2013 Tour de Suisse, Stage 9: Bad Ragaz - Flumserberg 26.8 Km

[Parrulo]

Rui Costa BOSS!!!!

Or overrated, your pick

 

[Publicus]

Frank is trying to salvage his podium but it's not going to happen. Chapeau for the ride and effort though!

 

[ILovecycling]

Nice WT points for Saxo
Costa really dominated

 

[gjb483]

Impressive TT stage.

 

[Ferminal]

Costa too good. No idea what this means for the Tour, I guess he's most likely to have peaked for June.

 

[Netserk]

Costa 1 second faster than Jeannesson on the climb.

Rui: 33'02
Jeannesson: 33'03
Mollema: 33'08

 

[Red Rick]

Costa a Mollema are overrated. TJVG rules

I wonder where Jason Mercier is

https://twitter.com/JasonMercier/status/184105282983571457

Seems legit, even though it's a year and 3 months off

 

[l.Harm]

Great ride, Costa. Also Mollema looking good

 

[roundabout]

Costa too good. No idea what this means for the Tour, I guess he's most likely to have peaked for June.

Sky wouldn't know what him them

 

[jens_attacks]

So 33 minutes is the best time for the climb. Probably headwind

Well, 32.40ish with the bike change

well spotted, i was just about to post it

32 minutes or under if the flat part wasn't on the route. guys like rui costa went full throttle there too, more than likely, above 6 w/kg for the whole ride
rui costa = great quality

faster by a second than jeanneson i guess?

 

[Ruby United]

Winner @51;41?

Not a bad guess this morning.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Love these half flat-half climb type TTs.

Tour de Costa

Movistar will be brutal in the Tour, no doubt.

 

[Flamin]

Well, 32.40ish with the bike change

And Rui did a very bad one on top of it.

Costa 1 second faster than Jeannesson on the climb.

Rui: 33'02
Jeannesson: 33'03
Mollema: 33'08

Indeed. 33'02"20 to be precise.

 

[Publicus]

Love these half flat-half climb type TTs.

Tour de Costa

Movistar will be brutal in the Tour, no doubt.

The 2013 Tour will be better than folks seem to think. I still see Froome as the favorite, but I don't think it will be a cakewalk by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Gloin22]

Movistar plans at start of year of copying Sky's marginal gains seems to work wonders for them. Good for them!

 

[trevim]

The 2013 Tour will be better than folks seem to think. I still see Froome as the favorite, but I don't think it will be a cakewalk by any stretch of the imagination.

Rui Costa is no threat to the Sky-train on the high mountains. That's all up to Quintana and Valverde.

 

[gjb483]

The 2013 Tour will be better than folks seem to think. I still see Froome as the favorite, but I don't think it will be a cakewalk by any stretch of the imagination.

The last week looks like an absolute killer.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Costa too good. No idea what this means for the Tour, I guess he's most likely to have peaked for June.

Valverde and Quintana co-leading the Tour. Costa will be their main domestique, after last year this is his focus race for this part of the season.

 

[Publicus]

Rui Costa is no threat to the Sky-train on the high mountains. That's all up to Quintana and Valverde.

Understood. Overall team strength is why I bolded/co-signed Dazed's comment. It surely won't just be one guy hanging on to the end of the Sky-train a la Nibali in 2012.

 

[Parrulo]

Rui Costa is no threat to the Sky-train on the high mountains. That's all up to Quintana and Valverde.

^^ That. You could see it at last years tour. At the real tough mountain stages Costa can't keep up with the best.

 

[Netserk]

^^ That. You could see it at last years tour. At the real tough mountain stages Costa can't keep up with the best.

He could still go all-out in the bottom of the climbs to drop many of the SKy doms.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Understood. Overall team strength is why I bolded/co-signed Dazed's comment. It surely won't just be one guy hanging on to the end of the Sky-train a la Nibali in 2012.

Astana will be pretty strong too, but I don't think they have the leader to finish things off. We will see.

 

[Miburo]

He could still go all-out in the bottom of the climbs to drop many of the SKy doms.

Maybe Stannard

Seriously though i don't know if he can just drop EBH and Gerrains like that well EBH should be possible but the borgs are so strong

 

[spalco]

Costa too good. No idea what this means for the Tour, I guess he's most likely to have peaked for June.

Probably, yeah. And I say good for him! I totally respect that he came here as the defending champion with the goal of winning it again and didn't say "**** it, I'm peaking for the Tour".

 

[Parrulo]

Probably, yeah. And I say good for him! I totally respect that he came here as the defending champion with the goal of winning it again and didn't say "**** it, I'm peaking for the Tour".

Actually he spent all week saying that the Tour was the goal and that was where he wanted to peak