2014 Tour Down Under Stage 6: Adelaide Circuit Race

[willbick]

Part of a commentators job is to ham up the excitement. What would Ligget's employers think if he just said 'Gerrans will win the GC bar a disastrous crash, Evans and Ulissi have no chance of overhauling him despite only being a second or so behind'.?

Im no particular 'fan' of Liggett but he seemed to do a respectable job at the TdU

 

[MatParker117]

Renshaw led out Fenn and then beat him easily. Renshaw - Cavendish double act is going to own the big sprints this year.

What happened to Kittel there by the way, just disappeared?

Poor positioning and he wins a lot of races because of his accleration if the pace is already quite high he can't do much.

 

[Flamin]

Renshaw led out Fenn and then beat him easily. Renshaw - Cavendish double act is going to own the big sprints this year.

What happened to Kittel there by the way, just disappeared?

That wasn't a lead-out. Both went their own way.

 

[abbaskip]

That wasn't a lead-out. Both went their own way.

I think it was going to be a leadout, until the Lotto train went flying past. Renshaw did the smart thing and jumped on the back of it. This meant a leadout wasn't required because he had the best wheel in the pack - Greipel.

 

[Flamin]

I think it was going to be a leadout, until the Lotto train went flying past. Renshaw did the smart thing and jumped on the back of it. This meant a leadout wasn't required because he had the best wheel in the pack - Greipel.

Of course it was. It's completely useless when a lead-out guy just sits on a sprinter's wheel with 250m to go. This only means that your sprinter has to make up even more ground.

 

[SUFFERvision]

Greipel's power data over the finish video

Here's Greipel's SRM data sync'd with the finish video.

http://suffervision.appspot.com/v/2684001

And for reference, here's his data for Stage 4:

http://suffervision.appspot.com/v/2604001