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

[trevim]

Rui Costa 6th or 7th, not bad with a messed up shoulder.

 

[Fzotrlool]

Good racing. Stage delivered more than I expected.

Yeah. One of the 5 best stages this year.

 

[therhodeo]

He was talking with Kwiatkowski a few minutes before that.

Orica Greenedge win in familiar fashion again. I'm glad Sky and AG2R rode on the front to chase down the attackers, that was really useful.

Yeah Tony is a team player. I've never seen him take off without it being ok to do so.

 

[hfer07]

wow- it was entertaining Glad to watch my man Nibali testing his legs & doing his thing on the down slopes

 

[Cookster15]

Orica Greenedge on a roll !! Good to see.

 

[Matdum94]

Froome isolated. Good signs!

you must be very disappointed now

 

[Afrank]

1 ALBASINI Michael [www.procyclingstats.com] Orica GreenEDGE 50 2:11:11
2 HERRADA Jesús Movistar Team 30 ,,
3 NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas Garmin Sharp 18 ,,
4 IGLINSKIY Maxim Astana Pro Team 13 ,,
5 TALANSKY Andrew [www.procyclingstats.com] Garmin Sharp 10 ,,
6 BRANDLE Matthias IAM Cycling 7 ,,
7 COSTA Rui Lampre-Merida 4 ,,
8 HIVERT Jonathan Belkin-Pro Cycling Team 3 ,,
9 THURAU Bjorn Team Europcar 2 ,,
10 VOECKLER Thomas [www.procyclingstats.com] Team Europcar 1 ,,

 

[Jspear]

top 5....

 

[whittashau]

Why have 9kms of flat? In order to make the stage more boring? Thank god for riders like Nibali who try anyway.

 

[JRanton]

There was a 4 second split in the front group.

 

[roundabout]

First TdR stage win for Switzerland since 2004. Been a while.

 

[jens_attacks]

nice finale. friday's stage should be good. vincenzo has the legs to be up there with froome.

 

[UselessToo]

Great stage and deserved winner (from the bunch sprint ofc)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so a sh!tty short stage with a tiny climb at the end delivers....

The riders can make the race if they want, but much more can be done to help them imo.

 

[Hugo87]

Damn missed this...

Now i need to find some replay of the stage.

Congratz to Albasini, nice to see Talansky and Costa up ahead too.

 

[Matdum94]

Haha, I'm wondering why did Froome go on this race? There are no hard climbs, this is suited for guys like Kwaitkowski and Sagan.

 

[NaturalClen]

Pinot lost a wheel and everybody after him got 4 secs down, increased lead for Kwiat. Dumb Sky, burning their people for nothing result Froome lose min 4 secs to Kwiat.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

All flat stages should be like this.

 

[Afrank]

Why have 9kms of flat? In order to make the stage more boring? Thank god for riders like Nibali who try anyway.

Maybe they figured more Km's would give room for multiple attacks and counter attacks. Probably would need a little bit harder of a climb for that though.

I would have preferred less Km's between the descent and finish as well.

 

[karlboss]

Why have 9kms of flat? In order to make the stage more boring? Thank god for riders like Nibali who try anyway.

To be fair Nibali made it to 3km to go, if just one guy matched Nibali downhill things would have been different, but if you wanted to win from an attack the peloton needed to be thinned right out before the descent started. If two men Earle, Lopez can set the pace the whole way up, it'll never be enough.

 

[JRanton]

Pinot lost a wheel and everybody after him got 4 secs down, increased lead for Kwiat

Yup, these guys gain four seconds:

1 Michael ALBASINI Orica GreenEDGE 2:11:11
2 Jesus HERRADA LOPEZ Movistar Team 0:00:00
3 Ramunas NAVARDAUSKAS Garmin-Sharp 0:00:00
4 Maxim IGLINSKIY Astana Pro Team 0:00:00
5 Andrew TALANSKY Garmin-Sharp 0:00:00
6 Matthias BRANDLE IAM Cycling 0:00:00
7 Rui Alberto COSTA Lampre-Merida 0:00:00
8 Jonathan HIVERT Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:00:00
9 Bjorn THURAU Team Europcar 0:00:00
10 Thomas VOECKLER Team Europcar 0:00:00
11 Georg PREIDLER Team Giant-Shimano 0:00:00
12 Michal KWIATKOWSKI Omega Pharma-QuickStep 0:00:00
13 Sergey CHERNETSKI Katusha Team 0:00:00
14 Mathias FRANK IAM Cycling 0:00:00

 

[Afrank]

so a sh!tty short stage with a tiny climb at the end delivers....

The riders can make the race if they want, but much more can be done to help them imo.

We need more riders like Nibs. You knows...guys with balls.

 

[Matdum94]

It will be a coincidence if Froome can even make it to the top 10 in the GC.

 

[NaturalClen]

It will be a coincidence if Froome can even make it to the top 10 in the GC.

If he doesn't fall of his bike Froome will win this very easy.

 

[Arnout]

Maybe they figured more Km's would give room for multiple attacks and counter attacks. Probably would need a little bit harder of a climb for that though.

I would have preferred less Km's between the descent and finish as well.

Either a bit less km or a twistier road. It was too easy for the peloton to reorganize. Last few kilometers were more interesting and give guys like Voeckler a chance.