63 Daniel MARTIN Garmin-Sharp 00:01:23
8 137 Cameron MEYER Orica GreenEDGE 00:01:42
9 56 Tanel KANGERT Astana Pro Team 00:01:43
10 21 Simon SPILAK Katusha Team 00:01:50

Even the ITT is very hard and could change everything, I would bet for the GC the same as the stage today, I mean:

Rui Costa
Mollema
TVG
Pinot

Kreuziger is supposed to be strong in an ITT like this, but, it is difficult to rely on him.

Andy ok today, but just ok.

I don't believe Kreuziger fot ITT very much. But if he can get anywhere near Giro 2011 MTT form, he will stay on podium and maybe even win

 

[Parrulo]

Well there's no hype regarding Kreuziger TT in this forum, it's just you.

The hype has gone down a fair bit this year but last season many people still thought he was a much better itt'r then Nibali. And that is just an example.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The hype has gone down a fair bit this year but last season many people still thought he was a much better itt'r then Nibali. And that is just an example.

Looking at Kreuzigers ITT results this year he stands no chance. Hell I'd give more money for Franks chances