2015 Tour Of Alberta, September 2 to 7

[BigMac]

Lars pats Matthews. Though luck aussie.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re:

Yates got stuck on the front for the last km; not tough enough for the GC riders to push hard on

Yes, but he handled it well by dawdling along looking over his shoulder for as long as possible

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Nice win Slagter. There's a big chance for him at Cannondale, now that Dan Martin has moved on, to be the main hilly classics leader on a team with good support. Uran could be a rival for that spot, but he's likely to be concentrating mostly on GTs. I think he could be a serious threat at any of the main hilly classics bar perhaps AGR.

Despite being much less hyped than any number of Dutch climbers in recent times, he might actually have the best chance to win a big race of any of them.

 

[Jspear]

Mollema is in yellow 6 seconds ahead of Yates.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Nice win for Slagter. Mollema and Yates look good too, tomorrow's stage is set up nicely.

 

[BigMac]

Re:

Nice win Slagter. There's a big chance for him at Cannondale, now that Dan Martin has moved on, to be the main hilly classics leader on a team with good support. Uran could be a rival for that spot, but he's likely to be concentrating mostly on GTs. I think he could be a serious threat at any of the main hilly classics bar perhaps AGR.

Despite being much less hyped than any number of Dutch climbers in recent times, he might actually have the best chance to win a big race of any of them.

I hyped him a lot following last year's Paris-Nice and then he faded. Hoping for big things from him.

 

[classicomano]

Bout time Slagter showed some results, be it in a smaller race. Very mediocre season so far.

 

[johnymax]

Nice finale and a great win for Slagter. At this point Mollema clearly is the favourite for the win. If Yates didn't gain time today, I don't think he'll do it tomorrow. Špilak will do better than today but he is too far back. The same with Zakarin, who also did work for his teammates today.

 

[quiqui]

Of all the riders who have not won yet this year (not counting TTTs), Mollema has the most second places. He got so close again. Would be nice if he could take out the GC.

 

[jens_attacks]

katusha worked for lagutin....oh then....
mollema looks strong enough to take it, i still hope spilak will win the stage

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Anyone know if there will be a coverage/stream up soon?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Supposed to be now, but this football seems to be getting in the way. Stage doesn't finish for another hour and 3 quarters though.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nothing much is happening.
Three guys have a three-minutes break to the Trek-lead peloton.

 

[Walter Morgan]

Stream?

 

[London Hibs]

Anyone got a working stream?

Adv<thanks>ance

 

[RedheadDane]

Break down to 1:55.
Cold-weather gear has started to come off.

Hesjedal attacks, haven't really gotten away.

 

[Jspear]

Re:

Anyone got a working stream?

Adv<thanks>ance

I use steephill.tv to find most of my streams. Right now they are showing canoeing. I don't know if that means the steephill links aren't working or maybe the live stream hasn't started yet. Dunno....

 

[RedheadDane]

Hesjedal was caught again (with some others who went with him).
Then Morton attacked and got caught.
Then Spilak attacked, Hesjedal followed, Mollema almost panicked, Didier caught Hesjedal and is gone, Mollema isolated. Spilak caught again.
Bystrøm has attacked. (sorry about the earlier info about it being Zakarin)
Cannondale chasing.






(I'll never get a job as a life-commentator.)

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Same as yesterday so far- not hard enough to be stop it just turning in to a sprint at the end. Hopefully there's something in the last couple of km.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Michael Matthews pulling the group.

Tour of Alberta MTF ladies and gentlemen...

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

These commentators don't have a clue who is who.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Michael Matthews pulling the group.

Tour of Alberta MTF ladies and gentlemen...

He outclimbed Kelderman in the 2010 Tour de l'Avenir and finished 8th, he used to be a pretty decent climber back in the day.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Yates goes too early, Slagter again. Very much his type of stage, not hard enough for real climbers.

 

[classicomano]

Slagter wins again infront of Mollema and Yates. That was a great finish.

 

[Flamin]

Very exciting finale. One moment Katusha has 4 guys, the other they all blow up.