2015 Tour of California May 10-17 2015 (2.HC)

[Ryo Hazuki]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Can Sagan make it to the podium again today?

He seems motivated based on interviews, and the distance is prologue-like. Can't reject the idea

 

[Jspear]

Cav has a time of 13:16....he caught his minute man.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Bit of long sprint by Cav
+30s

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Cav has a time of 13:16....he caught his minute man.

Decent effort from Cav, could have just soft peddled but went deep there.

 

[Jspear]

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Cav has a time of 13:16....he caught his minute man.

Decent effort from Cav, could have just soft peddled but went deep there.

Ya, I think he wanted to see where his fitness is.

 

[BigMac]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Well I understood that already, thanks for thr redundant answer. I'm asking why you think he has zero chances of winning the overall.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Did you watch Tour de Yorkshire last week? He was in pretty good shape there!

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Well I understood that already, thanks for thr redundant answer. I'm asking why you think he has zero chances of winning the overall.

because he will never be able to follow in the mountains

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Did you watch Tour de Yorkshire last week? He was in pretty good shape there!

so? where there mountains in yorkshire? was henao there?

 

[Jspear]

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I'm betting on Craddock actually. He can limit his losses on a TT very well. He was 13th last year, 1:33 seconds behind Wiggo, on a 20km course, but then again, Rohan Dennis and Taylor Phiney, very able riders against the clock, 2nd and 3rd that day, did 44 and 52 seconds worse than Sir Brad. And this year there aren't any notably faster time trialists. We will see, I had doubts about his form coming into the race but he as shown to be quite well.

craddock can do a good itt but he has no chance in gc at all.

''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Did you watch Tour de Yorkshire last week? He was in pretty good shape there![/quote]
so? where there mountains in yorkshire? was henao there?[/quote]



Just because Henao is here doesn't mean Craddock won't do well in the mountains.

 

[BigMac]

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''At all'' seems forced, why do you say that?

because to me has zero chance at all of winning this gc

Well I understood that already, thanks for thr redundant answer. I'm asking why you think he has zero chances of winning the overall.

because he will never be able to follow in the mountains

Well, unless you think the big ones wil go full berserk, I have to remind you he was third up Mount Diablo last year, ahead of Simon Yates, Chaves... I guess you could say Mt. Baldy is longer (not much longer), and that he wasn't at his best in Mountain High '14, but that had to do more with fatigue. Even so, he didn't completely fail there. This is the first and only mountain stage this year, and he looks fresh. We'll see.

 

[mrhender]

Stream?

Thanks in advance..

 

[BigMac]

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Stream?

Thanks in advance..

http://tourtracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com

Henao on the ramp.

Cheers.

 

[mrhender]

Thank you BicMac...

 

[BigMac]

Henao with a strong agressive tempo. 10km's make riders fly.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lord almighty, for a brief fleeting second we saw Haimar Zubeldia actually on screen.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Lord almighty, for a brief fleeting second we saw Haimar Zubeldia actually on screen.

Not possible. This is a myth

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Alaphilippe is actually pretty good in short ITT efforts. I wonder why nobody is talking of him on the commentary

 

[Pricey_sky]

Super effort from Sergio!

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Super effort from Sergio!

must be the short distance

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Super effort from Sergio!

Masked by the field.. he is still behind Van Emden, Bennati and Zirbel, normally in a WT field not even top 15 material. It's good, but not superb.

 

[BigMac]

Rosskopf, nice. Eager to see what Gesink does, should be leaving now.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Rosskopf, nice. Eager to see what Gesink does, should be leaving now.

No camera tho. Weird, he's an ex-winner.

 

[Eagle]

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Rosskopf, nice. Eager to see what Gesink does, should be leaving now.

No camera tho. Weird, he's an ex-winner.

But Brajkovic gets one,