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

[SKSemtex]

Congrats to Yates and Orica. What a week they have.

 

[trevim]

It would have done well to him lose today. Who cares for celebations and zipped jerseys when GC is at stake?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Yikes! Yates! One second over Taraamae...

 

[Pricey_sky]

It would have done well to him lose today. Who cares for celebations and zipped jerseys when GC is at stake?

I bet his DS will be having a word with him tonight about that, could have cost him the GC.

 

[burning]

I wonder why Hardy didnt even take a pull, he finished very close to Tarramae, he could have saved the GC.

 

[Gloin22]

I wonder why Hardy didnt even take a pull, he finished very close to Tarramae, he could have saved the GC.

Well I guess they valued 2nd and 3rd in GC better than a win..

Or maybe Hardy just didn't have energy to help at all.

 

[whittashau]

Awesome performance by Formolo as well who is a month younger than Adam Yates, but not nearly as hyped.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

42 year old 3rd. Combined age of 1st and 2nd = 42.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Top 10:

1 YATES Adam [www.procyclingstats.com] Orica GreenEDGE 30 4:11:46
2 FORMOLO Davide Cannondale 18 0:02
3 REBELLIN Davide CCC Polsat Polkowice 12 ,,
4 TAARAMäE Rein Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 7 0:07
5 DURASEK Kristijan [www.procyclingstats.com] Lampre-Merida 4 ,,
6 COBO ACEBO Juan Jose Torku Şekerspor 3 ,,
7 HARDY Romain Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 2 ,,
8 SANCHEZ Luis Leon Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1 0:15
9 HANSEN Adam Lotto Belisol 0:17
10 MEJIAS LEAL Javier [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Novo Nordisk 0:26

Nice rides by Yates and Hansen. Brave defense by Taaramae, but not quite enough.

And young Formolo seems to have a good pair of cojones.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, so Adam Yates made the Classic "stopping" before the line to celebrate, losing valuable time thing, but he did take the jersey, so I suppose it worked out in the end.

What about Romain Hardy's "Oh man! My captain is about to lose his GC. I'll just stay back here and... do nothing..."

 

[Dazed and Confused]

GC:

1 (2) YATES Adam [www.procyclingstats.com] Orica GreenEDGE 24:46:57
2 (1) TAARAMäE Rein Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 0:01
3 (3) HARDY Romain Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 0:39
4 (9) FORMOLO Davide Cannondale 0:40
5 (13) REBELLIN Davide [www.procyclingstats.com] CCC Polsat Polkowice 0:44
6 (7) COBO ACEBO Juan Jose Torku Şekerspor 0:45
7 (11) DURASEK Kristijan Lampre-Merida ,,
8 (5) SANCHEZ Luis Leon Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:47
9 (6) HANSEN Adam Lotto Belisol 0:54
10 (8) BARBIN Enrico [www.procyclingstats.com] Bardiani - CSF 1:04

 

[Hugo87]

Congratulations Yates, so happy for you.

 

[Samson]

And when it matters no help from teammates for Rein.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Erik Rowsell just tweeted that he was watching the end there with Simon Yates and he knew that his brother adam would celebrate rather than keep going to the line, he was screaming at his brother to keep going!

 

[jens_attacks]

nice one by yates. also today not disappointing with juanjo or davide. they were suffering like dogs and locked a good result

 

[De Snelle Duif]

Hardy was struggling to hang on until the very end when it became a lot flatter, I think he tried to still do a pull for Taaramae but never got there.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

nice one by yates. also today not disappointing with juanjo or davide. they were suffering like dogs and locked a good result

I'm looking forward to the update on your blog to see how they did compared to Sayar.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Hardy was struggling to hang on until the very end when it became a lot flatter, I think he tried to still do a pull for Taaramae but never got there.

Agree, Hardy would have been useless at the front anyway.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I'm a bit disappointed with Kudus though. I didn't see the race, but I get it he wasn't anywhere to be seen from the comments?

I know he only likes long climbs, but from being real strong a few days ago on a long climb to not even being seen dropping on today's climb is a bit extreme......

 

[wirral]

The era of Weening at Orica is over.

 

[Gloin22]

The era of Weening at Orica is over.

You mean it is just beginning, right ?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I'm a bit disappointed with Kudus though. I didn't see the race, but I get it he wasn't anywhere to be seen from the comments?

I know he only likes long climbs, but from being real strong a few days ago on a long climb to not even being seen dropping on today's climb is a bit extreme......

He crashed quite hard on stage 4.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I'm a bit disappointed with Kudus though. I didn't see the race, but I get it he wasn't anywhere to be seen from the comments?

I know he only likes long climbs, but from being real strong a few days ago on a long climb to not even being seen dropping on today's climb is a bit extreme......

21 Merhawi KUDUS (MTN - Qhubeka) 00:01:03

Looks like a bad day. Gerdemann also poor today.

 

[wirral]

You mean it is just beginning, right ?

Very witty

 

[manafana]

bravo Yates what a well timed attack, fromolo impressive too cannondale needed a good result badly