2013 Tour of Qatar (3rd-8th February), 2.HC

[karaev]

interesting thing will be that top sprinters team will be tired to set up a proper train: some underdog team might be able to take the lead in the final kms

Cannondale and Viviani for the win!!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

5 minutes in 20kms, good going.

At the risk of rehashing old ground, you can cut a gap by 5mins instantly if you want to - would be more interested to know what the maximum distance between them was on a flat stage like this.

 

[UncleTupelo]

Trains getting organised, could be chaos!

 

[Cyivel]

At the risk of rehashing old ground, you can cut a gap by 5mins instantly if you want to - would be more interested to know what the maximum distance between them was on a flat stage like this.

No idea, sorry.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Quickstep not even trying to provide a leadout

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

No idea, sorry.

If the chasing group is 10 minutes behind and then instantly doubles its pace, it is suddenly 5 minutes behind.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Cavenditch!

 

[jens_attacks]

weird sprint

congrats cavenditch

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cavenditch won - looked like Nikki moved him forward a little near the end but to be honest I had very little idea where he was until he was in perfect position at 300m to go, 2nd wheel.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Cav against a bunch of kids.
One more stage win to go for the missile.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Anyword on bonus sprints yet? Cav in the lead now?

 

[karaev]

was that guardini 3rd?

 

[Cyivel]

1st, Cavendish.
2nd, Markus.
3rd, Guardini

 

[Ruudz0r]

Eisel blocked EBH not a very good lead out

 

[shinoda13]

Cav was nowhere to be seen in the last km, until someone from either Cannondale or CSF brought him in perfect position in 2nd place.

 

[Peccio89]

Too easy for Cav, they couldn't even try to exit from his wheel

 

[wirral]

Jeez, you can get a spot on the line for this race if you want. No spectators, I mean.

 

[theyoungest]

Barry Markus, not bad at all, once again.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cav was nowhere to be seen in the last km, until someone from either Cannondale or CSF brought him in perfect position in 2nd place.

People will still turn up in July an start talking **** about sprint trains and not realise they're talking about Greipel and not Cav.

 

[wirral]

Who was the Cannondale that led out Cav?

 

[UncleTupelo]

Cav does seem to have an invisablity cloak until the last 1km, then no contest

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cav does seem to have an invisablity cloak until the last 1km, then no contest

Careful, you'll start the LotR brigade off again.

 

[Peccio89]

Who was the Cannondale that led out Cav?

He was a Bardiani i think maybe Coledan

 

[Andy99]

Awesome from cav again.

Takes the lead in GC.

 

[barmaher]

If the chasing group is 10 minutes behind and then instantly doubles its pace, it is suddenly 5 minutes behind.

This is not true.

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Fair play to Cavendish. Three wins already this year is a good start in anyone's book.