2014 » 50th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (2.HC)

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Shame about the break, but he's come back very strong by the looks of it.

Just such a shame he won't be at the Giro. Going to be an awful lot of easy pickings for Kittel in the first 2 weeks.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Great photo, but not from this race.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Ah wow; took it from the Sporza article...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Top 11 today.

GBR 1 CAVENDISH, Mark (OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK-STEP) 3:15:43
ITA 2 VIVIANI, Elia (CANNONDALE)
NED 3 BOS, Theo (BELKIN)
ITA 4 BONIFAZIO, Niccolo (LAMPRE - MERIDA)
BEL 5 VAN STAEYEN, Michael (TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE)
ITA 6 PALINI, Andrea (LAMPRE - MERIDA)
ITA 7 NAPOLITANO, Danilo (WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT)
BEL 8 VANGENECHTEN, Jonas (LOTTO BELISOL)
ITA 9 GUARDINI, Andrea (ASTANA)
ITA 10 SBARAGLI, Kristian (MTN - QHUBEKA)
NED 11 WIPPERT, Wouter (DRAPAC)

Highway sprint.

 

[trevim]

Only his 3rd win this season. Let's hope he gets a couple more even if this s**** small races are usually more Greipel's territory

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

4th win.

He piled up loads of wins last year, took 7 GT stages and people talk like it was a failure of a season. I'm sure he'll cope with a slower run in if he's back to his best in July.

 

[trevim]

4th win.

He piled up loads of wins last year, took 7 GT stages and people talk like it was a failure of a season. I'm sure he'll cope with a slower run in if he's back to his best in July.

I don't count TTT. Yeah his season is measured in the Tour, it doesn't really matter what he does the rest of the year. He was sick lot of time as well so, all in all a decent season.

 

[Jspear]

Photo finish...nice win even though it was against a "weaker" field.

 

[greenedge]

Just such a shame he won't be at the Giro. Going to be an awful lot of easy pickings for Kittel in the first 2 weeks.

Greipel

Maybe Viviani and Matthews could challenge too.

 

[wirral]

I would like to see the photo finish. From the head-on, it didn't look like Bos got third but he must have.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Live in turkish!

http://www.trt.net.tr/anasayfa/canli.aspx?y=tv&k=trtspor

live coverage I think (or is it yesterdays repeated?)

gap 1.39
75km to go.

 

[jsem94]

Lotto tried to break the race apart in some crosswinds, but to no avail.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Gruppo Compatto coming up -17kms

 

[Pricey_sky]

Trains everywhere!!!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Cav unrivalled

 

[Arnout]

Cavendish wins. Race on par with LBL.

 

[Lexman]

very fast sprinting by that Lotto guy... came from very far...

Belkin fail

 

[HoinkDoink]

Great lead out from Renshaw

 

[Arredondo]

If you look how Chicchi is isolated during the last 5 k. He just had to do all by himself.

But if you're looking at top speed, he wasn't slower than Cav.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I thought Bos was supposed to be fast?

 

[Lexman]

1. Cavendish (OPQ)
2. Chicchi (NRI)
3. Bonifazio (LAM)
4. Boeckmans (LTB)
5. Lasca (CJR)

nice to see Boeckmans again sprinting, haven't showed much yet this year...

 

[theyoungest]

I thought Bos was supposed to be fast?

He was terrible yesterday, and even worse today. It's interesting, he seems to be getting progressively worse in his career.

 

[Grupetto1]

Anyone see the order opqs were in? my laptop was having a nightmare

 

[Dazed and Confused]

1. Cavendish (OPQ)
2. Chicchi (NRI)
3. Bonifazio (LAM)
4. Boeckmans (LTB)
5. Lasca (CJR)

nice to see Boeckmans again sprinting, haven't showed much yet this year...

Judging from this, one could say its one of the weakest sprinter fields in years, but that not really the case here.

Anyway congrats to Cav, he is building confidence.