2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 4 - 193km

[BigMac]

Dumoulin near miss, to have his party spoiled by an Australian. Québec style.

 

[The Hegelian]

Dumoulin near miss, to have his party spoiled by an Australian. Québec style.

Or a Swiss guy who rides on an Australian team.....

 

[BigMac]

Dumoulin near miss, to have his party spoiled by an Australian. Québec style.

Or a Swiss guy who rides on an Australian team.....

Or that indeed. Though flat after climb is usually better for Albasini, rather than climb/kick after flat.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Gilbert DNS knee pain
says BMC's twitter account

 

[Bushman]

Re: Re:

Not too hard for Degenkolb, shouldn't be too hard for Kristoff either but his condition is doubtful. Sagan on the podium bit doesn't win.

Doubtful? Did you miss Norway, Fjords & Gippingen?

No, but that was weak competition. He did a bad prologue.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

proto break:
Thomas DeGendt
Gregory Rast
Davide Malacarne
Alex Howes
Frederik Bakaert

 

[Irondan]

Sagan ftw....

 

[Oliver]

Re: Re:

Not too hard for Degenkolb, shouldn't be too hard for Kristoff either but his condition is doubtful. Sagan on the podium bit doesn't win.

Doubtful? Did you miss Norway, Fjords & Gippingen?

No, but that was weak competition. He did a bad prologue.

Why should he care about the prologue?
There was no chance to take the leaders jersey the days after it.
Anyway Degenkolb was just 1 second faster.

 

[del1962]

Re:

Gilbert DNS knee pain
says BMC's twitter account

Out of the TDF

 

[Bushman]

Re: Re:

Not too hard for Degenkolb, shouldn't be too hard for Kristoff either but his condition is doubtful. Sagan on the podium bit doesn't win.

Doubtful? Did you miss Norway, Fjords & Gippingen?

No, but that was weak competition. He did a bad prologue.

Why should he care about the prologue?
There was no chance to take the leaders jersey the days after it.
Anyway Degenkolb was just 1 second faster.

I was just expecting a good performance from him, he has been tt'ing really well this year.

Also I think he might struggle to keep his shape up. He was in top shape in March and April and rode a lot of races but didn't have a very long break before Tour of Norway and Tour de Fjords where he didn't take it easy.

 

[neineinei]

http://www.bmc-switzerland.com/int-en/experience/the-feedzone/injury_withdraws_gilbert_from_tour_consideration/

only a few days after this: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1295/Tour-De-France/article/detail/2358037/2015/06/13/Onzekerheid-over-selectie-Tour-wekt-wrevel-bij-Gilbert-bis.dhtml

hmm

 

[TourOfTexas]

What is up with no eurosport coverage?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

http://www.bmc-switzerland.com/int-en/experience/the-feedzone/injury_withdraws_gilbert_from_tour_consideration/

only a few days after this: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1295/Tour-De-France/article/detail/2358037/2015/06/13/Onzekerheid-over-selectie-Tour-wekt-wrevel-bij-Gilbert-bis.dhtml

hmm

"The MRI showed a small fracture of the postero-lateral tibia head," Dr. Testa said. "The fracture is small, and not involving the joint articular surface and the injury is not worrisome for his cycling career. Philippe had no particular pain on the bike. But he had been complaining of knee discomfort, especially off of it, and especially going up and down stairs. So we decided to look into it."

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Re:

From the last roundabout:

So about 500m a little bit below 5%

Thanks. One for the sprinters that are still there then really rather than the likes of Moreno, Gasparotto

 

[neineinei]

Re: Re:

http://www.bmc-switzerland.com/int-en/experience/the-feedzone/injury_withdraws_gilbert_from_tour_consideration/

only a few days after this: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1295/Tour-De-France/article/detail/2358037/2015/06/13/Onzekerheid-over-selectie-Tour-wekt-wrevel-bij-Gilbert-bis.dhtml

hmm

"The MRI showed a small fracture of the postero-lateral tibia head," Dr. Testa said. "The fracture is small, and not involving the joint articular surface and the injury is not worrisome for his cycling career. Philippe had no particular pain on the bike. But he had been complaining of knee discomfort, especially off of it, and especially going up and down stairs. So we decided to look into it."

The MRI is said to be "recent". I wonder how recent. Before or after they made him ride TdSuisse against his wishes?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Gap that was above 3 mins now tumbled to 2:05.
DeGendt got the KOM

 

[Irondan]

What happened with Eurosport being 'The Home of Cycling'? lol

 

[shalgo]

Orica about to catch the break with 52 km to go.

 

[shalgo]

Demare already dropped.

 

[Netserk]

Sagan to win ahead of Matthews.

 

[shalgo]

Cavendish also dropped.

 

[May0maniac]

Cavendish dropped

 

[Rollthedice]

Re:

What happened with Eurosport being 'The Home of Cycling'? lol

Route du Sud will be live. The motorhome of cycling.

 

[Billie]

Sometimes I wonder if Eurosport is a sheltered workshop...

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re:

What happened with Eurosport being 'The Home of Cycling'? lol

they are showing Dauphine replay on Eurosport 2, so in a way they're still The Home of Cycling, just not live cycling Jokes aside, it's really annoying that they're not showing TdS anymore (except the british ES, right?)