2013 Tour of California: Stage 5: Santa Barbara-Avila Beach (185 km)

[Geraint Too Fast]

It bears repeating -- the TourTracker is fantastic.

Everybody in the break and everybody in the chasing group is listed. The feed is perfect, and the ticker is solid, too.

The commentary is crap though.

 

[jaylew]

40 secs

Front group:

Voigt, Irizar, Meyer, Sagan, Farrar, TJVG, Schar, Docker, Rogers, Candelario, Cooke, Matthews, De Gendt, Jorgensen, McCarthy, Hushovd, Busche

So, Mancebo, Deignan, Acevedo, Haga, Craddock, all miss out.

Strong break and TJ, Rogers, and Meyer all with teammates.

 

[manafana]

its coming back but if bmc and saxo had talked to sagan surely cannondale might have decided not to chase and this gap would be much harder to close.

 

[Scott SoCal]

If they get back out in the wind the second group will be nothing but a mushroom cloud.

 

[jaylew]

And we would still see a fun sprint with Sagan v Farrar v Matthews.

 

[Scott SoCal]

And we would still see a fun sprint with Sagan v Farrar v Matthews.

Candelario, Baden Cooke too.

 

[jaylew]

4th and 5th

 

[goggalor]

TJ's taking a lot of turns...

 

[brilleaben]

He should be saving something for the sprint.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

After 15 minutes of watching, my impressio is that the english commentary for the ToC is far superior to the commentary for the Giro on Eurosport. Even though of course this isn't hard at all.

 

[Roude Leiw]

Beats me why Cannondale works behind? They really seem to take serious turns not just messing with the rotations

 

[zapata]

Matthews and Hushovd are also in the front group. Not that they'll win or anything..

 

[jaylew]

Matthews and Hushovd are also in the front group. Not that they'll win or anything..

I just realized we left out Hushovd. Matthews was mentioned.

 

[zapata]

I just realized we left out Hushovd. Matthews was mentioned.

Yeah, I just deleted my post when i saw you had mentioned matthews.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Beats me why Cannondale works behind? They really seem to take serious turns not just messing with the rotations

Because Sagan has no chance against 4 OGE riders? There will be a lot of attacks in the last 10kms.

 

[Roude Leiw]

Because Sagan has no chance against 4 OGE riders? There will be a lot of attacks in the last 10kms.

so you improve by bringing back the peloton and cooking his helpers in the process?
i am sceptical. There will be attacks, fair enough, but Sagan does not take a lot of turns, I see him attacking, why shouldn't he, he attacked in the classics too

 

[Publicus]

TJ's taking a lot of turns...

Conversely, Michael Rogers is soft pedaling every turn--and briefly at that

EDIT: why is no one from Jamis on the front?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

After 15 minutes of watching, my impressio is that the english commentary for the ToC is far superior to the commentary for the Giro on Eurosport. Even though of course this isn't hard at all.

Two days ago, everybody was yelling that the stage was too hard.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

so you improve by bringing back the peloton and cooking his helpers in the process?
i am sceptical. There will be attacks, fair enough, but Sagan does not take a lot of turns, I see him attacking, why shouldn't he, he attacked in the classics too

Cannondale have 6 riders there, only 2 were really chasing. And now it seems they stopped completely. Sure, anything can happen.

 

[goggalor]

Conversely, Michael Rogers is soft pedaling every turn--and briefly at that

Yeah, I'm not sure TJ is the most intelligent racer. Hardly worth killing yourself to put 20 extra seconds into Acevedo.

I don't think it'll matter though, with this field.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Peloton has given up the chase, I think.

 

[jaylew]

The 2nd group isn't all that big. I wonder how many groups there are?

 

[happytramp]

Extremely poor performance by united health care.

 

[jaylew]

TJ really should chill.

 

[zapata]

voigt now..