2014 68th Tour de Romandie, April 29 to May 4 - WT

[Pricey_sky]

Good stage that was, 57 seconds between the groups.

 

[webbie146]

Exactly!
People here 2 pages ago claimed Nibali would easily close a 30s gap on Froome.
Now after the descend Froome even gained from 55s to 1 minute..

What do you make of that ilovecycling?

That Nibs was cooked already before the descent started.

 

[BigMac]

Costa no surprises. Deja vu last year. Same 3 riders in the stage podium and eventual gc standing.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Very nice race action today.
Two best riders in front GC wise.
Good stage win for Spilak.

Man, I hate "trains" deep in races. This is much better.

 

[ILovecycling]

Exactly!
People here 2 pages ago claimed Nibali would easily close a 30s gap on Froome.
Now after the descend Froome even gained from 55s to 1 minute..

What do you make of that ilovecycling?

I have never said that...but you are trying to claim that Froome is on the same level with Nibali descending wise,thats beyond ridiculous

 

[Butterhead]

Nibbles doesn´t look even near his best level.

 

[BigMac]

Very nice race action today.
Two best riders in front GC wise.
Good stage win for Spilak.

Man, I hate "trains" deep in races. This is much better.

Agreed. Properly raced stage.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Why isn't Nibali descending on the front if his skills are so much superior?

You really don't need to look for evidence today as for why Nibali is one the greatest descenders of the peloton. Just go 2 stages back and you will find him distancing the peloton by 30sec on a descent, nearly winning a stage. Today was different, because he was exhausted and probably thought of it as rational to let teammate Fuglsang get back in the group.

 

[pastronef]

Jersey for Spilak for 1 second

 

[classicomano]

Nice honorary 3rd place for Costa.

 

[ILovecycling]

Agreed. Properly raced stage.

Agree,nice stage

 

[RichieTheBest]

The guy attacks from the bottom of the climb. The time of Sky train are slowly being forgotten.. Only imagine what expects us in July!)

 

[kingjr]

Well instead of 'he sucked' I should had said 'generally did not challenge for the win' in this period of the year. Don't think u can disagree with me on that

Nope,I can't

 

[Matdum94]

Froome will regret not attacking. He has basically just gifted the GC to Spilak

 

[JRanton]

Spilak only lost 7 seconds to Froome in last year's Romandie TT and obviously has great form so all still to play for.

 

[TANK91]

You really don't need to look for evidence today as for why Nibali is one the greatest descenders of the peloton. Just go 2 stages back and you will find him distancing the peloton by 30sec on a descent, nearly winning a stage. Today was different, because he was exhausted and probably thought of it as rational to let teammate Fuglsang get back in the group.

Yeah and you were wrong about the decender comming back. Oh i cant wait for July what a year this will be for Froome.

 

[JRanton]

Froome will regret not attacking. He has basically just gifted the GC to Spilak

''IanStannard'' has returned I see. Ban him please, mods.

 

[ILovecycling]

The guy attacks from the bottom of the climb. The time of Sky train are slowly being forgotten.. Only imagine what expects us in July!)

Agree!Should be hell of a fun!

 

[BigMac]

Also, nice to see Froome showing he isn't that bad of a descender after all. Even with rainy conditions, he took pulls in the front and looked confident.

 

[kingjr]

zero celebration by spilak - even after the line

He did lift his hand for a sec after crossing the line

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I have never said that...but you are trying to claim that Froome is on the same level with Nibali descending wise,thats beyond ridiculous

Nope, I'm saying that it's not really normal to expect from Nibali to close 30s. If it was 10s, yeah... but 30.. no way, nevermind 1 minute

 

[Matdum94]

''IanStannard'' has returned I see. Ban him please, mods.

Again! another guy who judges people on their number posts, seriously. I would have been bluffing about Sky if I were Stannard.

 

[pigoonse]

Cant blame a fan for being optimistic. Clearly Nibali is not on form - even on the downhill. And you do need the confidence and strength to demon descent on wet roads.

Great win by Spillak

 

[TANK91]

Jesus christ DT, you're smarter than that. It's pretty clear that everyone was taking it easy. No point in Nibbles attacking as he knows he has no chance against Froome in the TT. The fact that Birdsong who was clearly struggling with the descent stayed with Nibali and Costa shows that they weren't going full gas.

Seriously man - what a ridiculous post.

Your the ridcolous one. What happend in the TDF 2012 on descents Nibali was attacking like crazy never could get a gap, why? Because it was dry show me any stage were Nibali has been with a rider and literally dropped him on a descent?

 

[JRanton]

Again! another guy who judges people on their number posts, seriously. I would have been bluffing about Sky if I were Stannard.

Get a life, seriously.