2014 Paris Nice, Stage 4: Nevers - Belleville 201.5 km

[will10]

Agree with a group of 30 for this one. God knows who'll take it though.

Thomas is looking well placed for GC with the seconds he nicked with the sprinters on Monday.

 

[trevim]

*snipped for size*

The big three: André Cardoso, Mr. World Champ and Nélson Oliveira!
[Someone please size the image down, it's way too big and I don't know how to do it ]

Downloaded it and resize it with paint you lazy *******
No wonder Portugal is in debt!!
Parrulo

 

[BigMac]

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The big three: André Cardoso, Mr. World Champ and Nélson Oliveira!
[Someone please size the image down, it's way too big and I don't know how to do it ]

Great photograph, thanks for sharing trevim.

 

[manafana]

Like the chances of Gerrans here if he wants it he is a guy who has beaten the gorilla in a sprint so don't doubt his ability.

 

[Parrulo]

There you go. . .

 

[Jspear]

There you go. . .

Great! Now I can see the photo....the first was huuuuuuge.

 

[saneguy]

I hope Costa and Nibali attack madly at the last climb. Should be fun. But yeah 15 km post the climb is quite a bit.

 

[Fzotrlool]

Finally a good design of a flat stage at P-N. 4th try worked. 25% hit rate. Not bad, lol.

Now there is the small inconvenience of trying to watch two races at the same time.

Decision time:

Is that Uran?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Is that Uran?

lol, nah I was out looking for breakfast.

 

[RedheadDane]

Haha. But your statement actually makes sence.

I always make sense!
Except when I don't, of course.

''Sprinters will be ejected and even rouleur-climbers will be dejected...'' in inrng.com.

Like this?

Okay... I'll stop being silly.

 

[fraserhughes]

I can see Nibs, Costa and/or Betancur with 10s or so at the top of that climb, but I think they will get caught by a group of 20-30 before the finish. I think Gerrans and EBH will be in that group and Gerrans should win...

 

[trevim]

Downloaded it and resize it with paint you lazy *******
No wonder Portugal is in debt!!
Parrulo

It didn't even cross my mind, I thought there would another more sophisticated way of doing it. I'll punish myself for it in the IRS
Thanks by the way!

 

[Roude Leiw]

I'll go out on a limp and say Slagter will win the sprint of a 30+ group

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Voeckler apparently one of the first to attack, but he was reeled in again.

 

[manafana]

Tommy V won't give up trying to get in this attack will we see a silly moment of them chasing the break to get him away

 

[Roude Leiw]

Break of 4 up the road, got 30 sec already

Au km 18, Jesus Herrada Lopez (MOV) a rejoint Agnoli (AST), Didier (TFR) et Quemeneur (EUC) . Le quatuor roule avec 35'' d'avance

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Break of 4 up the road, got 30 sec already

Au km 18, Jesus Herrada Lopez (MOV) a rejoint Agnoli (AST), Didier (TFR) et Quemeneur (EUC) . Le quatuor roule avec 35'' d'avance

Gotta be part of a plan.

Lets see.

The Hollywood boys: Ion, Gadret

Green monsters: Voeckler

The pajamas: Nibali

Capone's club: Schlecks

Looks like fireworks to me.

 

[fraserhughes]

Gotta be part of a plan.

Hope you're right, my guess is they those teams are just trying to get out of chasing; I can't see anyone escaping the bunch on the first 3rd climbs to bridge across.

 

[del1962]

No one from Bretagne in the break

 

[Netserk]

It didn't even cross my mind, I thought there would another more sophisticated way of doing it. I'll punish myself for it in the IRS
Thanks by the way!

Check this and the following post.

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=1358776#post1358776

 

[MartinGT]

Anyone think Yates will have a chance of the stage today? Would like to see how he gets on.

 

[del1962]

Greenedge and Sky apparently leading the peleton, thinning down a bit

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Anyone think Yates will have a chance of the stage today? Would like to see how he gets on.

Too soon I think

 

[therhodeo]

Anyone think Yates will have a chance of the stage today? Would like to see how he gets on.

I would say that chance is somewhere between 0 and 1 percent leaning hard to the zero side.

 

[VeloHuman]

OGE saying Gerrans is sick and there is no pressure on him to perform today...