2014 Tour de Suisse: Stage 9: Martigny→Saas-Fee (156.7 Km)

[Parrulo]

Gap is now pretty stable, Martin will lose a lot of time when Frank and Mollema go again

 

[Yamato]

Martin won't win this. The boys in the front group still need to go all out.

 

[ILovecycling]

I hope Acevedo will attack soon

 

[AICA ribonucleotide]

Last 4km Tony Martin could easily lose an extra minute

But the 4k before that is much flatter than what theyre currently on.

 

[johnymax]

Formolo should help Tony a little

 

[Yamato]

One break went away over the first climb but was reeled in, a second break out went a little while later and a few attacks strengthened it. It had a few possible GC outsiders but was steadily drawn back to about 1 minute at the Cat 1.

On the cat 1 about 50k out Mollema + Frank + Costa attacked and none of the other contenders could follow them. Tony Martin was left alone to try keep them in check and did a very admirable job, but Belkin and IAM dropped riders back from the break to support Mollema and Franke, and they were then able to quickly take the lead out past a minute (huge effort by Vanmarcke).

They kept the pressure on up the remainder of the climb and descent and got the lead out over 2 minutes (while dropping a few riders from the break), since then giant shimano gave Martin some help to defend Dumoulin's podium position and the advantage has dropped to 1:40.

Frank + Costa + Mollema still racing for the win. Frank is the only guy who has a domestique left with him, and needs 9 seconds on Costa. Mollema requires 30 on both of them.

Thank you man, really appreciated.

Looks like it will be going between Costa, Frank and Mollema.

 

[jens_attacks]

tony the lion carrefully watched by the lampre hyenas

meanwhile eurosport ads drive me crazy. almost as bad as yesterday's bein sports

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I hope Acevedo will attack soon

why would he? the stagewin is gone. should've gone with mollema and costa

 

[indianfanboy]

Kreuziger seems to be really suffering

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Frank will give Wyss all credits if he wins me thinks

 

[roundabout]

Wyss is too strong.

 

[ILovecycling]

why would he? the stagewin is gone. should've gone with mollema and costa

for fun
colombian to ride with Martin (no offense) on MTF stage is a disgrace

 

[jens_attacks]

martin should really pay some guys to help him

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Tony running out of gas - why doesn;t demoulin pull again?

 

[jens_attacks]

that's it.he's going backwards again
all the action up front now

 

[Red Rick]

Wyss wins the Tour de Suisse. For whom has yet to be determined

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Wyss should move out the way now and let the men fight it out between them.

 

[Yamato]

Tony running out of gas - why doesn;t demoulin pull again?

Probably the same reason as why Tony can't anymore.

 

[hfer07]

Costa will destroy everyone within 4k to go

 

[jens_attacks]

they're in a tunnel and we still have signal. nice

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Tony running out of gas - why doesn;t demoulin pull again?

Because Dumoulin was out of gas already 5km ago. He's just hanging on

 

[Eclipse]

Wyss killed it off.

so...will Mollema attack for the win, or will he just ride wheels for 3rd. He looks pretty fresh.

 

[murali]

Wyss should move out the way now and let the men fight it out between them.

IAM is doing the mosty stupid thing now. they should start making Costa pull a bit other wise they can forget about the winning the race.

 

[jens_attacks]

wyss freaking powerhouse.for how much time can he pace?

 

[glassmoon]

Kreuz reacting