2014 Paris Nice, Stage 8: Nice - Nice 129km

[trevim]

Stybar 15th @ 1:33
Bad day at the office for Quickstep with Stybar and Kwiat letting go of good placings.

 

[trevim]

Stybar 15th @ 1:33

Bad day at the office for Quickstep with Kwiat and Stybar losing great placings.

 

[BigMac]

Rui Costa ‏@RuiCostaCyclist 1 min
Olá amigos, tenho uma pisadura profunda no joelho esquerdo e nas costas, mas estou bem, não se preocupem. Obrigado pelas mensagens de apoio.

Hi friends, I have deep bruises in my left knee and also in my back, but I'm fine, don't worry. Thanks for the supporting messages.

 

[ILovecycling]

Mr. Vamos Colombia!!!!1!! obviously isn't

Slagter indeed didn't look great today. Although having nothing left to ride for, I doubt Betancur would have done better.
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of course I am,but not like some of the dutch people there.And I dont talk bs like that guy.

 

[ILovecycling]

Hi friends, I have deep bruises in my left knee and also in my back, but I'm fine, don't worry. Thanks for the supporting messages.

Thanks for translation buddy

 

[Der Effe]

3 stage wins for the Dutch, which is nice. Too bad about the bad luck on thursday though, would've definitely been a 1-2 in the GC without that. Betancur? Lol.

 

[Orbit501]

From Cycling News twitter: "Replays show that the crash happened when Maxime Monfort swings across the road and hits a Tinkoff-Saxo rider."
This simply wasn't Rui Costa's race, a string of 2nd places and now this. Hopefully just a couple of bruises and he can be good for the rest of the spring, Basque Country and Ardennes.

Congrats to Betancourt by the way, not my favourite rider but he adapted perfectly to the route, took his chances when he had too and takes two stage wins. Very well deserved, no doubt.

Why does no one seem to recognise Tony Gallopin? Even Sean Kelly and the other commentator kept calling Gallopin as Monfort when it was clear enough who was who just from their race numbers. Plus Gallopin has ridden in the front group all the way through this P-N, unlike Monfort.
Gallopin would have had a good chance of winning that sprint today too had he not crashed

 

[manafana]

vichot was brillant today glad out of my four picks I had the 1-2, vichot and rojas both had brillant weeks.

Betancur raced well and I have say the racing was decent and the small gaps meant so many were interested.

 

[will10]

Costa gets the same time because the "Rojas must be 4th" rule prevails over whether or not the 3km rule is in effect

If I had room to tag this onto the bottom of my current signature I would do. POTD

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Rojas ended between 2nd and 14th in every stage, the GC and the points classification


I feel kinda bad for him tbh

 

[movingtarget]

I'm sure Rojas will win something totally unexpected one day. Was hoping that Frank Schleck would hang on. The Schleck's need a change of luck but it was a nice attack all the same.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

3 stage wins for the Dutch, which is nice. Too bad about the bad luck on thursday though, would've definitely been a 1-2 in the GC without that. Betancur? Lol.

you mean slagter who was dropped on the climb today? lol

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Slagter said he was too far back but could close the gap easily on the last climb. ofcourse your blind colombian eyes couldn't see it

 

[ILovecycling]

Slagter said he was too far back but could close the gap easily on the last climb. ofcourse your blind colombian eyes couldn't see it

Betancur is usually placed in the 2nd half of the group when somebody attacks,or when there is a key moment.Despite this he always closes the gapImpossible

 

[jens_attacks]

the only time ascent of the weekend i manage to take.

col d'eze pretty fast,almost as contador, valverde and purito

http://www.climbing-records.com/2014/03/paris-nice-riders-grand-vitesse-over.html